Saturday 26 July 2014

Night's In 'White Satin' - Moody Blues

It may have been the torrential rain, which lasted for about a hour yesterday afternoon, that knocked out the external electrical ring main to the stables and other outbuildings. This resulted in loss of power to a couple of the Moth Traps overnight, a tragedy in as much as catches have been excellent in recent days. Despite that 68 species of Macro were secures including what may be described as 'goodies'. First up was
 LEOPARD MOTH*
 not at all a common species in Dorset
 and a personal 'first' ever for me!
Even rarer with, as far as I can find, less than 100 records in the County
 WHITE SATIN*
 which has its Dorset stronghold
in the region of the Moors River which forms the North Western
boundary of Parley Court Farm.
Others taken last night and including a few from the past couple of days
include
 SMALL BLOOD-VEIN
 CLAY TRIPLE-LINES*
 YELLOW SHELL
 BLUE-BORDERED CARPET
 BIRD'S WING
 DUN-BAR
BROAD-BARRED WHITE*
 TRUE LOVER'S KNOT
and the very similar
BEAUTIFUL YELLOW UNDERWING
LESSER YELLOW UNDERWING
 ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH and 
SMALL ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH
the Micro
ORTHOPYGIA GLAUCINALIS
A bit of a 'heart-stopper' this one as at first glance it was thought
to be the extremely rare and local (mostly to Kent)
LESSER BELLE
photo from Wiki.
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