Garden Moth Recording 2011

thebishop

Thanks Gardener 3.

Mothman

LB, can't help with either of yours. Could be Dark Brocade, but can't rule out other species.

and Thanks Gardener for stepping in.
Caddis flies usually rest with antennae facing forward and almost parallel. There are some moth families that have forward facing antennae as well, but many of them are generally not doable by photo anyway

thebishop

Best night here since GMS started.
Elephant hawkmoth x 2.
Peppered moth x 1
Flame shoulder x 3
White ermine x 7
Buff ermine x5
Pale tussock x 2
Pale shouldered Brocade x 3
Small squarespot x2
Setaceous Hebrew character x 1
Straw dot x 1
Cream wave x 1
Common white wave x 1
Clouded border brindle. x 1
Clouded border x 1
Heart and dart x 3
Green carpet x 1
Common carpet x 1
Flame carpet x 1
Common Pug. x 1
Silver Y x 1
Brown House moth x 2
Light brown Apple moth x 1.

littlebug

Good to see the numbers and species increasing thebishop.

I had a brown house moth in the house yesterday. Looking at the Mothsireland distribution map I see no records for Mayo. Could I be the first
I expect most people are more likely to squash it than identify and record it

Gardener3

:eek: Surely there's not meant to be frost on the grass in June!

I hadn't expected any moths at all so I was very surprised to find a female Ghost Moth when I checked the sheet last night.
The trap contained a grand total of 2 moths - White Ermine and Heart and Dart.

littlebug

Just two moths for me as well, 1 Broom and 1 Heart and Dart.

thebishop

Not alot here either.
Buff ermine x 2
White ermine x 2
Heart and dart x 2
Dark arches x 1
Swallow prominent x 1
Small square spot x 1
"Grass" temp was -1.6

thebishop

This pug on the patio door this morning, Id please.

Mothman

thebishop wrote: »

This pug on the patio door this morning, Id please.

You can thank LB for getting me on this case.
This is a Grey Pug

I haven't run GMS trap for past couple weeks due to pesky robin

Cardynal

Mothman ,
Just need ID confirmation on this one please , field guide says Silver Y , a migrant visitor.
Taken in the Garden just before dusk.

Cardynal

Sorry

Mothman

Field guide and your interpretation of the guide are both correct:)
Can be here in huge numbers with usually a locally bred generation on the wing in late Summer/Autumn

Half-cocked

Had a good catch last night, including my first Yellow Shell:


And here are the troublesome ones:

A Willow or Mottled Beauty?


Unknown Pug 1:


Unknown Pug 2:


Unknown Minor (small, about 15mm long):


Unknown 1:


Unknown 2:


Unknown 3:


A Dark Arches?


A Snout?

Mothman

Half-cocked wrote: »

A Willow or Mottled Beauty?

Mottled, note the half circle curve in outer part of cross-line

Unknown Pug 1: Unknown Pug 2:

Both Common Pug

Unknown Minor (small, about 15mm long):

Can only go down as an aggregate, Marbled Minor agg.

Unknown 1:

Size?

Unknown 2:

Mottled Rustic

Unknown 3:

Dusky Brocade

A Dark Arches?

Yes

A Snout?

A micro-moth, Garden Pebble

Half-cocked

Thanks for the info. Unknown 1 was about 20mm long.

Just had our first Large Yellow Undewing of the season fly into the kitchen.

Mothman

Half-cocked wrote: »

Thanks for the info. Unknown 1 was about 20mm long.

Just had our first Large Yellow Undewing of the season fly into the kitchen.

I can't name it with confidence. Really need an overhead picture.
I feel Clouded Brindle is a possibility

Half-cocked

Thanks, don't think I took any other pics of it:mad:

littlebug

GMS week 16?

The trap is out, having rid it of the white shouldered house moths that had taken up residence. Another drizzly, cool and relatively blustery evening here so again I won't expect much in the morning.

littlebug

As predicted..

Heart and Dart x 11
Broom x 1

Gardener3

I'm wearing as many layers of clothes as I was in February but more moths than I expected braved last nights wet and cold:

Garden Grass-veneer
Silver-ground Carpet
Common Marbled Carpet
Green Carpet
Clouded Border
Mottled Beauty
Common Wave
White Ermine
Buff Ermine
Flame Shoulder
Large Yellow Underwing
Purple Clay
Dot Moth
Dusky Brocade
Nut-tree Tussock
Beautiful Golden Y

Also:
Grey Pug
Oblique Carpet
Puss Moth

thebishop

Was AWOL on friday night so put the trap out last night instead.
Large yellow underwing x 1
Bright line -brown eye x 4
Buff ermine x 8
White ermine x 9
Heart and deart x 11
Popular hawkmoth x 1
Dogs tooth x 1
Uncertain x 1
Marbled minor x 1
Plus 1 micro that escaped in the kitchen.Might show up again tonight.

Half-cocked

Can't ID this one, had it down as a clouded-bordered brindle ab. Combusta, but the white markings don't fit (I think)

Bright-line Brown-eye perhaps?

Mothman

Half-cocked wrote: »

Can't ID this one, had it down as a clouded-bordered brindle ab. Combusta, but the white markings don't fit (I think)

Bright-line Brown-eye perhaps?

It is

Half-cocked

Mothman wrote: »

It is

Thanks MM. We got our first Peach Blossom on Friday night and our first Peppered Moth last night. Catching small numbers but great variety of species.

Mothman

After a 2 week break, I chanced the Robin.

Didn't appear this morning to my relief. A cool night with min of 6C but calm and a reasonable catch of nearly 50 species.
A lot of singles

0874 Blastobasis lacticolella 2
0937 Agapeta hamana 1
0970 Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix (Pandemis cerasana) 4
1076 Celypha lacunana 2
1332 Scoparia subfusca 1
1376 Small Magpie (Eurrhypara hortulata) 2
1378 Phlyctaenia coronata 2
1392 Udea olivalis 3
1458 Thistle Ermine (Myelois circumvoluta) 1
1708 Single-dotted Wave (Idaea dimidiata) 2
1709 Satin Wave (Idaea subsericeata) 1
1722 Flame Carpet (Xanthorhoe designata) 1
1727 Silver-ground Carpet (Xanthorhoe montanata) 1
1764 Common Marbled Carpet (Chloroclysta truncata) 1
1830 Wormwood Pug (Eupithecia absinthiata) 1
1834 Common Pug (Eupithecia vulgata) 1
1837 Grey Pug (Eupithecia subfuscata) 1
1858 V-Pug (Chloroclystis v-ata) 1
1887 Clouded Border (Lomaspilis marginata) 4
1906 Brimstone Moth (Opisthograptis luteolata) 1
1920 Scalloped Hazel (Odontopera bidentata) 1
1931 Peppered Moth (Biston betularia) 4
1941 Mottled Beauty (Alcis repandata) 18
1955 Common White Wave (Cabera pusaria) 2
1961 Light Emerald (Campaea margaritata) 3
1981 Poplar Hawk-moth (Laothoe populi) 2
1991 Elephant Hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor) 3
2006 Lesser Swallow Prominent (Pheosia gnoma) 1
2007 Swallow Prominent (Pheosia tremula) 1
2008 Coxcomb Prominent (Ptilodon capucina) 1
2028 Pale Tussock (Calliteara pudibunda) 1
2060 White Ermine (Spilosoma lubricipeda) 6
2061 Buff Ermine (Spilosoma luteum) 2
2069 Cinnabar (Tyria jacobaeae) 2
2089 Heart and Dart (Agrotis exclamationis) 6
2098 Flame (Axylia putris) 1
2102 Flame Shoulder (Ochropleura plecta) 3
2122 Purple Clay (Diarsia brunnea) 1
2147 Shears (Hada plebeja) 1
2160 Bright-line Brown-eye (Lacanobia oleracea) 1
2205 Shoulder-striped Wainscot (Mythimna comma) 1
2326 Clouded-bordered Brindle (Apamea crenata) 1
2330 Dusky Brocade (Apamea remissa) 1
2381 Uncertain (Hoplodrina alsines) 1
2387 Mottled Rustic (Caradrina morpheus) 1
2469 Herald (Scoliopteryx libatrix) 1
2474 Straw Dot (Rivula sericealis) 2
2484 Pinion-streaked Snout (Schrankia costaestrigalis) 1

Half-cocked

Any idea what this is? About 20mm long.

Mothman

Female Bee Moth

Half-cocked

Mothman wrote: »

Female Bee Moth

I should have known that, had one before:D

littlebug

Half-cocked wrote: »

I should have known that, had one before:D

I do that all the time
I had the trap out last night and at a very quick glance this morning I can see I have some I don't recognise.
It's going to be a long morning!

littlebug

My biggest catch last night with 48 moths, the bulk of which (34) were Heart and Dart. Also White Ermine x 4 and Dark Arches x 3 and one Grey Pug. There were also these below that I want to check.

Is this A Buff Ermine... with a few spots missing/ faded?


Stick like Moth.. is it a Red Sword Grass... but seems late? Wrong angle I now know :rolleyes:
(Edited to add-possibly Flame?)




Silver Ground Carpet or Flame Carpet?


These brown moths, probably some I should already know but...




and this micro...(crambus lathoniellus?)