An update ... garden moths

Here are a few recent additions to the garden year list ...

Swallow Prominent

Least Yellow Underwing

Orange Sallow

Cream-bordered Green Pea

Tree-lichen Beauty

Six-striped Rustic

Epiblema foenella (brown form)

Latticed Heath

6th June 2014 ... Garden Traps latest ...

Much warmer than the previous nights with high humidity and overcast.
I covered the traps at midnight as a precaution against the heavy rain forecast.
I needn't have bothered as the rain arrived later than predicted, you can't win !
A good catch though, with another 7 for the garden year list...
The catch:-
0229 .. Monopis obviella, 1
0892 .. Mompha subbistrigella, 5
0994 .. Clepsis consimilana, 1
0998 .. Epiphyas postvittana, 5
1011 .. Pseudargyrotoza conwagana, 4
1261 .. Cydia pomonella, 1
1301 .. Crambus lathoniellus, 2
1334 .. Scoparia ambigualis, 1
1342 .. Eudonia angustea, 1
1376 .. Eurrhypara hortulata, 1
1428 .. Aphomia sociella, 4
1474 .. Ephestia parasitella, 3
1648 .. Pebble Hook-tip, 1, below

1690 .. Small Blood-vein, 1, below

1713 .. Riband Wave, 2, below

1728 .. Garden Carpet, 1
1764 .. Common Marbled Carpet, 1
1781 .. Small Waved Umber, 1
1807 .. Grass Rivulet, 1
1834 .. Common Pug, 4
1887 .. Clouded Border, 1, below

1906 .. Brimstone Moth, 1
1931 .. Peppered Moth, 1
1937 .. Willow Beauty, 3
1976 .. Privet Hawk-moth, 1
2050 .. Common Footman, 1
2069 .. Cinnabar, 1
2087 .. Turnip Moth, 1
2089 .. Heart and Dart, 36
2092 .. Shuttle-shaped Dart, 4
2102 .. Flame Shoulder, 1
2107 .. Large Yellow Underwing, 4
2126 .. Setaceous Hebrew Character, 1
2154 .. Cabbage Moth, 1
2170 .. Varied Coronet, 1
2280 .. Miller, 1
2321 .. Dark Arches,1
2333 .. Large Nutmeg, 2
2337X Marbled Minor agg. 5
2384 .. Vine's Rustic, 1
2387 .. Mottled Rustic, 1, below

2389 .. Pale Mottled Rustic, 3
2418 .. Cream-bordered Green Pea, 1, below

2422 .. Green Silver-lines, 1, below

2480 .. Buttoned Snout, 1
2489 .. Fan-foot, 1
plus two micros for ID and a pug

31st May 2012 ... Good end to month

Overnight low 13.3 deg. cloudy
The month ended on a high with 45 species in and around the garden traps, including 11 additions to the year list.

17 Common Swift Hepialus lupulinus 1
229 Monopis obviella 1
647 Brown House-moth Hofmannophila pseudospretella 3
648 White-shouldered House-moth Endrosis sarcitrella 3
779 Bryotropha affinis 1
808 Platyedra subcinerea 2
974 Argyrotaenia ljungiana 1
998 Light Brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana 3
1063 Celypha striana 1, year first
1133 Epinotia bilunana 1 year first (Below)

1174 Epiblema cynosbatella 2
1428 Bee Moth Aphomia sociella 3
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 1
1728 Garden Carpet Xanthorhoe fluctuata 5
1768 Grey Pine Carpet Thera obeliscata 1 year first (Below)

1776 Green Carpet Colostygia pectinataria 4
1819 Mottled Pug Eupithecia exiguata 1
1825 Lime-speck Pug Eupithecia centaureata 1
1834 Common Pug Eupithecia vulgata 7
1860 Green Pug Pasiphila rectangulata 2, year first (Below)

1906 Brimstone Moth Opisthograptis luteolata 3
1920 Scalloped Hazel Odontopera bidentata 1
1937 Willow Beauty Peribatodes rhomboidaria 4
1958 Clouded Silver Lomographa temerata 1, year first (Below)

1961 Light Emerald Campaea margaritata 1, year first (Below)

2000 Iron Prominent Notodonta dromedarius 1
2006 Lesser Swallow Prominent Pheosia gnoma 1, year first (Below)

2011 Pale Prominent Pterostoma palpina 1, year first (Below)

2028 Pale Tussock Calliteara pudibunda 1
2060 White Ermine Spilosoma lubricipeda 1, year first (Below)

2087 Turnip Moth Agrotis segetum 8
2089 Heart & Dart Agrotis exclamationis 4, (Below)

2092 Shuttle-shaped Dart Agrotis puta 15
2102 Flame Shoulder Ochropleura plecta 1
2126 Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum 1
2154 Cabbage Moth Mamestra brassicae 2
2173 The Lychnis Hadena bicruris 1
2223 Toadflax Brocade Calophasia lunula 1
2333 Large Nutmeg Apamea anceps 2
2380 Treble Lines Charanyca trigrammica 4
2381 The Uncertain Hoplodrina alsines 7
2283/4 Dark/Grey Dagger Acronicta tridens/psi agg.1
 2387 Mottled Rustic Caradrina morpheus 1, year first (Below)

2389 Pale Mottled Willow Paradrina clavipalpis 8
2418 Cream-bordered Green Pea Earias clorana 1, year first (Below)

2441 Silver Y Autographa gamma 4

3rd Sep 2011...1p

Overnight min temp: 13.5 deg, calm
My second Hummingbird Hawkmoth of the year was seen in the front garden at 18.30 hours.
Thanks to sharp-eyed Captain Trappings who spotted it as he was leaving.
After that great start to the evenings mothing, nothing new turned up but still a nice selection was recorded.
A Cream-bordered Green Pea was unexpected.
Best of the rest, Centre-barred Sallow, Angle Shades, Snout, Cabbage Moth, Silver Y, Vapourer, also another 50 plus, maybe more, L.Y.U's.
That makes well over 150 for the last two nights !


CREAM-BORDERED GREEN PEA




VAPOURER





SILVER Y

       

21st June....Cream of the Crop

The gusty wind blew in some interesting moths to the garden last night, among them this CREAM-BORDERED GREEN PEA 2418

Don't know what this is...probably a Common Rustic agg. Size is ok.

Any suggestions (mothwise) welcome ?????????????????????

This one is a DOUBLE SQUARE-SPOT 2128, but a Triple-spotted Clay is easily missed as the markings are just about identical,,,see Matts blog, he's got pics of both. CELYPHA LACUNANA 1076 the wind kept the micro count well down last night.

Almost unbelievable....My second GRASS RIVULET 1807,

THE CLAY 2193,

BURNISHED BRASS 2434, quite a worn bedraggled example, but a year tick.

LEAST CARPET 1699 My 3rd so far, with a few more to follow no doubt. 1 x Cream-bordered Green Pea ** garden first

2 x Garden Carpet

1 x Bright-line Brown-eye

16 x Common Footman

2 x Scarce Footman

3 x Riband Wave

1 x Peppered Moth

15 x Uncertain

11 x Heart and Dart

3 x Heart and Club

12 x Dark Arches

3 x Light Arches

4 x Buff Ermine

2 x Common Wainscot

1 x Smoky Wainscot

1 x Elephant Hawk-moth

1 x Privet Hawk-moth

2 x Marbled Minor agg.

3 x Willow Beauty

2 x Dwarf Cream Wave

1 x The Miller

1 x Yellow Shell

5 x Pale Mottled Willow

4 x The Flame

1 x The Lackey

1 x Least Carpet

1 x The Clay * year first

1 x Burnished Brass * year first

1 x Common Emerald

1 x Grass Rivulet

1 x Double Square-spot

3 x Eudonia mercurella

1 x Clepsis consimilana

3 x Ephestia parasitella

2 x Hofmannophila pseudospretella

2 x Emmelina monodactyla

2 x Epiblema uddmanniana

3 x Cnephasia agg.

2 x Aphomia sociella

1 x Celypha lacunana

262 species to date, 162 macro, 100 micro