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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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