MOTHS ...WE ARE THE CAMPIONS: Tawny Marbled Minor

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Sunday, 9 June 2013

8th June 2013 ... Toadflax Brocade

Two more Toadflax Brocades brightened up an otherwise uneventful night for the garden traps.
This Red Data Book species has been a regular for 3 years.

As a resident species, this moth is restricted to the south-east and central southern coasts of England, where it frequents mainly shingle beaches. It is a relatively recent colonist, arriving around 1950 and quickly gaining a foothold, but appears to be now in decline again.
--- UK Moths
It's certainly not in decline in my little square of Bedfordshire at present so maybe this neat little moth will become firmly established across the country......

2223 ... Toadflax Brocade ... Calophasia lunula

Last nights trap results :-
0648 ... Endrosis sarcitrella ... White-shouldered House-moth ... 6
0998 ... Epiphyas postvittana ... Light Brown Apple Moth ... 1
1356 ... Evergestis forficalis ... Garden Pebble ... 1
1474 ... Ephestia unicolorella, ssp. woodiella ... False Cacao Moth ... 1 ... YF

1474 ... Ephestia unicolorella, ssp. woodiella (syn. Ephestia parasitella, ssp. unicolorella)

1727 ... Silver-ground Carpet ... Xanthorhoe montanata ... 1
1728 ... Garden Carpet ... Xanthorhoe fluctuata ... 3
1781 ... Small Waved Umber ... Horisme vitalbata ... 1
1819 ... Mottled Pug ... Eupithecia exiguata ... 2
1834 ... Common Pug ... Eupithecia vulgata ... 1
1837 ... Grey Pug ... Eupithecia subfuscata ... 1 (Not Verified)
1894 ... Latticed Heath ... Chiasma clathrata ... 2 ... YF

1894 ... Latticed Heath ... Chiasma clathrata

1920 ... Scalloped Hazel ... Odontopera bidentata ... 1

1920 ... Scalloped Hazel ... Odontopera bidentata

2060 ... White Ermine ... Spilosoma lubricipeda ... 1

2069 ... Cinnabar ... Tyria jacobaeae ... 1

2089 ... Heart and Dart ... Agrotis exclamationis ... 2

2092 ... Shuttle-shaped Dart ... Agrotis puta ... 7

2223 ... Toadflax Brocade ... Calophasia lunula ... 2

2278 ... Poplar Grey ... Acronicta megacephala ... 1

2278 ... Poplar Grey ... Acronicta megacephala

2283/4. Dark/Grey Dagger ... Acronicta tridens/psi ... 1
2334 ... Rustic Shoulder-knot ... Apamea sordens ... 2
2339 ... Tawny Marbled Minor ... Oligia latruncula

2339 ... Tawny Marbled Minor ... Oligia latruncula

2380 ... Treble Lines ... Charanyca trigrammica
2389 ... Pale Mottled Willow ... Paradrina clavipalpis
2450 ... Spectacle ... Abrostola tripartita

Friday, 7 June 2013

6th June 2013 ... WEARETHECAMPIONS ...........

............. AND SO AM I ...

2166 ... The Campion ... Hadena rivularis

The Campion was one of a good selection of moths from last nights trapping. The temperature was a couple of degrees warmer than the previous two nights and that made the difference.
Two Setaceous Hebrew Characters were debutants for '13, as were Treble-bar, Tawny Marbled Minor, Green Pug and Common Carpet.
The micros are slowly stirring at last with 4 additions to the year list, one 3mm jobbie has yet to be identified.

2126 ... Setaceous Hebrew Character ... Xestia c-nigrum

1867 ... Treble-bar ... Aplocera plagiata

2339 ... Tawny Marbled Minor ... Oligia latruncula

874 ... Blastobasis lacticolella

1174 ... Notocelia cynosbatella syn. Epiblema cynosbatella

229 ... Monopis obviella

1738 ... Common Carpet ... Epirrhoe alternata

The Green Pug did the "Frank Bough" in mid photo session, and the tiny micro is too much hassle without knocking it out first. Off to the micro recorder for ID on that one as it is probably a new species for the garden.
The Catch .....
Tiny micro for ID ... 1
0229 ... Monopis obviella ... Yellow-backed Clothes Moth ... 1... YF
409a ... Argyresthia trifasciata ... Triple-barred Argent ... 3
0648 ... Endrosis sarcitrella ... White-shouldered House-moth ... 3
0874 ... Blastobasis lacticolella ... London Dowd ... 1 ... YF
0998 ... Epiphyas postvittana ... Light Brown Apple Moth ... 2
1174 ... Epiblema (now Notocelia) cynosbatella ... Yellow-faced Bell ... 1 ... YF
1276 ... Dichrorampha plumbagana ... Silver-lined Drill ... 1 ... (netted by Louie)
1428 ... Aphomia sociella ... Bee Moth ... 3
1728 ... Garden Carpet ... Xanthorhoe fluctuata ... 4
1738 ... Common Carpet ... Epirrhoe alternata ... 1 ... YF
1819 ... Mottled Pug ... Eupithecia exiguata ... 1
1834 ... Common Pug ... Eupithecia vulgata ... 4 ... YF
1860 ... Green Pug ... Pasiphila rectangulata ... 1 ... YF
1867 ... Treble-bar ... Aplocera plagiata ... 1 ... YF
1883 ... Yellow-barred Brindle ... Acasis viretata ... 1
1906 ... Brimstone Moth ... Opisthograptis luteolata ... 1
1931 ... Peppered Moth ... Biston betularia ... 1
2060 ... White Ermine ... Spilosoma lubricipeda ... 1
2089 ... Heart and Dart ... Agrotis exclamationis ... 2
2092 ... Shuttle-shaped Dart ... Agrotis puta ... 3
2126 ... Setaceous Hebrew Character ... Xestia c-nigrum ... 2 ... YF
2154 ... Cabbage Moth ... Mamestra brassicae ... 1
2166 ... Campion ... Hadena rivularis ... 1 ... YF
2278 ... Poplar Grey ... Acronicta megacephala ... 1
2279 ... Sycamore ... Acronicta aceris
2334 ... Rustic Shoulder-knot ... Apamea sordens ... 3
2380 ... Treble Lines ... Charanyca trigrammica ... 2
2384 ... Vine's Rustic ... Hoplodrina ambigua ... 1

Monday, 28 May 2012

27th May 2012 .. Minor detail

Another warm night (10.8 min).
A brace of Tawney Marbled Minor made a year first appearance, I won't get these gen det'd as the first ones in my garden are usually Tawney MM and both of these had brown in the wings..... Previous gen det has shown these to be TMM's.
No doubts about Small Ranunculus however.
The Haul :- in no particular order...

2092 Shuttle-shaped Dart Agrotis puta 10