A few highlights & Home Wood

 Things are still ticking over and Trent has eased into the lead! I discovered that I had left the perspex across my trap last night with nowhere for the moths to get into it. Doh!

Coxcomb Prominent

NFY, 28th May

Ingrailed Clay

Caught at Home Wood- 28th May

Buff-tip

Only the 'Buff-tip' remains. The Sparrows got there before me on 29th May.

 Flame

NFY, 30th May

 Bordered White

NFY 31st May, not seen in 2011.

Home Wood Species List- 28-05-2012- 102 of 30 Species-

0017	Hepialus lupulinus	Common Swift	10
0597	Elachista atricomella?		1	to be confirmed?
0986	Syndemis musculana		5
1174	Epiblema cynosbatella		2	NFS
1212	Rhyacionia pinivorana	Spotted Shoot Moth	4	NFS
1334	Scoparia ambigualis		4
1646	Watsonalla binaria	Oak Hook-tip	1	NFS
1680	Cyclophora punctaria	Maiden's Blush	1
1693	Scopula floslactata	Cream Wave	1
1727	Xanthorhoe montanata	Silver-ground Carpet	4
1764	Chloroclysta truncata	Common Marbled Carpet	1
1768	Thera obeliscata	Grey Pine Carpet	1
1776	Colostygia pectinataria	Green Carpet	17
185?	Eupithecia sp.	Pug sp?	1	awaiting gen. det. AB.
1852	Eupithecia abbreviata	Brindled Pug	1
1906	Opisthograptis luteolata	Brimstone Moth	2
1936	Menophra abruptaria	Waved Umber	1	NFS
1944	Hypomecis punctinalis	Pale Oak Beauty	4
1950	Parectropis similaria	Brindled White-spot	1
1958	Lomographa temerata	Clouded Silver	3
1961	Campaea margaritata	Light Emerald	2
1981	Laothoe populi	Poplar Hawk-moth	1
2009	Ptilodon cucullina	Maple Prominent	1	NFS
2028	Calliteara pudibunda	Pale Tussock	4
2043	Eilema sororcula	Orange Footman	13
2060	Spilosoma lubricipeda	White Ermine	1
2078	Nola confusalis	Least Black Arches	1
2120	Diarsia mendica	Ingrailed Clay	1	NFS
2380	Charanyca trigrammica	Treble Lines	2
2422	Pseudoips prasinana	Green Silver-lines	2

Queries? 13/07............

Another batch of recent catches and a couple of queries.......I have now stowed the Gazebo away and I didn't trap on 14th and probably won't now until the weekend.

Ruby Tiger

Believe it or not, only the 2nd caught this year!

Bordered White

Only the 2nd ever record.

Foxglove or Toadflax?

I have caught a lot of Foxglove Pugs this year. But this one was very small and much more heavily marked. If pushed I would still say Foxglove.

Cloaked Minor!

This faded moth could be anything as far as I'm concerned. Similar in size to Marble Minor agg.

One of the many guises of Cloaked Minor. Thanks Ian W for the expert overview!

Epinotia nisella (1138)

Others recent highlights-

1. Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing- female
2. Nut-tree Tussock
3. Smoky Wainscot
4. Mere Wainscot- a 3rd record!
5. Spruce Carpet
6. Coxcomb Prominent- 2nd record

........05/05

Bordered White Puss Moth Yellow-barred Brindle

A nice little haul really and a couple of debutantes. The Bordered White is apparently the earliest in the county by 2 weeks and the Puss Moth is a truly impressive beast! The full count is as follows-

1. Hebrew Character- 5
2. Shuttle-shaped Dart- 2
3. Clouded Drab- 2
4. Bordered White- Garden 1st
5. Puss Moth- Garden 1st
6. Yellow-barred Brindle- 2nd Record
7. Brimstone Moth
8. Common Quaker
9. Powdered Quaker
10. Flame Shoulder
11. Nut-tree Tussock
12. Pug? a brief visit, prob Brindled.
13. Emmelina monodactyla
14. White-shouldered House-moth