Conditions looked very promising last night. Despite the clearing skies the warmth of the late afternoon lingered into dusk and there was hardly a breeze. I decided to try something different with the traps.
I usually run the 80W actinic by the house and the 125W MV in the middle of the garden. They are only c10M apart, though the MV is screened off to stop the light shining on the house. My theory has been that the actinic simply picks up anything that gets the 'wrong' side of the screen out of sight of the MV and would otherwise be lost for the night. I wanted to run an MV in the same position as the actinic usually sits, and have the usual MV running as normal. I also ran the actinic, but right at the bottom of the garden behind the shed.
The usual MV picked up 109 of 51sp - pretty much in line with expectations (93 of 49sp the previous night).
The actinic picked up 62 of 36sp - again not to far off of the previous night for species (81 of 34sp), slightly down on numbers.
The MV by the house picked up a whopping 149 of 71sp ....
Total catch was 320 of 93sp despite the early morning attentions of up to 3 Robins and c6 Frogs loitering in the night.
For a change I'll bore you with the whole catch.
First for year in garden:
0271 Bucculatrix albedinella 1
0420 Cherry Fruit Moth (Argyresthia pruniella) 1
0658 Carcina quercana 1
0977 Large Fruit-tree Tortrix (Archips podana) 1
1002 Lozotaenia forsterana 1
1033 Green Oak Tortrix (Tortrix viridana) 1
1109 Lobesia littoralis 1
1201 Eucosma cana 1
1210 Pine Shoot Moth (Rhyacionia buoliana) 1
1212 Spotted Shoot Moth (Rhyacionia pinivorana) 1
1634 Lackey (Malacosoma neustria) 1
2193 Clay (Mythimna ferrago) 1
2322 Light Arches (Apamea lithoxylaea) 2
2382 Rustic (Hoplodrina blanda) 1
2489 Fan-foot (Zanclognatha tarsipennalis) 1
The rest:
0017 Common Swift (Hepialus lupulinus) 1
0247 Tinea trinotella 2
0409a Argyresthia trifasciata 1
0409b Argyresthia cupressella 4
0414 Argyresthia curvella 1
0647 Brown House Moth (Hofmannophila pseudospretella) 4
0648 White-shouldered House Moth (Endrosis sarcitrella) 2
0874 Blastobasis lacticolella 3
0970 Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix (Pandemis cerasana) 8
0989 Timothy Tortrix (Aphelia paleana) 1
0994 Clepsis consimilana 3
0998 Light Brown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana) 10
1063 Celypha striana 2
1076 Celypha lacunana 11
1082 Plum Tortrix (Hedya pruniana) 4
1083 Marbled Orchard Tortrix (Hedya nubiferana) 10
1115 Ancylis achatana 2
1175 Bramble Shoot Moth (Epiblema uddmanniana) 3
1176 Epiblema trimaculana 6
1261 Codling Moth (Cydia pomonella) 2
1293 Garden Grass-veneer (Chrysoteuchia culmella) 4
1294 Crambus pascuella 2
1301 Crambus lathoniellus 1
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 9
1338 Dipleurina lacustrata 1
1376 Small Magpie (Eurrhypara hortulata) 4
1392 Udea olivalis 2
1428 Bee Moth (Aphomia sociella) 3
1682 Blood-vein (Timandra comae) 1
1707 Small Dusty Wave (Idaea seriata) 2
1713 Riband Wave (Idaea aversata) 3
1727 Silver-ground Carpet (Xanthorhoe montanata) 2
1728 Garden Carpet (Xanthorhoe fluctuata) 2
1742 Yellow Shell (Camptogramma bilineata) 2
1764 Common Marbled Carpet (Chloroclysta truncata) 8
1808 Sandy Carpet (Perizoma flavofasciata) 1
1819 Mottled Pug (Eupithecia exiguata) 4
1827 Freyer's Pug (Eupithecia intricata arceuthata) 2
1834 Common Pug (Eupithecia vulgata) 7
1837 Grey Pug (Eupithecia subfuscata) 4
1860 Green Pug (Pasiphila rectangulata) 8
1862 Double-striped Pug (Gymnoscelis rufifasciata) 1
1906 Brimstone Moth (Opisthograptis luteolata) 4
1937 Willow Beauty (Peribatodes rhomboidaria) 6
1941 Mottled Beauty (Alcis repandata) 1
1956 Common Wave (Cabera exanthemata) 1
1958 Clouded Silver (Lomographa temerata) 3
1961 Light Emerald (Campaea margaritata) 3
1979 Lime Hawk-moth (Mimas tiliae) 1
1980 Eyed Hawk-moth (Smerinthus ocellata) 1
1981 Poplar Hawk-moth (Laothoe populi) 1
1991 Elephant Hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor) 2
2011 Pale Prominent (Pterostoma palpina) 1
2089 Heart and Dart (Agrotis exclamationis) 40
2092 Shuttle-shaped Dart (Agrotis puta) 1
2098 Flame (Axylia putris) 4
2102 Flame Shoulder (Ochropleura plecta) 1
2107 Large Yellow Underwing (Noctua pronuba) 7
2126 Setaceous Hebrew Character (Xestia c-nigrum) 2
2128 Double Square-spot (Xestia triangulum) 1
2136 Gothic (Naenia typica) 1
2155 Dot Moth (Melanchra persicariae) 1
2160 Bright-line Brown-eye (Lacanobia oleracea) 2
2302 Brown Rustic (Rusina ferruginea) 3
2306 Angle Shades (Phlogophora meticulosa) 1
2321 Dark Arches (Apamea monoglypha) 12
2330 Dusky Brocade (Apamea remissa) 1
2333 Large Nutmeg (Apamea anceps) 3
2334 Rustic Shoulder-knot (Apamea sordens) 5
2337x Marbled Minor agg. (Oligia strigilis agg.) 14
2340 Middle-barred Minor (Oligia fasciuncula) 3
2381 Uncertain (Hoplodrina alsines) 5
2387 Mottled Rustic (Caradrina morpheus) 4
2389 Pale Mottled Willow (Paradrina clavipalpis) 1
2441 Silver Y (Autographa gamma) 1
2473 Beautiful Hook-tip (Laspeyria flexula) 2
2474 Straw Dot (Rivula sericealis) 5
2477 Snout (Hypena proboscidalis) 7
3 comments:
Your just showing off now! :P superb list.
;-) I tell you Ben - if you saw my very modest suburban garden with a distinct lack of nearby woodland you'd laugh! If you look at the list though it's all regular common stuff (or at least it is here in VC55), maybe one or two micros less common but probably through lack of recorders looking at them.
Anyway, I got home from work and whilst pottering around the garden I found a Poplar Hawk-moth tucked up in a bush next to one of the trap positions - so the list gets bigger by one!
Back to normal garden traps tonight as I haven't got time to bugger about tomorrow morning.
I had 54 Silver Ground Carpets in a catch of 200 moths of 50sp last night....
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