The Natural Stone: Damp Mothing

Saturday, June 25, 2005

Damp Mothing

Last night was cooler, damp and drizzly in comparison with the recent sticky conditions. So it was more out of curiosity about how much less there would be to see in the morning that I put a trap out. In the end it was quite a good catch with a few year firsts and my first ever Small Angle Shades (not an uncommon moth but still new to me).

65 moths of 32 species
0647 Brown House-moth (Hofmannophila pseudospretella), 1
0970 Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix (Pandemis cerasana), 1
0980 Variegated Golden Tortrix (Archips xylosteana), 1
1016x Cnephasia sp., 1
1033 Green Oak Tortrix (Tortrix viridana), 1
1293 Garden Grass-veneer (Chrysoteuchia culmella), 8
1304 Agriphila straminella, 1
1344 Eudonia mercurella, 1
1392 Udea olivalis, 2
1713 Riband Wave (Idaea aversata), 3
1758 Barred Straw (Eulithis pyraliata), 1
1931 Peppered Moth (Biston betularia), 1
1937 Willow Beauty (Peribatodes rhomboidaria) f.perfumaria, 1
1961 Light Emerald (Campaea margaritata), 1
2050 Common Footman (Eilema lurideola), 1
2061 Buff Ermine (Spilosoma lubricipeda), 1
2089 Heart & Dart (Agrotis exclamationis), 8
2098 The Flame (Axylia putris), 8
2107 Large Yellow Underwing (Noctua pronuba), 1
2126 Setaceous Hebrew Character (Xestia c-nigrum), 1
2160 Bright-line Brown-eye (Lacanobia oleracea), 1
2199 Common Wainscot (Mythimna pallens), 1
2302 Brown Rustic (Rusina ferruginea), 1
2305 Small Angle Shades (Euplexia lucipara), 1
2321 Dark Arches (Apamea monoglypha), 3
2333 Large Nutmeg (Apamea anceps), 3
2337x Marbled Minor agg. (Oligia strigilis agg.), 6
2340 Middle-barred Minor (Oligia fasciuncula), 1
2380 Treble Lines (Charanyca trigrammica), 2
2381 The Uncertain (Hoplodrina alsines), 1
2450 The Spectacle (Abrostola tripartita), 2
Ophion sp. (an ichneumon fly) 1

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Small Angle Shades (Euplexia lucipara)