Dalgety Bay, 18/10/16, Pale November Moth, Epirrita christyi

Overnight heath trap, garden

Common Marbled Carpet (2)
Pale November moth (2m)
One yellow fly, to be determined

Dalgety Bay, 05/10/2016 - Merveille du Jour

A nice, if small, collection overnight in the garden heath trap with the star of the show undoubtedly being the lovely Merveille du Jour - my first.

Satellite (1)
Merveille du Jour (1)
Chestnut (1)
Green Brindled Crescent (1)
Common Marbled Carpet (1)
Spruce Carpet (1)

Satellite

Merveille du Jour

Cullaloe, 23/07/2016

A good selection of species for only a couple of hours between 10 and midnight, with a small handful of new ones adding to the reserve moth list - my favourites being Barred Yellow and Bramble Shoot Moth. Ghost Moth was also a nice new one, but one I've seen lots of elsewhere

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Hill of Beath, 10/07/2016

Overnight heath trap produced a fair number of moths but with little diversity. There were a couple of micros but I didn't attempt to stop them escaping. They didn't look particularly enticing.

Dark Arches - 5
LYU - 7
Marbled Beauty - 3
Dusky Wainscot - 1

Cullaloe, 18/06/2016

One MV trap under the pines and a lot of headtorch wandering. A nice evening with three new moth species for the reserve - one macro and 2 micros

Macros
Bordered White - 1 (new)
Silver-ground Carpet - 100
Common White Wave - 10
Clouded Magpie - 10
Green Carpet - 5
Beautiful Golden Y - 5
Brimstone - 2
Small Dotted Buff - 2
Scalloped Hazel - 2
Common Marbled Carpet - 2
Flame Carpet - 2
Coxcomb Prominent - 1
Common Swift - 1
Small Phoenix - 1
Rivulet - 1


Micros
Opsibotys fuscalis
Tinea semifulvella (new)
Elachypta argentella (new)
White-shouldered house Moth - 1
Ancylis badiana - 1
Diamond-backed Moth - 1 

Other by-catch
Denticollis linearis (A click beetle)
Cantharis cryptica (A soldier beetle)
Notonecta glauca (Common Backswimmer)
Beris chalybata (Murky Legionnaire - a soldierfly)

Silver-ground Carpet

Green Carpet

Rivulet

    

Beautiful Golden Y

Common White Wave

BGY

Small Dotted Buff

Tinea semifulvella

   

Common Swift

Small Phoenix

Coxcomb Prominent

Scalloped Hazel

Mossmorran Brassy Twist, 25-05-2016

Lovely name they've given this little guy - AKA Eulia ministrana. This one was found in a birch tree at Mossmorran this morning

Small Phoenix - Castle Brae

The office wall species grows by one more. Another nice looking micro escaped while trying to capture it, sadly.

Yellow-ringed Carpet, Mull

While creeping down a gulley to look at bryophytes on a rock seepage (very glamorous), I disturbed a moth from the gulley wall. As luck would have it I had a bag with a moth net and a sweep net in it and was able to catch said moth for a closer look. Turns out it was a Yellow-ringed Carpet - a pretty scarce moth which is an upland and western (mostly) species with very few records post-2000. I always enjoy putting a dot on a map but some dots are more enjoyable than others

Peppered Moth, Dunfermline

The 16th species I have found on my office wall. Usually they re above the uplighters that shine on the wall but this one was in a random spot, maybe pulled there by the small garden. Who knows. Lovely moths, anyway

Twenty-plume and White-spot, 24-04-2016

A surprise Twenty-plume Moth emerged from under a wheelie bin in my garden yesterday - a nice surprise. I guess somebody has some honeysuckle in their garden nearby

Earlier in the day this Eriocrania unimaculella was knocked out of a conifer at Mossmorran. Interestingly this is exactly the prescribed method of finding the species and the exact right timing as described in the Micros book.

Cullaloe LNR, 19/04/2016 - Water Carpet and a false start

After watching the temperature dial drop as the moon shone in a clear sky disaster struck as it turned out the generator had stopped (lack of petrol) and the light gone out. Not much of a haul

Water Carpet - 1 (!) Chocolate Form
Micro - unnamed - 1

Chocolate Form

Cullaloe LNR, 22/03/2016

An overnight heath trap in the birches and a brief head torch session at the one Salix with workable catkins produces two new species for the reserve and a Lepidoptera total now finally at 200! the Yellow Horned was also new for NT18, just sneaking in time for the atlas at its last chance

Yellow Horned - 1
Chestnut - 1
Common Quaker - 1

Mottled Grey - 2 (on Salix)
Mystery species (but not new, I think...)

Agonopterix ocellana - 1

Chestnut

Common Quaker

Mottled Grey

Yellow Horned

Agonopterix ocellana

and the one I can't put a name to yet...

I know those spots mean something...

2016 - kickoff

So a round of individual moths started the season off in fine style

Herald from Dumbarnie Links

Dotted Border from Hill of Beath

Pale Brindled Beauty, also from Hill of Beath