Number of species:
This month: 12
Friday 30 & Saturday 31 October 2009
Off to Devon for the weekend.
Thursday 29 October 2009
Gem - Orthonama obstipata
Partly cloudy and foggy, 10°C, still.
If there has to be only four moths in the trap it’s pleasing that one should be something we’ve not seen before: a Gem. I was pretty sure that one of the Yellow-line Quakers was a Brick at first, but closer examination proved otherwise, ho - hum.
Geometridae
- 1 Gem Orthonama obstipata Fabr.
- 1 Common Marbled Carpet Chloroclysta truncata Hufn.
Noctuidae
- 2 Yellow-line Quaker Agrochola macilenta Hb.
Wednesday 28 October 2009
No trap.
Tuesday 27 October 2009
Sprawler - Brachionycha sphinx
Clear at first with showers later, 10°C, still.
Twelve species, including the year’s first Sprawler, more than we’ve seen for some time.
Geometridae
- 1 Red-green Carpet Chloroclysta siterata Hufn.
- 1 Cypress Carpet Thera cupressata Geyer
- 2 Epirrita Sp.
Noctuidae
- 1 Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba Linn.
- 1 Lesser Yellow Underwing Noctua comes Hb.
- 1 Sprawler Brachionycha sphinx Hufn.
- 1 Merveille du Jour Dichonia aprilina Linn.
- 1 Satellite Eupsilia transversa Hufn.
- 1 Chestnut Conistra vaccinii Linn.
- 1 Red-line Quaker Agrochola lota Cl.
- 3 Yellow-line Quaker Agrochola macilenta Hb.
- 1 Large Wainscot Rhizedra lutosa Hb.
Monday 26 October 2009
No trap.
Sunday 26 October 2009
November Moth Agg. Epirrita Sp.
White-point - Mythimna albipuncta
Yellow-line Quaker - Agrochola macilenta
Large Wainscot - Rhizedra lutosa
Partly cloudy, 10°C, windy.
Well, not only the first Epirrita Sp., White-point and Yellow-line Quaker of the year but two, yes two, Large Wainscot, a species I have expected to see before, the river being a seemingly ideal habitat, but up until now it hasn’t shown itself - maybe it’s the pond?.
Geometridae
- 1 Common Marbled Carpet Chloroclysta truncata Hufn.
- 1 Epirrita Sp.
Noctuidae
- 2 Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba Linn.
- 1 White-point Mythimna albipuncta D. & S.
- 1 Blair’s Shoulder-knot Lithophane leautieri Bours.
- 1 Satellite Eupsilia transversa Hufn.
- 2 Chestnut Conistra vaccinii Linn.
- 2 Red-line Quaker Agrochola lota Cl.
- 1 Yellow-line Quaker Agrochola macilenta Hb.
- 2 Large Wainscot Rhizedra lutosa Hb.
Saturday 24 October 2009
No trap.
Friday 23 October 2009
Cloudy and wet at first, clearing and becomming misty, 5°C, light wind.
I think the most exciting thing in the trap this morning was the , our latest record for this species.
Geometridae
- 2 Common Marbled Carpet Chloroclysta truncata Hufn.
Noctuidae
- 1 Dark Sword-grass Agrotis ipsilon Hufn.
- 1 Shuttle-shaped Dart Agrotis puta Hb.
- 1 Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba Linn.
- 1 Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum Linn.
- 1 Merveille du Jour Dichonia aprilina Linn.
- 2 Satellite Eupsilia transversa Hufn.
- 2 Chestnut Conistra vaccinii Linn.
- 1 Red-line Quaker Agrochola lota Cl.
Thursday 22 October 2009
Variable Smudge - Ypsolopha ustella
Mainly cloudy, showers, 8°C, light wind.
Not too bad, but nothing very exciting to report. I’ve put the photo of the Variable Smudge up even though it’s not the first we’ve seen this year but it is very different to the ones we caught in September and back in March.
Yponomeutidae
- 1 Variable Smudge Ypsolopha ustella Cl.
Tortricidae
- 1 Light-brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana Walker
Geometridae
- 1 Spruce Carpet Thera britannica Turn.
- 1 Cypress Carpet Thera cupressata Geyer
Noctuidae
- 1 Dark Sword-grass Agrotis ipsilon Hufn.
- 1 Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba Linn.
- 1 Satellite Eupsilia transversa Hufn.
- 1 Red-line Quaker Agrochola lota Cl.
Saturday 17 & Wednesday 21 October 2009
Pretty poor weather throughout.
Friday 16 October 2009
Cloudy, 10°C, still.
Really would have expected a bit more than this, it seemed like it was going to be a fairly good night.
Tortricidae
- 1 Light-brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana Walker
Noctuidae
- 3 Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba Linn.
- 1 Black Rustic Aporophyla nigra Haw.
- 1 Red-line Quaker Agrochola lota Cl.
Thursday 15 October 2009
Red-green Carpet - Chloroclysta siterata
Feathered Thorn - Colotois pennaria
Cloudy at first, clearing, 3°C, light wind.
Ah, that’s better, a couple of good moths too, rgc and ft topping the bill, the first Chest since April too.
Geometridae
- 1 Red-green Carpet Chloroclysta siterata Hufn.
- 1 Common Marbled Carpet Chloroclysta truncata Hufn.
- 1 Feathered Thorn Colotois pennaria Linn.
Noctuidae
- 1 Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba Linn.
- 3 Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum Linn.
- 1 Chestnut Conistra vaccinii Linn.
- 1 Red-line Quaker Agrochola lota Cl.
- 1 Pink-barred Sallow Xanthia togata Esp.
Wednesday 14 October 2009
No trap.
Tuesday 13 October 2009
Clear, 1°C, still.
Hmmm…
Noctuidae
- 3 Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum Linn.
Monday 12 October 2009
No trap.
Sunday 11 October 2009
Clear at first, cloudy with light rain later, 6°C, light wind.
No great shakes, better than Friday though.
Tortricidae
- 1 Light-brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana Walker
Geometridae
- 2 Common Marbled Carpet Chloroclysta truncata Hufn.
- 1 Cypress Carpet Thera cupressata Geyer
Noctuidae
- 1 Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba Linn.
- 1 Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum Linn.
- 1 Brindled Green Dryobotodes eremita Fabr.
- 2 Red-line Quaker Agrochola lota Cl.
- 2 Lunar Underwing Omphaloscelis lunosa Haw.
- 1 Pale Mottled Willow Paradrina clavipalpis Scop.
Saturday 10 October 2009
No trap.
Friday 09 October 2009
Pink-barred Sallow - Xanthia togata
Clear and cool at first, becoming cloudy, temperature rising to 7°C by dawn, still.
A mere three moths but at least a pink BS was one of them.
Noctuidae
- 1 Blair’s Shoulder-knot Lithophane leautieri Bours.
- 1 Lunar Underwing Omphaloscelis lunosa Haw.
- 1 Pink-barred Sallow Xanthia togata Esp.
Thursday 08 October 2009
No trap.
Wednesday 07 October 2009
Narrow-winged Grey - Eudonia angustea
Lesser Yellow Underwing - Noctua comes
Black Rustic - Aporophyla nigra
Blair’s Shoulder-knot - Lithophane leautieri
Cloudy with showers, windy, very warm 16°C.
A bit busier than of late with the first Narrow-winged Grey, Black Rustic and Blair’s Shoulder-knot of the year. We also had a rather interestingly marked Lesser Yellow Underwing which I thought was worth a photograph.
Tortricidae
- 3 Light-brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana Walker
Crambidae
- 1 Narrow-winged Grey Eudonia angustea Curt.
Pyralidae
- 1 Double-striped Tabby Orthopygia glaucinalis Linn.
Geometridae
- 1 Common Marbled Carpet Chloroclysta truncata Hufn.
- 1 Pine Carpet Thera firmata Hb.
Lymantriidae
- 1 Vapourer Orgyia antiqua Linn.
Noctuidae
- 11 Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba Linn.
- 3 Lesser Yellow Underwing Noctua comes Hb.
- 6 Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum Linn.
- 1 Black Rustic Aporophyla nigra Haw.
- 1 Blair’s Shoulder-knot Lithophane leautieri Bours.
- 1 Brindled Green Dryobotodes eremita Fabr.
- 1 Large Ranunculus Polymixis flavicincta D. & S.
- 1 Lunar Underwing Omphaloscelis lunosa Haw.
Tuesday 06 October 2009
No trap.
Monday 05 October 2009
Cloudy, becoming wet, 11°C, light wind.
Not very much at all in the trap this morning.
Geometridae
- 1 Common Marbled Carpet Chloroclysta truncata Hufn.
- 1 Sharp-angled Carpet Euphyia unangulata Haw.
Noctuidae
- 1 Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba Linn.
- 1 Lesser Yellow Underwing Noctua comes Hb.
- 1 Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum Linn.
- 1 Large Ranunculus Polymixis flavicincta D. & S.
- 1 Barred Sallow Xanthia aurago D. & S.
Sunday 04 October 2009
No trap.
Saturday 03 October 2009
Large Ranunculus - Polymixis flavicincta
Red-line Quaker - Agrochola lota
Cloudy, showers, 11°C, increasingly windy.
Another smallish catch embellished with the season’s first Large Ran (two, in fact) and RLQ.
Tortricidae
- 1 Light-brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana Walker
Geometridae
- 2 Garden Carpet Xanthorhoe fluctuata Linn.
- 1 Common Marbled Carpet Chloroclysta truncata Hufn.
- 1 Willow Beauty Peribatodes rhomboidaria D. & S.
Noctuidae
- 1 Shuttle-shaped Dart Agrotis puta Hb.
- 3 Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba Linn.
- 2 Large Ranunculus Polymixis flavicincta D. & S.
- 1 Red-line Quaker Agrochola lota Cl.
Friday 02 October 2009
No trap.
Thursday 01 October 2009
Merveille du Jour - Dichonia aprilina
Sallow - Xanthia icteritia
Mainly cloudy, 11°C, still.
Not too much to shout about but the first Merveille du Jour and Sallow make things all more than worthwhile.
Geometridae
- 1 Garden Carpet Xanthorhoe fluctuata Linn.
- 1 Common Marbled Carpet Chloroclysta truncata Hufn.
- 1 Willow Beauty Peribatodes rhomboidaria D. & S.
- 1 Light Emerald Campaea margaritata Linn.
Noctuidae
- 4 Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba Linn.
- 1 Lesser Yellow Underwing Noctua comes Hb.
- 6 Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum Linn.
- 1 Merveille du Jour Dichonia aprilina Linn.
- 1 Sallow Xanthia icteritia Hufn.
