The new 125w MV light

Mothing is now hotting up as is the weather. A new 125w MV light is doing the trick with catches of 200+ moths. Lots of new species are keeping me on my Identification toes.

Macros:

Early Thorn

Scalloped Oak

Blood-vein

Micros:

Lozotaeniodes formosana

Chysoteuchia culmella

Gypsonoma oppressana

(and only the 2nd ever record from my home count Cheshire)

 

Moths from 17th - 20th June 2014

a few nights mothing brought some lovely species to the garden. A few old favourites and a few lifers too.  I just haven't had the time to get out birding and not sure if its because of work, mothing or the World Cup...... Probably a bit of each.

 

Cinnabar

 



Elephant Hawk-moth

Beautiful Plume

Beautiful Golden y

Plain Golden y

Pebble Hook-tip

Pale Dagger

Spinach

Buff Arches

Peach Blossom

Garden Pebble

Lozotaenia forsterana

Chrysoteuchia culmella

 

Moths (and a Shield Bug) from 11th June

Another nice selection which include three new garden species.

 

Spectacle

Silver y

Knot Grass

Ingrailed Clay

 

Angle Shades

Hawthorn Moth

Plumb Tortrix

 

Middle Barred Minor

Chrysoteuchia culmella

 

Shield Bug

 

 

 



Moth results from the garden, 6th June 2014

 

Results from a catch a few nights ago:

Some Micros.

Marbled Orchard Tortrix

 

Pyla fusca

 

Pseudargyrotoza conwagana

Some Macros.

Peppered Moth

 

Elephant Hawk-Moth

 

 

Iron Prominent

 



 

 

Full catch was 14 species from 31 moths, the species listed below in Red are new garden records. The most abundant was the Heart and Dart with 16.

	Spilosoma luteum	Buff Ermine
	Axylia putris	Flame
	Agrotis exclamationis	Heart and Dart
	Biston betularia	Peppered Moth
	Opisthograptis luteolata	Brimstone Moth
	Cydia pomonella	Codling Moth
	Deilephila elpenor	Elephant Hawk-moth
	Notodanta dromedarius	Iron Prominent
	Mamestra brassicae	Cabbage Moth
	Pseudargyrotoza conwagana
	Hedya nubiferana	Marbled Orchard Tortrix
	Bryotropha affinis
	Scoparia ambigualis
	Pyla fusca

Moths from early June

Some nice species (and new species) coming to the light trap this past few days. Here are jut a few.

 

Pale Tussock (and a new species for my garden)

 

Light Brown Apple Moth

Ruby Tiger (and a new species for my garden)

Small Magpie

Flame

Bee Moth (Female)

Diamond Backed Moth



Garden Moths - 19th May 2014

I am currently utilising my shift pattern to do a week of moth trapping so a few more posts than usual this week. The numbers and species still gradually increasing with the warmer weather, and a  few more new species and a few welcomed returnees:

Last nights full list:

4 x Scalloped Hazel (New garden Record)
1 x Heart and Dart
1 x Pebble Prominent
1 x Flame Shoulder
1 x Clouded Silver
3 x Common Marbled Carpet
1 x Elephant Hawk-moth
3 x Bee Moth
1 x Brindled Pug (I think.... it escaped before I was 100% or could get an image), probably in the partners wardrobe now eating her best dress)
1 x Ochreous Pug
2 x Light Brown Apple Moth
1 x Alder Kitten (New Garden Record)
3 x  Tachystola acroxantha

Alder Kitten

 

Flame Shoulder

 

Scalloped Hazel

 

Elephant Hawk-Moth

 

Foot Note: Tachystola acroxantha

An adventive species, which was first noted in the UK in 1908, and was probably imported with Australian plants. In recent years it has expanded its range rapidly northwards

 

Tachystola acroxantha