From The Garden Trap 29/05/2011

Two things conspired to reduce the trap list this morning. Firstly a school-boy mothing error on my part - I couldn't be arsed to get up early enough to empty the traps before the Robins and Blackbirds had cleared anything from outside the boxes. Secondly, it was pissing down making my efforts to catch the odd escaping geometer ineffective (as in no effort as I was stood in the shed trying to keep dry). Still the overall catch was pretty good with a few new for the year, and the new 20W CFL actinic held its own again.

Total catch 86 of 36sp.
(125W MV 44 of 20, 20W CFL Actinic 42 of 23)
0263 Apple Leaf Miner (Lyonetia clerkella) 1 (NFY)
0648 White-shouldered House Moth (Endrosis sarcitrella) 1
0937 Agapeta hamana 1 (NFY)
0970 Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix (Pandemis cerasana) 1 (NFY)
0998 Light Brown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana) 1
1076 Celypha lacunana 1
1083 Marbled Orchard Tortrix (Hedya nubiferana) 1
1115 Ancylis achatana 1 (NFY)
1168 Gypsonoma sociana 1
1174 Epiblema cynosbatella 1
1288 Twenty-plume Moth (Alucita hexadactyla) 1
1376 Small Magpie (Eurrhypara hortulata) 2
1392 Udea olivalis 1 (NFY)
1652 Peach Blossom (Thyatira batis) 1 (NFY)
1727 Silver-ground Carpet (Xanthorhoe montanata) 1
1728 Garden Carpet (Xanthorhoe fluctuata) 6
1764 Common Marbled Carpet (Chloroclysta truncata) 4
1827 Freyer's Pug (Eupithecia intricata arceuthata) 1
1834 Common Pug (Eupithecia vulgata) 2
1860 Green Pug (Pasiphila rectangulata) 3
1937 Willow Beauty (Peribatodes rhomboidaria) 1
2061 Buff Ermine (Spilosoma luteum) 1
2089 Heart and Dart (Agrotis exclamationis) 22
2092 Shuttle-shaped Dart (Agrotis puta) 1
2098 Flame (Axylia putris) 1
2102 Flame Shoulder (Ochropleura plecta) 1
2107 Large Yellow Underwing (Noctua pronuba) 1
2302 Brown Rustic (Rusina ferruginea) 1
2321 Dark Arches (Apamea monoglypha) 1
2333 Large Nutmeg (Apamea anceps) 1
2334 Rustic Shoulder-knot (Apamea sordens) 5
2337x Marbled Minor agg. (Oligia strigilis agg.) 9
2340 Middle-barred Minor (Oligia fasciuncula) 3
2384 Vine's Rustic (Hoplodrina ambigua) 3
2387 Mottled Rustic (Caradrina morpheus) 1
2389 Pale Mottled Willow (Paradrina clavipalpis) 1 (NFY)

Gypsonoma sociana

Peach Blossom

Mottled Rustic - yes it's dull but the chances of me having a photo of any given species seems to be inversely proportional to their abundance or attractiveness, so I'm trying to get a few more common ones sorted this year.