6 species were added to the garden year list and 80 plus moths were recorded of 25 species.
CLOUDED SILVER 1958
YELLOW SHELL 1742
UDEA OLIVALIS 1392
CRAMBUS LATHONIELLUS 1301
STRAW DOT 2474
EPIBLEMA TRIMACULANA 1176
PEPPERED MOTH 1931
KNOT GRASS 2289
SYCAMORE 2279
TOTAL :-
TOTAL :-17 Heart & Dart
11 Shuttle-shaped Dart
6 x Large Nutmeg
1 x Yellow Shell * year first
1 x Clouded Silver * year first
1 x Straw Dot * year first
1 x Pale Prominent
8 x Vine's Rustic
1 x Garden Carpet
2 x Willow Beauty
5 x Turnip Moth
5 x Pale Mottled Willow
1 x Peppered Moth
3 x Common Swift
1 x Sycamore
2 x Knot Grass
4 x Marbled Minor agg.
10 x Epiphyas postvittana
1 x Cydia pomonella
4 x Endrosis sarcitrella
2 x Aphomia sociella
1 x Epiblema trimaculana * year first
1 x Udea olivalis * year first
1 x Enarmia formosana
1 x Evergestis forficalis
1 x Crambus lathoniellus * year first
2011 Garden Total :-
155 species.....107 macro, 48 micro
Hi Trent,
ReplyDeleteI know you're a big of the "patrolling" method, like me you check shed walls etc for those that are a bit too shy to take the plunge.
I'd be interested to know what percentage of moths caught are actually trapped and how many are potted outside the trap. I noticed that during April my trap was only catching one third as many as I caught myself (up to about 2330hrs when I have to take myself off to bed!). Yesterdays haul was actually equal numbers - 27 potted & 28 trapped.
How do you (and your many followers) compare?
Steve T
Good point Steve. I have no records of potted/trapped species.
ReplyDeleteI set up blacklight blue flourescent tubes on each side of my shed specifically for patrolling and I would say at present that around 60/70% of my totals are potted.
This figure would not be an accurate reflection however, bearing in mind that if I hadn't potted them, how many would have eventually gone into the traps.
In the winter months, when I rarely run the wall lights, I have noticed that a large percentage of the moths recorded are on the adjacent walls.
Of last nights tally, 5 of the 6 species that were year firsts, were caught on the walls and the 6th (E. trimaculana) was captured on the Skinner trap perspex and not actually inside the trap.
Your figure of two thirds potted, tallies with mine, and after 11.30 pm things quieten down.
My wall lights are swithed off around midnight as I wouldn't be up before our hungry sparrows, robins, blackbirds etc,and I think they can survive without me providing breakfast, so anything else I record after midnight is the morning tally in the traps, Cheers Steve, all the best.