Following the visit a couple of days ago to Low Wood and Sessay Wood, Pilmoor, the warm humid night of Tuesday was too good to miss, and I spent the night with 3 traps split between the two woods. The total numbers were only 262, but 66 species, including a good crop of micros. As with all micro hauls, I took loads of photos to assist in identification, some of which have only just been resolved, including several new ones.
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| Tischeria ekebladella |
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| Blastobasis adustella |
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| Aleimma loeflingiana |
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| Ancylis laetana |
All of the above are micros, which by definition means small.....none are more than 1cm long, and the first one is no more than 5 or 6mm in length!
Oh, and the highlight of the early hours of Wednesday was hearing a Cuckoo, a bird that I just had not heard so far this year, something I had only commented on the previous evening, following an item on Springwatch.
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