My attempt at 300 species before my holidays looked an easy target last week, but there has been a gradual slowing down with the cooler spell of weather.
I'm currently sitting on 296 species and tonight is the last trap night before jetting off to Grand Cayman for a week and then to the mountains in North Carolina.
It's alright for some.
There is a portable "Ratface Traveller" trap waiting for me in Cayman which will also pack away comfortably in a suitcase for the USA too, so hopefully I'll be able to post something a little more exotic, if it is still working.
Anyway, back to the Mother of Pearl.
This was the only new moth for the year leaving me 4 species to trap tonight for the 300, and it's a little cool out there at the mo.
1405 Pleuroptya ruralis, Mother of Pearl
7/7/15
Min temp 13.4 deg C.
SW breeze with rain showers after midnight.
Fewer micro moths about.
0424 Yponomeuta evonymella 1
0647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella 2
0674 Depressaria badiella 1
870x Oegoconia sp. 1
0994 Clepsis consimilana 2
1020 Cnephasia stephensiana 1
1063 Celypha striana 3
1115 Ancylis achatana 1
1175 Epiblema uddmanniana 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella 10+
1294 Crambus pascuella 2
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 2
1405 Pleuroptya ruralis 1
1424 Endotricha flammealis 2
1513 Pterophorus pentadactyla 1
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 2
1669 Common Emerald 1
1699 Least Carpet
1705 Dwarf Cream Wave 2
1708 Single-dotted Wave 1
1713 Riband Wave 3
1728 Garden Carpet 1
1813 Haworth's Pug 1
1834 Common Pug 3
1860 Green Pug 2
1862 Double-striped Pug 1
1937 Willow Beauty 3
1941 Mottled Beauty 1
1976 Privet Hawk-moth 1
1991 Elephant Hawk-moth 1
2047 Scarce Footman 1
2050 Common Footman 10+
2061 Buff Ermine 1
2077 Short-cloaked Moth 1
2087 Turnip Moth 1
2088 Heart and Club 5
2089 Heart and Dart 10+
2098 Flame 1
2126 Setaceous Hebrew Character 1
2128 Double Square-spot 1
2154 Cabbage Moth 1
2160 Bright-line Brown-eye 1
2193 Clay 4
2198 Smoky Wainscot 1
2279 Sycamore 2
2321 Dark Arches 12
2341 Cloaked Minor 1
2381 X Uncertain/Rustic agg. 8
2387 Mottled Rustic 3
2389 Pale Mottled Willow 1
2441 Silver Y 5
2466 Blackneck 1
2469 Herald 1
2477 Snout 2
I will carry this post on in the morning after checking the traps ....
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8th July
Quite a chilly night with temps dipping to 9.3 deg C.
Only two to add
0427 Yponomeuta cagnagella, 1, Spindle Ermine
2349 Mere Wainscot. 1
But I may get a couple of hours trapping tonight before I grab some sleep for the early start to Heathrow in the morning.
The Mere Wainscot had escaped from the trap by this morning so no photo.
I don't have a problem ID'ing these however, and I got a good look at it last night..
This particular one was rufous-brown coloured with dark veins down the fore wing, some are much paler as the ground colour can vary quite a bit.
So, 298 with two to go and it's a bit warmer tonight.
I'll give it to 11.30 pm.
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