8th Aug '12 ... Two traps - - 1,000 + moths !!

Over 1,000 moths from 2 skinner traps ?
Yes indeed, and here's the reason why ...........

1331 Acentria ephemerella, Water Veneer
I decided to count the amount of dead ones in the two traps as I had estimated around 500.
Underestimated that should be...
Total = 856 !
And how many DIDN'T go in the traps ?
There were swarms of them last night.
Amazing !
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The Rest :-
2 .. 0263 .. Apple Leaf Miner .. Lyonetia clerkella
1 .. 366a .. Horse Chestnut Leaf-miner .. Cameraria ohridella. *year first
1 .. 409a .. Argyresthia trifasciata
1 .. 0420 .. Cherry Fruit Moth .. Argyresthia pruniella, *garden first

2 ..... 0424 .. Bird-cherry Ermine .. Yponomeuta evonymella
1 ..... 0455 .. Ypsolopha scabrella
2 ..... 0644 .. Borkhausenia fuscescens
3 ..... 0647 .. Brown House Moth .. Hofmannophila pseudospretella
2 ..... 0658 .. Carcina quercana
3 ..... 0787 .. Bryotropha terrella
3 ..... 0873 .. Blastobasis adustella
1 ..... 0874 .. Blastobasis lacticolella
1 ..... 0964 .. Cochylis dubitana
1 ..... 0970 .. Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix .. Pandemis ceresana
4 ..... 0974 .. Argyrotaenia ljungiana
1 ..... 0998 .. Light Brown Apple Moth .. Epiphyas postvittana
1 ..... 1010 .. Red-barred Tortrix .. Ditula angustiorana
1 ..... 1260 .. Cydia splendana
2 ..... 1293 .. Chrysoteuchia culmella
2 ..... 1294 .. Crambus pascuella
856 . 1331 .. Water Veneer .. Acentria ephemerella
2 ..... 1344 .. Eudonia mercurella
4 ..... 1348 .. Ringed China-mark .. Parapoynx stratiotata
3 ..... 1361 .. Pyrausta aurata
3 ..... 1378 .. Phlyctaenia coronata
2 ..... 1405 .. Mother of Pearl .. Pleuroptya ruralis
1 ..... 1417 .. Meal Moth .. Pyralis farinalis
12 ... 1424 .. Endotricha flammealis
1 ..... 1439 .. Trachycera advenella
1 ..... 1524 .. Common Plume .. Emmelina monodactyla
3 ..... 1673 .. Small Emerald
9 ..... 1699 .. Least Carpet
5 ..... 1713 .. Riband Wave
2 ..... 1728 .. Garden Carpet
2 ..... 1738 .. Common Carpet
2 ..... 1742 .. Yellow Shell
1 ..... 1781 .. Small Waved Umber
2 ..... 1825 .. Lime-speck Pug
1 ..... 1830 .. Wormwood Pug

2 ..... 1906 .. Brimstone Moth
1 ..... 1921 .. Scalloped Oak
1 ..... 1931 .. Peppered Moth
7 ..... 1937 .. Willow Beauty
1 ..... 1976 .. Privet Hawk-moth
4 ..... 2061 .. Buff Ermine
6 ..... 2092 .. Shuttle-shaped Dart
2 ..... 2102 .. Flame Shoulder
14 ... 2107 .. Large Yellow Underwing
2 ..... 2109 .. Lesser Yellow Underwing
4 ..... 2110 .,. Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
2 ..... 2111 .. Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
1 ..... 2126 .. Setaceous Hebrew Character
1 ./.... 2155 .. Dot Moth
1 ..... 2166 .. Campion
1 ..... 2193 .. Clay
4 ..... 2284x  Grey Dagger agg.
3 ..... 2293 .. Marbled Beauty
2 ..... 2297 .. Copper Underwing
2 ..... 2299 .. Mouse Moth
14 ... 2303 .. Straw Underwing
1 ..... 2317 .. White-spotted Pinion, *year first

2 ..... 2321 .. Dark Arches
12 ... 2341 .. Cloaked Minor
18 ... 2343x  Common Rustic agg.
2 ..... 2353 .. Flounced Rustic
2 ..... 2441 .. Silver Y
2 ..... 2450 .. Spectacle
1 ..... 2489 .. Fan-foot

As a footnote...It is now 11.30pm and I have had a patrol around the traps.
I can barely see inside them as they are covered with a carpet of caddis flies.
There is also a swarm of Water Veneer !

3rd Aug....Big Night !

Overnight min temp = 14.4 deg
calm, humid, cooler breeze after midnight, rain at 0400am
Best night so far with some amazing species. Yet again, over 100 Shuttle-shaped Darts were counted in the two traps.
A recce of the garden at 22.30 paid off with a White-spotted Pinion on the back wall.

WHITE-SPOTTED PINION

More Toadflax Brocade (2) were caught, making 10 for the year. But no more Small Ranunculus...... 


ORANGE SWIFT 0015

 ......Other highlights were Early Thorn, Dingy Footman and a year first Orange Swift.
It was the micros that caused the most excitement....
A garden first Argyresthia goedartella has surely been overlooked in the past as there were large numbers present.
A year first Pandemis corylana was expected, but the big news was finding 1397a Diplopseustis perieresalis.
It is not yet official but I think there is little doubt.
Our micro recorder David Manning agrees with me but will submit it to a higher authority due to its rarity, and thanks also to Captain Trappings, to Ben Sale of Essex Moths fame, and the irrepressable Mark Skevington for backing up the ID.
If it is officially accepted, it will be just the 4th record for the UK as far as I know.
First recorded in Tresco, Scillys in 2001, then again in Exeter in 2007, with another in 2008 in Bishops Stortford,in the neighbouring county of Hertfordshire.
SO, here it is.......any comments/opinions will be most welcome...



DIPLOPSEUSTIS PERIERESALIS 1397a

I have had plenty of egg on my face in the past with ID !!!
I like this one though. Publish and be damned....THIS HAS NOW BEEN ACCEPTED.