May 2009 Moths (1 Viewer)

[Nerine]

Lovely moths, Svein, that Puss Moth is amazing, I'd love to see one! Excellent photos.

My catch from last night:

Common Pug (nfy)
Oak-tree Pug (new in my garden)
Fern (2)
Shuttle-shaped Dart (5)
Bright-line Brown-eye
Common Quaker
Pale Mottled Willow (3)
White Ermine (nfy)
Brimstone Moth
Heart and Dart (nfy)
evergestis forficalis (Garden Pebble) (nfy)


Finally managed a few photos in between the rain showers!

Nerine

 

[Surreybirder]

Strange how catches vary... I caught nothing apart from cockchafers and one white-shouldered house moth in my shed!
Ken

 

[SveinB]

Lovely moths, Svein, that Puss Moth is amazing, I'd love to see one! Excellent photos.

Thanks, and the same to You Nerine, lovely moths and photos. Most of the moths on Your list are species I have never seen, and the White Ermine is a stunner too.

The Puss Moth was one of the moths on my wish list from the "Wish List" thread, and I have actually been searching for that species on several locations nearby me, and also further south on a trip in the beginning of the month- but with no success. I did get to see 2 Puss Moths from a friends trap when i visited him on that trip, and that made me even more wanting to find it myself. And it was great fun to find it here in my garden! And a lovely moth it is, hope You will see it too.

I add a photo from one of my attempts finding the Puss Moth, it is always fun to be out like this.

Svein B

 

[Nerine]

Strange how catches vary... I caught nothing apart from cockchafers and one white-shouldered house moth in my shed!
Ken

Wow, what a photo, Ken! I must admit I jumped in fright when I first looked at it - very good!:eek!:

Nerine

 

[Nerine]

it is always fun to be out like this.

It looks great fun - one of the best ways to spend an evening. :t:

Nerine

 

[antshrike69]

Some really stunning photos being posted - lots of new species to potentially add to my garden list too. Puss Moth is one that would be nice for a start.

New for year (and garden!) since I last posted include:

13/5
Iron Prominent 2
Grey Dagger 1
Vines Rustic 2
Bee Moth 1
Brown Rustic 1

14/5
Limespeck Pug 1
Angle Shades 1

15/5
Light Emerald 1
Clouded Silver 1
Red Twin-spot Carpet 1

16/5
Mottled Pug 2
Waved Umber 1, nice melanic form

17/5
The Sycamore 1 - my 100th species for the garden since I started trapping on 15/4/09!

 

[Surreybirder]

Good going, Jonathan,
I've only had about 65 species so far this year:
6 Eriocrania subpurpurella 7
464 Diamond-backed moth Plutella xylostella 8
648 White-shouldered House Moth Endrosis sarcitrella 3
663 Diurnea fagella 5
1011 Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1
1025 Tortricodes alternella 24
1061 Acleris literana 2
1076 Syricoris lacunana 1
1288 20-plumed moth Alucita hexadactyla 2
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 2
1645 Falcaria lacertinaria Scalloped Hook-tip 1
1659 Yellow horned Achlya flavicornis 3
1663 March moth Alsophila aescularia 14
1728 Garden carpet Xanthorhoe fluctuata 1
1746 Shoulder Stripe Anticlea badiata 5
1747 Streamer Anticlea derivata 4
1750 water carpet Lampropteryx suffumata 3
1776 Green carpet Colostygia pectinataria 2
Flame carpet 1
1778 May highflyer Hydriomena impluviata 1
1835 White-spotted Pug Eupithecia tripunctaria 1
1852 Brindled pug Eupithecia abbreviata 49
1857 Eupithecia tantillaria Dwarf Pug 1
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 2
1881 Early tooth-striped Trichopteryx carpinata 2
1906 Brimstone Opisthograptis luteolata 8
1917 Early thorn Selenia dentaria 8
1919 Purple thorn Selenia tetralunaria 4
1925 small brindled beauty Apocheima hispidaria 12
1926 pale brindled beauty Apocheima pilosaria 14
1930 Oak Beauty Biston strataria 5
1932 Spring Usher Agriopis leucophaearia 10
1934 Dotted Border Agriopis marginaria 1
1936 waved umber Menophra abruptaria 4
1979 Lime Hawk-moth Mimas tiliae 3
2000 Iron prominent Notodonta dromedarius 1
2003 Pebble prominent Notodonta ziczac 1
2008 Coxcomb prominent Ptilodon capucina 3
2011 Pale prominent Pterostoma palpina 1
2015 Lunar marbled brown Drymonia ruficornis 18
2020 Figure of Eight Diloba caeruleocephala 1
2028 pale tussock Calliteara pudibunda 1
2043 Orange Footman Eilema sororcula 1
2063 Muslin Moth Diaphora mendica 3
2102 Flame shoulder Ochropleura plecta 14
2112 Least yellow underwing Noctua interjecta 1
2139 Red Chestnut Cerastis rubricosa 1
2179 Pine Beauty Panolis flammea 1
2182 Small quaker Orthosia cruda 573
2186 Powdered quaker Orthosia gracilis 4
2187 Common quaker Orthosia cerasi 260
2188 Clouded drab Orthosia inserta 26
2189 twin-spotted quaker Orthosia munda 4
2190 Hebrew character Orthosia gothica 65
2236 Pale pinion Lithophane hepatica 2
2237 grey shoulder-knot Lithophane ornitopus lactipennis 1
2243 Early grey Xylocampa areola 12
2256 satellite Eupsilia transversa 19
2258 the chestnut Conistra vaccinii 8
2289 Knot Grass Acronicta rumicis 1
2423 Nycteola revayana Oak Nycteoline 1
2425 Nut-tree tussock Colocasia coryli 7
2450 The spectacle Abrostola tripartita 2
2469 Herald Scoliopteryx libatrix 1
Total no of moths: 1245



Didn't trap last night but had green carpet and flame carpet (nfy) at the window.
Ken

 

[antshrike69]

Cheers Ken - a good measure of diversity is that approximately 1/3rd of your list is missing from mine!

Last night, Shuttle-shaped Darts and Heart and Darts were out in force, but 2 pristine Light Emeralds were nice.

 

[Nerine]

Twenty eight species on your list I have never seen, Ken!
I've only caught 42 species this year in my garden so far although I have seen others in France. I have on loan an MV trap so if I dare to use it (not sure what the neighbours will think) maybe I might get a few more species, or maybe just more moths?

Amongst last night's (actinic) small collection of the usual suspects were two nfy's:

Ruby Tiger
Sharp-angled Peacock

Not the best day for photography with blustery F6's blowing into the garden.

Nerine

 

[Brian Stone]

Things gradually improving here. A small select band last night.
0697 Agonopterix arenella 1
1707 Small Dusty Wave (Idaea seriata) 1
1906 Brimstone Moth (Opisthograptis luteolata) 1
1981 Poplar Hawk-moth (Laothoe populi) 1
2028 Pale Tussock (Calliteara pudibunda) 1
2123 Small Square-spot (Diarsia rubi) 1
2160 Bright-line Brown-eye (Lacanobia oleracea) 1
2334 Rustic Shoulder-knot (Apamea sordens) 1

 

[Brian Stone]

Twenty eight species on your list I have never seen, Ken!
I've only caught 42 species this year in my garden so far although I have seen others in France.

For one reason or another I've trapped very little this year so far and have managed to record 51 species.

 

[Nick Tanner]

I photographed this carpet at Berrylands Station (Surrey) today, initially I thought it was a Red-green, but having seen the photo enlarged I now think it may be a form of Common Marbled (I had my first here yesterday, the large ochre patch on the forewing type) any thoughts?, I also had my first Figure of Eighty today at Raynes Park Station

Nick

 

[Surreybirder]

Hi, Nick,
looks like CMP to me.
Ken

 

[aflickering]

last night gave me a couple of treble lines which were NFY

 

[Nerine]

I now think it may be a form of Common Marbled (I had my first here yesterday, the large ochre patch on the forewing type) any thoughts?

Looks like a Common Marbled Carpet, Nick.

Had two nfy's last night.

May Highflyer
Scalloped Hazel

Nerine

 

[martinf]

rubbish last night, only 4 moths. What's going on?!?
Flame Shoulder
and these three
am i right in thinking Turnip Moth, ?Rosy?Minor? and Common Quaker?

 

[Surreybirder]

Twenty eight species on your list I have never seen, Ken!

You get plenty that I don't, so I suppose it's a fair trade.
Ken

 

[SveinB]

Last night was the best one for mothing so far this year here- and I ran a trap at home, and also went up to the mountains with my generator, white sheet and bulb. I was hoping to see the Eriogaster arbusculae- the Scandinavian mountain cousin to the Small Eggar, a moth that is quite common, but rarely seen as imago.

To be short, in 30 min i had 10 E arbusculae's on my sheet, together with a few yellow Horned, Hebrew Character, and a Early Thorn. I took one with me home for a little photosession in daylight.

In my trap at home I had several new ones too:

Lesser Swallow Prominent- Pheosia gnoma 1 (NFY)
Water Carpet- Lampropteryx suffumata 1 (NFY)
Red-green Carpet- Chloroclysta siterata 2
Ruddy Highflyer- Hydriomena ruberata 1 (NFY)
Golden-rod Pug- Eupithecia virgaureata 1 (NEW)
Caloptilia stigmatella 1 (NEW)


Svein B

 

[davidg]

rubbish last night, only 4 moths. What's going on?!?
Flame Shoulder
and these three
am i right in thinking Turnip Moth, ?Rosy?Minor? and Common Quaker?

Difficult to be sure from the photos, I'm afraid, but the third looks like Vine's Rustic to me. The first could well be Turnip but the Minor would have to be dissected to be sure of species - best to record it as 'Marbled Minor agg'.

David

 

[Nick Tanner]

rubbish last night, only 4 moths. What's going on?!?
Flame Shoulder
and these three
am i right in thinking Turnip Moth, ?Rosy?Minor? and Common Quaker?

# 3 looks like Vines Rustic to me, what colour was the underwing? thanks Ken and Nerine for comments on my carpet, caught another one today, almost identical

Nick