Carmel NNR

The Trust had a Conservation Team Meeting at Carmel yesterday so i thought i'd take the opportunity to put the Actinic trap out in one of the quarries the night before (Sunday). Unforecast rain in the evening and a bit of a breeze meant that there weren't as many moths as i would have liked but we caught the following:

Silver-ground carpet   2

White ermine              3

Heart & dart              3

Common wave          1

Beautiful golden Y     1

Treble lines                2

Flame shoulder          3

Double line                1

Mottled beauty          1

Dot moth                   1

Buff ermine                1

Ingrailed clay             1

During the day we had numerous yellow shells, burnet companions, a flame and my first ever Carms hummingbird hawkmoth visiting the red campion along the verge.