2 very good nights at the garden trap, with close to 100 moths being taken trap. New for year on the macro front were: large yellow underwing, common white wave, riband wave, barred straw, flame, heart and club, dark arches, short cloaked moth, green pug, beautiful hooktip, barred yellow, clay, blotched emerald, rustic, fan-foot, least carpet, common wainscot, smoky wainscot, buff tip and dwarf cream wave. The latter being the 100th macro of the year. A magpie had been taken at Ash Valley Golf Course on the Sunday afternoon, also NFY.
Micros were equally abundant, with: Crassa unitella, Pandemis cerasana, Hedya nubiferana, Epiphyas possvittana, Pandemis corylana, Phtheochroa rugosana, Eudonia lacustrata, Agonopterix subpropinquella, Epiblema trimaculana and Clepsis consimilana. A Teleiodes vulgella was a new moth for my parish records.
With weather predicted to remain increasingly hot, should be a good week that will take the total, presently 168 moth species for 2015 close to 200 by next weekend. Plenty about to still find.
The daylight netting session on Ah Valley GC gave up a fair selection within an hour: 100+ chrysoteuchia culmella, 50+ meadow brown, 10+ marbled white, 5+ large skipper, 1 Essex skipper, magpie moth, straw dot, Tortrix viridana (NFY) Scoparia ambigualis, Celypha lacunana and a cinnabar.
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| meadow brown on garden rose |
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| marbled white |
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| large skipper |
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| Tortrix viridana |
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| Dwarf cream wave (100th macro sp) |
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| Epiblema trimaculana |
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| Clepsis consimilana |
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| Teleiodes vulgella, a new for parish records specimen. |
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