23/4th July ... Garden Moths update

A few more for the garden year list ...
Nice to see my 3rd Black Arches, not many of these country woodland boys come to town.....

888 Mompha propinquella
New for year and present most years in ones and twos ...

Others for 23rd ...
Burnished Brass
Garden, Common and Red Twin-spot Carpet
Oak Eggar
Clouded Border
Campion
Dingy Footman
With the usual brown stuff including a melanic form of Copper Underwing, not seen in the garden before ...

24th July
Amblyptilia acanthadactyla was missed in the spring for the first time, but a 2nd gen. moth turned up in the trap last night ...

Pandemis corylana was another newbie

And last but also Least ... Least Yellow Underwing ..

Others on 24th
Eudemis profundana
Poplar Hawk-moth
Pale Prominent
Small Ranunculus
Straw Dot
Campion
Silver Y
Bordered Pug
Yarrow Pug escaped from pot so won't count.
I took a snap of it on the wall which didn't show much detail in the glare of the flash ...

Lastly, a Leopard Moth ...

6th Oct 2013 ... October Coronet

A Varied Coronet was attracted to the Synergetic fluorescent lamps last night.
This is the first autumn record for the garden

2170 ... Varied Coronet

Our VC30 recorders, Andy and Melissa Banthorpe, have just informed me that the two previous latest records in VC30 Bedfordshire were August 1977 and September 9th 1983, so this is indeed a late one.

Last nights catch :-
0874 ... Blastobasis lacticolella

0874 ... Blastobasis lacticolella

0998 ... Epiphyas postvittana x 3
1342 ... Eudonia angustea x 2
1524 ... Emmelina monodactyla x 3
1745 ... Mallow x 2
1760 ... Red-green Carpet
1764 ... Common Marbled Carpet x 2
1769 ... Spruce Carpet
1937 ... Willow Beauty x 2
2087 ... Turnip Moth
2092 ... Shuttle-shaped Dart
2107 ... Large Yellow Underwing x 10
2109 ... Lesser Yellow Underwing x 6
2126 ... Setaceous Hebrew Character x 8
2170 ... Varied Coronet
2232 ... Black Rustic
2240 ... Blair's Shoulder-knot x 6
2267 ... Beaded Chestnut x 3
2270 ... Lunar Underwing x 7
2272 ... Barred Sallow
2297 ... Copper Underwing

2297 ... Copper Underwing

2306 ... Angle Shades
2389 ... Pale Mottled Willow x 3
2441 ... Silver Y

26th July 2012 ... Garden traps

Here are the latest additions to the 2012 garden year list :-

1183 Epiblema foenella

1304 Agriphila straminella

1305 Agriphila tristella

1313 Catoptria pinella

640 Batia lunaris

427 Yponomeuta cagnagella

2299 Mouse Moth

2353 Flounced Rustic

1894 Latticed Heath

2044 Dingy Footman

2297 Copper Underwing

27th July 2011...Double Lobed brings up double century !

Overnight min. temp:- 12.8 deg
Weather:- Overcast, calm
The 200th macro for the year with a Double Lobed was a nice milestone to reach, only my second record, and just to be sure a Svenssons Copper Underwing made it 201.
Flame Shoulder and Setaceous Hebrew Character showed up after a long absence.
Other highlights were 2 x Spectacle, 1 x Campion, 1 x White Satin Moth, Pine Hawkmoth, Nutmeg, Peppered Moth, Scalloped Oak.
Carpets:- Least, Common, Garden and Red Twin-spot, Small Waved Umber, Yellow Shell


DOUBLE LOBED

 Svenssons Copper Underwing is a species I like to get "out of the way" early when they are fresh. The differences in the underside of the hindwing is documented in the "Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland", by Paul Waring and Martin Townsend, although sometimes this is not always easy to differentiate.
UK Moths website state that there is a difference in the labial palps, Svenssons has white tips, whereas Copper has all dark. This seems to bear up with the examples I have looked at from my garden.
Personally, I think the overall appearance is a good rough guide, Copper Underwing looks neater with richer colouring, Svenssons always looks a little scruffy.
Unscientific it may be but it usually proves correct on fresh specimens.
It proved too fiddly to put up any pics of the underwings.

COPPER UNDERWING



SVENSSONS COPPER UNDERWING



SVENSSONS COPPER UNDERWING showing white tips to labial palps

 Garden tally for 2011 :-
341 species, 201 macro and 140 micro
*** I have since had confirmation that Vitula biviella 1478b, caught on 20th July, has been accepted by the county recorder.
So the total is now 342 species...201 macro, 141 micro

25th July 2011...

Minimun overnight temperature; 12.6 deg
A warm, calm night with a hint of humidity raised the catch numbers.
100 plus macros were recorded with the bulk (40) being Shuttle-shaped Darts.
c50 micros.
A year first Copper Underwing agg. and two year first micros were added but just one worn Heart and Dart in the trap, which dominated the catch before the S-s Dart invasion.
The Catch:-
Micros
1 x Cydia pomonella
3 x Hypsopygia costalis
4 x Endotricha flammealis
2 x Hofmannophila pseudospretella
1 x Agonopterix alstromeriana


AGONOPTERIX ALSTROMERIANA

4 x Agapeta hamana
9 x Chrysoteuchia culmella
5 x Crambus pascuella
2 x Yponomeuta evonymella
2 x Cnephasia agg.
1 x Pterophorus pentadactyla
1 x Epiblema foenella


EPIBLEMA FOENELLA

1 x Oegoconia spp.
2 x Bryotropha terrella
1 x Ypsolopha scabrella
1 x Catoptria pinella

CATOPTRIA PINELLA

1 x Yponomeuta malinellus
2 x Celypha striana
1 x Batia unitella
1 x Trachycera advenella FFY


TRACHYCERA ADVENELLA

1 x Pammene fasciana
2 x Pandemis cerasana
1 x Blastobasis lacticolella
1 x Aethes cnicana FFY


AETHES CNICANA

MACROS
4 x Cloaked Minor
2 x Lesser Yellow Underwing
3 x Scarce Footman
40 x Shuttle-shaped Dart
8 x Least Carpet
5 x Ruby Tiger
1 x Copper Underwing FFY


COPPER UNDERWING

3 x Marbled Beauty
1 x Poplar Grey
2 x Dwarf Cream Wave
1 x Common Footman
2 x Garden Carpet
6 x Common Rustic agg.
5 x Riband Wave
2 x Small Ranunculus


SMALL RANUNCULUS

1 x Nutmeg
4 x Yellow Shell
5 x Dark Arches
1 x Lime-speck Pug
1 x Willow Beauty
1 x Smoky Wainscot
1 x Dun-bar
1 x Large Yellow Underwing
1 x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
2 x Single-dotted Wave
1 x Bright-line Brown-eye
3 x Uncertain
1 x Double Square-spot
1 x Double-striped Pug
1 x Dot Moth
TOTALS
To be added. Awaiting ID checks 

5th Sept....Gothic Topic

Two Feathered Gothics in the Skinner by the house and an Old Lady on the garden shed were more than welcome, also Angle Shades and Blood-vein were noted. Another 48 Large Yellow Underwing cluttered up the traps with 23 Setaceous Hebrew Character. and a whole host of Rustic types.
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FEATHERED GOTHIC

OLD LADY

Female BROAD-BORDERED YELLOW UNDERWING

SQUARE-SPOT RUSTIC

COPPER UNDERWING

16th Aug....Flight of the Phoenix

Warming up slowly and it shows. 20 species of macro with another new garden tick.
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SMALL PHOENIX

YELLOW-BARRED BRINDLE

COPPER UNDERWING

AGAPETA HAMANA

25th July......Flying High !

The early cold gusts abated and the evening remained still and damp with intermittent drizzle. Not quite enough to soak the trap. 33 species of macro were recorded including this.......
.......JULY HIGHFLYER, a Dells garden debutante, merci beaucoup

DUSKY SALLOW..... 3 of these little beauties in the trap this morning.

My 16th SMALL RANUNCULUS of the year, on the house wall near the trap after a 5 day absence.

DUN-BAR.....a frequent visitor. I have now had 3 different colour forms

COPPER UNDERWING (not Svensson's) Last nights tally :-

16 S.S.Dart

15 Dark Arches

7 Riband Wave

5 Cloaked Minor

5 Silver Y

4 Marbled Beauty

4 Least Carpet

4 Lime-speck Pug

3 Scarce Footman

3 Dun-bar

3 Dusky Sallow

3 Small Waved Umber

3 Common Rustic agg

2 Willow Beauty

2 Lesser Yellow Underwing (no Large Yellow !)

2 Dark/Grey Dagger

2 Ruby Tiger

2 Buff Ermine

2 Uncertain

2 Scalloped Oak

Copper Underwing

Garden Carpet

Bordered Pug

Nutmeg

Small Ranunculus

July Highflyer

Broad Bordered Yellow Underwing

Sallow Kitten

Heart & Dart

Small Dusty Wave

Privet Hawkmoth

Lackey

Red/Dark Twin-spot Carpet

18th July .........Call a copper

A real "mothing" night last night..warmer, with just a hint of a breeze, so I fired up 3 traps and recorded over 50 species including micros.
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LESSER YELLOW UNDERWING......just the one, lots more to come.(first for year)

COPPER UNDERWING X

in fresh, pristine condition........lots more of these to come as well (first for year)

The curiously shaped...CHINESE CHARACTER

And a garden "first" for WHITE SATIN MOTH