Would be interesting to see data from other locations to see if these are ‘eruptions’. And also how things fluctuate in future years.
23.10.2025 19:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Box Tree Moths first turned up here in Cyncoed (Cardiff) in 2021 but numbers in the garden trap have dropped since peaking in 2023. Caught here from June to late October - peaking in early September - with a hint of two generations?
Cydalima perspectalis
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23.10.2025 16:49 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
Green-brindled Crescent in two colour morphs: typical on the left, melanic (ab. capucina) on the right.
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22.10.2025 07:17 — 👍 25 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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20.10.2025 19:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I even brought some of the 6th floor dust…
20.10.2025 17:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This was my first of the year: never more than a handful turn up.
18.10.2025 11:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Green-brindled Crescent - so fresh I’m guessing it’s probably from on of our garden Hawthorns
Allophyes oxyacanthae
Allophyes: changing in character (there are two colour morphs)
oxyacanthae: from Hawthorn or ‘sharp thorn’
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18.10.2025 09:19 — 👍 59 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
The view from my home office window this morning as our most striking corvids go about their autumn arboricultural business
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17.10.2025 10:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
LTE Site of the Week Llyn Brianne, Wales. Photo of a lake. Text: Running since 1981. Steve Ormerod. Cardiff University. Icons for freshwater and climate.
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16.10.2025 08:51 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Most probably Common Plume
10.10.2025 10:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One of the plume moths - but can’t see which from the underside.
These are classed among the ‘micro’ moths of which there are many more species than the macros I mostly post. I saving them for when I’m properly retired…
10.10.2025 10:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Still a few caddis on the wing: Limnephilus lunatus (with the 🌙 mark) and the anglers’ Grey Sedge: Hydropsyche sp.
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10.10.2025 08:11 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Still some colour among the moths of autumn…
Merveille du Jour and Brimstone
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08.10.2025 07:17 — 👍 71 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 1
As catches typically fall away in October, this v flighty Silver Y was one of v few moths in last night’s trap
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07.10.2025 06:51 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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30.09.2025 09:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photos des séances d'information IPBES sur l'Évaluation des Entreprises et de la Biodiversité, montrant plusieurs réunions dans différentes salles. Les participants sont assis autour de tables de conférence et dans des amphithéâtres, avec un mélange de présentations en personne et virtuelles. On peut voir des présentations PowerPoint, des drapeaux IPBES, et des participants engagés dans les discussions. Les salles varient entre une salle historique avec boiseries et portraits, une salle moderne avec plafond technique, et des salles de conférence standard.
Photos des séances d'information IPBES sur l'Évaluation des Entreprises et de la Biodiversité, montrant plusieurs réunions dans différentes salles. Les participants sont assis autour de tables de conférence et dans des amphithéâtres, avec un mélange de présentations en personne et virtuelles. On peut voir des présentations PowerPoint, des drapeaux IPBES, et des participants engagés dans les discussions. Les salles varient entre une salle historique avec boiseries et portraits, une salle moderne avec plafond technique, et des salles de conférence standard.
Photos des séances d'information IPBES sur l'Évaluation des Entreprises et de la Biodiversité, montrant plusieurs réunions dans différentes salles. Les participants sont assis autour de tables de conférence et dans des amphithéâtres, avec un mélange de présentations en personne et virtuelles. On peut voir des présentations PowerPoint, des drapeaux IPBES, et des participants engagés dans les discussions. Les salles varient entre une salle historique avec boiseries et portraits, une salle moderne avec plafond technique, et des salles de conférence standard.
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30.09.2025 09:10 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Nous remercions chaleureusement Arup, @steveormerod.bsky.social , @thebotanics.bsky.social et @frbiodiv.bsky.social d'avoir organisé ces sessions très enrichissantes. 🏡🧪
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30.09.2025 09:10 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Brindled Green: Dryobotodes eremita
Dryobotodes refers to feeding on oak and ‘eremita’ to the hermit-like behaviour of the larvae which isolate themselves inside developing oak buds
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30.09.2025 07:38 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Today…
28.09.2025 22:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
No. Agriopis is a very different taxonomic branch (Geometridae v Noctuidae). As different, say, as Cyprinidae v Salmonidae.
Griposia is considered a sub-genus of Dichonia - and Merveille du Jour is known alternatively as Dichonia aprilina.
28.09.2025 17:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Looks like ChatGpt is partially correct - as is often the case :)
Agriopis is a different group of moths among the geometrids (eg Dotted Border) - so a different family.
We’ve discovered that students and others using ChatGpt can be misled - for example by its tendency to invent references
28.09.2025 13:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The alternative name for the genus - Dichonia - is about hindwing pattern (= two white lines), so this whole name would be colour related.
Not sure of the meaning of ‘Griposia’
28.09.2025 09:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Merveille du Jour: the first of the autumn.
Griposia aprilina - referring to the ‘April green’ colour even though this is an autumn moth
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28.09.2025 08:55 — 👍 50 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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