19th May...Let's go MICRO !

The warmer weather got the micros out in force last night, a good selection visited the traps and I can now ID a lot more than before with a little help from Mr Manning of course !

Eudonia angustea

Tinea trinotella

White-shouldered House-moth
Emmelina monodactyla on take-off

Brown House-moth

Esperia sulphurella

Dichorampha acuminatana

Argyrotaenia ljuniana

Epiblema cynosbatella

Phtheochroa rugosana (lovely moth but cant pronounce its name !) I hope the ID is OK

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MACRO LIST FOR LAST NIGHT TO FOLLOW

18th May.....Currant Affairs

A disappointing night in general with temps much lower than the forecast. However, this CURRANT PUG turned up with 4 Common Pugs
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CURRANT PUG Results:-
10 x Shuttle-shaped Dart ( I have removed and released 100 from my garden but still they keep coming !)
4 x Common Pug
1 x Currant Pug
1 x Light-brown Apple-moth
1 x Codling Moth

17th May ... SubLime !

Had to put the traps on early (15.30) due to work commitments, but glad I did. Returning home at midnight I checked the traps and found this cracking Lime Hawkmoth behind the egg boxes in the skinner. Temperatures rapidly dropped to 4degC through the night, slowing down the activity to a stop. While working at a Tesco store in Norwich, I checked the fire escape route lights and found two lifers, Swallow Prominent and a Chocolate Tip
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LIME HAWKMOTH a new entry for my garden list

HEART and DART also a garden first

LIGHT EMERALD. First for year

FLAME SHOULDER is a common moth in my garden. This is one of 5 trapped Results:-

9 x S.S.Dart

5 x Flame Shoulder

1 x Rustic Shoulder-knot

1 x Light Emerald

1 x Heart and Dart

1 x Lime Hawkmoth

1 x Muslin Moth

1 x Common Pug

Emmelina monodactyla

PLUS 4 "David Mannings" ( I am pestering him on a regular basis now. It's his own fault for sparking my interest in micros !)

16th May...Two new garden moths

Temperatures dropped to 4degC last night and NOT the 8degC min as per the Weather man forecast. Even so, two new garden moths were trapped
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PALE TUSSOCK
garden first

SPECTACLE

garden first

MUSLIN MOTH 24 moths of 14 species in and around traps :-

9 x S.S. Dart

2 x Falme Shoulder

2 x Emmelina monodactyla

1 x Pale Tussock

1 x Spectacle

1 x Common Pug

1 x Garden Carpet

1 x Brimstone

1 x Hebrew Character

1 x White-shouldered House-moth

1 x Brown House-moth

1 x Light-brown Apple-moth

1 x Pale Mottled Willow

1 x Muslin Moth

15th May 2010 Trap results

Not one but two RUSTIC SHOULDER-KNOT were found in the skinner this morning alongside a trapful of Shuttle-shaped Darts
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Rustic Shoulder -knot

FOXGLOVE PUG on the illuminated blind

A "David Manning" micro (email pending)

Eudonia angustea

Thank you Mr Manning !

one of two Esperia sulphurella Results:-

19 x Shuttle-shaped Dart

4 x Brimstone

3 x White-shouldered House Moth

2 x Brown House-moth

2 x Esperia sulphurella

2 x Rustic Shoulder-knot

2 x Common Pug

2 x Pale Mottled Willow

1 x Light-brown Apple-moth

1 x Foxglove Pug

1 x Double-striped Pug

plus 1 x "David Manning" moth (an unidentified micro)

1 x Hebrew Character