WINE RACE 2016 .. MATTc380 .. TRENT 353 .. BEN 347 ...... Garden species:- Macros 357, Micros 365, Total 722

Wednesday 18 May 2011

17th May 2011...Hi Ho Silver Lining

Another fairly good night with 12 degree minimum temperature, although the wind was trying to wreck the party most of the evening.
6 species were added to the garden year list and 80 plus moths were recorded of 25 species.
CLOUDED SILVER 1958

YELLOW SHELL 1742

UDEA OLIVALIS 1392

CRAMBUS LATHONIELLUS 1301

STRAW DOT 2474

EPIBLEMA TRIMACULANA 1176

PEPPERED MOTH 1931

KNOT GRASS 2289

SYCAMORE 2279 TOTAL :-

17 Heart & Dart

11 Shuttle-shaped Dart

6 x Large Nutmeg

1 x Yellow Shell * year first

1 x Clouded Silver * year first

1 x Straw Dot * year first

1 x Pale Prominent

8 x Vine's Rustic

1 x Garden Carpet

2 x Willow Beauty

5 x Turnip Moth

5 x Pale Mottled Willow

1 x Peppered Moth

3 x Common Swift

1 x Sycamore

2 x Knot Grass

4 x Marbled Minor agg.


10 x Epiphyas postvittana

1 x Cydia pomonella

4 x Endrosis sarcitrella

2 x Aphomia sociella

1 x Epiblema trimaculana * year first

1 x Udea olivalis * year first

1 x Enarmia formosana

1 x Evergestis forficalis

1 x Crambus lathoniellus * year first

2011 Garden Total :-


155 species.....107 macro, 48 micro


2 comments:

  1. Hi Trent,

    I know you're a big of the "patrolling" method, like me you check shed walls etc for those that are a bit too shy to take the plunge.

    I'd be interested to know what percentage of moths caught are actually trapped and how many are potted outside the trap. I noticed that during April my trap was only catching one third as many as I caught myself (up to about 2330hrs when I have to take myself off to bed!). Yesterdays haul was actually equal numbers - 27 potted & 28 trapped.

    How do you (and your many followers) compare?

    Steve T

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  2. Good point Steve. I have no records of potted/trapped species.
    I set up blacklight blue flourescent tubes on each side of my shed specifically for patrolling and I would say at present that around 60/70% of my totals are potted.
    This figure would not be an accurate reflection however, bearing in mind that if I hadn't potted them, how many would have eventually gone into the traps.
    In the winter months, when I rarely run the wall lights, I have noticed that a large percentage of the moths recorded are on the adjacent walls.
    Of last nights tally, 5 of the 6 species that were year firsts, were caught on the walls and the 6th (E. trimaculana) was captured on the Skinner trap perspex and not actually inside the trap.
    Your figure of two thirds potted, tallies with mine, and after 11.30 pm things quieten down.
    My wall lights are swithed off around midnight as I wouldn't be up before our hungry sparrows, robins, blackbirds etc,and I think they can survive without me providing breakfast, so anything else I record after midnight is the morning tally in the traps, Cheers Steve, all the best.

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