tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17811459390054948932024-03-12T19:35:25.987-07:00South Bucks MothsDavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.comBlogger106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-3925316213444321652016-07-27T03:26:00.000-07:002016-07-27T03:26:01.387-07:00Moths at workI left my traps at the site at which I occasionally work over the last couple of nights; one in a small copse surrounded by fields, and the other on a woodland/chalk grassland boundary.<br />
Due to the weather this morning (=wet) quite a few things got away before I could get a decent look or even get a photo. I have recorded at least 116 species, plus a few in pots still to look at; new for my year list were <b>Dingy Footman</b>, <b>Tree Lichen Beauty</b> (below), <i><b>Ypsolopha scabrella</b></i>, <b>Dun-bar</b>, <b>Ruby Tiger</b>, <b>Gold Triangle</b>, <b>Buff Footman</b>, <b>Scalloped Oak</b>, <b>Mother of Pearl</b>, <b>Dingy Shell</b>, <b>Dark Spectacle</b>, <i><b>Batis lunaris</b></i>, <b>Cloaked Minor</b>, <b>Small Waved Umber</b>, <b>September Thorn</b>, <b>Grass Rivulet</b>, <b>Brown-line Bright-eye</b>, <b>Purple Thorn</b>, <b>Bordered Pug</b>, <b>Ear Moth</b>,<b> Brown Plume</b>, <i><b>Aethes cnicana</b></i> and <b>Clouded Brindle</b>.<br />
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<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-26187429453360787612016-07-18T00:39:00.001-07:002016-07-18T00:39:14.893-07:00A new moth for the world...Found a chrysalis in the garden the other day whilst cutting back some ivy. Today was born a new moth for the world.<br />
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Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-57821594212833351462016-07-07T09:28:00.002-07:002016-07-07T11:13:26.308-07:00A lot of moths, for a change!After a week away in Wales (yes, mothing was included) and some very disappointing garden mothing, I left a couple of lights at my occasional place of work last night.<br />
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I was inundated with little brown jobs - I have a lot of things in pots now, so hopefully I will be able to add to my list and site records, but that is going to be in the future.<br />
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Meanwhile, my second-ever <b>Leopard Moth</b> was the highlight at the actinic light on a chalk meadow, with <b>Scarce</b> and <b>Common Footman</b> and <b>Bird's Wing</b> also new for the year list.<br />
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The MV light on a woodland edge added <b>Swallow-tailed Moth</b>, <b>Dingy Footman</b>, <b>Smoky Wainscot</b>, <i><b>Eucosma cana</b></i>, <i><b>Notocelia uddmanniana</b></i>, <b>Clay</b> and <b>Pretty Chalk Carpet</b>.<br />
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<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-7136630762918568062016-06-11T07:41:00.001-07:002016-06-11T07:41:13.365-07:00Moth Night EventThis morning I helped out in a small way with a Butterfly Conservation / Moth Night event for the public at the local BBOWT reserve, College Lake.<br />
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There are one or two micros that are still to be identified, but a good selection of moths, both brown and colourful, were available to interest the visitors.<br />
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This years Moth Night "theme" was Hawk Moths, and for once, the catch was well matched, with Privet, Poplar, Lime, Elephant, Small Elephant and Pine all available (the last named flew off before the ensemble could be completed).<br />
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New for my year list were <b>Ghost Moth</b>, <b>Swallow Prominent</b>, <b>Broom Moth</b>, <b>Burnished Brass</b>, <b>Flame</b>, <b>Flame Shoulder</b>, <b>Brown Rustic</b>, <b>Marbled Coronet</b>, <b>Dark Arches</b>, <b>Shaded Pug</b>, <b>Puss Moth</b> (a lifer!), <b>Shark</b> (also a lifer!), <b>Lobster Moth</b>, <b>Bordered Pug</b>, <b>Figure of 80</b>, <b>Obscure Wainscot</b>, <b>Grass Rivulet</b> and <b>White Point </b>- plus a bunch of micros...<br />
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<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-83913651675528725422016-06-04T03:57:00.001-07:002016-06-04T11:00:44.156-07:00This Week's MothsMy weekly 6W trap in the woods caught 25 moths of 13 species. 13 of these moths were <b><i>Scoparia ambigulis</i></b>, but the rest included a handful of new-for-year species including <b>Common Swift</b>, <b>Diamond-back Moth</b> (just the one in spite of what I understand is a massive fall over the last couple of nights) and <b>Maiden's Blush</b>.<br />
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My 15w garden trap last night did even better with 21 species (although still 25 moths due to just the one Scoparia). New for the year were <b>Small Elephant Hawk-moth</b>, <b>Currant Pug</b>, <b>Heart & Dart</b>, a dark form of <b>Marbled Minor</b> agg., <b><i> </i></b><b>Willow Beauty</b>,<b><i> Epinotia bilulana</i></b> and <i><b>Notocelia cynosbatella</b></i>.<br />
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<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-166704945496649082016-05-26T09:32:00.000-07:002016-05-26T09:33:00.709-07:00Woods and GardensWell, one of each really. Even so, worth making a post as I managed to attract a few new for year moths last night, with the 6W woodland trap and 15W garden trap.<br />
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The species in question included from the woods <b>Pebble Prominent</b>, <b>Treble Lines</b> (both traps), <b>Tawny-barred Angle</b>, <b>Pale Oak Beauty</b>, <b>Common White Wave</b>, <b>Common Wave</b>, <b>Orange Footman</b> and <b>Brown Silver-line</b>.<br />
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The garden added <b>Mottled Pug</b> to the year list. Also the first Yellow-barred Brindle and Flame Carpet for the garden year.<br />
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No pics, though, due to "camera issues".Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-70169289668542280932016-05-12T00:47:00.001-07:002016-05-12T00:47:55.915-07:00A great night...Ran a regular 6W heath trap in a local woodland for the garden moth scheme last night. There were 20 moths of 12 species, inlcuding 4 Great Prominents. (Also new for the year list were Scoparia ambigualis and Green Silver-lines).<br />
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<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-32855774656205626012016-05-07T09:14:00.004-07:002016-05-07T09:14:55.377-07:00Garden's picking up!After 4 weeks of nothing in my garden trap, last night after a couple of warm days and nights, my GMS catch yielded a couple new-for-year and a few new-for-garden-year:<br />
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Most of the moths weren't actually in the trap, rather on the perspex and the wood, but they still count. Plus the few that I saw on my late-night check, but that had disappeared by the morning.<br />
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Clay Triple-lines (NFY)<br />
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There's a very active Long-tailed Tit nest very close to my trap. No evidence that they're eating any moths, but I have seen potential future-moths disappearing inside!Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-17852236104142411032016-05-04T10:49:00.005-07:002016-05-04T10:49:58.505-07:00First Trip of the Year!My first proper (ie not in the garden) trip of the year took place on Sunday night; the weather forecast showing overcast all night with a minimum of 9C (10C warmer than the previous night).<br />
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With two accomplices, we set up a range of MV, actinic and UV bulbs in an area containing scrubby woodland, old buildings and a bit of chalk grassland.<br />
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At the start of the evening we saw more bats than moths, although if there are bats, they must be feeding on something, so we hung on as the drizzle increased. There were moths, and we recorded 19 species before leaving at 11, all but one of the traps left on site until the morning.<br />
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Returning at 7:30, we were vindicated in the decision to leave traps as it was apparent there had been a lot more late night activity, as the traps revealed 83 moths of 34 species.<br />
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The largest number of individuals of any species was <b>Clouded Drab</b> (15) and there were a handful of <b>Common Quakers</b> and <b>Hebrew Characters</b> hanging on, but the warm weather had definitely encouraged emergences as there were some lovely fresh specimens, including <b><i>Grapholita jungiella</i></b>, <b>Oak-tree Pug</b>, <b>Peppered Moth</b>, <b>Lesser Swallow Prominent</b> and <b>Streamer</b>.<br />
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This is the start of my 3rd season trapping at this particular site, and yet there were 5 new species for the site list, including <b>V Pug</b> and <b><i>Semioscopis steinkellneriana</i></b>.<br />
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<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-23824593847724080892016-04-24T07:11:00.000-07:002016-04-24T07:11:06.855-07:002015 Round-upI can't say that 2015 has been the best year in my short mothing career; the garden catch was well down on the previous year numbers-wise, albeit with a handful more species. Two of these, though, were lifers in the form of <i><b>Tachystola acroxantha</b></i> and <b>Slender Pug</b>.<br />
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I concentrated my trapping at the Chiltern Open Air Museum this year, in conjunction with two others. Over two years, the site list stands at 402 species. I did track down 2 sets of records for the site from the mid-1990s, but there was nothing on the list that we haven't seen since. 15 species were lifers, although all micros identified through dissection. I was pleased at the end of the year to catch a <b>Merville du Jour</b> on the site, only the second on my life-list!<br />
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At my other regular site at the Chiltern Woodland Burial Park we run a 6W heath trap for the GMS scheme. Sadly, it has not been possible to run any other traps during the year, which means the year-on-year list is down somewhat, although it was nice to continue to see <b>Red-necked Footman,</b> and to add <b>Red Chestnut </b>and <b>Grey Shoulder-knot</b> to my life list (the latter was attracted to a window rather than the trap!).<br />
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The rest of my moth sightings resulted from attending trapping events run my the Buckinghamshire Invertebrate Group, which is a great way of meeting other moth-ers and getting access to interesting sites! Stoke Common (a rare bit of heathland in South Bucks) was most productive as far as the life-list is concerned, with <b>Grass Wave</b>, <b>Pale-shouldered Brocade</b> and <b>Common Heath</b> as far as macros are concerned.<br />
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<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-37999126169486236432015-06-05T06:07:00.000-07:002015-06-05T06:07:21.635-07:00Slightly disappointing last week...There had been a planned trapping session on a local heathland - yes, there is some in South Bucks - on Saturday night, but after a week of warm and dry, the weather decided to produce all it's saved up rain and wind, so the session was called off.<br />
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However, we had still managed to visit the heathland in the day, and the micro moth list comprised <i>Cydia ulicetana</i>, <i><b>Glyphipterix thrasonella</b></i>, <i><b>Ancylis uncella</b></i>, <i><b>Bactra lancealana</b></i> and <i><b>Phylloporia bistrigella</b></i> with <b>Common Heath</b>, <b>Light Brocade</b>, Brown Silver-line and Common Wave fulfilling the macro list.<br />
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The weekly 6w woodland heath trap was actually run twice this week, having missed out the previous week. The new-for-year species were <b><i>Eulia ministrana</i></b>, <b>Pebble Hook-tip</b>, <b>Tawny-barred Angle</b>, <b>Muslin Moth</b> and <b>Green Silver-lines</b>. Also on the site were newly-emerged examples of <b>Red-necked Footman</b> and <b>Cinnabar</b>.<br />
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The garden trap was poorly populated, with <b><i>Mompha subbistrigella </i></b>and <b>Maiden's Blush</b> being the only two new ones.<br />
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Also found was the larval case of <b><i>Psyche casta</i></b> on a Deadly Nightshade leaf.<br />
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My garden actinic did rather better over a couple of nights, mainly because of far more conducive conditions. The year list was boosted by <b>White-shouldered House Moth</b>, <b><i>Epinotia immundana</i></b>, <b><i>Notocelia cynosbatella</i></b>, <b>Oak Hook-tip</b>, <b>Chinese Character</b>, <b>Common Marbled Carpet</b>, <b>White-spotted Pug</b>, <b>Heart & Dart</b>, <b>Shuttle-shaped Dart </b>and a brace of <b>Treble Lines</b>.<br />
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Also randomly in the car was an <b><i>Argyresthia goedartella</i></b> and whilst out on a walk to the pub, <b><i>Alabonia geoffrella</i></b>.Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-74181563922322906052015-05-09T06:40:00.002-07:002015-05-09T06:40:57.142-07:00My week in moths...No trips out this week, so not much to report, although at least my GMS catch last night were all new species for my year list...<br />
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<b>Light Brown Apple Moth</b>, <b>Yellow-barred Brindle</b>, <b>Scorched Carpet</b>, <b>Scalloped Hazel</b>, <b>Common Pug</b> and <b>Purple Thorn</b>.<br />
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I have seen quite a few micros flying around in the daytime, mostly when I don't have a net with me, but at least a couple of not-in-the-garden moths were <i>Gracillaria syringella</i> (not new for the year list, this was called <i>Caloptilia</i> last year...) and <b><i>Elachista rufocinerea</i></b>.<br />
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I'm hoping to have one away trip this week...Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-19382036256983457392015-05-03T09:32:00.001-07:002015-05-03T09:32:35.529-07:00Some year ticks at least...A light on Tuesday gave me my first ever <b>Frosted Green</b> for the garden, together with Brindled and Double-striped Pugs, Hebrew Character and Streamer. During the same day, <b><i>Adela reaumurella</i></b> and <b><i>Caloptilia syringella</i></b> - which seems to have changed it's name to Gracillaria syringella - were also year firsts.<br />
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A handful of lights on a very cold very clear - but at least rain and wind free - night in a regular woodland site added <b>Waved Umber</b>, <b>Swallow Prominent</b> and <b><i>Acleris cristana</i></b> for the year.<br />
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As the flying moths were so few, we looked around for other stuff; cocoons of <b><i>Buccalatrix thoracella</i></b> on Lime, adult <b>Horse Chestnut Leaf-miner </b>(<b><i>Cameraria ohridella</i></b>) present on a Horse Chestnut (oh dear), mines of one of the <b><i>Psychoides</i></b> species on Hart's Tongue (no larvae visible) and the chrysalis of presumably an <b><i>Endothenia</i></b> species inside a teasel head, which I have retained to hopefully hatch. We also found the larval case of what we believe to be <b><i>Taleporia tubulosa</i></b>, a "bagworm".<br />
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A daytime trip on Saturday found a few micros; <b><i>Incurvaria pectinea</i></b>, <b><i>Incurvaria masculella</i></b>, <b><i>Nematopogon swammerdamella</i></b>, <b><i>Grapholita jungiella</i></b> and <b><i>Cydia succedana</i></b> were new for the year.<br />
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An evening session on the same site, which only lasted an hour or so due to the early onset of rain, added <b><i>Semioscopis steinkellneriana</i></b> (also a lifer for me), <b>Common Wave</b>, <b>Scalloped Hook-tip</b>, <b>Brown Silver-line</b>, <b>Red Twin-spot Carpet</b>, <b>V-Pug</b>, <b>Pebble Prominent </b>and <b>Knot Grass</b>.<br />
<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-81974607958652583632015-04-25T07:51:00.002-07:002015-04-25T07:51:56.820-07:00A quiet week...The nights have been either very cold or very wet this week, so not too many moths making an appearance.<br />
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I have been treated to <b>Brown House Moth </b>and <b>Case-bearing Clothes Moth</b> indoors this week :(<br />
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The garden trap has been on twice, with a total score of Lunar Marbled Brown (only the second in 4 years), Clouded Drab, Common Quaker, Hebrew Character and Amblyptilia acanthadactyla.<br />
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The 6W woodland trap only got 2 Nut-tree Tussocks and an Engrailed.<br />
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Next week looks like it's going to be more of the same; I do have two big trips in the diary, but they may both be rained off :(Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-26508071175466681092015-04-18T04:27:00.001-07:002015-04-18T04:27:08.859-07:00This weeks mothing.My usual sites were explored this week; still a bit cold at night with the clear skies, and the wind hasn't helped but quite a few new species for the year list (these in bold). The numbers are across all sites.<br />
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<b>Lunar Marbled Brown</b> - 6<br />
Hebrew Character - 16<br />
Chestnut - 5<br />
<b><i>Eriocrania subpurpurella</i></b> - 10+<br />
Twin-spotted Quaker - 2<br />
Common Quaker - 16<br />
<b>Brindled Pug</b> - 4<br />
<b>Water Carpet</b> - 4<br />
<b>Brimstone</b> - 1<br />
Clouded Drab - 4<br />
Streamer - 1<br />
<b>Frosted Green</b> - 12<br />
<b>Lesser Swallow Prominent </b>- 1<br />
Small Quaker - 2<br />
Pine Beauty - 1<br />
<b>Early Thorn</b> - 1<br />
<b>Brindled Beauty</b> - 2<br />
Nut-tree Tussock - 2<br />
<b>Powdered Quaker</b> - 1<br />
Double-striped Pug - 2<br />
Engrailed - 1<br />
Early Grey - 1<br />
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Also an <i>Endocrania</i> sp. that has been "sent off" for id, something in the <i>Olethreutinae</i> part of the spectrum (if it can be id'd from a photo), the larva of one of the <i>Endothenia</i> sp. in a teasel head, and come larval cases of <i>Colephora laricella</i>.<br />
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Powdered Quaker</div>
<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-70927504448908481202015-04-11T10:11:00.002-07:002015-04-11T10:11:46.627-07:00My week in mothsWell, spring definitely seems to have arrived - at last - in South Bucks. The days have warmed up, although there have still been frosts at night.<br />
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I've run 4 traps, one in a parkland setting, 2 in the garden and one in a woodland.<br />
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Not a vast amount of moths, but at least there were new ones on each night for my year list.<br />
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<b>Common Quaker </b>and <b>Hebrew Character</b> were the most-caught, with 11 and 19 respectively across the sites.<br />
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The new species were <b>Red Chestnut</b> (in fact, a lifer for me), <b>Double-striped Pug</b>, <b><i>Agonopterix ocellana</i></b>, <b>Streamer</b> and <b>Pine Beauty</b> (only the second ever in the garden).<br />
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Also appearing were <b>Small Quaker</b>, <b>Early Grey</b>, <b>Engrailed</b>, <b>Oak Beauty</b>, <b>Clouded Drab</b>, <b><i>Emmelina monodactyla</i></b> and <b><i>Diurnea fagella</i></b>.Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-83541745029544943292015-03-14T11:01:00.005-07:002015-03-14T14:42:44.366-07:00COAM in SpringThis year I and my mothing partners are going to concentrate on the Chiltern Open Air Museum site, just on the Bucks side of the border with Herts.<br />
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Although last night was the coldest of the week, we put out 3 traps (2MV and an Actinic - which only caught 1 moth). There would have been 4, but my MV bulb had mysteriously broken over the winter. Luckily I have more, just not with me.<br />
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Anyway, pending the correct numbers of each species from Rob, who kept the list:<br />
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1 x Yellow Horned<br />
14 x Common Quaker<br />
6 x Hebrew Character<br />
6 x Clouded Drab<br />
2 x Twin-spotted Quaker<br />
2 x Small Quaker<br />
1 x Chestnut<br />
1 x March Moth<br />
1 x Oak Beauty<br />
1 x Agonopterix heracliana<br />
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Most of these are new for the site, mainly because I didn't start trapping there until May last year.<br />
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<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-89513849358887027422015-03-12T10:37:00.001-07:002015-03-12T10:37:07.586-07:00First Micros of the YearAfter deciding that spring was, on balance, starting to begin, I put the trap out again last night.<br />
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As it is now officially March, the best-represented species was the <b>March Moth</b> (3) but I also managed 4 micro species with 2 each of <i><b>Emmelina mondactyla</b></i> and <b style="font-style: italic;">Amblyptilia acanthadactyla</b>; lurking in the leaf debris at the bottom was a single <b><i>Agonopterix heracliana</i></b> and outside the trap a <b><i>Diurnea fagella</i></b>.<br />
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<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-77716074104156461882015-02-27T11:13:00.002-08:002015-02-27T11:13:30.574-08:00It has begun!...at last. Moths have started to appear about these parts. Not many, but moths...<br />
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Last week I found a <b>Satellite</b>, and on Wednesday night, after a lovely warm spring day, the trap went on in the garden which trebled the year list with a <b>March Moth</b> and a <b>Chestnut</b>.<br />
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This morning, our 6W woodland trap held three very torpid <b>Dotted Borders</b>, which surprised us given the layer of frost that had to be scraped off the car.<br />
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So here we go :)Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-55592453646677039302015-01-29T00:33:00.000-08:002015-01-29T00:33:06.933-08:00End of Year Round-up<span style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.2859992980957px;">I haven't posted on here for ages as the moths have been as rare as my words, although a holiday in Southern Italy in September was quite fruitful, especially if I left the hotel balcony light on during the night.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.2859992980957px;">I was beaten to First by only a few days, but there does seem to have been a bit of an influx into the home counties.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.2859992980957px;">Here's to the new season when it starts...</span>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-68162791207467984282014-08-30T13:39:00.001-07:002014-08-30T13:39:55.672-07:00Quite a Quiet AugustThe garden trapping during the whole month of August has been very poor, and in common with many others, it really hasn't been worth putting the trap out most nights.<br />
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Looking back,I've caught a total of 66 species over the entire month, the best being new-for-garden species <b>Lime-speck Pug</b> and <b>Small Square-spot </b>and a single example of the migrant micro <i><b>Cydia amplana</b></i>, which was being reported from a lot of inland sites at the time.<br />
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To put that in context, at the start of the month, I did an all-night session with a friend at one of my work places, which happens to comprise 40-odd acres of woodland, grassland and fields, which caught 107 species. Best of those was probably the out-of-place <b>Brown-veined Wainscot </b>and also the start of autumn species like <b>Rosy Rustic</b> and <b>Six-striped Rustic</b>.<br />
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Another session yesterday at the same site produced around 55 species, with autumn definitely dominating proceedings with <b>Centre-barred Sallow</b>, <b>Feathered Gothic</b> and <b>Frosted Orange</b> all featuring, and <b>Large Yellow Underwing</b> in overwhelming quantities.<br />
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Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-27975683241406056392014-08-01T04:59:00.002-07:002014-08-01T04:59:35.440-07:00A Thorny Issue...This week I have been mainly trapping in my garden, with reasonable results and a few new species for my year list, seeming to comprise of 2nd-generation moths.<br />
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This week's theme has been various "Thorn" species with <b>Early</b>, <b>Purple</b>, <b>August</b>, <b>September</b>, <b>Dusky</b> and <b>Canary-shouldered </b>varieties (the latter was actually in the bedroom, so a new one for the house list as well!)<br />
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Other new moths for the year list include <b>Orange Swift</b>, <b><i>Chrysoclista linneella</i></b> (a lifer for me), <b>Tawny-speckled Pug</b> and <b>Pine Hawk-moth</b> (first for the garden).<br />
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The regular Thursday-night session in nearby woodland with the 6w light has produced <b>Large Emerald</b> and <b>Dark Spinach</b>.<br />
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<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-36352879590222224642014-07-23T08:51:00.002-07:002014-07-23T08:51:34.152-07:00A Prominent Day!I've been away again in Dorset, partly for drinking and partly for mothing. The latter activity took place on probably the best night of the year for moths down there, and the Portland Obs blog covers what happened pretty accurately.<br />
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However, I am only writing about South Bucks moths here, and I have been trapping in my garden with mixed results.<br />
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Last night, though, was pretty good and the title of this post covers the fact that amongst the 38 species in my trap were four beautifully fresh <b>Prominen</b>t moths, namely<b> Iron</b>, <b>Coxcomb</b>, <b>Pale</b> and <b>Pebble</b>.<br />
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A couple of new species since the last post for my all-time garden list include <b>Satin Beauty</b> and <b>Bright-line Brown-eye</b>, but mostly it's been standard fare.<br />
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<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00362910513148365379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781145939005494893.post-61087144541098348502014-07-01T00:41:00.001-07:002014-07-01T00:41:18.792-07:00Back from HolsI've been away for the last week in South Wales, where the mothing has been nothing short of excellent. I can catch as many individuals and species in the garden there with one light as two or three in woodland will catch round here. And out in the dunes... well there's a whole new level. Some brief reports are on the Glamorgan Moths blog.<br />
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Anyway, back to South Bucks, I've run the trap in the garden at home and although few species compared to the above, last night I pulled in 29 species which is by far the best night this year.<br />
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New species for the year have been <b>Barred Red</b>, <b>Buff Footman</b> and <b>Least Carpet</b>, and if I exclude what I saw in Wales, <b>Heart & Club</b>, <b>July Highflier</b> and <b>Short-cloaked Moth</b> were also new.<br />
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