4th Sept.........Yet another Small Ranunculus

The usual fare in the traps, including 81 Large Yellow Underwings !! and 41 Setaceous Hebrew Characters. The saving grace was this SMALL RANUNCULUS on the wall near the trap and a micro which could be Cochylis hybridella or similar
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SMALL RANUNCULUS

COCHYLIS species... looks like hybridella,

another view

3rd Sept.... Giving it LARGE !!!

Do you have a particular moth that you actually dislike ? I do, the Large Yellow Underwing. They are crashing into your traps in numbers right now, flailing around and generally stampeding everything else present. Maybe I dislike them because they remind me of the large cockroaches we used to get in Australia, especially the reddish-brown varieties. At this time of year it is easier to weigh the damn things rather than count them ! After my routine inspection of my two traps last night, having sustained several hits to the skull, I decided to systematically remove and pot them up just to see how many of the little monsters were present. I usually estimate the numbers at around 30 to 50 but I have been well short of the actual amount of these Trap Bullies. I removed 63 from the trap near the house and 36 from the trap near the bushes by the garden shed for a total of 99 actually trapped. I also removed a further 27 from the walls and shrubs and took them away to a release point near the railway embankment. SO, that's 126 L.Y.U's out of the way. I will set the two traps in the same locations tonight and will be interested to see how many more "Cockroach Moths" appear.
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The beautiful, and much maligned......LARGE YELLOW UNDERWING......(^_*)

ANGLE SHADES

VINE'S RUSTIC

FLAME SHOULDER

ENDOTROICHA FLAMMEALIS Last nights haul:-

99 Large Yellow Underwing (in traps)

31 Setaceous Hebrew Character

24 Vine's Rustic

17 Turnip Moth

16 Orange Swift

12 Double-striped Pug

10 Square-spot Rustic

8 Common Wainscot

7 Flounced Rustic

7 Willow Beauty

5 Lesser Yellow Underwing

5 Brimstone Moth

3 Shuttle-shaped Dart

3 Copper Underwing

3 Garden Carpet

2 Marbled Beauty

2 Light Emerald

Feathered Gothic (probably a re-visit from the previous night)

Latticed Heath ( ...........................DITTO...................................)

Yellow Shell

Cabbage Moth

Mouse Moth

Rosy Rustic

Flame Shoulder

Centre-barred Sallow

Angle Shades

Small Dusty Wave

Nothing new for my garden list and I am still 33 short of the Caldecot Trap (maybe more as I haven't seen the results for the past two nights) My total for macro moths in my garden now stands at 182.

2nd Sept.....Nice !

Great selection in and around traps. Very still weather but very damp with a heavy dew.
Star of the show has to be ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
FEATHERED GOTHIC...a new addition to The Dells garden list

Another newcomer to the garden is this BROWN-SPOT PINION

There must be a 2nd generation hatching as I havent had one of these for quite a while....

....SMALL RANUNCULUS

THE SNOUT....first appearance for the year Correction....this is the 5th this year

YELLOW SHELL

The 4th OLD LADY to pay me a visit this year

WILLOW BEAUTY....very common

MOTHER of PEARL

MARBLED BEAUTY

NUTMEG

TURNIP MOTH

LIME-SPECK PUG

DOUBLE-STRIPED PUG

BORDERED PUG

WORMWOOD PUG

!st Sept....Two Red Underwings

APHOMIA SOCIELLA.......Bee Moth Not too much in the traps last night, although I trapped TWO Red Underwings and another Centre-barred Sallow. The rest were the usual large haul of Large Yellow Underwings plus the usual moths encountered at this time of year
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ACLERIS VARIEGANA.......Garden-rose Tortrix

ROSY RUSTIC

CENTRE-BARRED SALLOW

One of the two RED UNDERWING

31st Aug....Nice end to the month

It doesn't look too impressive, apart from its large size, when sitting on the wall.
But when it opens its wings....................

............. it transforms into this striking RED UNDERWING a garden first- timer
It was great to find the RED UNDERWING on the back wall near the Funnel Trap, this was the first time I had seen one of these beauties.

Had an all-out attack on the garden with 3 traps running in a desperate attempt to get a Newby in the garden for August. (and to try and bridge the gap between The Dells total and Manor Place, Upper Caldecote, where I have been the victim of some recent taunting !) SO, I was a little surprised and rather chuffed to find my efforts had paid dividends with the Red Underwing and this superb...............
..........LATTICED HEATH

Hey Matt !............... want to borrow one of these ???

The moth that has so far found Manor Place unpalatable...................

............................................................ TREBLE-BAR with 3 traps on the go and a wind-less, warmer (slightly) evening and NO power cuts, the total moth count was high. Unable to make a precise count

30 plus....Vine's Rustic

30 plus....Large Yellow Underwing

20 plus....Flounced Rustic

20 plus....Orange Swift

10 plus....Setaceous Hebrew Character

10 plus....Willow Beauty

10 plus....Turnip Moth

5 plus.....Pale Mottled Willow

5 plus.....Double-striped Pug

5 plus.....Shuttle-shaped Dart

5 plus.....Brimstone Moth

5 x Yellow Shell

4 x Lesser Yellow Underwing

3 x Broad Bordered Yellow Underwing

3 x Square-spot Rustic

3 x Garden Carpet

3 x Straw Underwing

3 x Common Wainscot

3 x Small Dusty Wave

2 x Cabbage Moth

2 x Nutmeg

Copper Underwing X

Light Emerald

Treble-bar

Latticed Heath

Marbled Beauty

Silver Y

Plus a multitude of rustic type aggs