Garden moths 2008

[John]

I must admit to being pleased with my garden moths at the moment. Apart from the moth meets my garden stands head and shoulders above those that are recording in Warwickshire for sheer numbers and variety.

John

Originally Posted by aeshna5

You have been busy John! Some good photos of some smart moths. The Dotted Clay was a good catch.

[John]

I trapped from 10pm to 1am on Monday (23rd June) night and it was quite productive
considering the clear skies. It was quite warm though which obviously
helped. In the end I caught 125 moths for 28 or 29 species. I still
have an unidentified micro that I have placed in the unknown album
plus a couple of Pugs which could both be Common but I am still
working on them.

The catch was:

47 x Heart & Dart
10 x Straw Dot
9 x Small Magpie
9 x Bright-line Bright-eye
5 x The Flame
5 x The Snout
4 x Common Marbled Carpet

4 x Dark Arches (the photo is of a Melanistic form. I had never seen one before & I caught two that night).


3 x Large Yellow Underwing
2 x Beautiful Hook-tip
2 x Flame Shoulder
2 x Green Pug
2 x Marbled Minor agg
2 x Clouded Silver
2 x Rustic Shoulder-knot

2 x Crambus pascuella


1 x Crambus lathoniellus


1 x Chrysoteuchia culmella


1 x Garden Carpet
1 x Fan-foot
1 x Bee Moth
1 x The Spectacle
1 x Barred Yellow
1 x Pale Prominant
1 x Foxglove Pug

1 x Light Arches


1 x Unknown Micro
2 x Unknown Pugs.

John

[John]

I trapped from 10pm to 02:15 on Friday night and it was another extremely busy 4+ hours with 165 moths caught for 54 species, which includes six still to be sorted (one of those is a Pug too worn to sort out). Out of those so far I have managed two new moths for the garden.

Any way my catch was as follows.

25 x The Snout
20 x Heart & Dart
9 x Large Yellow Underwing
8 x The Flame
7 x Common Marbled Carpet
6 x Dark Arches
6 x Chrysoteuchia culmella
5 x Bee Moth


5 x Garden Carpet
4 x Elephant Hawkmoth
4 x Riband Wave (1 banded)

4 x Silver Y


3 x Peppered Moth (one f. insularia)
3 x Fan-foot
3 x Flame Shoulder
3 x Small Magpie
3 x Bramble Shoot Moth


3 x Common Wave
2 x Bright-line Brown-eye
2 x Angle Shades
2 x Brimstone
2 x Common Carpet
2 x Green Pug
2 x Straw Dot
2 x Crambus pascuella
2 x Double Square-spot (NFG)


1 x Common Emerald
1 x Light Emerald
1 x Light Arches
1 x LBAM
1 x Poplar Grey
1 x Swallow-tailed Moth


1 x Blood-vein
1 x The spectacle
1 x Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix
1 x Marbled Beauty


1 x The Miller


1 x The Uncertain
1 x Celypha striana
1 x Clouded Silver
1 x Barred Yellow

1 x Burnished Brass


1 x Gold Spot


1 x Pale Mottled Willow
1 x Common White Wave
1 x Teleiodes vulgella (NFG).
1 x Agriphila straminella
1 x Dark / Grey Dagger
1 x Unidentifiable Pug

Plus the five waiting to be ID'd correctly.

John

[mrs fish]

I would never had thought all those moths are flying about at night when I'm asleep
I didn't realise there are so many species !!

[John]

There are far more moth species than there are bird species in Britain. It runs into the 1,000's.

John

Originally Posted by mrs fish

I would never had thought all those moths are flying about at night when I'm asleep
I didn't realise there are so many species !!

[GuyF]

Good to see you're still having some success John, quite a few species I've never seen there!
I had the trap out for the first time in a while on saturday, still not great numbers and I'm surprised that I've yet to see an Elephant Hawkmoth this year, but I did have a couple of new species for the garden.
The highlight was a beautiful male Lobster Moth, this is one species that I'd been wanting to catch for a long time!

The rest of the catch consisted of:
1 Common Lutestring (new for the garden)

1 x Blood-vein
3 x Buff Ermine
6 x The Flame
1 x Large Yellow Underwing
2 x Small Magpie
4 x Snout
9 x Rustic
2 x Flame Shoulder
3 x Straw Dot
3 x Marbled Minor sp.
1 x Buff Arches

3 x Dark Arches
1 x Heart and Dart
1 x Willow Beauty
3 x Riband Wave
2 x Clouded Border
1 x Double Square-spot
1 x Beautiful Hook-tip
2 x Spectacle
2 x Bright-line Brown-eye
1 x Scalloped Oak
1 x Ingrailed Clay
1 x Common Emerald
1 x Common Wainscot
1 x Privet Hawkmoth


Guy

[John]

Hi Guy

Your getting a quality catch also. The moths there that I have yet to see are Lobster Moth, Common Lutestring & Privet Hawkmoth.

I would be well impressed if I got those in my garden.

John

[GuyF]

I had the trap out on Saturday night for the first time in ages, and although I'm still missing out on Elephant Hawkmoths I was still very pleased with my catch.
I caught atleast 8 new moths, two of which are nationally scarce B species! These two rarer moths were a Kent Black Arches, photo below:

And a Cloaked Carpet


The rest of the catch consisted of:
Poplar Hawkmoth x 1
Smoky Wainscot x 1
Buff Ermine x 18
Common Footman x 6
Fan-foot x 2
Bright-line Brown-eye x 5
Mottled Rustic x 4
Scalloped Oak x 3 (photo below)



Buff Arches x 4
Large Yellow Underwing x 1
Clouded Border x 2
Common Wainscot x 1
Rosy Footman x 1
Buff-tip x 2 (photo below)



Riband Wave x 2
Double-striped Pug x 1
Heart and Dart x 2
Setaceous Hebrew Character x 1
Small Clouded Brindle x 1 (new for me)
Dark Arches x 2
Early Thorn x 1
Large Emerald x 1 (new for me)
July Highflyer x 1 (new for me)
Marbled Minor sp. x 1
White-spotted Pug x 1 (new for me)
Scarce Footman x 1 (new for me)
Small Fan-footed Wave x 2 (new for me)
Brimstone x 2
Snout x 1
Vine's Rustic x 1
Common Emerald x 1
Small Magpie x 1
Mother of Pearl x 2

Also quite a few unidentified micros.
I've got some more shots of some of the other species, I may upload them tomorrow, the Large Emerald in particular was a real stunner!

Guy

EDIT: Now have the Large Emerald image, here it is:

[naturegirl]

Hi Guy!

What a lucky guy you are! No pun intended

I am a regular moth recorder but i've never seen a Cloaked carpet!
Can I ask which area are you?

I record in Hamstreet and regularly get Scarce Merville du Jour, such a beautiful moth!

Naturegirl

[GuyF]

Originally Posted by naturegirl

Hi Guy!

What a lucky guy you are! No pun intended

I am a regular moth recorder but i've never seen a Cloaked carpet!
Can I ask which area are you?

I record in Hamstreet and regularly get Scarce Merville du Jour, such a beautiful moth!

Naturegirl

Thanks Naturegirl, I live in Dorset where apparently Cloaked Carpets are expanding their range, it was very nice to find although it can't compete with a Scarce Merveille du Jour, that's one that I'd really love to see one day

I had the trap out last night, I caught another (or the same) Cloaked Carpet and had 4 new species, conditions weren't very good and still a lack of Hawkmoths There seem to be some second generation moths appearing now, e.g. Nut-tree Tussock and Pale Prominent have reappeared.
Here's the list, photos to follow tomorrow hopefully:
Coxcomb Prominent x 2 (new for me)
Rustic x 3
Nut-tree Tussock x 1
Buff Ermine x 10
Common Footman x 10
Small Phoenix x 1
Rosy Footman x 1
Snout x 1
Small Emerald x 1 (new for me)
July Highflyer x 2
Bright-line Brown-eye x 2
Buff-tip x 1
Buff Arches x 1
Peppered Moth x 1
Dun-bar x 1
Small Magpie x 1
Large Yellow Underwing x 1
Smoky Wainscot x 1
Pale Tussock x 1
Small Fan-footed Wave x 2
Early Thorn x 1
Cloaked Carpet x 1
Clouded Border x 3
Slender Brindle x 1 (new for me)
Coronet x 1
Lesser Yellow Underwing x 1
Clay x 1 (new for me)
Common Rustic x 1