17th May 2014 ... Highlights

Continuing from last post, a list of year newbies from last night ...
0125 ... Coptotriche marginea, Bordered Carl
0216 ... Nemapogon cloacella, Cork Moth
0746 ... Chrysoesthia drurella, Flame Neb

2167 ... Tawny Shears

2337X ... Marbled Minor agg

12th May 2011...Ton up...with Double Treble

The garden macro total passed the 100 species landmark last night with the year additions of Iron Prominent, Cinnabar and a very good tick, a Tawny Shears.
The double treble reference wasn't treble 20 and double 20 for the ton from the oche, but for the two TREBLE LINES 2380 pictured below.

Well camoflaged on it's stone prop TAWNY SHEARS 2167

IRON PROMINENT 2000 a year first tick

Macro number 100 was this year first CINNABAR May 11th :-

Small Waved Umber...Rustic Shoulder-knot...3 x Vine's Rustic...4 x Large Nutmeg...16 x Shuttle-shaped Dart...8 x Heart & Dart...3 x Garden Carpet...

Marbled minor agg...2 x Common Swift...Willow Beauty...3 x Turnip Moth...

Flame Shoulder...3 x Setaceous Hebrew Character... Bright-line Brown-eye...

Mottled Pug,,,Common Pug

3 x Aphomia sociella... 2 x Endrosis sarcitrella...Epiblema cynosbatella...

Epiphyas postvittana...Depressaria heraclei...Evergestis forficalis...

Hofmannophila pseudospretella... Eudonia angustea

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May 12th :-

9 x Shuttle-shaped Dart

1 x Puss Moth (4th)

3 x Willow Beauty

1 x Iron Prominent * year first

2 x Green Pug

2 x Common Pug

2 x Garden Carpet

1 x Cinnabar * year first

6 x Heart & Dart

2 x Treble Lines

1 x Scalloped Hazel

1 x Toadflax Brocade (4th)

6 x Large Nutmeg

1 x Pale Tussock

3 x Setaceous Hebrew Character

1 x Tawney Shears * year first

2 x Aphomia sociella

1 x Epiphyas postvittana

2 x Endrosis sarcitrella

Totals:-

145 species......101 macro, 44 micro


There has to be a nearby colony of these uncommon Toadflax Brocade, this being the fourth in the past week or so. Certainly a welcome visitor to The Dells garden.

5th June.....Shear Luck ?

Another 30 plus species night despite the rain,
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MOTTLED PUG

PALE TUSSOCK

originally had this as a Marbled Minor agg but keen-eyed Matt Burgess correctly pointed out that it is a MOTTLED RUSTIC .

PEPPERED MOTH

SMALL SQUARE-SPOT

WHITE ERMINE

TAWNY SHEARS

SILVER Y

MILLER

ELEPHANT HAWKMOTH 30 plus more species with a couple to be confirmed:-

19 x Heart & Dart

7 x Shuttle-shaped Dart

3 x Willow Beauty

3 x Marbled Minor agg.

2 x Miller

2 x White Ermine Garden first
2 x Common Marbled Carpet

2 x Setaceous Hebrew Character

2 x Pale Mottled Willow

2 x Treble Lines

2 x Turnip Moth

2 x Large Nutmeg

Mottled Rustic Garden first

Lime Hawkmoth

Elephant Hawkmoth Garden first

Chinese Character

Silver Y first for year

Mottled Pug

Common Pug

Flame Shoulder

Bright-line Brown-eye

Small square-spot Garden first

Tawny Shears Garden first

Vine's Rustic

some more micros to be identified