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.

Many thanks!

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!


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!


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

Sunday, 24 May 2020

Garden Trap, 23/05/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Muslin Moth
Common Marbled Carpet
Common Swift
Treble Lines
Heart and Dart
Flame Shoulder


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Treble Lines
Green Carpet
White Ermine
Heart and Dart
Common Swift
Silver-ground Carpet
Anania fuscalis
Vine's Rustic
Shoulder-striped Wainscot
Ingrailed Clay
Bright-line Brown-eye
Buff-tip

Saturday, 23 May 2020

Garden Trap, 22/05/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Common Marbled Carpet
Elephant Hawk-moth
Treble Lines
Privet Hawk-moth
Poplar Hawk-moth
Great Prominent
Common Swift
Buff Ermine
Heart and Dart


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Barred Umber
Treble Lines
Vine's Rustic
Flame
Heart and Dart
Poplar Hawk-moth
Brimstone Moth
Flame Shoulder
Common Swift
Muslin Moth

Friday, 22 May 2020

Garden Trap, 21/05/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Pale Tussock
Small Elephant Hawk-moth
White Ermine
Common Swift
Marbled Minor agg.
Anania fuscalis
Treble Lines
Heart and Dart
Flame Shoulder
Middle-barred Minor
Currant Pug
Tachystola acroxantha


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Pale Tussock
Silver-ground Carpet
Common Swift
Garden Carpet
Lesser Swallow Prominent
Green Carpet
Heart and Dart
Pale-shouldered Brocade
Marbled Minor agg.
Treble Lines
Anania fuscalis
Tachystola acroxantha
Flame Shoulder
Muslin Moth
Agonopterix arenella

Thursday, 21 May 2020

Garden Trap, 20/05/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Anania fuscalis
Poplar Hawk-moth
Treble Lines
White Ermine
Muslin Moth
Pale Tussock
Vine's Rustic
Green Carpet
Heart and Dart
Common Wave
Buff Ermine
Straw Dot


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Brown Silver-line
Eulia ministrana
Heart and Dart
Treble Lines
Great Prominent
Common Swift
Green Carpet
Clouded Silver
Common Marbled Carpet
Anania fuscalis
Silver-ground Carpet
Vine's Rustic

Wednesday, 20 May 2020

Garden Trap, 19/05/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Elephant Hawk-moth
Brimstone Moth
Pale-shouldered Brocade
Anania fuscalis
Poplar Hawk-moth
Treble Lines
Scalloped Hazel
Mullein
Flame Shoulder
Muslin Moth
Common Wave


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Scalloped Hazel
Clouded Silver
Common Marbled Carpet
Brown Silver-line
May Highflyer
Pale Tussock
Common Swift
Common Carpet
Poplar Hawk-moth
Treble Lines
Heart and Dart
Lychnis

Tuesday, 19 May 2020

Garden Trap, 18/05/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Silver Y
Treble Lines
Heart and Dart
Silver-ground Carpet
Mullein
Lesser Swallow Prominent
Common Marbled Carpet
Clouded Silver
Puss Moth
Pale Tussock


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Red-green Carpet
Plutella xylostella
Common Swift
Common Marbled Carpet
Hebrew Character
Garden Carpet
Brimstone Moth
Treble Lines
Vine's Rustic
Green Carpet
Lychnis
Heart and Dart

Monday, 18 May 2020

Garden Trap, 17/05/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Muslin Moth
Chinese Character
Pale-shouldered Brocade
Treble Lines
Green Carpet
Common Marbled Carpet
Vine's Rustic
Lesser Swallow Prominent
Pebble Prominent
Carpatolechia proximella


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Common White Wave
Red-green Carpet
Treble Lines
Muslin Moth
Common Marbled Carpet
Lunar Thorn
Vine's Rustic
Green Carpet
Heart and Dart
Mocha


Mocha

Sunday, 17 May 2020

Garden Trap, 16/05/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Muslin Moth
Flame Shoulder
Treble Lines
Bright-line Brown-eye
Pebble Prominent
Poplar Hawk-moth
Vine's Rustic
Red Twin-spot Carpet
Pale-shouldered Brocade
Green Carpet
Ingrailed Clay
Heart and Dart
Great Prominent
Peppered Moth


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Common Marbled Carpet
Treble Lines
Muslin Moth
Chinese Character
Brimstone Moth
Pebble Prominent
Heart and Dart

Saturday, 16 May 2020

Garden Trap, 15/05/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Hebrew Character
Muslin Moth
Pale Tussock
Brindled Beauty


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Silver-ground Carpet
Treble Lines
Flame Shoulder

Friday, 15 May 2020

Garden Trap, 14/05/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Muslin Moth
Treble Lines


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Muslin Moth
Scalloped Hazel

Thursday, 14 May 2020

Garden Trap, 13/05/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Angle Shades


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Muslin Moth

Wednesday, 13 May 2020

Garden Trap, 12/05/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Poplar Hawk-moth
Treble Lines
Muslin Moth
Hebrew Character
Silver-ground Carpet
White Ermine


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Scalloped Hazel
Treble Lines
Lychnis

Tuesday, 12 May 2020

Garden Trap, 11/05/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Treble Lines
Heart and Dart


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Poplar Hawk-moth


Poplar Hawk-moth - First Hawk-moth of the year!

Sunday, 10 May 2020

Coleophora lutarea

Coleophora lutarea is quite an easy moth to record, often seen on the flowers of Greater Stitchwort, and is also a nice one to see being Nationally Scarce B.


Coleophora lutarea

Garden Trap, 09/05/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Peppered Moth
Hebrew Character
Treble Lines
Lychnis
Dark Sword-grass


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Brimstone Moth
Common Carpet
Common Pug
Silver-ground Carpet
Red Twin-spot Carpet
Muslin Moth
Pale-shouldered Brocade
Ruddy Carpet
Green Carpet
Treble Lines
Flame Shoulder
Garden Carpet
Small Phoenix


Ruddy Carpet

Saturday, 9 May 2020

Garden Trap, 08/05/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Treble Lines
Red Twin-spot Carpet
Green Carpet
Silver Y
Flame Shoulder


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Pale Tussock
Brindled Pug
Red Twin-spot Carpet
Puss Moth
Lychnis
Green Carpet
Epiphyas postvittana
Common Pug
Common Carpet

Friday, 8 May 2020

Garden Trap, 07/05/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Pebble Prominent
Brown Silver-line


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Red Twin-spot Carpet
Hebrew Character
Brimstone Moth
Green Carpet

Thursday, 7 May 2020

Garden Trap, 06/05/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Brimstone Moth
Treble Lines
Silver-ground Carpet


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Pebble Prominent
Shoulder Stripe
Green Carpet

Monday, 4 May 2020

Garden Trap, 03/05/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Hebrew Character
Green Carpet
Muslin Moth


6w Actinic Heath Trap

White-pinion Spotted
Hebrew Character
Common Pug
Lychnis
Muslin Moth

Sunday, 3 May 2020

Garden Trap, 02/05/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Lesser Swallow Prominent
Muslin Moth
Pebble Prominent
Brindled Beauty
Treble Lines
Peppered Moth
Carpatolechia proximella
Broken-barred Carpet
Puss Moth


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Shoulder Stripe
Brown Silver-line
Common Pug
Early Thorn

Saturday, 2 May 2020

Garden Trap, 01/05/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Lesser Swallow Prominent
Great Prominent
Green Carpet


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Muslin Moth
Hebrew Character
Oak-tree Pug

Monday, 27 April 2020

Garden Trap, 26/04/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Scalloped Hook-tip
Hebrew Character
Common Quaker
Lychnis
Early Grey
Flame Shoulder
Scorched Carpet
Green Carpet


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Oak-tree Pug
Hebrew Character
Silver-ground Carpet
Green Carpet

Sunday, 26 April 2020

Garden Trap, 25/04/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Scorched Carpet
Dyseriocrania subpurpurella
Early Grey
Hebrew Character
Angle Shades
Muslin Moth
Powdered Quaker
Common Quaker


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Elachista rufocinerea
Oak-tree Pug
Hebrew Character
Treble Lines
Puss Moth

Saturday, 25 April 2020

Some Birch feeding Eriocraniidae

A look at our garden Birches produced a number of Eriocraniidae mines. I took a few for closer examination. That produced two species, Eriocrania sangii and Eriocrania semipurpurella. I am going to attempt to breed E. sangii, but it is notoriously hard to do so.


Eriocrania sangii

Eriocrania semipurpurella

Garden Trap, 24/04/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Clouded Drab
Nut-tree Tussock
V-Pug
Oak-tree Pug
Powdered Quaker
Hebrew Character
Brindled Beauty
Red Twin-spot Carpet
Shoulder Stripe
Flame Shoulder
Muslin Moth
Brimstone Moth
Knot Grass


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Brindled Beauty
Semioscopis steinkellneriana
Garden Carpet
Brindled Pug
Shoulder Stripe
Hebrew Character
Powdered Quaker
Red Twin-spot Carpet
Early Grey
Muslin Moth
Lesser Swallow Prominent
Scorched Carpet
Alucita hexadactyla
Common Carpet
Red-green Carpet

Friday, 24 April 2020

Garden Trap, 23/04/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Brindled Pug
Oak-tree Pug
Brindled Beauty
Pebble Prominent
Hebrew Character
Muslin Moth


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Brimstone Moth
Muslin Moth
Common Quaker
Chinese Character
Hebrew Character
Early Grey
Flame Shoulder
Early Tooth-striped
Common Carpet
Shuttle-shaped Dart
Red-green Carpet
Red Twin-spot Carpet
Brindled Pug
Emmelina monodactyla

Thursday, 23 April 2020

Garden Trap, 22/04/2020

40w Actinic Heath Trap

Plutella xylostella
Great Prominent
Hebrew Character
Early Grey
Brindled Beauty
Nut-tree Tussock
Common Quaker
Muslin Moth
Flame Shoulder
Ruby Tiger


6w Actinic Heath Trap

Brimstone Moth
V-Pug
Scorched Carpet
Chinese Character
Hebrew Character
Common Quaker
Brindled Beauty
Red Twin-spot Carpet
Plutella xylostella
Tachystola acroxantha
Alucita hexadactyla
Shoulder Stripe
Early Grey
Flame Shoulder
Semioscopis steinkellneriana
Muslin Moth
Small Phoenix