The End of Summer........

.........usually means the end of huge amounts of 'brown stuff' and heralds the beginning of more manageable numbers and the odd splash of colour.

Brown-spot Pinion f. rufa-pallida

 I don't get many B-s P's anyway. But have never seen the aberrant form before.

Centre-barred Sallow

Deep-brown Dart

Large & Small Ranunculus

 Caught on 18th September, this is the first time I've ever caught both on the same night. Whereas Large Ranunculus have remained fairly constant (4-5 per year), Small Ranunculus have become much more common. The late second generation idividuals overlap with their larger name sakes.

Orange Sallow

Sallow

White-point

A good year for these- this is my 3rd record so far.

Recess

Well the weather has turned and the trap has been rested for a couple of nights. The night of the 12th did contain a couple of highlights. Full list at the foot of this post. The brown stuff is now finally beginning to abate so I'm hoping for some good, mild Autumn weather if I'm going to break the 300 macros in a year target.

Small Ranunculus

The best year in the garden so far- this being the 10th record in 2013. In this part of the world at least this moth has become fairly common in a short period of time and now has to be reclassified.

 White-point

The second record this year- a bad photo of a pristine individual.

Upper Caldecote Garden- 12-09-2013- Twin T12 20w Synergetic Skinner 162 of 35 species

0450  Hawthorn Moth (Scythropia crataegella)  1

0964  Cochylis dubitana  1

0998  Light Brown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana)  2

1048  Garden Rose Tortrix (Acleris variegana)  2

1309  Agriphila geniculea  2

1342  Eudonia angustea  1

1524  Emmelina monodactyla  1

1728  Garden Carpet (Xanthorhoe fluctuata)  1

1867  Treble-bar (Aplocera plagiata)  1

1937  Willow Beauty (Peribatodes rhomboidaria)  1

1961  Light Emerald (Campaea margaritata)  4

2087  Turnip Moth (Agrotis segetum)  2

2089  Heart and Dart (Agrotis exclamationis)  1

2107  Large Yellow Underwing (Noctua pronuba)  20

2109  Lesser Yellow Underwing (Noctua comes)  9

2110  Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing (Noctua fimbriata)  1

2126  Setaceous Hebrew Character (Xestia c-nigrum)  49

2134  Square-spot Rustic (Xestia xanthographa)  8

2145  Nutmeg (Discestra trifolii)  1

2154  Cabbage Moth (Mamestra brassicae)  2

2165  Small Ranunculus (Hecatera dysodea)  1

2194  White-point (Mythimna albipuncta)  1

2199  Common Wainscot (Mythimna pallens)  5

2270  Lunar Underwing (Omphaloscelis lunosa)  2

2274  Sallow (Xanthia icteritia)  1

2298  Svensson's Copper Underwing (Amphipyra berbera)  2

2299  Mouse Moth (Amphipyra tragopoginis)  13

2306  Angle Shades (Phlogophora meticulosa)  1

2353  Flounced Rustic (Luperina testacea)  3

2361  Rosy Rustic (Hydraecia micacea)  1

2384  Vine's Rustic (Hoplodrina ambigua)  17

2389  Pale Mottled Willow (Paradrina clavipalpis)  2

2434  Burnished Brass (Diachrysia chrysitis)  1

2452  Red Underwing (Catocala nupta)  1

2477  Snout (Hypena proboscidalis)  1

Garden Highlights

Best of the recent catches....................

Large Thorn

 A year tick on 8th September after recording it twice last year. (4th,16th September 2012)

 White-point

 A second record on 9th September after recording it for the first time on 9th June 2012.

What's the Point?

In an attempt to increase my year list, I put out 3 different Actinic traps. The wind had finally dropped and the temperature at dusk was a promising 12°C. However, as with most nights this year; there has been a general lack of either quantity or quality. One consolation did come in the form of a garden 1st White-point, macro #294 in my quest for 300. Otherwise, the cupboards were pretty bare. The only other new moth was a single worn Silver-ground Carpet.

White-point 

Rather worn, but I'll take it........

Bright-line Brown-eye

 Silver-ground Carpet

Upper Caldecote Garden- 09-06-2012- 2x 15w Actinic/BLB, 1x 25w FUL Skinners- 36 of 23 species

0648	Endrosis sarcitrella	White-shouldered House-moth	2
0787	Bryotropha terrella		1
1133	Epinotia bilunana		1
1727	Xanthorhoe montanata	Silver-ground Carpet	1	NFY
1819	Eupithecia exiguata	Mottled Pug	3
1834	Eupithecia vulgata	Common Pug	4
1883	Acasis viretata	Yellow-barred Brindle	1
1906	Opisthograptis luteolata	Brimstone Moth	1
1937	Peribatodes rhomboidaria	Willow Beauty	2
2000	Notodonta dromedarius	Iron Prominent	1
2069	Tyria jacobaeae	Cinnabar	1
2089	Agrotis exclamationis	Heart and Dart	4
2092	Agrotis puta	Shuttle-shaped Dart	1
2126	Xestia c-nigrum	Setaceous Hebrew Character	2
2147	Hada plebeja	Shears	1
2157	Lacanobia w-latinum	Light Brocade	1
2160	Lacanobia oleracea	Bright-line Brown-eye	1
2194	Mythimna albipuncta	White-point	1	Garden 1st
2334	Apamea sordens	Rustic Shoulder-knot	1
2337x	Oligia strigilis agg.	Marbled Minor agg.	2
2381	Hoplodrina alsines	Uncertain	1
2389	Paradrina clavipalpis	Pale Mottled Willow	2
2441	Autographa gamma	Silver Y	1