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Wednesday 22 July 2015

Busy night: 21.07.15

Weather last night was perfect for mothing, so I stayed up until 1 and returned to the trap shortly after 5. Usual procedure, pot any I was unsure of and list all others. Consequently, quite a few to id this morning before emptying the trap.
On the macro front, new for year were: Dusky sallow, lesser broad bordered yellow underwing, small waved umber, small fan-footed wave and flounced rustic, whilst microwise: Hysopgia costalis, Aclersi forsskaleana, Plutella xylostella were new for the year whilst new for parish records were Argyresthia pruniella and Aethes rubigana.
In all: 190 of 81 species.
dot moth
small waved umber


dusky sallow

Ypsolopha scabrella

Acrobasis suavella

Macro list:

  • 3 common footman
  • 4 least carpet
  • 4 July highflyer
  • Scorched carpet
  • 2 dusky sallow (NFY)
  • Lesser broad bordered yellow underwing (NFY)
  • willow beauty
  • 3 engrailed
  • small waved umber (NFY)
  • Small fan-footed wave (NFY)
  • 9 Riband wave
  • Early thorn
  • 7 common rustic
  • scarce footman
  • 4 single dotted wave
  • mottled beauty
  • V pug
  • 7 heart and dart
  • dwarf cream wave
  • buff footman
  • 2 clay
  • 3 fan-foot
  • dun-bar
  • swallow tailed moth
  • Chinese character
  • 2 clouded border
  • dot moth
  • 2 scalloped oak
  • nut tree tussock
  • Bright line brown eye
  • Brown line bright eye
  • 2 green pug
  • 4 rustic
  • Silver Y
  • 2 double square spot
  • 4 uncertain
  • dark arches
  • 5 comnmon wainscot
  • smoky wainscot
  • poplar hawkmoth
  • lesser common rustic
  • grey dagger
  • snout
  • small yellow wave
  • yellowtail
  • wormwood pug
Total:97 moths of 46 macro species
Acleris forsskaleana

2nd form of Acleris forsskaleana

Aethes rubigana

Tinea semifulvella

Argyresthia pruniella

Micro list:

  • 3 Anania hortulata
  • 5 Cydia pomonella
  • 2 Crambus perlella
  • Pandemis cerasana
  • 3 Carcina quercana
  • 21 Chrysoteuchia culmella
  • 3 Pleuropyta ruralis
  • 5 Scoparia ambigualis
  • Agapeta hamana
  • 3 Pandemis heparana
  • 2 Catoptria falsella
  • Ypsolopha scabrella
  • 4 Eudonia lacustrata
  • 6 Eucosma cana
  • 3 Endotricha flammealis
  • 2 Archips xylosteana
  • 2 Yponomeuta evonymella
  • 5 Udea prunalis
  • Catoptria pinella
  • Hypsopgia glaucinalis
  • Hypsopgia costalis  (NFY)
  • 3 Eudonia mercurella
  • Acleris holmiana
  • Teleiodes vulgella
  • Yponomeuta cagnagella
  • 3 Acleris forsskaleana
  • Plutella xylostella (NFY)
  • Paraswammerdamia nebulella
  • Aethes rubigana (NFM)
  • Acrobasis suavella
  • Cnephasia asseclana
  • Hedya nubiferana
  • Bryotropha terrella
  • Argyresthia pruniella (NFM)
  • Tinea semifulvella
Total: 93 moths of 35 micro species

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