RXwildlife Sightings

At last, a decent night in the Lime Kiln Cottage moth trap, with over 70 species present. The commonest species was Shuttle-shaped Dart (19), closely follwed by Viper’s Bugloss Moth (17) and Lime-Speck Pug, Light Brown Apple Moth and Synaphe punctalis (nine each). Highlight was Tree-lichen Beauty (below), a rare immigrant recorded only a couple of times previously on the reserve, while newcomers for the year included Pale Prominent and Nutmeg.

Tree-lichen Beauty

Common Darter are also still emerging from the same pool mentioned in the post below, 9 shed larval skins, 3 freshly emerged and one in the final stages of emerging (pictured) were found this morning.

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Just a follow up to the post 30th july 2007 Migrant Hawker. In a patch of emergent vegetation measuring 3 x 7 metres in a small shingle pool on Harbour Farm (pictured), 71 Migrant Hawker have emerged over the past two nights. Below is a picture of the collected shed larval skins.

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