More Autumn moths ...

Some more autumnal additions to the garden year list ...

Deep-brown Dart

Black Rustic

Frosted Orange

Mallow

Sallow

Ectoedemia occultella ... Leaf mine on Birch

26th Sept 2014 ... Moth trap latest

Off to Norfolk today to go messing about on the river for a week.
Just posting a couple of autumn additions to the year list and updating total
24th Sept ... Beaded Chestnut

Beaded Chestnut

25th Sept ... Blair's Shoulder-knot, plus 3 more last night 26th

Blair's Shoulder-knot

26th Sept ... Mallow x 2

Mallow

26th Sept ... Brindled Green

29th/30th Garden catch report

29th Sept ...
Migrants are still in evidence with Xylostella plutella, Diamond-back moth, and Nomophila noctuella, Rush Veneer both at the traps.
Alas no Vestal.
Redwings (birds not moths) are now passing overhead at night on their annual winter migration from Scandinavia, first heard 24th Sept.
A visit from Capt. Trappings added a couple more to the garden  list after a leaf-mining session on  apple, raspberry, birch and hawthorn.
The vast majority of mines were Lyonetia clerkella  found on Birch, Apple, Bird-cherry, Hawthorn  in epidemic proportions, occasionally found on Cotoneaster.
A reasonable estimate would be a quarter of a million or more ....

263 ... Lyonetia clerkella mines on Apple, Bird-cherry and Birch

.... multiply the above by EVERY leaf and it doesn't leave much room for other mining species !

One of the mines on the birch could be 301 Parornix betulae, unfortunately the larvae had vacated all of the dozen or so mines found, so ID is not conclusive.
 The usual rustics, underwings, characters and pale mottled creatures are still filling the traps.
Best of the rest ...
Red-green Carpet
Large Ranunculus x 4
Brimstone Moth
Garden Carpet x 4
Common Marbled Carpet
Brimstone Moth
Barred Sallow
Blair's Shoulder-knot x 9
Double-striped Pug
Snout
Depressaris badiella
Prays fraxinella, Ash Bud Moth

449 ...  Prays fraxinella ... Ash Bud Moth

 Orthopygia glaucinalis

1415 ...  Orthopygia glaucinalis,... Double-striped Tabby 

30th Sept ...
Apart from most of the stuff above ....
3 x Beaded Chestnut
1 x Brown-spot Pinion ... Best year for this species since my records began in 2009
1 x Mallow ... YF

1745 ... Mallow

1 x Spruce Carpet
4 x Garden Carpet
2 x Common Marbled Carpet
LEAF MINES ..
0310 ... Callisto denticulella ... ( adult recorded this year)

310 ... Callisto denticulella .. Garden Apple Slender, on Bramley Apple 

0323 ... Phyllonorycter oxyacanthae ... new for the garden, the result of planting a few Hawthorn seedlings 2 years ago.

323 ... Phyllonorycter oxyacanthae  ...  Common Thorn Midget, on Hawthorn

0050 ... Stigmella aurella ... another new species for the garden which has taken a liking to my 2 year old Raspberry row.

50 ... Stigmella aurella ..  Golden Pigmy, on Raspberry 

ABOVE .... A little Sprucie bonus .... 1769 ...Spruce Carpet

30th Sept 2012 .. Garden Traps

Cloud cover, very windy, early morning rain, 12.2 deg. min.

  1 .. 0647 .. Hofmannophila pseudospretella
  2 .. 0998 .. Epiphyas postvittana
  1 .. 1497 .. Amblyptilia acanthadactyla
  1 .. 1728 .. Garden Carpet
  1 .. 1745 .. Mallow, year first

  1 .. 1764 .. Common Marbled Carpet
  1 .. 1916 .. Light Emerald
  4 .. 1937 .. Willow Beauty
  5 .. 2107 .. Large Yellow Underwing
24 .. 2109 .. Lesser Yellow Underwing
  1 .. 2110 .. Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
  6 .. 2126 .. Setaceous Hebrew Character
  2 .. 2134 .. Square-spot Rustic
  3 .. 2232 .. Black Rustic
  2 .. 2252 .. Large Ranunculus
26 .. 2270 .. Lunar Underwing
  3 .. 2306 .. Angle Shades
  1 .. 2353 .. Flounced Rustic
  3 .. 2384 .. Vine's Rustic
  3 .. 2389 .. Pale Mottled Willow
  1 .. 2477 .. Snout

25th Oct 2011....Garden update

Mon 17th...6.9 deg min. strong wind, rain.
1 x Willow Beauty
1 x Shuttle-shaped Dart
1 x Beaded Chestnut
1 x Dark Sword-grass (2nd for year)

Tues 18th...4.2 deg min. Light breeze, cooler
2 x Large Wainscot
1 x Yellow-line Quaker
3 x Shuttle-shaped Dart
1 x Blairs Shoulder-knot
1 x Red-line Quaker
2 x Black Rustic
1 x Turnip Moth
1 x Emmelina monodactyla

Wed 19th...2.3 deg min. Calm, cold
2 x Black Rustic
1 x Blair's Shoulder-knot
1 x Shuttle-shaped Dart

Thurs 20th...3.5 deg min. calm.
Large Wainscot
Shuttle-shaped Dart
Black Rustic
Blair's Shoulder-knot
Silver Y
Yellow-line Quaker
Angle Shades
Emmelina monodactyla

Fri 21st...5.7 deg min. Breezy
2 x Large Wainscot
1 x Barred Sallow
2 x Silver Y
1 x Unidentified... gen det result imminent. Wingspan 36mm approx.

1 x Willow Beauty
1 x Shuttle-shaped Dart
2 x Angle Shades
1 x Green-brindled Crescent
2 x Pale Mottled Willow
1 x Mallow


MALLOW

 2 x Large Yellow Underwing
1 x Lesser Yellow Underwing
1 x E. monodactyla
2 x Blastobasis lacticolella
1 x Eudonia angustea
1 x Endrosis sarcitrella

Sat 22nd...8.8 deg min. Breezy
3 x Red-line Quaker
1 x Large Wainscot
1 x S.S.Dart
1 x Yellow-line Quaker
1 x Emmelina monodactyla

Sun 23rd...
2 x Lesser Yellow Underwing
1 x Willow Beauty
1 x SS Dart
1 x Pale Mottled Willow
1 x E. monodactyla
1 x Monopis obviella
1 x Epiphyas postvittana

Mon 24th...8.5 deg min. Gusty southerly wind
1 x Pale Mottled Willow
1 x Shuttle-shaped Dart
1 x Willow Beauty
1 x Angle Shades
1 x Alucita hexadactyla
1 x Bedellia somnulendella... garden first

0264 Bedellia somnulendella

Tues 25th...6.2 deg min. light breeze, occasional light rain
1 x Blair's Shoulder-knot
1 x Angle Shades
1 x Dark Chestnut

DARK CHESTNUT

1 x Yellow-line Quaker
1 x Brick
1 x Emmelina monodactyla
2 x Blastobasis lacticolella

428 garden species for 2011
245 macro, 183 micro

4th Oct 2011...Garden traps

Min overnight temp..14.4 deg, strong gusting wind.
Nothing new to add to year list, surprise find was Pyralis farinalis (Meal Moth) which is the latest by a mile in the garden...
26 x Shuttle-shaped Dart
20 x Pale Mottled Willow
14 x Lesser Yellow Underwing
10 x Large Yellow Underwing
  7 x Blair's Shoulder-knot
  5 x Lunar Underwing
  4 x Large Ranunculus
  3 x Black Rustic
  2 x Setaceous Hebrew Character
  2 x Willow Beauty
  1 x Brindled Green
  1 x Angle Shades
  1 x Mallow
  1 x Red-green Carpet

BRINDLED GREEN

LARGE RANUNCULUS

MALLOW

  3 x Endrosis sarcitrella
  2 x Epiphyas postvittana
  3 x Emmelina monodactyla
  1 x Monopis obviella
  1 x Pyralis farinalis

27th Sept 2011...Prophecy

Overnight min temp...10.9 deg, calm
In yesterdays blog I said that I was struggling with Sallow and Pink-barred Sallow.
This statement turned out to be a prophecy as both species duly obliged last night.
I'm not superstitious, but just in case.....I am struggling with Merveille du Jour and also a large win on the National Lottery and Premium bonds !
Last nights tally :-
12 x Lesser yellow Underwing
12 x Lunar Underwing
9 x Large Yellow Underwing
7 x Black Rustic
6 x Willow Beauty
6 x Shuttle-shaped Dart
1 x Sallow....year first

SALLOW

1 x Garden Carpet
7 x Pale Mottled Willow
2 x Beaded Chestnut
3 x Setaceous Hebrew Character
1 x Pink-barred Sallow....year first

PINK-BARRED SALLOW

2 x Copper Underwing . . .both extremely worn
2 x Square-spot Rustic
1 x Blair's Shoulder-knot
1 x Angle Shades
1 x Mallow

MALLOW

2011 garden:-
409 spercies...237 macro, 172 micro

12th Oct,,,,,Great night !

A great night for The Dells garden with 2 more year ticks, including the Pale-lemon Sallow. I now need two more species of macro to notch up 200 for the year for the garden...lookin' good !
...............................................
BEADED CHESTNUT

A brace of GREEN-BRINDLED CRESCENT

COMMON MARBLED CARPET

BARRED SALLOW

MALLOW

GARDEN CARPET

One of 3 SPRUCE CARPET

RED-GREEN CARPET.....first for year

And by far the star of the show... PALE-LEMON SALLOW Last nights trap results :-

6 x Blair's Shoulder-knot

6 x Pale Mottled Willow ( no Clancy's Rustics among them !)

4 x Willow Beauty...including a very small 3rd generation moth

4 x Turnip Moth

3 x Spruce Carpet

3 x Lesser Y U'wing

2 x Green-brindled Crescent

2 x Black Rustic

2 x Large Y U'wing

2 x Beaded Chestnut

and one each of the following:-

Shuttle-shaped Dart

Lunar Underwing

Mallow

Red-green Carpet

Common Marbled Carpet

Garden Carpet

Silver Y

Barred Sallow

Pale-lemon Sallow

1st Oct....Autumn in full swing

My list of Sallows is looking quite impressive and last night saw an addition to the yearlist.
BARRED SALLOW

COMMON MARBLED CARPET

This one had me foxed.... I think it may be a poorly marked BEADED CHESTNUT

MALLOW

My 2nd BRINDLED GREEN
The haul :-

5 x Willow Beauty

5 x Large Yellow U'wing

3 x Pale Mottled Willow

3 x S.S.Dart

3 x Lunar Underwing

2 x Large Ranunculus

2 x Blair's Shoulder-knot

2 x Black Rustic

2 x Mallow

1 x Lesser Yellow U'wing

1 x Barred Sallow

1 x Brindled Green

1 x Common Marbled Carpet

1 x Broad Bordered Yellow Underwing

1 x Beaded Chestnut

30th Sept.......3 more ticks to end month

The months end saw 3 more additions to my year list and put me within 6 of my 200 macro target for The Dells garden. ........
MALLOW..... an expected year tick

BEADED CHESTNUT........common at this time of year but another year tick

SILVER Y ...........not seen for a while, always welcome

The third year tick of the evening, a rather ragged SALLOW

ROSY RUSTIC ......a particular favourite of mine, as the rival Caldecote trap is struggling to get this one (:D
Results:-

8 x Large Yellow Underwing

5 x Lunar Underwing

5 x Pale Mottled Willow

4 x Willow Beauty

4 x Blair's Shoulder-knot

3 x Lesser Yellow Underwing

3 x Black Rustic

3 x Beaded Chestnut

2 x Small Dusty Wave

2 x Turnip Moth

2 x Shuttle-shaped Dart

1 x Rosy Rustic

1 x Sallow

1 x Mallow

1 x Setaceous Hebrew Character

1 x Garden Carpet

1 x Common Marbled Carpet

Get a decent field guide and it is easy to I.D. this unmistakable Mallow. Snapped on the air vents in my garden brick wall near the trap tonight.