November Moths (1 Viewer)

[KenM]

Just two moths under the halogen light last night high on the wall, the lower one was a Red-green Carpet and assumed the higher one was as well.
Hummed and Hah’d about whether to run the UV trap or not, which I did eventually thankfully.
As this am the “higher” one had transferred to the pot….drum roll for the 2nd lifer this week!
Oak Rustic.😮

 

[earthdragon64]

A single Angle Shades outside the trap ends what has been a dreadful year for my Garden Moth Scheme trapping.

 

[dwallace]

We ran 4 lamps last night at Botley Wood, an SSSI site in south Hampshire. Not huge numbers but two star moths:

Streak
Diurnea lipsiella.

Dave W

 

[Richard Prior]

A daytime flying moth for me yesterday , a first for November I think: Hummingbird Hawkmoth!

 

[KenM]

A daytime flying moth for me yesterday , a first for November I think: Hummingbird Hawkmoth!

At last!…you’ve seen the light Richard and become a moth-er.👍

 

[Richard Prior]

Seen the light - like it! Actually I can name at least er, three moth species, which at my young age isn’t bad !

 

[Steve Lister]

After not bothering in October I decided that last night was just about worthwhile and put mty trap on. Just 7/4 was the result - a Feathered Thorn, two Blair's Shoulder-knots, a Red-green Carpet and three LBAMs.

My mate Tony in Quorn did much better (as always) with 42/14 including a Palpita vitrealis, two Black Rustics, a Merveille de Jour, three Feathered Thorns and the second Marbled Fern for the county, a fortnight after the first was caught at Charnwood Lodge.

 

[JWN Andrewes]

An unexpected tick last night - Orange Sallow. Not even on my radar really, with very few local records, no Lime nearby that I can think of and late to boot!

Feathered Thorn NFY, with singles of November agg & Silver Y the balance.

 

[Southern Viking]

Had a 99% Convolvulus Hawk-moth yesterday early morning but couldn't get a photo and couldn't spend any more time whacking my neighbours bushes trying to get it out again or I'd have been late for work (and possibly they'd have called the police )

 

[Richard Prior]

Another one to look out for?

New moth sighting an 'intriguing' first for Channel Islands

The Robust Tabby moth is recorded in Alderney for the first time by the island's wildlife trust.

www.bbc.com

 

[KenM]

Another one to look out for?

New moth sighting an 'intriguing' first for Channel Islands

The Robust Tabby moth is recorded in Alderney for the first time by the island's wildlife trust.

www.bbc.com

I suspect just a matter of time before it arrives, will certainly put the cat amongst the also rans.😉

 

[Farnboro John]

Quick update:

1/11 Cypress Carpet, Rusty Dot Pearl, Merveille du Jour, Red-green Carpet, November Moth, Turnip.

4/11 November Moth, Rusty Dot Pearl, Grey Pine Carpet

6/11 (Morning) Grey Pine Carpet, LBAM. (Evening) Mottled Umber flew in while we were helping next door with a new mattress and landed on the lounge ceiling - garden tick!

John

 

[loiner]

It's still mild enough most nights to be worth putting the trap out. After my first Acleris hyemana a couple of weeks back I had another last night. As the common name, Heath Tortrix, suggests it is most associated with heaths and moors, not a garden on the outskirts of Leeds. Also five Red-green Carpets, three each of Tachystola acroxantha and December Moth and singles of Blastobasis adustella, Light Brown Apple Moth and Blair's Shoulder-knot.

 

[Farnboro John]

I also trapped last night and one moth actually went into the trap (a Feathered Thorn) while a November Moth sat on the wall nearby.

John

 

[JWN Andrewes]

A few from this week, including only my second Pine Carpet, one of two Merveilles do Jour, likewise Feathered Thorn, a Mottled Umber and a micro tick - Exapate congelatella.

 

[Farnboro John]

Another night's optimism crushed with the only moth even near the trap a Grey Tortrix sp on the window.

John

 

[Richard Prior]

Another day flying moth (unless it’s a butterfly!) here in the Alps at midday, does it look familiar to you moth-ers?
Merci!

 

[Southern Viking]

Another day flying moth (unless it’s a butterfly!) here in the Alps at midday, does it look familiar to you moth-ers?
Merci!

Looks like a very worn Brown Hairstreak to me. Not sure how crazy that would be at this time of year there though

 

[Richard Prior]

Ah, thanks SV, funnily enough I passed the photo through iNaturalist which suggests a number of possibilities (wild rose, Rock Bunting(eh?) and just one butterfly, Brown Hairstreak! I’ll check to see if anyone else is still seeing them despite the date.

 

[KenM]

Lest I forget, found on Tuesday night “sprawled” 😊 on our patio doors!
(NFY)