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Tuesday 21 June 2011

Garden Mothing Update

18/06/2011
Total catch 112 of 43sp.
(125W MV 54 of 29; 80W/100W actinic/tungsten combo 58 of 33)

New for year in garden:
1424 Endotricha flammealis 1

Highest counts:
2089 Heart and Dart (Agrotis exclamationis) 28
1937 Willow Beauty (Peribatodes rhomboidaria) 9
2381 Uncertain (Hoplodrina alsines) 7
0874 Blastobasis lacticolella 5
2321 Dark Arches (Apamea monoglypha) 5

Best of the rest:
0765 Teleiodes vulgella 1
1168 Gypsonoma sociana 1
1497 Amblyptilia acanthadactyla 2
1690 Small Blood-vein (Scopula imitaria) 1
1758 Barred Straw (Eulithis pyraliata) 2
2061 Buff Ermine (Spilosoma luteum) 1
2318 Dun-bar (Cosmia trapezina) 1

Dun-bar


19/06/2011
Total catch 151 of 50sp.
(125W MV 60 of 27; 80W/100W actinic/tungsten combo 91 of 35)

New for year in garden:
0450 Hawthorn Moth (Scythropia crataegella) 1
1294 Crambus pascuella 1
1331 Water Veneer (Acentria ephemerella) 1
1390 Udea prunalis 1
2136 Gothic (Naenia typica) 2
2155 Dot Moth (Melanchra persicariae) 1

Highest counts:
2089 Heart and Dart (Agrotis exclamationis) 53
2381 Uncertain (Hoplodrina alsines) 14
2321 Dark Arches (Apamea monoglypha) 7

Best of the rest:
1168 Gypsonoma sociana 1
1634 Lackey (Malacosoma neustria) 3
1669 Common Emerald (Hemithea aestivaria) 1
1702 Small Fan-footed Wave (Idaea biselata) 1
1707 Small Dusty Wave (Idaea seriata) 1
1758 Barred Straw (Eulithis pyraliata) 1
1961 Light Emerald (Campaea margaritata) 2
1979 Lime Hawk-moth (Mimas tiliae) 1
2061 Buff Ermine (Spilosoma luteum) 1
2077 Short-cloaked Moth (Nola cucullatella) 2

Gothic


I'm also holding onto this 'clothes moth' from the garden back on 2nd - it will be a definite garden tick. Gen det required later in the year.

Case-bearing Clothes Moth
CONFIRMED - gen. det. by Jon Clifton Jan 2012

2 comments:

The Leicester Llama said...

Looks most like Case-bearing Clothes Moth to me, but yes you'd probably have to gen det it to be certain.

Skev said...

Yep - that was the main contender based on liklihood if nothing else.