4th Oct 2013 ... 2nd generations

The decent summer has produced a few 2nd generation moths.
Brown "stuff" numbers are decreasing at last...
Last nights trap catch :-
0998 ... Epiphyas postvittana .. Light Brown Apple Moth x 4
1048 ... Acleris variegana .. Garden Rose Tortrix x 2
1342 ... Eudonia angustea .. Narrow-winged Grey
1413 ... Hypsopygia costalis .. Gold Triangle
1415 ... Orthopygia glaucinalis .. Double-striped Tabby
1524 .. Emmelina monodactyla .. Common Plume
1637 ... Small Emerald

1637 ... Small Emerald

1699 ... Least Carpet
1707 ... Small Dusty Wave x 2
1711 ... Treble Brown Spot

1711 ... Treble Brown Spot

1745 ... Mallow
1937 ... Willow Beauty x 5
2087 ... Turnip Moth
I've been keeping an eye out for the migrant Pearly Underwing, which are very similar to Turnip moth.
After checking out Tony Morris's blog, Mothing at the hidden house, a useful pic of the "punk mohican hairstyle" of a Pearly Underwing had been posted, so I have posted a Turnip Moth comparison from last nights catch .....

Pearly Underwing ... (photo ... Tony Morris)

Turnip Moth from my garden trap last night

.....The other way to tell them apart is to check the hindwings but the hairdo seems to be  a good fieldmark.
Check out Tonys blog at http://tonysmothstoidentiy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/species-list-for-3102013.html#comment-form
2107 ... Large Yellow Underwing x 20
2109 ... Lesser Yellow Underwing x 17
2110 ... Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
2126 ... Setaceous Hebrew Character x 12
2231 ... Deep-brown Dart, male

2231 ... Deep-brown Dart

2232 ... Black Rustic x 3
2240 ... Blair's Shoulder-knot x 11
2267 ... Beaded Chestnut x 3
2306 ... Angle Shades x 5
2389 ... Pale Mottled Willow x 12
2477 ... Snout

2nd/3rd Oct 2013 ... A few late moths, a computer glitch, nostalgia and David Mannings' bicycle

For some reason I can't update the WINE RACE or edit profiles.
Well I can edit, but as soon as I hit the "save" button, I get "javascript void (0)" appear and it won't update.
Don't know why this has started happening as I am "the last of the good old fashioned steam powered trains" (line from a Kinks song) and the first of the National Health (R.I.P.) babies, computers are not really my bag man.
A sudden wave of nostalgia and regret has swept over me ....
Below, the humble Farthing ...

.... this Farthing was minted in my birth year, notice the quality, and also notice the design.
Much better than todays complicated whirls and swirls that you need to "google" to find out what they represent.
A simple Wren, tasteful and instantly recognisable AND no need to pay some arty farty designer  thousands of (taxpayers) pounds for some obscure artistic regional representation.
Design and quality of todays coins are sadly lacking.
Speaking of quality ....
Below, David Mannings' bicycle, still in pristine condition ...

Anyway, back to the moths
2nd Oct
A late 2nd generation Least Carpet turned up on the trap, the second one recorded this autumn.
Mallow and Barred Sallow may have been a return visit of the moths recorded the previous evening.

1699 ... Least Carpet

Pale Mottled Willow numbers hit an all-time high last night with 28 in one trap

2389 ... Pale Mottled Willow

Sallows brighten up the autumn trap

2272 ... Barred Sallow

3rd Oct
Very warm with showers, min temp.. 14.2 deg C
Mallow x 2
Gypsonoma sociana

1168 ... Gypsonoma sociana

Common Marbled Carpet
Garden Carpet
Common Pug

1834 ... Common Pug ... Epithecia vulgata

Willow Beauty x 2
Hypsopygia costalis
Emmelina monodactyla x 2
Square-spot Rustic
Black Rustic
Eudonia angustea
Turnip Moth
Endrosis sarcitrella
Large Ranunculus
Angle Shades x 4
Mouse Moth
Beaded Chestnut
Yellow-line Quaker
Large Yellow Underwing x 18
Lesser Yellow Underwing x 13
Setaceous Hebrew Character x 23
Pale Mottled Willow x 8
Vine's Rustic
.........
Last of the Steam Powered Trains... The Kinks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuQJmhzT3qQ

1st Oct 2013 ... Yellow-line Quaker

Only 1 trap on as the weather looked a bit dodgy. There was a chance of it passing just west of us but no ... soaked trap in the morning. Still warm though.
Yellow-line Quaker made it's expected appearance last night and hopefully Red-line Q will be hot on its heels as in the past.
Not much else about apart from the usual tired brown stuff, even the Blair's Shoulder-knot are starting to look a little worn .....
Pick of the rest :-
Mallow
Barred Sallow
Beaded Chestnut x 3
Large Ranunculus x 2
Garden Carpet
Common Marbled Carpet
Black Rustic x 4
Angle Shades x 4
Small Dusty Wave
Yellow-line Quaker ... YF

2264 ... Yellow-line Quaker ...Agrochola macilenta

29th/30th Garden catch report

29th Sept ...
Migrants are still in evidence with Xylostella plutella, Diamond-back moth, and Nomophila noctuella, Rush Veneer both at the traps.
Alas no Vestal.
Redwings (birds not moths) are now passing overhead at night on their annual winter migration from Scandinavia, first heard 24th Sept.
A visit from Capt. Trappings added a couple more to the garden  list after a leaf-mining session on  apple, raspberry, birch and hawthorn.
The vast majority of mines were Lyonetia clerkella  found on Birch, Apple, Bird-cherry, Hawthorn  in epidemic proportions, occasionally found on Cotoneaster.
A reasonable estimate would be a quarter of a million or more ....

263 ... Lyonetia clerkella mines on Apple, Bird-cherry and Birch

.... multiply the above by EVERY leaf and it doesn't leave much room for other mining species !

One of the mines on the birch could be 301 Parornix betulae, unfortunately the larvae had vacated all of the dozen or so mines found, so ID is not conclusive.
 The usual rustics, underwings, characters and pale mottled creatures are still filling the traps.
Best of the rest ...
Red-green Carpet
Large Ranunculus x 4
Brimstone Moth
Garden Carpet x 4
Common Marbled Carpet
Brimstone Moth
Barred Sallow
Blair's Shoulder-knot x 9
Double-striped Pug
Snout
Depressaris badiella
Prays fraxinella, Ash Bud Moth

449 ...  Prays fraxinella ... Ash Bud Moth

 Orthopygia glaucinalis

1415 ...  Orthopygia glaucinalis,... Double-striped Tabby 

30th Sept ...
Apart from most of the stuff above ....
3 x Beaded Chestnut
1 x Brown-spot Pinion ... Best year for this species since my records began in 2009
1 x Mallow ... YF

1745 ... Mallow

1 x Spruce Carpet
4 x Garden Carpet
2 x Common Marbled Carpet
LEAF MINES ..
0310 ... Callisto denticulella ... ( adult recorded this year)

310 ... Callisto denticulella .. Garden Apple Slender, on Bramley Apple 

0323 ... Phyllonorycter oxyacanthae ... new for the garden, the result of planting a few Hawthorn seedlings 2 years ago.

323 ... Phyllonorycter oxyacanthae  ...  Common Thorn Midget, on Hawthorn

0050 ... Stigmella aurella ... another new species for the garden which has taken a liking to my 2 year old Raspberry row.

50 ... Stigmella aurella ..  Golden Pigmy, on Raspberry 

ABOVE .... A little Sprucie bonus .... 1769 ...Spruce Carpet

28th Sept 2013 ... Garden Catch

3 new moths for the year list were recorded along with 2 Brown-spot Pinion, an uncommon moth in my garden with singles recorded almost annually.
Species list :-
0648 ... Endrosis sarcitrella
0674 ... Depressaria badiella, YF

674 ... Depressaria badiella

0998 ... Epiphyas postvittana
1048 ... Acleris variegana
1342 ... Eudonia angustea
1524 ... Emmelina monodactyla
1728 ... Garden Carpet
1760 ... Red-green Carpet. YF

1760 ... Red-green Carpet

1764 ... Common Marbled Carpet
1906 ... Brimstone Moth
1961 ... Light Emerald
1937 ... Willow Beauty
2087 ... Turnip Moth
2092 ... Shuttle-shaped Dart
2107 ... Large Yellow Underwing
2109 ... Lesser Yellow Underwing
2110 ... Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
2126 ... Setaceous Hebrew Character
2134 ... Square-spot Rustic
2154 ... Cabbage Moth
2232 ... Black Rustic
2240 ... Blair's Shoulder-knot
2252 ... Large Ranunculus
2266 ... Brown-spot Pinion

Brown-spot Pinion and Beaded Chestnut

2267 ... Beaded Chestnut
2270 ... Lunar Underwing
2275 ... Dusky-lemon Sallow, YF

2275 ... Dusky-lemon Sallow

2306 ... Angle Shades
2353 ... Flounced Rustic
2364 ... Frosted Orange

2364 ... Frosted Orange

2384 ... Vine's Rustic
2389 ... Pale Mottled Willow
2477 ... Snout