Samuel Mothing

Saturday, 14 June 2014

Pennance Point: Trap 2 (7th-8th June)

outside trap:

Nothing.

inside trap:

1 ELEPHANT HAWKMOTH!!
1 Buff Ermine
2 White Ermine
1 Flame Shoulder
1 Buff-tip
4 Small Square-spot
3 Middle-barred Minor
1 Purple Clay
2 The Flame
1 Straw Dot
1 Heart and Dart
1 Bright-line Brown-eye
2x micros but escaped

Purple Clay

The Flame

Middle-barred Minor

Bright-line Brown-eye

Elephant Hawkmoth

Straw Dot

Pennance Point: Trap 1 (7th-8th June)

Two traps set on the SE facing grassy slopes of Pennance Point below the golf course facing out to sea.

mothing at Pennance Point

1st Trap:

outside trap:

1 Buff Ermine
1 White Ermine
1 Shuttle-shaped Dart
1 hawkmoth sp visited briefly but did not enter trap

inside trap:

1 Light Emerald
1 Buff-tip
1 Brimstone Moth
1 Scalloped Hazel
1 Mottled Beauty
1 Lychnis
3 Middle-barred Minor
2 Peppered Moth (pale)
1 Small Square-spot
2 Pale Tussock
1 Treble Lines
1 The Flame
1 Ingrailed Clay
1 Buff Ermine
1 Dark Sword Grass
1 Green Arches
1 Clouded-bordered Brindle
1 Foxglove Pug
1 Cockchafer

Mottled Beauty

Shuttle-shaped Dart

Brimstone Moth

Foxglove Pug

Lychnis

Peppered Moth (pale)

Middle-barred Minor

Ingrailed Clay

Clouded-bordered Brindle

Pale Tussock

Dark Sword-grass

Light Emerald

Garden Mothing (5th June)

Tregenver Road Back Garden

very very poor catch. Only:

1 Heart and Dart
1 lacewing sp.

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

Highlights continued... L-album Wainscot, Buff Aches, Lychnis, Buff Ermine, Purple Bar, Light Emerald, Marbled Minor agg., Udea olivalis, Buff-tip and Spectacle.

L-album Wainscot

Buff Aches

Lychnis

Buff Ermine

Purple Bar

Light Emerald

Marbled Minor agg.

Udea olivalis

Buff-tip

Spectacle

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.