June Moths - 2014 (1 Viewer)

Paul Chapman · Jun 1, 2014

Only one addition for the yearlist from the garden trap this morning being a Snout.

So a leps yearlist of 261 - 10 butterflies, 171 macros and 80 micros - of which a patch leps yearlist of 204 - 10 butterflies, 137 macros and 57 micros.

All the best

jforgham · Jun 2, 2014

2 NFY's this morning: spectacle and fern. Latter only my 3rd garden record since 2011.
Cheers,
Jono

sidewayspigeon · Jun 2, 2014

A bumper night (by my standards!) in urban Southampton. In and around the MV trap this morning were:

Willow Beauty x 4
Heart & Dart x 3
Cinnabar x 2
Maiden’s Blush
Treble Brown Spot
Knot Grass
Light Emerald
Shuttle-shaped Dart
Freyer’s Pug
Pale Mottled Willow
Bright-line Brown-eye
Small Dusty Wave
Riband Wave
Peppered Moth
Brimstone
Vine’s Rustic

Bananafishbones · Jun 3, 2014

Sunday Nights catch: A little rain in the early hours and a little cooler of late.

1 x Pale Tussock (New Garden Record)
4 x Buff Ermine
2 x Common Marbled Carpet
2 x Tachystola acroxantha
5 x Heart and Dart
1 x Peppered Moth
2 x Scalloped Hazel
2 x Flame
1 x Light Brown Apple Moth
1 x Sallow Kitten
2 x Willow Beauty
1 x Bee Moth
1 x Diamond-back Moth
1 x Epinotia tetraquetrana (New Garden Record)
1 x Epinotia bilunana (New Garden Record)

also had 3 escapees before I could ID them and I guess the birds had taken any outlying moths as there were none on the lawn around the trap.

Will have to wait until Saturday now before being able to trap again

jforgham · Jun 3, 2014

A good night last night with several NFY's and 2 NFM's!
Micros;
Udea Olivalis
Barred fruit tree tortrix
Brown house moth
Bee moth
Codling moth
Eucosma cana (NFM)

Macros:
Green carpet
Flame carpet
Common wave (NFY)
2 x common pug
Willow beauty
Scorched wing
Privet hawkmoth
Buff tip (NFY)
Flame
Chocolate tip (NFM)
Flame shoulder
2 marbled minor
Buff ermine
2 rustic shoulder-knot
Mottled pug
Large nutmeg
Wormwood pug (NFY)

MSA · Jun 3, 2014

44 moths of 16 species last night, I guess there would have been more if it wasn't for the rain.

New for me were Miller and Pale-shouldered Brocade, most numerous still Grey Pine Carpet (10); year firsts (and therefore also garden firsts) Bee Moth and Dark Arches, other interest from Clouded Border (2) and Pale Prominent.

robhope · Jun 6, 2014

A trip to East Sussex produced three lifers for me:

4 Micropterix aruncella
1517 Adaina microdactyla
1968 Yellow Belle Semiaspilates ochrearia

robhope

UK Lepidoptera 412 (Micropterix aruncella), UK Plants 412 (Nottingham Catchfly) & UK Birds 236 (Black-winged Stilt)

MSA · Jun 6, 2014

Only 10 moths last night (rather chilly and clear skies) but delighted with my first-ever Scorched Wing (potted for a photo when I get back home later), and new for garden Lesser Swallow Prominent and White Ermine, so worth the effort!

Bananafishbones · Jun 6, 2014

Been and collected my first 125w MV set up today, however the trusted 2 x 30w actinic is set up and ready to go. I have loads of time in the morning to enjoy potting, IDing and photographing in the morning which is a sure guarantee to get about 5 moths.

Bananafishbones · Jun 7, 2014

Dry....and still is just. Rain was forecasted for 6am. Looks like it was windy though as leaves, twigs and plant pots have been scattered.

Flame Shoulder
Clouded Silver
Shuttle-shaped Dart x 2
Tachystola acroxantha x 3
Heart & Dart x 9
Bee Moth x 3
Scalloped Hazel
Flame x 2
Garden Carpet (NFY)
Ingrailed Clay (New Garden species)
Turnip Moth (New Garden species)

plus a dozn more that are potted up for ID later

Dave

Paul Chapman · Jun 7, 2014

Busy busy busy last night. Micros to check but the first time this season I was finishing packing up the last of my MVs with 100 species written down as the birds started singing (before the onset of rain at 5am).

5 MVs solo in woodland and calcareous grassland and an Obscure Wainscot at home was making me feel quite self-satisfied.

Then a text from a friend to meet up for our usual coffee this morning said I ought to buy him a cake as he had caught me a patch tick! He has adopted an unpromising 1km square for some attention this year - the edge of some farmland and a disused railway line next to the M5 - and he had had 35 species to one MV run until midnight.

I ran through the obvious patch omissions in my mind and failed in a brief guessing game over the first mug of coffee to then be faced with a pristine Scarce Merveille du Jour he pulled out of his coolbag!

My efforts definitely trumped. First VC record. Something I've seen in Devon and Kent before but a long way from any known populations!

Now time to get the camera out and get stuck into last night's micros.

All the best

Andy1979 · Jun 7, 2014

Nice one Paul!

Last night was my first catch worthy of the electricity... 44 moths of 23 species.

Peppered Moth is always nice and strangely, Shears and Shoulder-striped Wainscot were NFG (this one anyway).

Gracillaria syringella, Mompha subbistrigella and Scoparia pyralella were NFG micros.

Andy M.

Steve Lister · Jun 7, 2014

A reasonable catch last night, considering my location.

Two new for the garden:
892 Mompha subbistrigella (actually the first I have caught, or noticed, anywhere)
2205 Shoulder-striped Wainscot

Another ten species were new for this year, and these included Clouded Brindle and Pseudagyrotoza conwaga that I catch less than annually.

Steve

Steve Lister · Jun 8, 2014

And two more new garden ticks last night......

409a Argyresthia trifasciata
1956 Common Wave

Otherwise a quiet night, with just Lyonetia clerkella and Fanfoot NFY.

Steve

MSA · Jun 8, 2014

Again, a relatively small but interesting selection last night, with Beautiful Hook-tip, Diamond-backed Moth, Silver Y, Dot Moth, Blood-vein and Riband Wave amongst 19 moths of 13 species. Scorched Wing from a couple of nights ago.

Bananafishbones · Jun 8, 2014

MSA said:
Again, a relatively small but interesting selection last night, with Beautiful Hook-tip, Diamond-backed Moth, Silver Y, Dot Moth, Blood-vein and Riband Wave amongst 19 moths of 13 species. Scorched Wing from a couple of nights ago.

two brilliant moths pictured :t:

robhope · Jun 8, 2014

A walk though the woods and along some chalk downland produced a lifer for me and also a good shot of one of my favourites:

1386 Opsibotys fuscalis (nfm)
2462 Mother Shipton Callistege mi

robhope

UK Lepidoptera 416 (Opsibotys fuscalis), UK Plants 412 (Nottingham Catchfly) & UK Birds 236 (Black-winged Stilt)

Bananafishbones · Jun 9, 2014

Just a couple of images from last nights catch:

Marbled Orchard Tortrix
Iron Prominent
Elephant Hawk-moth

The Iron Prominent is fast becoming a fav species.

billsbirding · Jun 9, 2014

Some nice moths starting to appear after what has been a fairly mediocre start to June here in terms of species variety.

Most notable was a fantastic Great Oak Beauty which arrived last night- a first for the garden. The first Hoary Footman of the year was recorded on the fairly early date of 3rd, whilst a Heart & Club was also in the trap with the usual carpet of Heart & Darts last night. Blue-bordered Carpet is always a nice one to catch, this one netted at dusk on 7th...

Andy1979 · Jun 9, 2014

Reports on Twitter of a Banded Pine Carpet caught at Greatstone (Kent) last night. On show from 4pm this evening. 2nd for UK I think.

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