Moths and other critters in my Cypriot garden (1 Viewer)

[Andy Adcock]

Another new one for me last night, Accent Gem Ctenoplusia accentifera

 

[Andy Adcock]

A record was set last night with 46 Dark Swordgrass in the trap, here's just a few of them!

 

[Andy Adcock]

A record was set last night with 46 Dark Swordgrass in the trap, here's just a few of them!

60 last night!

 

[Atropos]

60 last night!

I get the occasional one here but not those numbers!

 

[Andy Adcock]

I get the occasional one here but not those numbers!

I wonder what causes this abundance, is it an influx of migrants to the area?

Here are just a few from last night.

 

[Andy Adcock]

46 again last night.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Still loads of butterflies on the wing here too.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Ministry of the environment came and collected three specimens of Spodoptera frugiperda last Wednesday and I think, I just found another female.

 

[Andy Adcock]

And another last night, all future specimens of the above species will be humanely, euthanised.

 

[Atropos]

They have been recorded in Aus from several locations including close to where I trap but as yet have managed not to find any

 

[Andy Adcock]

They have been recorded in Aus from several locations including close to where I trap but as yet have managed not to find any

I caught six males and eight females last night, looks like they're her to stay!

Star moth of the night, below, was an addition to my list.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Here's an interesting, dark variant of Knotgrass, Gloger's rule?

 

[Andy Adcock]

Another new one for me Crescent Dart Agrotis trux

 

[Andy Adcock]

A Cypriot government scientist has confirmed Spodoptera frugiperda as being present on Cyprus after taking three specimens from me and sending them abroad for verification.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Not much happening here but the ministry of agriculture have just been and placed a pherimone trap for Spodoptera frugiperda.

Here's another new species for me, Orthonama obstipata

 

[Andy Adcock]

Ophiusa tirhaca Green Drab, nothing drab about that!

A nice Meditteranean Brocade and another Scarce Bordered Straw.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Things are starting to get going again on the moth front here, I attach a few bits from last night that those of you mothers, lucky enough to live in coastal UK, could possibly catch some day

252 Yellow Belle Aspitates ochrearia
Portland Ribon Wave Idaea degeneraria
893 Levant Blackneck Tathorhynchus exsiccata
077 The Cosmopolitan (I think?) Leucania loreyi

I also include a Wave and a Noctuid that I'm yet to ID so if anyone can help out I'd be grateful.

 

[Andy Adcock]

231 Identified as Agrotis catalaunensis

 

[Andy Adcock]

Not posted in a while so here are a few recent bits, some with the potential to be seen in the UK.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Starting to get a bit more interesting here now.

Silver-striped Hawkmoth plus, a Western Palearctic, tick for me in the form of this enormous, Convulvulous Hawkmoth. An attractive Chafer too with this Anoxia orientalis.