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

Saturday, 1 October 2011

Garden Mothing / Garden Tick

Just been catching up on the garden records, with the traps having been on every night except Wednesday when I was away on business. Before all the summaries and photos, here's the biggest highlight - a superb garden tick Large Wainscot last night.

Large Wainscot

27/09/2011
Total catch 72 of 25sp.
(125W MV 24 of 14, 22W/18W Synergetic/CFL combo 48 of 22)


0648 White-shouldered House Moth (Endrosis sarcitrella) 1
0695 Agonopterix alstromeriana 1
0874 Blastobasis lacticolella 3
0998 Light Brown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana) 5
1048 Garden Rose Tortrix (Acleris variegana) 8
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 1
1728 Garden Carpet (Xanthorhoe fluctuata) 2
1764 Common Marbled Carpet (Chloroclysta truncata) 3
1776 Green Carpet (Colostygia pectinataria) 1
1937 Willow Beauty (Peribatodes rhomboidaria) 2
2107 Large Yellow Underwing (Noctua pronuba) 13
2109 Lesser Yellow Underwing (Noctua comes) 5
2126 Setaceous Hebrew Character (Xestia c-nigrum) 1
2199 Common Wainscot (Mythimna pallens) 1
2232 Black Rustic (Aporophyla nigra) 1
2240 Blair's Shoulder-knot (Lithophane leautieri hesperica) 3
2248 Brindled Green (Dryobotodes eremita) 1 (NFY)
2263 Red-line Quaker (Agrochola lota) 3 (NFY)
2266 Brown-spot Pinion (Agrochola litura) 1
2267 Beaded Chestnut (Agrochola lychnidis) 1
2270 Lunar Underwing (Omphaloscelis lunosa) 5
2272 Barred Sallow (Xanthia aurago) 3
2273 Pink-barred Sallow (Xanthia togata) 2
2274 Sallow (Xanthia icteritia) 4
2384 Vine's Rustic (Hoplodrina ambigua) 1

Red-line Quaker

Beaded Chestnut

29/09/2011
Total catch 46 of 22sp.
(125W MV 16 of 12, 22W/18W Synergetic/CFL combo 30 of 15)


0648 White-shouldered House Moth (Endrosis sarcitrella) 2
0874 Blastobasis lacticolella 2
0998 Light Brown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana) 2
1041 Acleris sparsana 1
1048 Garden Rose Tortrix (Acleris variegana) 1
1764 Common Marbled Carpet (Chloroclysta truncata) 1
1937 Willow Beauty (Peribatodes rhomboidaria) 1
1961 Light Emerald (Campaea margaritata) 1
2107 Large Yellow Underwing (Noctua pronuba) 4
2109 Lesser Yellow Underwing (Noctua comes) 9
2110 Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing (Noctua fimbriata) 1
2126 Setaceous Hebrew Character (Xestia c-nigrum) 2
2232 Black Rustic (Aporophyla nigra) 1
2240 Blair's Shoulder-knot (Lithophane leautieri hesperica) 5
2259 Dark Chestnut (Conistra ligula) 1
2262 Brick (Agrochola circellaris) 1
2264 Yellow-line Quaker (Agrochola macilenta) 1 (NFY)
2267 Beaded Chestnut (Agrochola lychnidis) 1
2270 Lunar Underwing (Omphaloscelis lunosa) 1
2272 Barred Sallow (Xanthia aurago) 4
2274 Sallow (Xanthia icteritia) 3
2364 Frosted Orange (Gortyna flavago) 1

Yellow-line Quaker

Garden Rose Tortrix

30/09/2011
Total catch 71 of 26sp.
(125W MV 27 of 14, 22W/18W Synergetic/CFL combo 44 of 21)


0648 White-shouldered House Moth (Endrosis sarcitrella) 4
0874 Blastobasis lacticolella 3
0998 Light Brown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana) 5
1042 Rhomboid Tortrix (Acleris rhombana) 1
1048 Garden Rose Tortrix (Acleris variegana) 9
1054 Acleris cristana 1
1395 Rusty-dot Pearl (Udea ferrugalis) 1 (NFY)
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 3
1707 Small Dusty Wave (Idaea seriata) 1
1764 Common Marbled Carpet (Chloroclysta truncata) 2
1937 Willow Beauty (Peribatodes rhomboidaria) 1
2107 Large Yellow Underwing (Noctua pronuba) 11
2109 Lesser Yellow Underwing (Noctua comes) 8
2232 Black Rustic (Aporophyla nigra) 3
2240 Blair's Shoulder-knot (Lithophane leautieri hesperica) 2
2245 Green-brindled Crescent (Allophyes oxyacanthae) 1 (NFY)
2259 Dark Chestnut (Conistra ligula) 1
2263 Red-line Quaker (Agrochola lota) 2
2267 Beaded Chestnut (Agrochola lychnidis) 1
2270 Lunar Underwing (Omphaloscelis lunosa) 2
2271 Orange Sallow (Xanthia citrago) 1
2272 Barred Sallow (Xanthia aurago) 3
2273 Pink-barred Sallow (Xanthia togata) 1
2274 Sallow (Xanthia icteritia) 2
2375 Large Wainscot (Rhizedra lutosa) 1 (FIRST FOR GARDEN)
2389 Pale Mottled Willow (Paradrina clavipalpis) 1

Green-brindled Crescent

Rusty Dot Pearl

Small Dusty Wave

Acleris cristana - one of the drabber forms, but looks at those fresh scale-tufts!

Emmelina monodactyla

Red-line Quaker

2 comments:

Broom Birder said...

A nice, well marked L. Wainscot there. I take it you don't have too much wetland in close proximity?

Skev said...

Actually there's a decent reedbed site within a mile of my garden as the crow flies (Narborough Bog). This has good breeding colonies of Fen Wainscot, Round-winged Muslin and Brown-veined Wainscot plus other expected species (but no Twin-spotted or Silky).
However in the 12 years I've been trapping in the garden, I've had just a single Bulrush Wainscot (2004), Fen Wainscot (2006) and now Large Wainscot, but no Brown-veined or Southern and no Round-winged Muslin as yet.