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Rubia · Jul 3, 2020

Turning on the light certainly helps but it wasn't a spectacular night last night for numbers (in fact so slow I gave up at 12:45). However, it did produce some mothing gold for me in the form of an Oak Eggar that arrived around 5 minutes after I started. What a moth! Like a Jumbo jet had arrived and very beautiful. 2 other garden ticks - Cream Wave and Beautiful Golden Y. 2 Brown-tails, 1 Elephant HM and 2 Swallow-tails. Chrysoteuchia culmella the big one at 12 and 7 Common Footman.

Andy Adcock · Jul 3, 2020

Common Footman seems to be having a very good year here too.

honeym · Jul 3, 2020

Allen said:
Any ideas on this one please?

Possibly a male Heart & Club, Agrotis clavis. A bit difficult to be certain as it's blurred from the moth's vibration (the other option would be a Turnip, Agrotis segetum).

Surreybirder · Jul 3, 2020

I'm not as active as most on this forum but I've found a couple of nice moths in daylight during the last couple of days. If my ID of Dasycera oliviella is correct (I'm waiting to hear back from my country recorder), it will be a new one for me and quite possibly for South-East Surrey.

Post Script - CR confirms ID and says it's only the second modern Surrey record. The larva feeds on rotting oak (and a few other trees). I wonder whether having a log-pile in our garden, which we've had for several years, attracted it?

Andy Adcock · Jul 3, 2020

Surreybirder said:
I'm not as active as most on this forum but I've found a couple of nice moths in daylight during the last couple of days. If my ID of Dasycera oliviella is correct (I'm waiting to hear back from my country recorder), it will be a new one for me and quite possibly for South-East Surrey.

Post Script - CR confirms ID and says it's only the second modern Surrey record. The larva feeds on rotting oak (and a few other trees). I wonder whether having a log-pile in our garden, which we've had for several years, attracted it?

Very nice, I rarely look at Micros twice unless they look like this!

Paul Chapman · Jul 3, 2020

honeym said:
Possibly a male Heart & Club, Agrotis clavis. A bit difficult to be certain as it's blurred from the moth's vibration (the other option would be a Turnip, Agrotis segetum).

Martin

I went Heart and Club on the other thread but I'm confusing myself on Heart and Club/Turnip currently. The five attached I identified as Heart and Club with the same five in the same order head on in the next post. Am I getting all of these right?

All the best

Paul

Paul Chapman · Jul 3, 2020

Same moths head on.

Steve Lister · Jul 4, 2020

I have only trapped twice this week as the other nights did not look promising.

The first I have covered already, and the other was last night: a Clepsis consimilana (my English-name-only friend tells me it is a Privet Tortrix) was NFY otherwise a rather uninspiring 50 moths of 15 species.

Steve

Rubia · Jul 5, 2020

Cloudy, warm but rather ruined by being very windy.
I did find a Phoenix on the wall behind my magic flower pot, which was new for the garden. Rather pleased with that one.
53 moths of 16 species identified.
First Mother of Pearl this year too. 3 Elephants and 1 Small Elephant Hawks. 1 Spectacle, 3 Flame, 1 Light Emerald, 2 Swallow-tails. 28 Garden Grass-veneer. Paraswammerdamia nebulella an attractive little micro. Plus a few LBJs etc.

Andy Adcock · Jul 5, 2020

I live on a hill, looking down on to a valley, it's very exposed and the wind last night meant that mothing would have been pointless.

Surreybirder · Jul 5, 2020

Windy here, too. I did get a few moths - all NFY: dark arches; buff ermine; smoky wainscot; green pug; flame; heart and dart. A few micros still to ID.

JWN Andrewes · Jul 5, 2020

Breezy with added drizzle up here, but in spite of unspectacular numbers (27 of 14 species), some treats were contained therein in the form of three new garden moths; Grey Arches, Dun-bar, and a cracking female Ghost Moth. There are a couple of likely looking meadows nearby that I shall have to check out for leks at some point.

Grey Arches
Dun-bar
Ghost Moth x2

Paul Chapman · Jul 5, 2020

Nice pics. A quiet start to July for me with:-
1st July - 92 moths 27 species - Engrailed, Tawny-barred Angle & Bryotropha terrella new for the year
2nd July - 66 moths 21 species - Shark new for year
3rd July - I did not run
4th July - 79 moths 25 species - July Highflyer, Peach Blossom & Swallow-tailed Moth (in addition Leopard & Herald having good years)

Elsewhere on patch, a friend had our third patch Crescent Dart.

Pics - Crescent Dart, Shark, Scalloped Oak, Peach Blossom & Buff Arches.

All the best

Paul

Paul Chapman · Jul 5, 2020

A few more pics - Leopard, Herald, July Highflyer, Engrailed & Bryotropha terrella

JWN Andrewes · Jul 5, 2020

You seem to have a never ending variety there Paul, and it is nice to see all the pics. As a newbie to all this it is excellent encouragement, there seems to be so much out there.

Managed to add a couple more to the overnight tally, with both Short-cloaked and Beautiful Golden Y coming to light during the course of the day.

Allen · Jul 7, 2020

Finally some success with numbers having upgraded my 15W to 2 x 30W Acinitic bulbs. 5 Buff Ermine, 6 Common Footman, 2 Scalloped Oak and singles of Elephant Hawkmoth, Clouded Border, H & D, Willow Beauty and a couple of yet to be identified 'waves'.

At last a decent catch for me to look through.

Andy Adcock · Jul 7, 2020

Allen said:
Finally some success with numbers having upgraded my 15W to 2 x 30W Acinitic bulbs. 5 Buff Ermine, 6 Common Footman, 2 Scalloped Oak and singles of Elephant Hawkmoth, Clouded Border, H & D, Willow Beauty and a couple of yet to be identified 'waves'.

At last a decent catch for me to look through.

I think you mean 'actinic' Allen.

Glad your numbers are up, wish mine were.

I'm thinking of experimenting with light source, I may even try sugaring the big Maple, outside, I've got a recipe from an old mate, just don't like wasting the beer!

JWN Andrewes · Jul 7, 2020

My most productive session to date last night, 72 individuals of 38 species, with new ones still coming, three Yellow Shells, Coronet (a green one), Common Rustic agg, Common Wainscot and a darling little True Lover's Knot moving the list along. Other goodies included Peach Blossom, V-Pug, a couple of Dingy Shears, four Dark and one Grey Arches, Elephant Hawk, and at one point last night three Plain Golden Ys on the wall of the house, wings all aquiver. Weather looks pants the next few days, but that little lot will tide me over very nicely.

Farnboro John · Jul 7, 2020

Quiet night last night for me despite promising conditions, probably because I only found out I hadn't put the covers on the trap as I was heading for bed at 0030! Better late than never....

The meagre catch (17 individuals of 9 species, one as yet unidentified) included an Elephant Hawk, 7 Heart and Darts (whoopee....) and a Buff Ermine. The baffling one will most likely be in the ID sub-forum later.

Heavy rain forecast so no trapping tonight. End of the week into next week looks more interesting though.

John

Farnboro John · Jul 11, 2020

Trap back out last night but only 27 moths of 10 species - nothing exciting apart from 3 Elephants (always nice.)
Seven Heart and Darts continued their domination of the numbers game, two Dark Arches and a Common Footman best of the rest.

John

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