Cotswolds Moth Trapping - 21st-23rd April

A weekend at our cottage in Cowley in the Cotswolds allowed me a few nights of early spring moth trapping. Species recorded over the nights of 21st, 22nd and 23rd April were:

• Brindled Beauty
• Clouded Drab
• Common Quaker
• Early Grey
• Flame-shoulder
• Hebrew Character
• Least Black Arches
• Lesser Swallow Prominent
• Muslin Moth
• Nut-tree Tussock
• Powdered Rustic
• Purple Thorn
• Swallow Prominent
• Waved Umber

Least Black Arches

Waved Umber

Purple Thorn

Swallow Prominent

Lesser Swallow Prominent

Brindled Beauty

Powdered Quaker

Hebrew Character - The left hand individual has a reduced black forewing mark

Muslin Moth

Clouded Drab