Saturday, 26 December 2020

Shropshire - day Flying Moths part 2

To start off part two, here's the highlight of 2020 - two Six-belted Clearwings at Venus Pool!




Silver Ground Carpet at Clunton Coppice in 2013...


Silver Y seemed to be everywhere during 2020 and the main event was finding several at Aston Locks,




No shortage of Six-spot Burnet each year but as I tend to ignore them, I don't appear to have any Five-spot variants!




Treble Bar from Prees Heath this year...




You need water to find Brown China-mark and the pool at The Bog delivered several of these in 2020. Always on the  aquatic vegetation...


Amongst the Micro-Moths, they don't come stranger than the weird Brown Plume present at Venus Pool. Obviously tiny, n a dry grass habitat, they become invisible once landed!


From 2010, Common Wave at Whixall Moss...


And finally, another one from Venus Pool this year - Common Yellow Conch.


Looks like that's another challenge is lined up for 2021 - there's many more of these Day Fliers to find!