ID help for any of these Moths please

ann_miles · #1 (**permalink**) 13-07-2010, 06:15 PM

Sorry bumper crop last night - I did manage 30 species unaided!

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peter2009 · #2 (**permalink**) 13-07-2010, 07:54 PM

1=Knot Grass
2=Common Rustic Agg
3=Clay
4=Dun-Bar

peter2009 · #3 (**permalink**) 13-07-2010, 07:57 PM

5=Shuttle-shaped Dart

ann_miles · #4 (**permalink**) 13-07-2010, 08:27 PM

Thanks very much for those five - now I look them up it is obvious!

I will post again with the remaining ones - will do it in smaller batches next time.

Very amazed to catch 8 Elephant Hawkmoths, 6 Poplar Hawkmoths 3 Privet Hawkmoths and 2 Pine Hawkmoths last night - especially the latter as we are a long way from pine plantations

MetalMoth · #5 (**permalink**) 13-07-2010, 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by peter2009

5=Shuttle-shaped Dart

Photo five looks more like a Large Yellow Underwing to me. But I am still learning moths so I may be wrong!

MetalMoth · #6 (**permalink**) 13-07-2010, 09:31 PM

Although apologies I can see a photo there which may resemble a Shuttle-shaped Dart - but it is not number five. Hmmm I think the pics have got jumbled up!

ann_miles · #7 (**permalink**) 14-07-2010, 05:17 AM

Sorry folks for the confusion - I should not have attempted so many in one posting - ignore this lot now. I have since posted the remaining unidentified ones and will just do a few at a time for next ID. Maybe I might even only have one or two unidentified next time - have managed just over 100 macro species with help from WAB since I started trapping this year. I am putting them on a blog so I cango back and see what I got last year etc (Moths in a Cambridgeshire Garden)

peter2009 · #8 (**permalink**) 14-07-2010, 08:47 AM

My mistake,that should read number 8

peter2009 · #9 (**permalink**) 14-07-2010, 09:00 AM

5=Large Yellow Underwing
6=Uncertain

MetalMoth · #10 (**permalink**) 14-07-2010, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by ann_miles

Sorry folks for the confusion - I should not have attempted so many in one posting - ignore this lot now. I have since posted the remaining unidentified ones and will just do a few at a time for next ID. Maybe I might even only have one or two unidentified next time - have managed just over 100 macro species with help from WAB since I started trapping this year. I am putting them on a blog so I cango back and see what I got last year etc (Moths in a Cambridgeshire Garden)

No worries. You could do as I have done and simply have one thread of your own for all of your moths to ID. I then post single posts in this thread for the photos I have as I go through them, either to ID them or to just check I am getting them right, as I am new to moths. It saves having multiple threads and also gives you a single thread to check and go back to for reference.