Last Night's Moths

[Adam Cheeseman]

Despite the clear skies the temperature remained high and quite humid here in North Surrey. Best night's haul so far this year, and there is still a fridge full of micros to go through. Sorry no pics.


Scalloped Oak 6
Heart & Dart 20
Chrysoteuchia culmella 19
Riband Wave 21
Oligia sp. 2
Dark Arches 7
Light Arches 1
Willow Beauty 5
Setaceous Hebrew Character 2
Bee Moth 2
Flame 2
Small Magpie 6
Bright-line Brown-eye 2
Common Emerald 3
Dun-bar 1
LB-b Yellow Underwing 1
Emmelina monodactyla 4
Bee Moth 2
Large Yellow Underwing 7
Sm. Elephant Hawk-moth 1
Elephant Hawk-moth 1
Gold Triangle 2
Yellow Shell 2
Straw Dot 2
Green Pug 3
Least Carpet 1
LB Apple Moth 4
Common Marbled Carpet 1
Endotricha flammealis 3
Diamond-backed Moth 1
Garden Carpet 3
Twenty-plume Moth 3
Small Dusty Wave 1
Treble Brown Spot 3
Small Blood-vein 1
Orthopygia glaucinalis 1
Udea prunalis 2
Burnished Brass 1
Brindled Beauty 1
Bird’s-wing 2
Pale Mottled Willow 1
Uncertain 4
Brown House Moth 1
Spinach 1
Dingy Shears 1
Crambus pascuella 6
Common Wave 1
Common Footman 1
European Corn-borer 1
Common Pug 2
Double-striped Pug 3
Dwarf Cream Wave 3

Cheers,

Adam

[Jonners]

Adam, what a night! or even, what a morning. You must have had fun going through that lot. I've not heard of a fair chunk of them, but have always had an interest, ever since I was bought the Observer's Book of Larger Moths as a boy. I guess you must have an array of moth traps, or was that all from one? Great stuff anyway. Well done. (My night consisted of marvelling at a moth predator - a couple of hours in the forest with nightjars)

[Adam Cheeseman]

I use one MV Robinson trap that I leave on all night. I did stay with it until midnight then left it to its own devices. It's amazing how much gets away though. Things like Common Emerald and Light Arches particularly seem to have no problems flying back out without any trouble. Makes you wonder just what does get away?

Still got about 20 micros to go through too.

Must get out to Whitmoor Common soon to see my local Nighthats and Woodcock, Still haven't been to see the Dartfords, Woodlark and other heath species yet this year.

Cheers,

Adam

[Adam Cheeseman]

A few more id'd.

Bird-cherry Ermine 1
Brown House-moth 2
Trachycera advenella 2
Gypsonoma sociana 1
Rhyacionia pinicolana 1
Scoparia ambigualis 1
Apple Leaf Miner 1

[pete76]

Best night of the year for me too, not quite the quantity that you're getting Adam, but happy none-the-less. Scarce Silver-Lines was a highlight (beautiful moth!), plus my first Hawk-moth of the year.

Dun-bar
Mottled Beauty
Bee-Moth
Heart & Club
Heart & Dart
Large Yellow Underwing
Currant Pug
Small Dusty Wave
Pyrausta aurata
Red-barred Tortrix
Scarce Silver-lines
The Miller
Marbled White Spot
Willow Beauty
Common Marbled Carpet
Snout
Beautiful China-mark
Aleimma loeflingiana
Twenty-plume Moth
Riband Wave
Brimstone
Small Magpie
Clouded Border
Elephant Hawk-moth
Foxglove Pug
Lobster Moth
Double-striped Pug
Variegated Golden Tortrix
Tawny Barred Angle
Clouded Silver
Light Emerald
Uncertain
Gold Triangle
The Shears
Least Carpet
Pale Mottled Willow
Flame Shoulder
Dark Arches
Straw Dot
Green Oak Tortrix
Crambus sp.
Common Footman
Buff Footman
Small Fan-footed Wave

[Adam Cheeseman]

There's a few there I'd like to get in my garden.

Running the trap at work tonight as part of a night-time guided walk. Just hope this humidity and cloud cover holds. Oh, I'm getting too excited about it already.

Cheers,

Adam