SP9326: 24/08/11 - New carpet bagged

Although a common moth, the Green Carpet was new* for the garden. The first Copper Underwing and Six-striped Rustic for the year.

1331 Water Veneer

1776* Green Carpet

2087 Turnip Moth

2133 Six-striped Rustic

Dusk

List for 24/08/11


    15    Orange Swift    7
  658    Carcina quercana    1
1076    Celypha lacunana    1
1304    Agriphila straminella    2
1305    Agriphila tristella    25
1309    Agriphila geniculea    3
1331    Water Veneer    1
1356    Garden Pebble    1
1728    Garden Carpet    1
1742    Yellow Shell    4
1776*  Green Carpet    1
1862    Double-striped Pug    2
1906    Brimstone Moth    1
2087    Turnip Moth    1
2092    Shuttle-shaped Dart    1
2107    Large Yellow Underwing    8
2126    Setaceous Hebrew Character    2
2133    Six-striped Rustic    1
2134    Square-spot Rustic    1
2297    Copper Underwing    1
2353    Flounced Rustic    2
2384    Vine's Rustic    3

Total: 22 species

SP9326: 18/08/11 Soap-Box

Grim reality hit home today as Mr Postie delivered a copy of a planning proposal to build 2160 dwellings and other associated concrete paraphernalia on greenbelt land east of my garden.
Key words such as 'Country Park' (read: 'dog turds/bite wounds'), 'Great-crested Newt mitigation' (read: 'never to be seen again') and 'Neutral Grassland' (read: 'shorn to within an inch of its life every 45 seconds') leapt from the page.

As a full-time NIMBY-ist, I didn't (as you may expect) leap on the keyboard and compose an email of fiery rhetoric about 'how it should be'.
No. Instead, I sought my 'Crystal Ball for the Pragmatist' and saw a vision of the future - it was a blog entry !
I couldn't quite see all of the detail due to swirling mist, and poor eyesight, but the entry went something like this:

The coolest night since early February - minimum 25 Celsius

List for SP9326: 20/07/2021

  647    Brown House-moth    17
1293    Chrysoteuchia culmella    250

Total: 2 species
+ 4 East-European sp. TBI 

Anyway - mustn't grumble  :-(

Back to the present -
Minimum 8.0 Celsius.

A dismal showing - not surprising after the rain set in for the day.

1076 Celypha lacunana

2087 Turnip Moth

2353 Flounced Rustic

List for SP9326: 18/08/11

  647    Brown House-moth    1
1076    Celypha lacunana    1
1305    Agriphila tristella    4
1742    Yellow Shell    1
2087    Turnip Moth    1
2111    Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing    2
2353    Flounced Rustic    3

Total: 7 species