Mylor Mothing - part 1/2 (4th June)

I was kindly invited by a group of master students to join them on checking four moth traps they had set up near Mylor in the surrounding fields.  Highlights included Eyed Hawkmoth, Scorched Wing, Treble Lines, The Flame, Green Arches, Broken-barred Carpet, Knot Grass, Mullein Wave, Brown Silver-lines and Willow Beauty.

 Eyed Hawkmoth

 Scorched Wing

 Treble Lines

 The Flame

 Green Arches

 Broken-barred Carpet

 Knot Grass

 Mullein Wave

 Brown Silver-lines

 Willow Beauty

Garden Mothing (4th June)

Tregenver Road Back Garden

1 Common White Wave
2 Common Marbled Carpet
2 Large Yellow Underwing
1 Heart and Dart
1 Nettle Tap

Common White Wave

Nettle Tap

Large Yellow Underwing

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

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

Campus Traps (1st June)

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.

Silver-ground Carpet

Common Marbled Carpet

Scalloped Hazel

Common White Wave

Small Rivulet

Small Square-spot

Middle-barred Minor

Brown Rustic

Herald

Poplar Hawkmoth

Herald