KL Garden Mothing (22nd June)

outside trap:

2 Light Emerald
1 Buff-tip
1 Brimstone Moth
1 Clouded Silver
1 Straw Dot
1 tortrix sp.
inside trap:

1 Treble Brown Spot
1 Dark Arches
1 Fan-foot
2 Light Emerald
1 Green Pug
1 Spectacle
3 Beautiful Hook-tip
1 Maiden's Blush
1 Buff Ermine
1 Common Marbled Carpet
2 Double Square-spot
2 Heart and Dart
4 Heart and Club
1 Bright-line Brown-eye
1 wainscot sp.2 Light-barred Fruit-tree Tortrix
2 Bee Moth
3 Small Magpie
2 Red-barred Tortrix
1 Pseudargyrotoza conwagana
1 Chrysoteuchia culmella
1 unIDed pug sp.

Treble Brown Spot

 

Maiden's Blush

 Red-barred Tortrix

 

 pug sp.

 Pseudargyrotoza conwagana

Chrysoteuchia culmella

 unIDed micro

Herts Garden Mothing - part 3/3 (21st June)

micros inside the trap:

1 Lozotaenia forsterana
1 Chrysoteuchia culmella
1 Red-barred Tortrix
1 Bee Moth
1 Marbled Minor agg.
numerous unIDed micros

Green Oak Tortrix

 unIDed

 Lozotaenia forsterana

 Crambidae sp.?

 Chrysoteuchia culmella

 Red-barred Tortrix

Herts Garden Mothing - part 2/3 (21st June)

inside trap:

1 Common White Wave
4 Small Magpie
3 Beautiful Hook-tip
1 Smoky Wainscot
1 Clouded Brindle
6 Heart and Dart
1 Common Footman
2 Mottled Beauty
5 The Flame
2 Heart and Club
1 Ingrailed Clay
1 Small Fan-foot
4 Fan-foot
1 Spectacle
1 Buff Ermine
2 Double Square-spot
1 Bright-line Brown-eye
2 Green Pug

 

Smoky Wainscot

 Fan-foot

 Small Fan-foot

 Marbled Minor agg.

 Ingrailed Clay

 Clouded Brindle

 Beautiful Hook-tip

 Least Carpet

Herts Garden Mothing - part 1/3 (21st June)

Moved the moth trao a little closer to the weedy patch in the corner of teh garden that borders the common and was rewarded with a substancially more quantity and diversity.

Came round to checking the catch at 5:30am.

outside trap:

1 Small Magpie
1 Clouded Silver
1 Cinnabar
1 Riband Wave
1 Least Carpet
1 Bramble-shoot Moth
numerous unIDed micros (still trying to improve in this area but I'll be slow catching up)

 Bramble-shoot Moth

 Riband Wave

 Cinnabar

Herts Garden Mothing (20th June)

I cashed out on my very own portable heath trap recently and was delighted to have the opportunity to set it up in my Kings Langley garden in Hertfordshire after I returned home for the holidays.  I'm situated next to the common which includes a fair amount of woodland (mostly oaks) and on the periphery there is some bramble, weeds and bindweed, all in all decent habitat for a variety of moths.

outside trap:

2 Common Footman
2 Small Magpie
1 unIDed micro

Common Footman

unIDed

inside trap:

5 Small Magpie
3 Mottled Beauty
1 Middle-barred Minor
2 Double-spot Clay
3 Heart and Dart
1 Heart and Club
1 Uncertain/Rustic?

Mottled Beauty

Heart and Club

Double Square-spot

 

unIDed micro

Light Brown Apple Moth

Uncertain/Rustic?

Photographed this particular Small Magpie the night before, found by Ephraim in the garage.

Small Magpie

Mothing Dan's Fields - Trap 3 (15th June)

outside trap:

4 White Ermine
13 Middle-barred Minor
1 Clouded Border
5 Clouded Silver
1 Heart and Dart
1 Brimstone Moth
1 Buff Ermine
1 Brown Silver-line
2 Small Square-spot
1 Cockchafer

 Brown Silver-line

Marbled White Spot

inside trap:

1 Dusky Brocade
21 Middle-barred Minor
2 Heart and Dart
4 Small Square-spot
1 Common Marbled Carpet
1 Silver-ground Carpet
2 Flame Shoulder
2 White Ermine
1 Willow Beauty
1 Snout
1 Foxglove Pug
1 Buff Ermine
3 Pale-shouldered Brocade
1 Riband Wave
1 Clouded Silver
1 Cockchafer

 Willow Beauty

 Pale-shouldered Brocade

 Riband Wave

 

Dusky Brocade

Marbled Minor agg.

 micro moth sp.

Rather stupidly didn't note down which trap this Elephant Hawkmoth was in, at least you can understand why I was distracted.

 Elephant Hawkmoth

Mothing Dan's Fields - Trap 2 (15th June)

outside trap:

4 Buff Ermine
2 Peppered Moth (pale)
4 White Ermine
1 Peach Blossom
1 Pale Tussock
1 Heart and Dart
1 Common White Wave
1 Clouded Silver
1 Straw Dot
1 Silver-ground Carpet
1 Buff-tip
1 Green Pug
1 Willow Beauty
1 Middle-barred Minor
1 minor agg.

inside trap:

2 Treble-lines
13 Middle-barred Minor
1 Straw Dot
2 White Ermine
3 The Flame
2 Large Yellow Underwing
6 Heart and Dart
2 Buff Ermine
1 Peppered Moth (pale)
1 Small Angle Shades
2 Dark Arches
1 Pale-shouldered Brocade
1 Flame Shoulder
1 Straw Dot
1 Dot Moth
2 Common Swift
1 Small Square-spot
1 Double Square-spot
1 Broad-barred White
2 Udea olivalis
1 Marbled Minor agg.
1 Tawny Marbled Minor agg.
1 Rufous Minor agg.

Dark Arches

Common Swift

Dot Moth

Double Square-spot

Broom Moth

Ingrailed Clay

Broad-barred White

Udea olivalis

Marbled Minor agg.

Marbled Minor agg.

Marbled Minor agg.

Marbled Minor agg.