Birds, Leps, Observations & Generalities - the images and ramblings of Mark Skevington. Sometimes.

Thursday 2 June 2011

Extreme Garden Mothing

As part of my 20W CFL actinic trials, I need to run it on the same night as the 80W actinic combo trap. I can't literally run them side by side, but despite the size and location of the garden I have on occasion run 3 traps on a night. You would have to see the garden to fully appreciate and understand how ridiculous a proposition this is, but nevertheless ....

Last night I ran 3 traps. The usual 125W MV half way down the garden against the fence and facing the embankment, the 80W actinic / 11W standard CFL combo trap against the back of the house, and the new 20W CFL actinic tucked right at the bottom of the garden behind the shed. All out of direct line of sight of each other - unless you are a moth flying over the garden. This trial is still not ideal as whilst the traps are running in the same garden on the same night, there is obviously a positional variable to take into account. So, I'll have to run 3 traps in various combinations on a few nights and then do some highly complex statistical analysis. Or guesswork.

So for last night the total catch was a very healthy 165 of 51sp.
125W MV 52 of 26 (10 of which were in no other trap)
80W/11W actinic/CFL combo 79 of 32sp (16 of which were in no other trap)
20W CFL actinic 34 of 18sp (8 of which were in no other trap)

0017 Common Swift (Hepialus lupulinus) 10
0227 Skin Moth (Monopis laevigella) 1
0246 Tinea semifulvella 2 (NFY)
0263 Apple Leaf Miner (Lyonetia clerkella) 1
0293 Caloptilia syringella 1 (NFY)
0409b Argyresthia cupressella 2
0647 Brown House Moth (Hofmannophila pseudospretella) 1
0648 White-shouldered House Moth (Endrosis sarcitrella) 5
0874 Blastobasis lacticolella 2
0970 Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix (Pandemis cerasana) 2
0989 Timothy Tortrix (Aphelia paleana) 1 (NFY)
0998 Light Brown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana) 2
1011 Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 3
1076 Celypha lacunana 13
1083 Marbled Orchard Tortrix (Hedya nubiferana) 2
1084 Hedya ochroleucana 1 (NFY)
1133 Epinotia bilunana 1 (NFY)
1174 Epiblema cynosbatella 1
1175 Bramble Shoot Moth (Epiblema uddmanniana) 3 (NFY)
1176 Epiblema trimaculana 2
1293 Garden Grass-veneer (Chrysoteuchia culmella) 1 (NFY)
1301 Crambus lathoniellus 1 (NFY)
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 2
1376 Small Magpie (Eurrhypara hortulata) 6
1392 Udea olivalis 2
1428 Bee Moth (Aphomia sociella) 2
1707 Small Dusty Wave (Idaea seriata) 2 (NFY)
1727 Silver-ground Carpet (Xanthorhoe montanata) 1
1728 Garden Carpet (Xanthorhoe fluctuata) 2
1764 Common Marbled Carpet (Chloroclysta truncata) 1
1819 Mottled Pug (Eupithecia exiguata) 4
1827 Freyer's Pug (Eupithecia intricata arceuthata) 1
1834 Common Pug (Eupithecia vulgata) 2
1860 Green Pug (Pasiphila rectangulata) 5
1931 Peppered Moth (Biston betularia) 1
1931 Peppered Moth [melanic form] (Biston betularia f. insularia) 1 (NFY)
1937 Willow Beauty (Peribatodes rhomboidaria) 2
1958 Clouded Silver (Lomographa temerata) 3
1961 Light Emerald (Campaea margaritata) 2 (NFY)
1981 Poplar Hawk-moth (Laothoe populi) 1 (NFY)
2060 White Ermine (Spilosoma lubricipeda) 1
2089 Heart and Dart (Agrotis exclamationis) 45
2092 Shuttle-shaped Dart (Agrotis puta) 1
2126 Setaceous Hebrew Character (Xestia c-nigrum) 2
2306 Angle Shades (Phlogophora meticulosa) 1
2326 Clouded-bordered Brindle (Apamea crenata) 1
2330 Dusky Brocade (Apamea remissa) 1
2333 Large Nutmeg (Apamea anceps) 4
2334 Rustic Shoulder-knot (Apamea sordens) 4
2337x Marbled Minor agg. (Oligia strigilis agg.) 4
2477 Snout (Hypena proboscidalis) 2 (NFY)
2492 Small Fan-foot (Herminia grisealis) 1 (NFY)

Tinea semifulvella

Hedya ochroleucana f. antennaefrazzledii

Epinotia bilunana

Light Emerald

Peppered Moth f. insularia

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