Moffs plus

 Finally the moth challenge got some air under its wings and rose off the ground. I set the actinic heath trap up last night and then had a look at the salix catkins, which were happily being feasted on by a usual early spring collection of Common Quaker, Hebrew Character and Satellite moths, An Agonopterix heracliana was netted on the way along the path. This morning the trap held three of my target species - Yellow Horned. The moth total is now up to a monster 8 species. That's nearly double figures!

Yesterday was good during the day, too, with sunny tree trunks hosting Kidney-spot Ladybird and the same Salix (only one's really in flower, accessibly anyway) hosted Melangyna quadrimaculata.

Kidney-spot

M.quadrimaculata

Yearlist stands at 240 species of inverts now. The full list is on the yearlist tab - here