Saturday 8 June 2013

Woodland Trips

With a friend, we ran a couple of traps in two local woodlands last night. It's nice to see that, in spite of my poor garden catches this year, there are at least some moths out there. The total list, which includes a couple of species caught by netting, or seen whilst setting and collecting the traps is as follows:

Phyllonorycter harrisella - 2
Eulia ministrana - 8 (NFY)
Bee Moth - 1
Pebble Hook-tip - 2
Peach Blossom - 1 (NFY)
Clay Triple-lines - 1
Silver-ground Carpet - 2
Small Phoenix - 1
Common Marbled Carpet - 1
Green Carpet - 6
May Highflyer - 3 (Lifer)
Clouded Border - 1
Common Pug - 2
Dingy Shell - 3 (NFY)
Yellow-barred Brindle - 1
Scorched Carpet - 1
Tawny-barred Angle - 1
Peacock Moth - 1 (Lifer)
Brown Silver-line - 15
Scorched Wing - 11
Speckled Yellow - 4 (NFY)
Peppered Moth - 1 (NFY)
Brindled Beauty - 1 (Lifer)
Pale Oak Beauty - 1 (Lifer)
Grey Birch - 2
Common White Wave - 1
Common Wave - 3
Poplar Hawk-moth - 3 (NFY)
Iron Prominent - 2
Great Prominent - 2
Coxcomb Prominent - 3
Marbled Brown - 26
Pale Tussock - 12
Orange Footman - 4
Buff Ermine - 2 (NFY)
White Ermine - 2 (NFY)
Cinnabar - 3
Flame Shoulder - 4
Angle Shades - 1
Treble Lines - 9
Mottled Rustic - 1 (NFY)
Green Silver-lines - 3 (NFY)
Nut-tree Tussock - 9
Burnished Brass - 1 (NFY)

 Burnished Brass
 Buff Ermine
 Clay Triple-lines
 Cinnabar
 Great Prominent
 Pebble Hook-tip
 Peacock Moth
 Peppered Moth
 Treble Lines
 White Ermine

I wont even mention my garden catch for the GMS last night as it was so poor, but I have sessions at two sites new to me on Wednesday and Saturday so fingers crossed for something interesting!

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