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Latest News - May 2007

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IN OUR GARDEN

Tuesday 22nd May 2007
This morning a new moth for our garden, a Flame Wainscot, almost got away. Its weak flight was noticed as I was emptying the egg boxes, fortunately it settle and crawled under some wood. Careful moving of the wood and a pot to the ready it was captured and photographed.
Details of Monday night's catch

2 Pale Tussock
1 Green Carpet
1 Dark Barred Twin Spot
3 Brimstone
1 Peppered Moth
3 Setaceous Hebrew Character
5 Common Wainscot
5 Rustic Shoulder Knot
6 Vines Rustic
3 Treble Lines
2 Bright Line Brown Eye
1 Flame Wainscot
1 Light Emerald

1 Heart & Dart
3 White Ermine
10 Small Square Spot
3 Shuttle Shaped Dart
1 Shears
1 Burnished Brass
1 Poplar Kitten
1 Common Swift
1 Marbled Minor
1 Lime Hawk Moth
4 Turnip
4 Common Pug
1 Red Twin Spot Carpet

1 Angle Shades
1 Muslin Moth
1 Flame Shoulder
1 Flame
1 Blood Vein
1 Pale Mottled Willow

3 Scoparia ambigualis
1 Phtheochroa rugosana
1 Epiblema cynosbatella
1 Twenty Plume Moth

78 moths / 36 species
Pale Tussock, Green Carpet, Flame Wainscot, Burnished Brass, Poplar Kitten, Marbled Minor, Flame & Light Emerald are all the first in the garden this year
Epiblema cynosbatella photo added

Monday 21st May 2007
Details of Sunday night's catch

1 Lime Hawk Moth
1 Small Elephant Hawk Moth
1 Poplar Hawk Moth
3 Shuttle Shaped Dart
2 White Ermine
10 Brimstone
9 Yellow Belle
2 Turnip
3 Common Wainscot
2 Vines Rustic
4 Small Square Spot
1 Setaceous Hebrew Character

2 Common Swift
2 Flame Shoulder
1 Angle Shades
1 Least Black Arches
1 Cabbage Moth
1 Cinnabar
2 Heart & Dart
1 Shears
1 Herald
1 Scorched Carpet
1 Treble Lines
3 Common Pug

3 Rustic Shoulder Knot
1 Clouded Bordered Brindle
1 Dark Barred Twin Spot

1 Epiblema roborana
1 Phtheochroa rugosana
2 Scoparia ambigualis
1 Garden Pebble

68 moths / 31 species
Scorched Carpet and Small Elephant Hawk Moth are the first in the garden this year and a nice one for us, we have only
had a few before

Sunday 20th May 2007
Many thanks to Ian Walker from Lancashire for identifying the micro yesterday as
Monopis laevigella.
Amongst the catch for Saturday night was an Yponomeuta Sp (about 20mm long)
which I know could be any one of a few similar Yponomeuta sp but this early in May???

Details of Saturday night's catch

1 Least Black Arches
2 Brimstone
1 Common Carpet
9 Heart & Dart
1 Blood Vein
10 Flame Shoulder
1 Swallow Prominent
1 Bright Line Brown Eye
3 Turnip
3 Angle Shades

1 Garden Pebble
5 Vines Rustic
3 Setaceous Hebrew Ch
4 Rustic Shoulder knot
1 Pale Mottled Willow
1 Yellow Belle
2 Muslin Moth
1 Powdered Quaker
2 Common Wainscot
1 Emmelina Monodactyla

5 Shuttle Shaped Dart
1 Treble Lines
4 Small Square Spot
1 Red Twin Spot Carpet
1 Yponomeuta Sp
1 Clouded Bordered Brindle
(Brown Version)
2 Common pugs

66 moths / 26 Species

Saturday 19th May 2007
Details of Friday night's catch

1 Brimstone
3 Vines Rustic
2 Setaceous Hebrew Character
5 Rustic Shoulder Knot
1 Flame Shoulder
4 Shuttle Shaped Dart
6 Treble Lines
2 Turnip
1 Hebrew Character
3 Heart & Dart
1 Cabbage

1 Muslin Moth
1 Small Square Spot
1 Spectacle
1 Chinese Character
1 Red Twin Spot
1 Yellow Belle
1 Common Pug

36 moths 18 species
This species of micro in the trap yesterday, any ideas on ID contact Peter Tilley

Friday 18th May 2007
Details of Thursday night's catch

1 Least Black Arches
5 Flame Shoulder
2 Shuttle-shaped Dart
5 Brimstone
2 Common Pug
1 Small Square Spot
1 Garden Pebble
2 Rustic Shoulder Knot
3 Silver Y
2 Tawny Shears
1 Dark Barred Twin Spot
1 Common Wainscot
2 Hebrew Character
5 Treble Lines
4 Heart & Dart

1 Red Twin Spot
2 Muslin
2 Vines Rustic
4 Setaceous Hebrew Character
1 Chinese Character
2 Garden Pebble
1 Cabbage Moth
2 Bright Line Brown Eye
1 White Point
2 Turnip
1 Plain Golden Y
1 Phtheochroa rugosana
1 Epiblema roborana
1 Elachista argentella
1 Scoparia ambigualis

60 moths 30 species
The White Point is a good early migrant
Tawny Shears, Plain Golden Y and the White Point are the first for the garden this year
0610 Elachista argentella is new to the garden
0006 Eriocrania subpurpurella, 0229 Monopis obviella, 0281 Caloptilia syringella & 0649 Esperia sulphurella recorded in the garden in April/May are new to the garden and identity has now neen confirmed. The photographs can be found in the micro thumbnail page

Thursday 17th May 2007
Details of Wednesday night's catch

1 Least Black Arches
4 Flame Shoulder
4 Shuttle-shaped Dart
1 Poplar Hawk Moth
1 Mullein
2 Small Square Spot
1 Garden Pebble
2 Rustic Shoulder Knot
1 Common Swift
1 Least Black Arches
1 Spectacle

2 Heart & Dart
1 Hebrew Character
5 Setaceous Hebrew Character
1 Angle Shade
1 Common Wainscot
1 Grey Pine Carpet
2 Bright Line Brown Eye
2 Turnip
1 Swallow Prominent
2 White Ermine

37 moths 21 species
Common Swift, Spectacle, Mullein & Poplar Hawk Moth are the first in our garden this year

Wesnesday 16th May 2007
Details of Tuesday night's catch
Our first HAWK MOTH of the year

1 Least Black Arches
1 Coxcomb Prominent
1 Yellow Belle
6 Flame Shoulder
2 Shuttle-shaped Dart
1 Brimstone
1 Oak Hook Tip
2 Hebrew Character

2 Heart & Dart
1 Muslin Moth
1 Powdered Quaker
1 Setaceous Hebrew Character
1 Lime Hawk Moth
2 Common Wainscot
1 Grey Pine Carpet

24 moths 15 different species
Oak Hook Tip, Lime Hawk Moth & Common Wainscot are the first in the garden this year

Tuesday 15th May 2007
Details of Monday night's catch
2 Muslin Moth
2 Flame Shoulder
1 Setaceous Hebrew Character
1 Hebrew Character
1 Treble Lines
3 Garden Pebble
5 Small Square Spot
1 Clouded Bordered Brindle
Clouded Bordered Brindle is the first in the garden this year
Only 16 moths 8 species

Monday 14th May 2007
Details of Sunday night's catch

2 Muslin Moth
1 Yellow Belle
1 Grey Pine Carpet
7 Flame Shoulder
1 Angle Shades
2 Shuttle-shaped Dart
2 Setaceous Hebrew Character
2 Silver Y
2 Hebrew Character
2 Treble Lines
1 Brimstone
3 Garden Pebble
1 Heart & Dart
1 Red Twin spot
2 Dark-barred Twin Spot

1 Turnip Moth
1 Shears
1 Blood Vein
5 Small Square Spot
1 Vines Rustic
1 Powdered Quaker
1 Rustic Shoulder Knot

41 moths 22 species
Blood Vein is the first in the garden this year

Sunday 13th May 2007
Details of Saturday night's catch

1 Red Twin Spot
2 Angleshades
1 Scalloped Hazel
1 Shears
1Hebrew Character
1 Dark-barred Twin Spot
1 Vines Rustic
2 Rustic Shoulder Knot
1 Clouded Drab
4 Shuttle-shaped Dart
1 Treble Lines
1 Setaceous Hebrew Character
1 Garden Carpet
1 Small Square Spot

1 Nutmeg
1 Silver Y
2 Muslin Moth
1 Flame Shoulder
1 Common Pug
2 Yellow Belle
1 Cabbage Moth
1 Chocolate Tip
1 White Ermine
1 Twenty Plume Moth
1 Pine Beauty
1 Grey Pine Carpet
1 Sallow Kitten
1 Aethes rubigana

37 Moths 29 Species
Shears, Vines Rustic, Treble Lines, Grey Pine Carpet & Twenty Plume Moth are all the first in the garden this year

Saturday 12th May 2007
Details of Friday Night's catch
1 Garden Carpet
2 Setaceous Hebrew Character
1 Cinnabar
2 Angle Shades
1 Small Square Spot
4 Shauttle-shaped Dart
2 Flame Shoulder
2 Silver Y
2 Hebrew Characater
1 Northern Drab
1 Scalloped Hazel
2 Scoparia ambigualis
Cinnabar and Scalloped Hazel are the first in our garden this year

Friday 11th May 2007
Details of Thursday night's catch
5 Northern Drab
1 Least Black Arches
17 Shuttle-shaped Dart
1 Dark-barred Twin Spot
1 Pale Prominent
1 Brimstone Moth
2 Setaceous Hebrew Character
3 Flame Shoulder
1 Bright Line Brown Eye
3 Angle Shade
1 Nutmeg
1 Cabbage Moth
1 Garden Pebble
1 White Ermine
1 Silver Y
1 Muslin Moth
1 Peppered Moth
3 Hebrew Character
1 Heart & Dart
Setaceous Hebrew Character & Brimstone are the first in our garden this year

Thursday 10th May 2007
Details of Wednesday night's catch
1 Muslin Moth
1 Flame Shoulder
3 Shuttle-shaped Dart
1 Silver Y
1 White Ermine
1 Northern Drab
1 Angle Shade
1 Heart & Dart

Wednesday 9th May 2007
Details of Tuesday night's catch
1 Red Twinspot Carpet
1 Garden Pebble
1 Powdered Quaker
1 Cabbage Moth
3 Shuttle-shaped Dart
1 Angle Shade
1 Yellow Belle
2 Northern Drab
3 Hebrew Character
2 Rustic Shoulder Knot
1 Clouded Drab
1 Flame Shoulder
1 Small Square Spot
1 Knot Grass
14 Species 20 Moths
First for the garden this year are:- Red Twin-spot, Garden Pebble, Rustic Shoulder Knot, Knot Grass, Small Square Spot

Wednesday 2nd May 2007
Details of Monday night's catch
5 Shutle-shaped dart
1 Muslin Moth
2 Flame Shoulder
2 Cabbage Moth
1 Sallow Kitten
1 Hebrew Character
1 Yellow Belle
1 Lesser Swallow Prominent
2 Least Black Arches
Yellow Belle and Lesser Swallow Prominent are the first for our garden this year

Tuesday 1st May 2007
Details of Monday night's catch
1 Pyrausta aurata
1 Garden Carpet
1 Early Grey
6 Shuttle-shaped Dart
3 Powdered Quaker
1 Muslin Moth
1 Heart & Dart
1 Least Black Arches
1 Angle Shades
The Heart & Dart is the first in the garden this year