1st Mothing in my new garden.

[Cordaline]

Finally got around to doing my first trapping in my new garden last week, having moved house 10 days ago. (Still in Bracknell but a couple of miles away from the old house.)

Some of the tree's & shrubs in the immediate locality include:-
Holly, Hornbeam, Beech, Oak, Ash, Common Lime, Silver Birch, Downy Birch, Hawthorn, Peach, Plum, Dogwood, Wiegala & Lilac.

The few days & nights in the run up to the trapping had been very wet indeed. Here are the first results:-

Setacious Hebrew Character x2
Orange Swift x1
Double Striped Pug x1
Rhyacionia pinicolana x1
Maiden's Blush (very worn) x1
Blastobasis adustella x3
Scalloped Oak x1
Grey/Dark Dagger x1
Barred fruit Tree Tortrix x3
Codling Moth x3
Bramble Shoot Tortrix x2
Amblyptilia acanthadactyla x1
Blastobasis lacticolella x1
Agriphyla tristella x2
Light Brown Apple Moth x3
Yellow Shell x4
Lesser Spotted Pinion x1
Chrysoteuchia culmella x2
Willow Beauty x3
Swallow Prominent x1 (Just the head & wings, body missing?!)
Copper Underwing x4
Lesser Broad Bordered Yellow Underwing x4
Riband Wave x1
Pale Mottled Willow x2
Vine's Rustic x2
Shuttled Shaped Dart x2
Common Rustic Agg x4
Common Plume Moth x2

Not bad for a first session, hoping for better results next time out!

[Pete Collins]

That looks like a good list to me, Cordaline. Good luck next time!

[Miss Caretaker]

That's an impressive list compared to mine! What trap do you use?

[peter2009]

Cordaline
What are Common Plume Moth.

peter

[Cordaline]

Originally Posted by Miss Caretaker

That's an impressive list compared to mine! What trap do you use?

Thanks but this list is nothing compared to two trapping session's in my old garden that produced 60 species & 313 moths // 56 species & 403 moths.
Never the less, interesting to get first results in my new place.

I use a Heath trap with a M V lightbulb.
When I can, I trap atleast once a week. It's not adviseable to trap too frequently otherwise you're not getting a true variety because the same one's are likely to return each time.
If you leave atleast 3/4 night's gap between trapping session's you get better results.

[Cordaline]

Originally Posted by peter2009

Cordaline
What are Common Plume Moth.

peter

Hi peter.

This a Common Plume Moth

[Miss Caretaker]

I can only use an actinic as it's very built up here and I have had it going every night for about 4 nights until about midnight - 1am but only for ID experience. The great thing about having just started is that every night I've had a new species to ID which has been quite exciting . Last night was an Orange Swift. It'll have to go away for a while now though as rain is forecast here for the next few nights or more
Hopefully once you get your garden planted the way you want it there will be plenty more moths coming to keep you busy! I look forward to hearing what the difference is this time next year!
Jo

[peter2009]

Ah,you mean Emmelina monodactyla,never heard it called Common Plume.

peter