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Wednesday 1 July 2015

Record moth night

Expectancy for a good moth night at the garden Skinner 125MV trap was high as I returned home at 10.40 from presenting a talk to the local RSPB group in Broxbourne. I got to the trap and immediately was listing and potting many moths. This continued until 12.30 when I ran out of pots.
Identifying them and then releasing them out at the front carried on until bed beckoned, but I was back at the trap soon after 5 to check again.
In all, a record for the garden: 94 moths of 52 species. The best garden night of all time, but hoping I can break the century tonight, as temperatures are still hovering in the high 20's and it is nearly 7.30.
Really, a whole list of everything taken last night is the way forward, to keep for posterity until this new record is broken. Previous was July 2014 when I took 81 moths of 47 species.
Micros: NFY = new for year, NFM is new for parish records
3 Clepsis consimilana
Udea olivalis
2 Cydia pomonella
2 Apotomis tubidana (NFM)
Emmelina monodactyla
Pandemis cerasana
2 Archips podana
2 Agriphila straminella
4 Scoparia pyralella
Lozotaenia forsterana
3 Eudonia mercurella
Hedya pruniana
3 Celypha striana
7 Chrysoteuchia culmella
Aphoma sociella
Pterophorus pentadactyla
3 Hedya nubiferana
Yponomeuta evonymella (NFY)
Galleria mellonella (NFY)
2 Aleimma loeflingiana (NFY)
Celypha lacunana
2 Archips xylosteana (NFY)
2 Eudonia lacustrata

That's a total of 47 micros of 23 species.

Macros:
large yellow underwing
flame shoulder
4 Green pug
swallow tailed moth (NFY)
2 beautiful hooktip
Garden carpet
double square spot (NFY)
3 dark arches
privet hawkmoth
7 heart and club
5 heart and dart
snout
barred straw
2 rufous marbled minor (NFY)
Chinese character (NFY)
Mottled beauty (NFY)
common footman
fan foot
brimstone
2 Common white wave
marbled minor
straw dot
willow beauty
single dot wave (NFY)
rustic
small blood vein (NFY)
mottled rustic (NFY)
small dusty wave
Rustic shoulder knot

47 moths of 29 species.
brimstone

chinese character

Privet hawkmoth

swallow tailed

Agriphila straminella

Clepsis consimilana

Garden carpet





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