Moths of June 2010 (1 Viewer)

[antshrike69]

I do love kittens, but I find them a devil sometimes even with a good clear lateral photo. Have you got any other pictures Oleander?

Trawling the books and net armed with recent photos has produced several new micros for my garden list:

Mompha ochraceella
Cnephasia longana - took some finding given the totally atypical colour for the genus.
Spatalistis bifasciana - quite a rare little moth with only 6 previous Hunts records. Very pretty.

Now if only those Colephoras were so easy..

 

[Surreybirder]

It's taken me most of the day but I think I've got all the macros from last night sorted at last - lucky I'm off work

New for year were:

• swallow-tail
• riband wave
• common footman
• rosy footman
• barred yellow
• burnished brass
• flame
• bright-line brown-eye
• short-cloaked
• smoky wainscot
• beautiful golden-Y
• common emerald
• barred straw
• treble brown spot
• blue-bordered carpet
• varied coronet
• dark arches
• dingy shears
• minor shoulder-knot

I'll put some more photos on http://surreymothing.blogspot.com/
Now for the micros!!

Ken

 

[Nerine]

It's taken me most of the day but I think I've got all the macros from last night sorted at last - lucky I'm off work

Wow, and you managed great photos too! Several moths there I've never seen. I'm afraid with a large catch I let most micros fly (with a sigh of relief!)

Nerine

 

[Tri-Counties Birder]

Two traps placed the usual way. Temperatures dropped to 14 degrees when I turned the traps off at about 03:15. Full moon, but no wind. Not many moths, but many species.
Quite pleased with the catch anyway, 5 new species if I have ID them right. I am sure of two of them, but confirmation on the attached ones would be great! :t:

3 Buff Ermine
3 Brown Rustic
2 White Ermine
1 Brimstone
1 Bright-line Brown-eye
1 Ingrailed Clay
1 Heart & Dart
1 Lesser Swallow Prominent
1 Peppered Moth
1 Iron Prominent
1 Clouded-bordered Brindle
1 Beautiful Golden Y
1 Pine Hawk-moth
1 Apamea Illyria
1 Plain Golden Y [nfy] - photo 1
1 Dark Arches [nfy] - photo 2
1 Sallow Kitten [nfy] - photo 3
1 Straw Dot [nfy]
1 Beautiful Hook-tip [nfy]

I would agree with your first two IDs, but I think the Kitten may be Poplar.

 

[Surreybirder]

Wow, and you managed great photos too! Several moths there I've never seen. I'm afraid with a large catch I let most micros fly (with a sigh of relief!)

Nerine

It's tempting but with the Surrey micro atlas due out next year it seems a good time to get as many records as poss.
Varied coronet is a bit of a 'looker'
ken

 

[Steve Arlow]

Borrowed a friends trap over the weekend to see what I have got in the garden, (south Essex) first ever attempt at trapping.

Saturdays catch was small, about a dozen moths but three of those were Privet Hawk Moths whilst Sundays catch had two more Privet Hawks and an Elephant Hawk plus a wider selection of others, most of which I'm scratching my scratching my head over the past few days.

Will try again at the weekend and hoping to get some different Hawk Moths.

 

[Adam M]

200+

My first catch of over 200 moths last night. Luckily only 5 species I couldn't ID (now down to 3) which meant going through them wasn't too difficult. I tend to get a lot of the same species so it's more counting than actual ID work.

Garden Carpet 3
Marbled Minor 14
Beautiful Golden Y 4
Bright-line Brown-eye 11
Dot Moth 4
Rustic Shoulder Knot 2
Clouded Bordered Brindle 6
Heart and Dart 42
Burnish Brass 1 (NFM)
Dark Arches 32
Silver Y 1
Buff Tip 6
Flame Shoulder 14
Dusky Brocade 1
Fan Foot 11
Small Square Spot 1
Brimstone 2
Buff Ermine 5
Buff Arches 2 (what a beautiful thing they are and NFM)
Riband Wave 9
Pale-shoulder Brocade 5
Setaceous Hebrew 1
Spectacle 1
Swallowtail Moth 2 (NFM)
Cabbage 1
Tawny Marbled Minor 1
Large Yellow Underwing 1
Ingrailed Clay 1
Elephant Hawk Moth 3
Clouded Border 1 (NFM)
Mottled Beauty 2 (NFM)
Grey Dagger 1 (NFM)
Snout 1
Common Emerald 1 (escaped before I got a photo, but NFM)

I think it is a good job I didn't both with micros and pugs :-O I did learn a valuable lesson last night when checking on the trap, never wear slippers and baggy shorts when doing so, them moths get everywhere :eek!:

Adam

 

[antshrike69]

Wow, and you managed great photos too! Several moths there I've never seen. I'm afraid with a large catch I let most micros fly (with a sigh of relief!)

Nerine

You're missing the best bit Nerine! :-O:-O:-O

I had a few new ones amongst 500+ moths of 110+ species last night - they took some processing before work lol.

Marasmarcha lunaedactyla - one of 4 species of plumes last night with a 5th still to ID. Presumably imported with some restharrow seedlings I planted in the lawn a month or two ago?
Small Yellow Wave NFG

Plus:
White Satin NFY
Smoky Wainscot NFY
Clay NFY

 

[Nerine]

You're missing the best bit Nerine! :-O:-O:-O
I had a few new ones amongst 500+ moths of 110+ species last night - they took some processing before work lol.

There are not enough hours in the day for me! How do you do it all so quickly?!

I had a nice catch in the fog last night with around 45 species with the actinic.

New for the year
Lozotaeniodes formosanus (one I know!)
Yellow-barred Brindle
Short-cloaked Moth
Small Blood-vein
Common Emerald
Dingy Footman
Pretty Chalk Carpet

Nerine

 

[dantheman]

Seemingly just plodding along with the 8w actinic here; 94 moths of 27 macro species, plus about 20 of 12 micros. Was at the trap by 7:30am, min temp 14C.

Smoky Wainscot 8 (second commonest in trap)
Shoulder-striped Wainscot 1 NFM
July Highflyer 1 NFY

Of the micros, identified so far;

Thistle Ermine 1
Udea olivalis 3

 

[Brian Stone]

I have a similar task ahead of me when I get home. Very busy trap this morning.

I should think Small Yellow Wave is NFG, I've never heard of it!

A Dun-bar and Ghost Moth potted the other day both laid eggs (loose in the same pot unfortunately). If you want to try rearing them you are welcome. I also have some unidentified eggs that were scattered in a trap recently.

You're missing the best bit Nerine! :-O:-O:-O

I had a few new ones amongst 500+ moths of 110+ species last night - they took some processing before work lol.

Marasmarcha lunaedactyla - one of 4 species of plumes last night with a 5th still to ID. Presumably imported with some restharrow seedlings I planted in the lawn a month or two ago?
Small Yellow Wave NFG

Plus:
White Satin NFY
Smoky Wainscot NFY
Clay NFY

 

[Brian Stone]

Was at the trap by 7:30am

There wouldn't be much left if I left it that late getting to mine.

 

[dantheman]

There wouldn't be much left if I left it that late getting to mine.

I know it's not that clever really, the alarm was set for 3:45 ... but well ...

Unfortunately I'm trapping at my field which is 5 miles away, so I can't just get out there, turn it off and put a lid on and go back to bed (which is what I would probably like to do, not saying anyone else does.)

Fortunately the trap is set under a large beech tree, and doesn't get any direct sunlight on it by that time.

Unfortunately probably missing lots of pugs and geos, and the area around was clear of moths this morning, guess the foraging Dunnocks etc may have discovered the trap.

 

[Surreybirder]

I should think Small Yellow Wave is NFG, I've never heard of it!

Brian, you've lost me there?!
Ken

 

[Adam M]

Found a Ghost Moth by the trap as I was moving it into the shade. Seems it might become its name sake shortly as it wasn't looking in the best of health. NFM mind.

Adam

 

[Brian Stone]

Brian, you've lost me there?!
Ken

As you were. Forgot the thing even existed! Senility setting in ever more comfortably here.

 

[Tri-Counties Birder]

Another good cloudy night here, and some stunners in the trap. Green Silver-lines is new for the garden, and Swallow-tailed Moth new for the year.

Good mothing.

 

[antshrike69]

I should think Small Yellow Wave is NFG, I've never heard of it!

A Dun-bar and Ghost Moth potted the other day both laid eggs (loose in the same pot unfortunately). If you want to try rearing them you are welcome. I also have some unidentified eggs that were scattered in a trap recently.

A new species for science might be asking too much of Orton Waterville..

I did rear a batch of Muslins last year, but time is short at the moment! Ghost is a species I've yet to record to send some of the adults a few miles east will you?

 

[Andy1979]

A decent catch last night. The following were NFY:

Peppered Moth
Common Footman
Maple Prominent
Least Carpet
Dun-bar
The Flame
Buff Arches
The Coronet (f. coronula) (pic) - thanks to the ID section.

And just found a Small Blood-vein in the garden (NFM).

 

[Dmacaskill]

My best catch of the year so far last night!
42 species,112 moths 3 NFM.
pictured
Garden Tiger,
Ghost moth,
Antler moth.