Samuel Mothing

Saturday, 14 June 2014

Garden Mothing (3rd June)

Tregenver Road Back Garden

1 Common Marbled Carpet

1 Garden Carpet

3 Heart and Dart

1 Scalloped Hazel

1 Setaceous Hebrew Character

1 Common Pug

1 white wave sp. (probably Common White Wave)

Garden Carpet

Scalloped Hazel

Setaceous Hebrew Character

Common Pug

Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Garden Mothing (2nd June)

Tregenver Road Back Garden

4 Heart and Dart
2 Common Marbled Carpet
1 Bee Moth
1 Tachystola acroxantha
1 unIDed pug
1 unIDed Coleophora sp.

Heart and Dart

Tachystola acroxantha

pug sp.

Bee Moth

Unfortunately all four moth traps which I set up around campus had insufficient battery left over so none lasted the night, ah well.

Trap 1 (long grass meadow by wooden board walk at the bottom of campus):

outside trap:

1 Celypha lacunana
1 Cockchafer

inside trap:

3 Heart and Dart
1 Herald
1 Small Square-spot
1 Clouded-bordered Brindle
1 Aethes cnicana
1 carpet sp.
1 unIDed micro sp.

Trap 2 (also in long grass meadow by wooden board walk at the bottom of campus):

outside trap:

1 Common Marbled Carpet
1 Cockchafer

inside trap:

1 Flame Shoulder
1 micro moth sp.

Trap 3 (in Lime avenue):

absolutely nothing

Trap 4 (also in the Lime avenue):

outside trap:

nothing

inside trap:

1 Green Arches

Celypha lacunana

Aethes cnicana

Herald

Clouded-bordered Brindle

Common Marbled Carpet

Flame Shoulder

Green Arches

Back Garden Mothing (1st June)

Tregenver Road Back Garden

My first ever mothing session in my Falmouth back garden!

4 Heart and Dart
1 Small Pheonix
1 Common Marbled Carpet
1 Tachystola acroxantha

Small Pheonix

Heart and Dart

Common Marbled Carpet

Dan's Fields (31st May)

Catch included:

3 Straw Dot
1 Clouded Silver
3 Common White Wave
1 Poplar Hawkmoth
2 White Ermine
1 Scalloped Hazel
3 Silver-ground Carpet
1 Small Rivulet
2 Common Marbled Carpet
1 Middle-barred Minor
6 Small Square-spot
1 Brown Rustic
1 Herald
1 minor sp.