I didn't get chance to trap last night and I wont get chance to trap for the next two nights so I had to give it a try tonight even though once the sun went down it got very cool very quickly. Not a brilliant catch but better than expected and it included a Shuttle Shaped Dart which appeared to have a lot more brown/copper tones to it than all the previous examples I've seen...not new but certainly different.
The trap was out from 8pm to 3:15am
Tonight's Log
3 Large Yellow Underwing
10 Lesser Yellow Underwing
2 Common Marbled Carpet
4 Setaceous Hebrew Character
2 Square Spot Rustic
2 Common Wainscot
4 Setaceous Hebrew Character
2 Square Spot Rustic
2 Common Wainscot
3 Willow Beauty
1 Shuttle Shaped Dart(see photo above?)
1 Shuttle Shaped Dart(see photo above?)
Hello Ian,
ReplyDeleteShuttle-shaped Dart is sexually dimorphic, with the females being darker and more uniformly coloured than the paler males. This one is a female. Maybe the ones you have trapped before were males?
Hi Skev, I've caught males and females before now but this one was much lighter than usual, it could have been a bit washed out I suppose but it looked fairly fresh...do later broods have lighter colours to match their 'autumn' surroundings better?.
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