Saturday 29 May 2010

you beauty!!

Came home after the Beds moth night to find this beauty sitting next to my trap;
what an awesome moth and much bigger then I remember them!!

other new garden moths...

common swift:nutmeg:pale mottled willow:willow beauty:Small waved umber:

Stockgrove CP Beds moth night


Another good beds moth night with several new species for me. The complete list from the night is not yet out so I will leave you with some photos:

Brown Silver-line:Great Prominent:Orange footman:Scorched wing:Shoulder-striped wainscot:Dwarf pug:

Friday 28 May 2010

Bare Buff!!

Buff Ermin was a welcome addition to the garden list last night:and Buff tip was a nice addition to my life list, caught in my girlfriend's garden in Henlow:Also of note in my garden last night was this swallow prominent:and 2 Trebble lines:
Other than that it was a pretty slow night!

Wednesday 26 May 2010

Recent Additions to the Garden list

Still getting new species for the garden each night:

small elephant hawk (with 2 lime in the same trap!!):vine's rustic:light emerald:clouded-boardered brindle:the flame:sallow kittern:sandy carpet:common wainscot:V-pug:Green Silver-Lines:Cinnabar:
let's hope I discover more newbies for the garden tonight!!

Sunday 23 May 2010

Any ideas on this pug..?

Record numbers for me last night; 61 of 30 species...

Flame shoulder x 4
Rustic Shoulder knot x 12
light broncaade x 1
s s dart x 5
bee moth x 1
nut tree tussock x 1
pale tussock x 3
light brown apple moth x 1
Brimstone x 2
marbled minor agg x 1
heart and dart x 2
white ermin x 1
green carpet x 1
bright-line brown-eye x 3
hebrew character x 1
setaceous hebrew character x 1
common pug x 3
clouded Boarder x 1
miller x 1
pebble hooktip x 1
bloody vein x 1
common white wave x 1
yellow barred brindle x 1
clouded silver x 1
un IDed pug x 1

Eudonia angustea x 1
Epiblema cynosbatella x 3
Cydia pomonella x 4
Aigyresthia trifasciata x 1
garden pebble x 1

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clouded boarder:Garden Pebble:Miller:clouded silver (a bit battered):Bright-line brown-eye:common white wave:hebrew characters (both types):yellow barred brindle:pebble hooktip:

Saturday 22 May 2010

Spectacles, Testicles, Wallet and Watch

Another decent hawl last night;

Rustic Shoulder knot x 15
Common Pug x 5
Waved Umber x 1
Chocolate tip x 1
Trebble lines x 1
Campion x 1
Marbled Minor agg x 1
Shuttle Shaped Dart x 4
Early (or late in this case) Grey x 1
Twenty Plum moth x 1
Puss moth x 1
Spectacle x 2
Scalloped Hazel x 2
Flame shoulder x 4
common carpet x 1
garden carpet x 1
Bee Moth x 1

and I think but am awaiting confimation on..
Cydia pomonella and Epiblema cynosbatella

roll the tape...

Bee moth (glad I took this one as it made a successful bid for freedom when I attempted something more natural!):Campion:puss moth:Scalloped Hazel:

Friday 21 May 2010

Arlesey NR


Ed and set out with my new (rubbish) generator to try some trapping at Arlesey NR. Conditions were good and we did OK from 21:45 - 23:00 before my generator stopped working!! we were plagued by green carpet!

Green carpet x 14
white ermin x 1
pale tussock x 3
pale prominant x 1
scorched carpet x 5
flame shoulder x 7
shuttle shaped dart x 1
hebrew character x 1
Brimstone x 5
common Swift x 4
Red twin spot carpet agg x 1

one of the scorched carpets:
Certainly worth a trip with a more reliably genny!!!

In my trap at home I had a decent hawl with lots of new Micros (now with David manning for ID!), treble lines, treble-bar, lime hawkmoth and white ermin. I also had the 2 moths below, an ID help would be great... (thanks Matt for the IDs)

Moth 1 - Melanistic Grey Pine CarpetMoth 2 - Seraphim

Thursday 20 May 2010

Jackpot!!

One of the main moths I really wanted to catch in my garden was privet Hawkmoth, and....
waheyy, found this beauty in the trap after the night of the 18th of May!

A few other goodies and newbies for the garden are..

Heart and Dart:Pale Tussock:Grey/Dark Dagger:White Ermin:Rustic Shoulder knot:
a few I couldn't ID, help please: (thanks Melissa for the IDs)

moth 1 (looks like a hedge rustic to me but wrong time of year...) - Marbled Minor aggmoth 2 (looks a little like a Northern Dart but it's not...) - Light Broncademoth 3 (I have a few ideas but they are definatly wrong...) - Marbled Minor agg

The Garden list is over 50 moth species, I only started counting this year so hoping to increase that!!