Big Garden Roundup

Here are the summaries for 13th - 15th in the garden.

13/06/2011

Swarming around cherry tree late afternoon
0420 Cherry Fruit Moth (Argyresthia pruniella) 60 (NFY)

Total catch 127 of 45sp.
(125W MV 80 of 30, 20W/29W actinic CFL/CFL combo 47 of 31)

New for year in garden:
1458 Thistle Ermine (Myelois circumvoluta) 1
1708 Single-dotted Wave (Idaea dimidiata) 1
2069 Cinnabar (Tyria jacobaeae) 1
2128 Double Square-spot (Xestia triangulum) 2
2381 Uncertain (Hoplodrina alsines) 2
2473 Beautiful Hook-tip (Laspeyria flexula) 1
2474 Straw Dot (Rivula sericealis) 1
2489 Fan-foot (Zanclognatha tarsipennalis) 1

Highest counts:
2089 Heart and Dart (Agrotis exclamationis) 32
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 7
1428 Bee Moth (Aphomia sociella) 7
1076 Celypha lacunana 6
1083 Marbled Orchard Tortrix (Hedya nubiferana) 5
1834 Common Pug (Eupithecia vulgata) 5

Best of the rest:
1497 Amblyptilia acanthadactyla 2
1682 Blood-vein (Timandra comae) 1
1707 Small Dusty Wave (Idaea seriata) 1
1961 Light Emerald (Campaea margaritata) 1
2061 Buff Ermine (Spilosoma luteum) 2


14/06/2011
Total catch 172 of 60sp.
(125W MV 84 of 43, 80W/100W actinic/tungsten combo 88 of 35)

New for year in garden:
0977 Large Fruit-tree Tortrix (Archips podana) 1
1033 Green Oak Tortrix (Tortrix viridana) 1
1338 Dipleurina lacustrata 2
1413 Gold Triangle (Hypsopygia costalis) 1
1501 Platyptilia gonodactyla 1
1653 Buff Arches (Habrosyne pyritoides) 1
1702 Small Fan-footed Wave (Idaea biselata) 2
1758 Barred Straw (Eulithis pyraliata) 1
2030 Yellow-tail (Euproctis similis) 1
2077 Short-cloaked Moth (Nola cucullatella) 1

Small Fan-footed Wave f. fimbriolata

Platyptilia gonodactyla

Highest counts:
2089 Heart and Dart (Agrotis exclamationis) 45
1076 Celypha lacunana 8
1937 Willow Beauty (Peribatodes rhomboidaria) 7
1083 Marbled Orchard Tortrix (Hedya nubiferana) 6
1860 Green Pug (Pasiphila rectangulata) 6
2321 Dark Arches (Apamea monoglypha) 6
2160 Bright-line Brown-eye (Lacanobia oleracea) 5

Best of the rest:
0409b Argyresthia cupressella 3
1634 Lackey (Malacosoma neustria) 2
1708 Single-dotted Wave (Idaea dimidiata) 1
1742 Yellow Shell (Camptogramma bilineata) 1
1961 Light Emerald (Campaea margaritata) 2
1991 Elephant Hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor) 1
2473 Beautiful Hook-tip (Laspeyria flexula) 2

Another wacky Lackey (see here)

This the form of Lackey I usually get

Cabbage Moth

15/06/2011
Total catch 182 of 68sp.
(125W MV 89 of 47, 80W/100W actinic/tungsten combo 93 of 40)

FIRST FOR GARDEN:
0601 Elachista albifrontella 1

Elachista albifrontella

New for year in garden:
0658 Carcina quercana 1
0724 Metzneria lappella 1
1690 Small Blood-vein (Scopula imitaria) 1
1765 Barred Yellow (Cidaria fulvata) 1
1922 Swallow-tailed Moth (Ourapteryx sambucaria) 2
2318 Dun-bar (Cosmia trapezina) 1

Metzneria lappella - first for garden since 2001

Highest counts:
2089 Heart and Dart (Agrotis exclamationis) 46
1076 Celypha lacunana 7
1175 Bramble Shoot Moth (Epiblema uddmanniana) 7
2321 Dark Arches (Apamea monoglypha) 6
1083 Marbled Orchard Tortrix (Hedya nubiferana) 5
2098 Flame (Axylia putris) 5
2381 Uncertain (Hoplodrina alsines) 5

Best of the rest:
0409b Argyresthia cupressella 1
1261 Codling Moth (Cydia pomonella) 1
1338 Dipleurina lacustrata 4
1392 Udea olivalis 2
1634 Lackey (Malacosoma neustria) 1
1702 Small Fan-footed Wave (Idaea biselata) 1
1742 Yellow Shell (Camptogramma bilineata) 1
1758 Barred Straw (Eulithis pyraliata) 1
1961 Light Emerald (Campaea margaritata) 2
1991 Elephant Hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor) 2
2011 Pale Prominent (Pterostoma palpina) 1
2061 Buff Ermine (Spilosoma luteum) 2
2077 Short-cloaked Moth (Nola cucullatella) 1
2384 Vine's Rustic (Hoplodrina ambigua) 1
2473 Beautiful Hook-tip (Laspeyria flexula) 3

Carcina quercana

Swallow-tailed Moth

Barred Straw