September Moths (3 Viewers)

[KenM]

A good selection for moi last night,
with 12 of 29 to include, a presumed (small size) blurred Pipistrelle almost “arm wrestling” a moth to the patio deck within the halogen remit…
never seen that afore.😮
Apart from all the usual suspects, highlights were Snout, Cypress Carpet plus presumed remains of a LBBYellow Underwing and to my eye an odd looking (Triangle) Square-spot Rustic.

 

[JWN Andrewes]

Only my second garden record of Small Dusty Wave yesterday morning. Snout & Straw Dot best of the rest

 

[Farnboro John]

No trapping from me but there was a Red Underwing on the ladies side of the Wells Woods car park toilet block yesterday.

John

 

[KenM]

No trapping from me but there was a Red Underwing on the ladies side of the Wells Woods car park toilet block yesterday.

John

Now that’s what I call Birdwatching.🤣

 

[Farnboro John]

Clare found it. I just twitched it from the other side!

John

 

[Farnboro John]

Late putting the trap out and perhaps not the best weather, but 7 Large Yellow Underwings, a Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing, a Willow Beauty and a Vine's Rustic made for a routine but satisfying catch with no Hornets - yippee!

John

 

[KenM]

Yes, very poor last night- 2 Light Emeralds, an Old Lady, a Square-dot Rustic and a Least Carpet.😩

 

[JWN Andrewes]

Quiet for me last night too, highlight was an Oak Nycteoline, seldom recorded, my fifth I think.

 

[Steve Lister]

What I thought could be an OK night turned out disappointing, just 37/12 with a nice early Black Rustic the only highlight.

 

[Allen]

Has anyone ever tried mothing with a black light and what were the results like?

 

[Paul Chapman]

Yes, very poor last night- 2 Light Emeralds, an Old Lady, a Square-dot Rustic and a Least Carpet.😩

That is a small worn Garden Carpet Ken.

All the best

Paul

 

[KenM]

That is a small worn Garden Carpet Ken.

All the best

Paul

Quite right Paul…at least, just testing.🤣👍

 

[Owene]

Had nothing but large yellow underwings for 3 traps now. Too windy in our garden I think

 

[loiner]

I had just identified my first Indian Meal Moth from the trap and was wondering where it might have come from when I received an email from my neighbour (who knows I am a moth-er) asking if I could identify a moth for him - which of course turned out to be an Indian Meal Moth. It appears he had had an infestation (100+ adults and 20+ larvae) from a bag of bird food.

 

[Atropos]

Has anyone ever tried mothing with a black light and what were the results like?

Not in the UK but have trapped with a black light here in Aus and the results were OK, trying to photograph them was trickier though - dont use a trap as such here because some of the bi catch can quite literally be deadly...had an eastern brown in the trap the second and last time I used one here.....sheet only from thn on

 

[Farnboro John]

At a lower level of jeopardy, seven species in the trap last night: three Lesser Yellow Underwings the biggest group with a single Lunar Underwing the only year tick. Otherwise it was singles of Large Yellow Underwing, Pale Mottled Willow, White-point, Canary-shouldered Thorn and Square-spot Rustic.

John

 

[KenM]

Just 7 of 9 last night, with highlights being-Yellow Shell in the house and L-album Wainscot in the trap.

 

[Paul Chapman]

A fairly remarkable record in the garden trap this morning with a Dotted Rustic - a patch tick & my first since one that I twitched at Steve Nash's house in Wiltshire on 24th June 2003. The species is one of the grassland ones with Stout Dart and Pale Shining Brown that has had boom and busts but this one appears to be hanging on for now...

All the best

Paul

 

[Farnboro John]

Nothing new for thr year last night but my first Chestnut of the autumn. Two each of Box Moth and Willow Beauty, singles of Large and Lesser Yellow Underwing, Square-spot Rustic, Pale Mottled Willow and Setaceous Hebrew Character.

John

 

[creaturesnapper]

Plenty of moths in the trap this morning , only one new for the year though — Gold Triangle --- Hypsopygia costalis.
The rest , 4 Large Yellow Underwings , 10 Square-spot Rustcs , 1 Cypress Pug , 2 Garden Carpet , 1 Setaceous Hebrew Character , 2Lesser Yellow Underwing , 2 Willow Beauty and 2Box Moths ( dark morph ) . Box moths well down on previous years , good news for the gardeners .