Ten for ID please

[Pete Collins]

I had a fantastic result with my trap last night, far more species than I've ever had before including 12 that were new to me plus two more that were new to the garden.

I still need a lot of help with ID's though - these ten are just the first batch!

1 Which carpet?

2 Common Rustic?

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10 Some time of small ermine?

Thanks very much!

[Adam Cheeseman]

Right, here goes.

1 Red-twin-spot Carpet?
2 Common Rustic agg.
3 Flounced Rustic?
4 Common Rustic agg.
5 Rustic
6 Least Yellow Underwing?
7 Rustic?
8 Lunar-spotted Pinion
9 Eudonia mercurella?
10 Bird-cherry Ermine

Cheers,

Adam

[Pete Collins]

Thanks very much Adam!

I thought 1 was probably a Red Twin-spot Carpet as I had another couple of them in the trap, but they were more clearly reddish than this one.

[Deb London]

Originally Posted by Pete Collins

1 Which carpet?

Originally Posted by Pete Collins

I thought 1 was probably a Red Twin-spot Carpet as I had another couple of them in the trap, but they were more clearly reddish than this one.

Strange one, isn't it? I wouldn't have recognised it by comparison with the one I spotted at Bison Hill (which was a very stunning creature, even if I do say so myself).



No idea if it is or it isn't. But if it is, it's certainly different.

[Pete Collins]

Originally Posted by Deb London

Strange one, isn't it? I wouldn't have recognised it by comparison with the one I spotted at Bison Hill (which was a very stunning creature, even if I do say so myself).



No idea if it is or it isn't. But if it is, it's certainly different.

Your one is definitely far more striking than the ones I had in my trap!

I don't have my moth book to hand, but I seem to remember that it implied they didn't always appear obviously reddish.