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May/June Moths (2 Viewers)
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Farnboro John
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JWN Andrewes
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Some great shots as ever John but is your Marbled Coronet not a Varied Coronet?
Farnboro John
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Thank you very much!
Don't think so, the pale swirl at the outermost corner of the forewing is diagnostic of Marbled AFAIK.
John
Andy Adcock
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Varied for me too, solid white across the middle and little dabs of yellow and the 'swirl' in the corners, isn't sufficiently bold.
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Farnboro John
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Thank you both, on re-reading it appears the white cross band if complete confirms Varied: without you I wouldn't have looked. Another schoolday….
Captions now corrected.
Just put the trap out again after a line of thunderstorms encouraged me to bring the electrics indoors.
Cheers
John
Captions now corrected.
Just put the trap out again after a line of thunderstorms encouraged me to bring the electrics indoors.
Cheers
John
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Andy Adcock
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Another poor night last night, it rained a lot, total catch, 11 moths of 5 species.
Rubia
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
Moderately good night 91 moths of 35 species, so not overwhelmed. The desired Poplar Hawk turned up at last, along with an Elephant and the 30th Small Elephant of the year. Took a while to realise I couldn't make the Mottled Beauty out because it was a Fern. Timothy Tortrix, Brown Plume and the rather lovely coloured Celypha rosaceana made 5 garden ticks. Nice but not new were Beautiful Hook-tip & Peppered Moth. The Veneer Chrysoteuchia culmella won with 34.
Andy Adcock
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Just found an incredibly early Old Lady, my earliest ever by a full month.
Farnboro John
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Interesting. Today is a year to the day since I came across the earliest one ever for Cornwall by three weeks.
Farnboro John
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Decent overnight catch of 43 moths of 19 species. (I've had several catches of 19 species. 20 seems to be a bit of a barrier!)
Top moth of the night was a Maple Prominent which was a tick. Buff Ermine and Single Dotted Wave were both NFY, best other than those were a Light Emerald (no red lights at wingtips, presumably worn off, but still unmistakable) and three Dwarf Cream Waves. Heart and Darts had another win with 20.
One May Bug.
Belated amendment: I just threw a Box Tree Moth out of the door from the kitchen and in doing so found a Least Carpet on the outside wall, bringing today's total to 21 species. Jinx broken!
John
Top moth of the night was a Maple Prominent which was a tick. Buff Ermine and Single Dotted Wave were both NFY, best other than those were a Light Emerald (no red lights at wingtips, presumably worn off, but still unmistakable) and three Dwarf Cream Waves. Heart and Darts had another win with 20.
One May Bug.
Belated amendment: I just threw a Box Tree Moth out of the door from the kitchen and in doing so found a Least Carpet on the outside wall, bringing today's total to 21 species. Jinx broken!
John
Rubia
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
Just gone through some left over micros from last night.
Bird-cherry Ermine, Codling Moth, Recurvaria leucatella all new for garden.
Metalampra italic as well, a moth I found in my hall in 2014 (when it was considered scarce) six years before I got a trap. A rather attractive little golden moth.
Bird-cherry Ermine, Codling Moth, Recurvaria leucatella all new for garden.
Metalampra italic as well, a moth I found in my hall in 2014 (when it was considered scarce) six years before I got a trap. A rather attractive little golden moth.
Dan, I'm sure someone like you can imagine that my mind is twitching with all sorts of possibilities with a sentence(s) like this...but I'll let it go.
Haven't moths got some wonderful names, though. With all that's going on in the round and round discussions about proposed changes to bird names, maybe it's time I just gave up on being a member of any sort of birding community and just stick with insects and plants for the remainder of my mortal existence? :smoke:
dantheman
Bah humbug
Dan, I'm sure someone like you can imagine that my mind is twitching with all sorts of possibilities with a sentence(s) like this...but I'll let it go.
I very nearly started posting on that thread in a response with some moth names ... The Uncertain for starters.I'm hoping no controversy, but yes, just love those names the olde Victorians gave them ...
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