Garden mothing VC12 ~ 23-24/04/20 ~
Hopefully the weather stays favourable over the next few things as things really start to pick up!
A last minute decision at ~21.00 last night saw me putting the moth trap out once again. The weather was warm (~9°C) and fairly overcast... pretty much as good as it's going to get for this time of year! By the time I went to check the trap at ~23.30, there were already a number of moths around, including a Waved Umber, Seraphim, two Brimstones and a handful of pugs.
Upon checking the trap at ~07.00 this morning it was encouraging to see a number of moths still on the vertical sheet that I hang next to the trap, as well as the perspex lid of the trap itself... always a good sign! It didn't take too long to go through the traps' contents as it was all fairly straightforward. The total catch came to 61 moths of 29 species - not bad for April. A number of species were quite surprising to see, especially Nutmeg, Sharp-angled Carpet, Yellow-barred Brindle and a superb Poplar Hawk-moth.
Hopefully the weather stays favourable over the next few things as things really start to pick up!
Species
|
Count
| |
Brimstone Moth
|
Opisthograptis luteolata
|
6
|
Brindled Beauty
|
Lycia hirtaria
|
2
|
Brindled Pug
|
Eupithecia abbreviata
|
13
|
Brown Pine Ermine
|
Cedestis subfasciella
|
1
|
Chocolate-tip
|
Clostera curtula
|
3
|
Clouded Drab
|
Orthosia incerta
|
2
|
Common Oak Purple
|
Dyseriocrania subpurpurella
|
1
|
Common Quaker
|
Orthosia cerasi
|
1
|
Fern Smut
|
Psychoides filicivora
|
1
|
Least Black Arches
|
Nola confusalis
|
1
|
Light Brown Apple-moth
|
Epiphyas postvittana
|
1
|
Many-plume Moth
|
Alucita hexadactyla
|
1
|
Muslin Moth
|
Diaphora mendica
|
1
|
Narrow-winged Grey
|
Eudonia angustea
|
1
|
Nut-tree Tussock
|
Colocasia coryli
|
1
|
Nutmeg
|
Anarta trifolii
|
1
|
Oak Nycteoline
|
Nycteola revayana
|
1
|
Oak-tree Pug
|
Eupithecia dodoneata
|
8
|
Poplar Hawk-moth
|
Laothoe populi
|
1
|
Red-green Carpet
|
Chloroclysta siterata
|
1
|
Ruddy Streak
|
Tachystola acroxantha
|
1
|
Seraphim
|
Lobophora halterata
|
1
|
Sharp-angled Carpet
|
Euphyia unangulata
|
1
|
Shuttle-shaped Dart
|
Agrotis puta
|
2
|
Spruce Carpet
|
Thera britannica
|
1
|
Triple-barred Argent
|
Argyresthia trifasciata
|
2
|
Waved Umber
|
Menophra abruptaria
|
1
|
White-shouldered House Moth
|
Endrosis sarcitrella
|
3
|
Yellow-barred Brindle
|
Acasis viretata
|
1
|
 |
| Poplar Hawk-moth Laothoe populi |
 |
| Close up of Poplar Hawk-moth antennae |
 |
| Chocolate-tip Clostera curtula |
 |
| Muslin Moth Diaphora mendica |
 |
| Yellow-barred Brindle Acasis viretata |
 |
| Nutmeg Anarta trifolii |
 |
| Sharp-angled Carpet Euphyia unangulata |
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