West Hallam

Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet

Shaded Broad-bar

Latticed Heath

Clover-case Bearer

Latticed Heath(more gold than white!)

Blackneck

I had a few hours to spare this afternoon so I took the wife and dogs back to the site in West Hallam where I found several Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet last Sunday, I saw a lot of butterflies and plenty of grasshoppers and in about 90 minutes 47 moths. It was very windy so using the net was quite a task but I did ok and got one of every different species I saw...I will be going back there as soon as possible as it's quite a large site and I only covered a small section of it.

8 Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet
3 Crambus lathoniellus
1 Straw Dot
12 Celypha lacunana
1 Blackneck
10 Latticed Heath
1 Clover-case Bearer
4 Snout
1 Pseudargyrotoza conwagana
6 Shaded Broad-bar(ID thanks Noggin)

2 micros and a Scarce Footman

Pseudargyrotoza conwagana

Carcina quercana

Scarce Footman

Common Footman

Quite a few moths but only these 3 were new

1 Pseudargyrotoza conwagana(NFG)
1 Carcina quercana(NFG)(ID thanks Andy 'Mullmoths')
1 Scarce Footman(NFY)

Yay!!....it's raining!!!

Blackneck

??? micro #1

??? micro # 2

Gold Spot

Common Footman

Poplar Grey

Dot Moth

Lime Speck Pug

Last year when it rained I didn't trap for obvious reasons but this year the rain hasn't stopped me in fact I would say it has helped!, as mentioned in previous posts I place the MBT/funnel trap just inside the back door and the moths seem to be looking for refuge so they fly into the trap by the dozen. Last night was no exception with 131 moths of  48 different species and no less than 6 NFY and 3 NFG....all I have to do now is work out what they all are.

NFG

Blackneck
??? micro #1(Lozotaeniodes formosanus?)
??? micro #2

NFY

Gold Spot
Poplar Grey
Dot Moth
Common Footman
Lime Speck Pug
Common Rustic(no photo)

Only 1 newbie!

Blood Vein

53 different species in the trap but only the Blood Vein was NFY this time, I got a few photos of the Lime Hawk caterpillars most of which seem to be doing well...only time will tell.

A few more

Large Tabby

Phycitodes binaevella

Scalloped Oak

Small Blood-vein

Another busy night and a few more newbies....

1 Large Tabby(NFG)(ID thanks Ben)
1 Phycitodes binaevella(NFG)(ID thanks Ben)
2 Scalloped Oak(NFY)
2 Small Blood-vein(NFY)

Rain rain....come again!!

Clouded Border

Varied Coronet

Bird Cherry Ermine

Orchard Ermine

??? Macro

Lesser Yellow Underwing

I discovered a few months back that when it rains if I place the MBT/funnel trap inside the kitchen door the moths fly in to escape the rain...tonight was forecast for showers at 1am but they started just before 10pm so out came the MBT and it didn't let me down with a haul of 85 moths including what looks to be a Varied Coronet which is a rarity in Derbyshire.
 The trap was on from 10:10pm till 3:30am

1 Clouded Border(NFG)
1 Varied Coronet(NFG)(very rare round here!!!)
1 Bird Cherry Ermine(NFG)
1 Orchard Ermine(NFY)
1 ??? macro(NFG)(Confused or maybe Lychnis?)
1 Lesser Yellow Underwing(NFY)
1 Sycamore
1 Miller
1 Small Angle Shades
2 Buff Arches
3 Dark Arches
4 Willow Beauty
3 Brimstone
3 Common Marbled Carpet
9 Riband Wave
2 Common Wave
17 Heart + Dart
11 Uncertain
5  Marbled Minor
1 Tawny Marbled Minor
3 Scoparia Ambigualis
6 Crambus lathoniellus
3 Light Brown Apple Moth
1 Common Wainscot
3 Bee Moth

Another 6 new ones

Dingy Shell

Brown China-mark

Small Yellow Wave

Single Dotted Wave

Orthopygia glaucinalis

??? micro

A clear sky, a fairly strong wind and a reasonably full moon but that didn't seem to bother the moths last night and I got 5 more NFG and 1 more NFY

1 Dingy Shell(?)(NFG)
1 Brown China-mark(NFG)
1 Small Yellow Wave(NFG)
1 Single Dotted Wave(NFG)
1 Orthopygia glaucinalis(NFY)
1 ??? micro(NFG)