Monday 21 June 2010

At least 5 NFG

Barred Yellow

Light Emerald

Meal Moth

Red Barred Tortrix

Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix

?? #1 micro

?? #2 macro

Pale Shouldered Brocade
20/6
It stayed at 12c, it got cloudy and the moon had gone by midnight so a busy nights trapping followed....shame it was the second shortest night of the year!. So many new species and I can't ID all of them yet so if anyone can give me some clues please do.
 The trap was out from 10:10pm till 3:20am

1 Barred Yellow(NFG)
1 Light Emerald(NFG)
1 Red Barred Tortrix(NFG)
1 Meal Moth(NFG)(ID thanks Matt)
1 Barred Fruit -Tree Tortrix(NFG)
1 ?? #1 micro(NFG)?
1 ?? #2 macro(NFG)?(could be Ingrailed Clay var or Brocade?)
1Pale Shouldered Brocade
3 Dark Arches
1 Elephant Hawk
21 Heart + Dart
4 Marbled Minor
9 Crambus lathoniellus
9 Light Brown Apple Moth
3 Plum Tortrix
2 Brimstone
6 Willow Beauty
1 Scorched Wing
1 Small Magpie
2 Straw Dot
2 Bee Moth
2 Small Dusty Wave
1 LYU
1 Silver-Y
1 Buff Ermine
1 Freyer's Pug
1 Foxglove Pug
6 Uncertain
2 Middle Barred Minor
3 A acanthadactyla
1 Udea Olivalis
2 Bright-line Brown-eye
1 Spectacle
1 Small Fan-foot
2 Common Marbled Carpet
1 Rustic Shoulder Knot
2 Scoparia ambigualis
5 Chrysoteuchia culmella

I also got several badly worn macros and half a dozen washed out Pugs!

3 comments:

  1. Hi Ian,

    Your Northern Spinach looks very much like a micro called a Meal moth #1417. I trapped 1 last year........I can't help you with your macros.

    Matt

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  2. Thanks Matt, you're right!!

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  3. Hi Ian

    Great catch! the Red-barred Tortrix is lovely.

    ?? #1 micro Argyresthia species?
    ?? #2 macro is a Rustic Shoulder-knot
    ?? #3 macro is a Clouded Brindle

    All the best.

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