Castle Brae Winter Moth

Not a new species but a Winter Moth was the latest to be pulled in by the office lights

Castle Brae - new species!

Office wall uplighters score another new species with Scarce Umber. Ran the moth trap all night last night in the garden and got nothing! Alongside the Scarce there was also  Mottled, but that has been recorded before.

Records:

#	Species	Common name	Date
1	Orgyia antiqua	Vapourer	03/09/2013
2	Phigalia pilosaria	Pale Brindled Beauty	13/02/2015
3	Alsophila aescularia	March Moth	11/03/2015
4	Orthosia cerasi	Common Quaker	17/03/2015
5	Korscheltellus lupulina	Common Swift	02/06/2015
6	Idaea seriata	Small Dusty Wave	25/06/2015
7	Camptogramma bilineata	Yellow Shell	08/07/2015
8	Acronicta psi	Grey Dagger	09/07/2015
9	Bryophila domestica	Marbled Beauty	12/08/2015
10	Dysstroma truncata	Common Marbled Carpet	22/09/2015
11	Epirrita dilutata	November Moth	07/10/2015
12	Erannis defoliaria	Mottled Umber	05/11/2015
13	Operophtera brumata	Winter Moth	18/11/2015
14	Agrochola macilenta	Yellow-line Quaker	20/11/2015
15	Xylocampa areola	Early Grey	08/04/2016
16	Biston betularia	Peppered Moth	23/05/2016
17	Ecliptopera silaceata	Small Phoenix	25/05/2016
18	Hofmannophila pseudospretella	Brown House-moth	25/05/2016
19	Agrotis exclamationis	Heart & Dart	10/06/2016
20	Lampronia fuscatella	Scarce Bright	20/06/2016
21	Aphomia sociella	Bee Moth	01/08/2016
22	Argyresthia goedartella	Golden Argent	01/08/2016
23	Phigalia pilosaria	Pale Brindled Beauty	15/02/2017
24	Eupithecia abbreviata	Brindled Pug	20/04/2017
25	Ecliptopera silaceata	Small Phoenix	19/05/2017
26	Colotois pennaria	Feathered Thorn	24/10/2017
27	Agriopis aurantiaria	Scarce Umber	15/11/2017
28	Erannis defoliaria	Mottled Umber	15/11/2017

Species:

#	Species	Common name	Date
1	Acronicta psi	Grey Dagger	09/07/2015
2	Agriopis aurantiaria	Scarce Umber	15/11/2017
3	Agrochola macilenta	Yellow-line Quaker	20/11/2015
4	Agrotis exclamationis	Heart & Dart	10/06/2016
5	Alsophila aescularia	March Moth	11/03/2015
6	Aphomia sociella	Bee Moth	01/08/2016
7	Argyresthia goedartella	Golden Argent	01/08/2016
8	Biston betularia	Peppered Moth	23/05/2016
9	Bryophila domestica	Marbled Beauty	12/08/2015
10	Camptogramma bilineata	Yellow Shell	08/07/2015
11	Colotois pennaria	Feathered Thorn	24/10/2017
12	Dysstroma truncata	Common Marbled Carpet	22/09/2015
13	Ecliptopera silaceata	Small Phoenix	25/05/2016
14	Epirrita dilutata	November Moth	07/10/2015
15	Erannis defoliaria	Mottled Umber	05/11/2015
16	Eupithecia abbreviata	Brindled Pug	20/04/2017
17	Hofmannophila pseudospretella	Brown House-moth	25/05/2016
18	Idaea seriata	Small Dusty Wave	25/06/2015
19	Korscheltellus lupulina	Common Swift	02/06/2015
20	Lampronia fuscatella	Scarce Bright	20/06/2016
21	Operophtera brumata	Winter Moth	18/11/2015
22	Orgyia antiqua	Vapourer	03/09/2013
23	Orthosia cerasi	Common Quaker	17/03/2015
24	Phigalia pilosaria	Pale Brindled Beauty	13/02/2015
25	Xylocampa areola	Early Grey	08/04/2016

Dunfermline, Castle Brae, 19/05/2017

Ad hoc recording, office wall

Small Phoenix

Dunfermline, Castle Brae, 16/05/2017 - May Highflyer

A random office wall find

Pale Brindled Beauty, Castle Brae, Dunfermline

Two years ago on 13/02 same species recorded at uplighters on office wall

 

Small Phoenix - Castle Brae

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

Castle Brae November Moth, 07.10.2015

A male November Moth (Epirrita dlitata) drawn to office uplighters. Poking about with the genitalia I clearly went up the wrong track, bypassing the important 8th sternite. Fortunately one prong of Sternite 8  was captured in passing and clearly appears to be the E.dilitata type.

Dunfermline, 25th June, 2015 - Small dusty Wave

A nice new hectad record from the office wall

Another office tick - Common Swift

Found on the wall at lunchtime above the uplighter. Interestingly as many mornings I checked the wall this morning and there was no sign. I'm assuming they crawl up from some hiding place during the morning

Office wall, 17/03/15 - Common Quaker

In the usual place. The second external wall light doesn't seem to have caught anything so far. I wonder what the difference is.

Office 'trap' strikes again

Wandering out to the baker's van for lunch I noticed that my office trap has worked again - this time a solo March Moth graced the wall. It seems that the wall only does one moth at a time, but that's better than nowt, and also better than my garden moth trap did last night (a few winter gnats only)

I only took one record picture before releasing it, although I should have checked the quality first!

Pale Brindled Beauty, Dunfermline

Returning from a successful Ring-billed Gull twitch at lunchtime I was surprised to find this moth on my office wall. Presumably it had been lured there by the uplights, and I'll need to keep an eye out here apparently. This is also the site of my only encounter with a Vapourer, so apparently I now have an office 'list'!

(Initially I thought this looked like a Peppered Moth, but apart from anything else it's far too small. Then I had it as possibly a Spring Usher, before its true identity was revealed to me)