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Showing posts with label 2121 Barred Chestnut. Show all posts
Friday, 21 August 2015
Barred Chestnut - first of the autumn
The last couple of days the moth trap has been swamped with Large Yellow-Underwing making it quite difficult to pick out any other species but I have caught a couple of Barred Chestnut. It's reasonably widely distributed in the gritstone moors but scarce in other areas of Derbyshire, the adult is on the wing August - September so should get one or two more.
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Saturday, 27 August 2011
Monday, 15 August 2011
Barred Chestnut
The conditions didn't seem that bad last night but I ended up with only 21 moths of 13 species - I had better catches in February!
All was not lost though as one of the thirteen was Barred Chestnut, given how dark it is I presume a female. Given the availability of suitable moorland habitat near-by it is surprising this species is not encountered more frequently but I suspect it was commoner in the past than it is now.
All was not lost though as one of the thirteen was Barred Chestnut, given how dark it is I presume a female. Given the availability of suitable moorland habitat near-by it is surprising this species is not encountered more frequently but I suspect it was commoner in the past than it is now.
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