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

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.

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

One for one - Hill of Beath Cabbage Moth, 21/07/2015

For the second time this year I have caught one moth in my garden and it has been a new hectad record. This time it's the turn of Cabbage Moth. When I got up at 4 to empty the trap it was very, very cold.

By contrast I spent one hour with a headtorch at Mossmorran and recorded 15 species of macro - see later post

Hill of Beath, 10th July - Currant Pug

Spectacle (1)
Dark Arches (2)
Marbled Beauty (1)
Ghost Moth (1f)
Snout (1)
Currant Pug (1)
Grey Dagger (1)
Double-square Spot (1)
Map-winged Swift (1)
Flame Shoulder (1)
Heart & Dart (2)
Small Angle Shades (3)

Current Pug - new hectad record

Quickie session, Hill of Beath, 8th July - Small Clouded Brindle

HOB, 08/07/2015, 23:00-23:30

Put the trap out last night before realising that I wouldn't be able to process it in the morning. In the half hour it was up I did have a lovely fresh Small Clouded Brindle though

Hill of Beath overnight, 3rd March 2015

Heath trap in the garden overnight

Clouded Silver (1)
Small Angle Shades (4)
LYU (1)
Heart & Dart (2)

Hill of Beath, 9th June 2015

Hill of Beath, 9th June 2015 - heath trap 22:00-02:30

Small Phoenix (1)
Heart & Dart (1)
Clouded-bordered Brindle (1)

Heart & Dart

Clouded-bordered Brindle

Small Phoenix

Kinghorn, c.20:00-21:00
Light Brown Apple Moth (4) - on various garden plants
Esperia sulphurella - on leaf of a border plant

Cold

Another night of zero moths in the domestic moth trap. Not the best place in the world for moths, but still ... 5 degrees. Not even a compensatory beetle.

One micro swept at Cullaloe this morning, so something to look at at least

Hill of Beath, 8th March 2015

Another cold night in high pressure with clear skies. Only two moths - A Hebrew Char and a Clouded Drab, along with a Black Sexton Beetle

Hill of Beath, 6th March

New 30Ah battery acquired so trap run overnight on a cold night. Only one moth trapped (and still present in the morning) - a Clouded Drab. To me they always resemble buffaloes from head on

Hill of Beath, 27th October

Trap out between about 7 and 11, and a sugared post. Couple of craneflies, several flies that looked like Scathophagia stercoraria, inclding a pair in cop.

No moths.

Falkland Palace, 10th October 2014, Hill of Beath 11th

Ran the trap between 19:40 and 21:40, which at times seemed a long shift. There were numerous 'November Moth Types' around the trap and perched in various trees, and besides that a Red-green Carpet settled on the cloth. At half past nine I decided to crack open the trap just to see if I was missing things, and in the middle of the trap, all on its own, was the Black Rustic below. It was the only moth in the trap. I decided to call it a night. In November I will go the whole hog and leave the trap overnight. There just isn't enough action to justify standing around. What there is, though, is a new record for the gardens and for the hectad NO20 - a gap nicely plugged as the species is recorded in almost all other hectads in the county (full sized ones, not bits of coast!)

'November' moth

Black Rustic

Black Rustic

The following night in Hill of Beath I also managed one moth - a Brick

Hill of Beath 03/09/2014

Quietish night though mild and overcast. My first carrion beetle in the trap, which is one with orange antennae (ok, offtopic for moths ... )

The list
LYU (1)
Garden Carpet (2)
Rosy Rustic (1)

The pics:

Hill of Beath, 26-08-2014

Trap out all night on a cold clear night. Catch? Three caddis flies.The light was off in the morning so I'm not sure how long it was on. I suspect the cold air has a bad impact on battery life

Hill of Beath, 20/07/2014

Bit behind with this one as photos ended up on my phone, but here we go...

Garden Tiger (1)
Doble Square-spot (1)
LYU (5)
Dark Arches (13)
Light Emerald (1)
Common Rustic agg. (3)
Marbled Beauty (4)
Unknown Pug (1)

Hill of Beath, 15/07/2014 - Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright

Two Garden Tigers in the trap last night, and some Minors, as well as a Riband Wave netted before bedtime which was absent in the morning. there was also a Large Yellow Underwing and this purplish chap which is as yet unassigned.

List
Garden Tiger (2)
Dark Arches (1)
Riband Wave (1)
Marbled Minor agg. (4) (not properly checked so photos only)
Big purplish one (1)
Large Yellow Underwing (1)

Hill of Beath, 08/07/14

A break from the onslaught of atlas related posts, overnight Hill of Beath. Quite a crop of Marbled Beauty, but nothing new even for the garden, sadly.

Small Angle Shades (1)
Middle-bared Minor (1)
Marble Beauty (7)
Dark Arches (2)

Hill of Beath, 24/06/2014

Another fairly mild night though with much lower temperatures it felt like. I didn't get up to check the trap until 4:00, which makes me wonder whether I didn't lose anything. Previously checking the trap at 3:30 while it was still fairly dark I had a better haul. I think that it was just genuine different results though. It was a small collection but with a particularly fine new species for me - wish I had a field guide with me at work. Maybe I'll dig it out from ukmoths during the day sometime.

Garden Carpet (1)
Marbled Beauty (2)
Small Angle Shades (1)
Whatever this is (1) ...(Shoulder-striped Wainscot?)

Marbled Beauty, becoming a bit of a regular - nice though

Hill of Beath, 23/06/2014

After an hour at dusk at Cullaloe I left the trap out overnight in Hill of Beath since it seemed like good weather, quite warm and overcast

I had another, or the same, Marbled Beauty, a Middle-barred Minor and a Heart & Dart, which has been standard fare of late. Added to that, though, I had a Double Square-spot, which was new. I also had three of the mystery noctuid in the last two photographs, one of which looked like someone had been playing football with it (are they just Pale-shouldered Brocade though? I think so. No - they are Dark Arches)

Double Square-spot

Middle-barred minor

Dark Arches