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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!
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| Hysterophora maculosana |
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!
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| Ruddy Carpet |
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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