Our catches at home in Abergavenny so far this year have
been pretty dismal: we’ve not made it to double figures of moths on any night yet.
So we’ve been looking particularly intently at the fence around the trap, and
this week that bore fruit. A glowing macro – even to my bleary eyes at 530am –
turned out to be a dotted chestnut...
and a smaller but distinctively-marked micro
has the even more distinctive name of Semiopsis steinkelleriana.
Both
seem to be well west of their previously recorded range in Gwent. We hope it’s
a sign of better things to come.
The 'steink' is only the 10th VC35 record: previous records are from Lower Ochrwyth, Usk, Dingestow, Slade Wood, St Pierres Great Wood and Cleddon Bog. It doesn't seem to wander far from woodland.
ReplyDeleteWell done Andrew. Both very nice moths in their own right and not encountered too often either. I've only seen a few of each and I get around woodlands quite a bit, so 'quality' indeed.
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