WINE RACE 2016 .. MATTc380 .. TRENT 353 .. BEN 347 ...... Garden species:- Macros 357, Micros 365, Total 722

Friday, 16 March 2012

15th March 2011... Best night so far..(despite ID mistakes)

15th March... 6.8 deg..Medium level cloud cover, warmer,
Blog entry changed due to mis-ID's
Thanks Andy B for the corrections.

Conditions were perfect last night and when my 2nd ever Twin-spotted Quaker turned up early in the evening the omens looked good.....
31 moths of 17 species,

Garden trap results:-
o647... Hofmannophila pseudospretella 1... year first
0663... Diurnea fagella, 3 ... 2 x Male, 1 x Female
0688... Agonopterix heracliana 1
? 0892... Mompha subbistrigella 1... year first whatever it is (to be checked)



Mompha subbistrigella ?  (to be confirmed)
1524... Emmelina monodactyla
1862... Double-striped Pug, 2... Gymnoscelis rufifasciata
1917... Early Thorn, 1...year first... Selenia dentaria

Early Thorn, Selenia dentaria
2182... Small Quaker, 5...Orthosia cruda
2187... Common Quaker, 5...Orthosia cruda
2188... Clouded Drab, 2 ... Orthosia incerta
2189... Twin-spotted Quaker, 1 ... Orthosia incerta


Twin-spotted Quaker, Orthosia incerta
 2190... Hebrew Character, 2 ... Orthosia gothica
2237... Grey Shoulder-knot, 1 ...Lithophane ornitopus


Grey Shoulder-knot, Lithophane ornitopus
 2243... Early Grey, 2 ... Xylocampa areola
2256... Satellite, 1 ... Eupsilia transversa
2258... Chestnut, 1 ...  Conistra vaccinii
1053... Acleris hastiana ... garden first ( originally ID'd as Oak Nycteoline by Mr Magoo here)



ABOVE... Acleris hastiana
                              BELOW...Female Diurnea fagella  * ID, Andy Banthorpe


The previous two nights were very average....

14th March...1.1 deg. calm, cold..clear with fog forming later
8 moths of 4 species........

2182 Small Quaker ..........................Orthosia cruda
2187 Common Quaker x 3 .............Orthosia cerasi
2190 Hebrew Character x 3.............Orthosia gothica
2243 Early Grey ..............................Xylocampa areola
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13th March...5.4 deg min, calm, low-level cloud
14 moths of 6 species........

0688 Agonopterix heracliana
1524 Emmelina monodactyla
2187 Common Quaker x 5.................Orthosia cerasi
2188 Clouded Drab ...........................Orthosia incerta
2190 Hebrew Character x 5...............Orthosia gothica
2243 Early Grey.................................Xylocampa areola
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4 comments:

  1. Billy Dykes16 March 2012 at 15:47

    Fairly sure that Mompha isn't subbistrigella. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be jurassicella/divisella. Definitly keep it and get it gen. det.

    Bill

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    1. Trent Duval16 March 2012 at 16:23

      Cheers Bill, I have retained it for gen. det., I'm also having second thoughts on the Oak Nycteoline,,,it could be Acleris hastiana but I didn't retain it

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  2. Andy Banthorpe16 March 2012 at 17:10

    Hi Lionel,
    Its not Oak Nycteoline - looks much more like hastiana. Oh andthe "buttoned Snout" is not - its a female Diurnea fagella (they have much reduced wings).
    Cheers
    Andy B

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    1. Trent Duval16 March 2012 at 18:45

      Thanks Andy.
      I had no idea that D. fagella had a flightless female, I just checked it on UK Moths. Spot on.... The head looks like B Snout and the leg pattern is similar, and the body length.
      I regularly get B. Snout in the garden so I assumed it was a deformed one.
      And my Oak Nycteoline ID is certainly wrong, the doubts crept in after I had blogged it.
      In 2010 I blogged a Hastiana which was an Oak Nyc and I got it the other way around this time.
      Now to alter my whole blog post !

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