Thursday 16th February 2023.
My first Silver Y moth of the year and a very early one too this morning.
I had the moth box on overnight for only the 3rd time this year and I was rewarded with two moths. I didn't realise that there was going to be drizzly rain early this morning, though I should have checked the weather forecast last night. I couldn't see anything on the white sheet behind the moth box and so took the lid of the box and low and behold, behind the box was my first Silver Y moth of the year. Was this an immigrant moth that flew last night over the English Channel or was it overwintering here in the UK?
The second moth was a micro moth and I had to wait for an ID on a couple of Facebook moth sites for confirmation. At first, a Parsnip Moth looked the likely candidate and then Ben Sale reckoned it looked like the micro moth, Depressaria daucella and judging by the photographs of the latter moth, I would tend to agree with him. I released both moths tonight when it was dark.
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