Garden Moth Recording 2011

Half-cocked · 21-06-2011 11:54am

Nice haul LB! I'll put my neck on the block and say the first one is a Buff Ermine, I've had them with 'missing' spots before.

PS What type of trap are you using?

littlebug · 21-06-2011 11:58am

Half-cocked wrote: »

Nice haul LB! I'll put my neck on the block and say the first one is a Buff Ermine, I've had them with 'missing' spots before.

PS What type of trap are you using?

I went to check the trap at about 11 and I'd forgotten to switch the light on :rolleyes: Half an hour later they were bombing into the trap:eek: (despite the rain). There must be a serious amount of Heart and Darts around here if I caught that many.

It's a home made skinner trap with 40w actinic light.

Half-cocked · 21-06-2011 12:36pm

I've been catching up to 2 dozen Hearts & Darts a night in my homemade Skinner 15W. They do seem to be the most common moths around at the moment.

Mothman · 21-06-2011 11:40pm

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

Yes

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

You got there in the end. Big size difference between Flame and Red-sword grass.

Silver Ground Carpet or Flame Carpet?

SGC

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

Don't know first.
2nd is Clouded Bordered Brindle

and this micro...(crambus lathoniellus?)

Yes

Heart and Dart can turn up in 100s!

littlebug · 22-06-2011 11:27am

Thanks MM:)

I also found a Shark under the bench and the kids found a Broom on the trampoline

I love the names. It's a good job I haven't had "Uncertain"yet or I'd get even more confused

Half-cocked · 23-06-2011 11:25am

Mothman wrote: »

Heart and Dart can turn up in 100s!

39 last night - a record size catch for me, without even counting the other species caught!

Half-cocked · 24-06-2011 6:56pm

Need help with these 2, the first is some type of Rustic, the 2nd a Brocade? Both about 20mm long.

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Mothman · 24-06-2011 7:04pm

Half-cocked wrote: »

Need help with these 2, the first is some type of Rustic, the 2nd a Brocade? Both about 20mm long.

Both Dusky Brocade

and no shame in having issues with this...

Dusky Brocade is common and variable and there is a good chance that an unknown moth of this size at this time of year is this species.

Half-cocked · 24-06-2011 7:08pm

That was quick! I think I was fooled by the apparent different shapes.

No trapping tonight by the look of things, wet and windy:mad:

littlebug · 24-06-2011 8:07pm

it's pretty miserable here too

It's supposedly going to clear a bit so I won't decide yet.

littlebug · 25-06-2011 7:36am

well rain and wind kept moths away.
Just one Buff ermine and 3 Heart and Darts.

Mothman · 26-06-2011 7:50am

Couldn't do GMS Fri night so ran trap last night. As it happens, the weather was much better last night than previous night and I logged 80 species. Plenty more I didn't log...the tiny ones

While I realise that 80 species may be a :eek: to some
To put it in perspective, that number is not extraordinary for here and I was expecting there to be more.

Yesterday was hottest day of year here with 24C and the overnight min was above 14C.

thebishop · 26-06-2011 2:10pm

I did Sat night too.Light rain all night. 13 c. Good catch. Will be all day trying to figure em all out.Most interesting were 2 Humming bird hawkmoths.Both were in a white plastic bag I had wrapped around the ext lead to keep it dry.

Mothman · 26-06-2011 4:15pm

The Hummingbird Hawk-moths are an indication of a migrant influx. With the warm southerly wind continuing, perhaps migrants will have arrived here.

thebishop · 26-06-2011 9:52pm

Any Id on these 2 please.Both close to 10 M.M. Nose to tail.Thanks

Half-cocked · 27-06-2011 9:46am

83 Hearts and Darts in the trap this morning! 10 Large Yellow Underwings and our first Swallow-tailed of the year. Lot's of other species too:)

thebishop · 27-06-2011 2:07pm

Sat nights catch.Getting better as the year goes on.
Hummingbird hawkmoth x 1.
Elephant hawkmoth x 3
Eyed hawkmoth x 1
Grey pug x 2
Common pug x 1
Brimstone x 5
Swallow prominent x 1
Common swift x 15
Dot- moth x 1
Large yellow underwing x 9
Uncertain x 7
Rustic x 2
White ermine x 5
Buff ermine x 11
Peppered moth x 1
Flame x 29.
Flame shoulder x 3
Heart and dart x 23
Bright line-brown eye x 13
Peach blossom x 1
Marbled minor agg x 5
Dusky brocade x 3
Dark arches x 1
Silver Y x 2
Common white-wave x 1
Small angle shades x5
Green arches x 1
Clouded brindle x 3
Shears x 3
Beautiful snout x 1
Burnished brass x 1
Clouded border x 1
Magpie x 1
Fan-foot x 1
Plus 2 unidentified above.

Mothman · 27-06-2011 8:59pm

thebishop wrote: »

Any Id on these 2 please.Both close to 10 M.M. Nose to tail.Thanks

Archips podana aka Large Fruit-tree Tortrix a bit the worse for wear.

The other is part of a very difficult group, Scopariinae and are difficult even with the best of photos. I don't have my eye in on these as much as I did some years back, but having said the above, I suggest this is Eudonia mercurella

thebishop · 27-06-2011 10:15pm

Thanks again Mothman.What would we do without you.

Mothman · 27-06-2011 11:08pm

thebishop wrote: »

Thanks again Mothman.What would we do without you.

Collect stamps?

Half-cocked · 28-06-2011 9:56am

Mothman wrote: »

Collect stamps?

Tried that, moths are more exciting!!!

I finally got all my Saturday catch ID'd (thanks MM). 127 moths altogether, a record for my little low wattage skinner trap.

littlebug · 28-06-2011 10:23am

I thought conditions last night were perfect but apparently not

1 Heart and Dart and 2 Dusky Brocade (I think) plus hundred of tiny flies (all dead).
Oh well... maybe I'll go back to stamp collecting

Mothman · 28-06-2011 11:45am

littlebug wrote: »

and this micro...(crambus lathoniellus?)

Sorry LB, this is C. pascuella and not lathoniellus that I confirmed it as before.

Half-cocked · 01-07-2011 9:47am

3 Buff Arches last night. One of my favourite moths.

Half-cocked · 01-07-2011 5:10pm

Anyone know what the top moth is in the pic below? I left the Heart and Dart in the pic for scale.

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Mothman · 01-07-2011 5:14pm

Half-cocked wrote: »

Anyone know what the top moth is in the pic below? I left the Heart and Dart in the pic for scale.

Lozotaenia forsterana

littlebug · 01-07-2011 10:21pm

Im not at home tonight so no GMS. Will Monday be too late or should I just skip this week?

I brought the moth light with me

and have made a trap out of a bin and some cardboard so it'll be interesting to see what the different habitat will bring (if anything!). Have already had a cinnabar in the house and a transparent burnet.

Mothman · 01-07-2011 10:25pm

Monday night is fine for tonights GMS

It's cold here which is reduce activity quite a bit. Already below 9C and it's not really dark yet.

littlebug · 01-07-2011 11:58pm

My light is attracting quite a lot of attention out there! My makeshift trap isn't working terribly well as I can see some fly in and back out again and more fluttering around and behind it but hopefully enough will hang around on the walls and vegetation to give me something to do in the morning

There's one Peach Blossom (new to me) nicely settled on the wall.

Mothman · 02-07-2011 6:12am

Cool night with min of 8C and nearly half the number of species as previous week.
2nd highest number of Uncertain in my records

Cnephasia species (Cnephasia sp.) 2
0468 Rhigognostis incarnatella 1
0610 Elachista argentella 1
0970 Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix (Pandemis cerasana) 2
0998 Light Brown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana) 1
1002 Lozotaenia forsterana 2
1293 Garden Grass-veneer (Chrysoteuchia culmella) 1
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 3
1392 Udea olivalis 1
1653 Buff Arches (Habrosyne pyritoides) 1
1709 Satin Wave (Idaea subsericeata) 1
1887 Clouded Border (Lomaspilis marginata) 11
1910 Lilac Beauty (Apeira syringaria) 1
1941 Mottled Beauty (Alcis repandata) 14
1945 Brussels Lace (Cleorodes lichenaria) 2
1955 Common White Wave (Cabera pusaria) 2
1956 Common Wave (Cabera exanthemata) 1
1961 Light Emerald (Campaea margaritata) 8
1962 Barred Red (Hylaea fasciaria) 3
1981 Poplar Hawk-moth (Laothoe populi) 4
1991 Elephant Hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor) 1
1994 Buff-tip (Phalera bucephala) 1
2006 Lesser Swallow Prominent (Pheosia gnoma) 1
2007 Swallow Prominent (Pheosia tremula) 1
2028 Pale Tussock (Calliteara pudibunda) 1
2057 Garden Tiger (Arctia caja) 1
2060 White Ermine (Spilosoma lubricipeda) 3
2089 Heart and Dart (Agrotis exclamationis) 10
2098 Flame (Axylia putris) 1
2102 Flame Shoulder (Ochropleura plecta) 3
2107 Large Yellow Underwing (Noctua pronuba) 2
2114 Double Dart (Graphiphora augur) 1
2120 Ingrailed Clay (Diarsia mendica) 1
2122 Purple Clay (Diarsia brunnea) 1
2160 Bright-line Brown-eye (Lacanobia oleracea) 3
2306 Angle Shades (Phlogophora meticulosa) 1
2321 Dark Arches (Apamea monoglypha) 4
2327 Clouded Brindle (Apamea epomidion) 2
2330 Dusky Brocade (Apamea remissa) 3
2337x Marbled Minor agg. (Oligia strigilis agg.) 2
2381 Uncertain (Hoplodrina alsines) 29
2382 Rustic (Hoplodrina blanda) 4
2387 Mottled Rustic (Caradrina morpheus) 1
2434 Burnished Brass (Diachrysia chrysitis) 2
2450 Spectacle (Abrostola tripartita) 1
2474 Straw Dot (Rivula sericealis) 6

Garden Moth Recording 2011

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