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Inside the Moth Pot
Garden Trapping, Field Trips, Netting & Early Stages. Dartmoor, Devon (VC3)
Wednesday, 29 July 2020
IMPORTANT
I started this blog with the best of intentions, planning to write about every night I ran the trap in the garden and elsewhere... but I really can't be bothered. For active mothy updates check out my Twitter account HERE.
Thursday, 28 May 2020
Hysterophora maculosana
After many failed attempts at finding a Hysterophora maculosana in a local bluebell woodland, it was a pleasant surprise to come across one quite by accident on Pepperdon Down on Dartmoor!
Garden Trap, 27/05/2020
40w Actinic Heath Trap
Clouded Silver |
Pale Tussock |
Privet Hawk-moth |
Treble Lines |
Muslin Moth |
Anania fuscalis |
Silver-ground Carpet |
Common Swift |
Heart and Dart |
Buff Ermine |
Shark |
Marbled Minor agg. |
Setaceous Hebrew Character |
Large Yellow Underwing |
Flame |
White Ermine 6w Actinic Heath Trap |
Clouded Silver |
Straw Dot |
Common Swift |
Garden Carpet |
Hedya nubiferana |
Notocelia trimaculana |
Snout |
Silver-ground Carpet |
Heart and Dart |
Brown Silver-line |
Riband Wave |
Anania hortulata |
Middle-barred Minor |
Treble Lines |
Common Marbled Carpet |
Green Carpet |
Flame Shoulder |
Marbled Minor agg. |
Shoulder-striped Wainscot |
Mottled Rustic |
Common Pug |
Foxglove Pug |
Small Square-spot |
Setaceous Hebrew Character |
Ingrailed Clay |
Vine's Rustic |
Aphomia sociella |
Wednesday, 27 May 2020
Garden Trap, 26/05/2020
40w Actinic Heath Trap
Elephant Hawk-moth |
Pale Tussock |
Peppered Moth |
Common Marbled Carpet |
Cinnabar |
Chrysoteuchia culmella |
Brown Silver-line |
Anania fuscalis |
Poplar Hawk-moth |
Clouded Silver |
Treble Lines |
Buff-tip |
Heart and Dart |
Privet Hawk-moth |
Flame |
Bright-line Brown-eye |
Vine's Rustic |
Great Prominent |
Flame Shoulder |
Buff Ermine |
Shark |
Middle-barred Minor |
Common Swift |
Elachista
argentella 6w Actinic Heath Trap |
Spectacle |
Common Marbled Carpet |
Common Swift |
Heart and Dart |
Plutella xylostella |
Common Pug |
Treble Lines |
Vine's Rustic |
Ingrailed Clay |
Lychnis |
Syndemis musculana |
Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Garden Trap, 25/05/2020
40w Actinic Heath Trap
Treble Lines |
Nut-tree Tussock |
Pebble Prominent |
Buff Ermine |
Chinese Character |
Muslin Moth |
Privet Hawk-moth |
Common Swift |
Green Carpet |
Bright-line Brown-eye |
Heart and Dart |
Dark Arches |
Anania
fuscalis 6w Actinic Heath Trap |
Lunar Thorn |
Sandy Carpet |
Silver-ground Carpet |
Common Marbled Carpet |
Treble Lines |
Vine's Rustic |
Green Carpet |
Heart and Dart |
Willow Beauty |
Common Pug |
Flame Shoulder |
Common Swift |
Flame |
Monday, 25 May 2020
Ruddy Carpet ang Geoff!
Netted the Nationally Scarce B Ruddy Carpet on a local walk today. Also seen was my first Alabonia geoffrella (aka, Geoff) of the year, a common but stunning moth!
Garden Trap, 24/05/2020
40w Actinic Heath Trap
Poplar Hawk-moth |
Treble Lines |
Heart and Dart |
Buff Ermine |
White Ermine 6w Actinic Heath Trap |
Treble Lines |
Shoulder-striped Wainscot |
Heart and Dart |
Broken-barred Carpet |
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