Mega Mad Moths!

blog insects Moths Published June 28, 2012 at 22:30 No Comments

Last night I was able to run my MV Skinner and my Actnic Heath. Conditions were perfect and the results were epic! I trapped 134 moths of 38 species (or 37 depending on your taxonomic view). Out of these 38 species 7 were new records for my garden. Here is the full list (in no particular order); new records are in bold type!

Green Carpet 8
Bordered Straw 9
Heart and Dart 16
Large Yellow Underwing 17
Marbled Minor 3
Middle-barred Minor 1
Silver Ground Carpet 8
Elephant Hawkmoth 3
White Ermine 5
Buff Ermine 8
Flame 6
Flame Shoulder 1
Dark Arches 5
Burnished Brass (juncta) 2
Burnished Brass (aurea) 1
Map-winged Swift
Brimstone Moth 1
Angle Shades 1
Small Angle Shades 3
Iron Prominent 3
Beautiful Golden Y 5
Buff Arches 1
Light Arches 2
Snout 1
Peppered Moth 1
Brown China-mark 1
Garden Grass-veneer 4
Ingrailed Clay 2
Peach Blossom 1
Clouded Silver 1
Common White Wave 1
Small Rivulet 1
Diamond-back Moth 1
Celypha lacunana 1
Spectacle 2
Grey Pug 2
Latticed Heath 1
Common Carpet 3
Mottled Beauty 2

Iron Prominent are gorgeous moths, I was very pleased to see so many in the trap tody.

Iron Prominent

The only new micros were the Common Grass Veneer and the migrant Diamond-back Moth.

Common Grass Veneer

Diamond-back Moth

I was very pleased to see my first Snout; this beaut is under rated!

Snout

The Small Rivulet was a nice bonus also.

Small Rivulet

The strikingly long-legged (and strikingly named) Brown China-mark was and exciting find!

Brown China-mark

Light Arches; although subtle, is a very pretty moth in my opinion!

Light Arches

There is no doubt in my mind that the star moth today, was the simply stunning Buff Arches!

Buff Arches

Many thanks to Les Hill, Angela Evans & Charlie Moores for their ID assistance! Moth traps are on again this evening, I wonder what surprises they will contain in the morning ?!