Log - 14/05/2014 HOB, depressing result

Heath trap, Mild night turning wet

Hebrew Character (1)

I hope things improve soon. Hopefully I will get the trap out to Cullaloe or somewhere better than my garden to give it a real try. I'm already beginning to doubt its performance capabilities. To be fair I did fail to organise the roosting substrate inside the trap, but I think that was probably irrelevant.

Mothing diary

Mothing Diary

A list of dates as reminders and 'signature' spp., as reminders. Click on links to go to logbook entry

2017
27/03/2017 - Dalgety Bay - incidental (Shoulder Stripe)
24/03/2017 - Dalgety Bay  - heath MV (HeCha,ClDra,CoQua)
19/03/2017 - Dalgety Bay - heath MV (HeCha,ClDra,CoQua)
13/03/2017 - Dalgety Bay - heath MV (HeCha,ClDra,CoQua)
09/03/2017 - Dalgety Bay - overnight heath trap - MV (Dark Chestnut)
06/03/2017 - Dalgety Bay - overnight heath trap - MV (Early Grey)
15/02/2017 - Dunfermline - incidental (Pale Brindle Beauty)
30/01/2017 - Dalgety Bay - overnight heath trap - MV (Hebrew Character)
08/01/2017 - Kinghorn incidental (Mottled Umber)

2016
18/10/2016 - Dalgety Bay - overnight heath trap, actinic (Pale November Moth)
05/10/2016 - Dalgety Bay - overnight heath trap, actinic (Merveille du Jour)
23/07/2016 - Cullaloe, MV 22:00-00:00 (Ghost Moth, Barred Yellow, Bramble Shoot Moth)
19/07/2016 - Hill of Beath heath trap (Dusky Wainscot)
18/06/2016 - Cullaloe, one MV plus two headtorch (AS,SS) (Bordered White, T.semifulvella)
25/05/2016 - Mossmorran "Brassy Twist"
22/03/2016 - Cullaloe, headtorch sallows and birch heath trap overnight (Yellow Horned)
13/03/2016 - Dumbarnie Links and Hill of Beath - Herald, Dotted Border, Pale Brindled Beauty

2015

27/10/2015 - Mossmorran - lunchtime Scarce Umber
07/10/2015 - Dunfermline - November Moth
25/09/2015 - Falkland Palace, one overnight MV (C-S Thorn, Green-brindled Crescent)
01/09/2015 - Cullaloe, MV, 20:30-21:45 (Rosy Minor, Small Wainscot, Dk Marbled Carpet)
07/08/2015 - Cullaloe, casual obs., Common Grass Veneer (Agriphila tristella)
12/08/2015 - Hill of Beath, see iRecord
12/08/2015 - Dunfermline, casual obs., Marbled beauty
14/08/2015 - Mossmorran, one hour MV (Pretty Pinion etc. see iRecord)
16/08/2015 - Cullaloe, casual obs., Flame Carpet on tree trunk
25/08/2015 - Hill of Beath (Dotted Clay, Dark Arches)

29/07/2015 - Mossmorran, lunchtime accidental observation (Ingrailed Clay)
24/07/2015 - Cullaloe, 21:30-02:30, 3xMV Robinson, 1xActinic Heath (Pinion-streaked Snout)
21/07/2015 - Mossmorran, 22:00-23:00 (Gold Spangle)
21/07/2015 - Hill of Beath, overnight Heath trap (Cabbage Moth)
10/07/2015 - Hill of beath, overnight Heath trap (Currant Pug)
08/07/2015 - Hill of Beath, MV, 23:00-23:30 (Small Clouded Brindle)
10/06/2015 - Mossmorran, 22:30-23:30 with MV on edge of heath (Sallow Kitten, Pebble H-T)
09/06/2015 - Hill of Beath, Kinghorn (Small Phx @ HOB, Lt Brwn Apple Moth @ KHN)
25/05/2015 - Mossmorran, 100s of day flying Common Heath
23/05/2015 - Cullaloe, 21:30-01:30 3 x Robinson 1 Heath (Elephant Hawk, Yellow-barred Brindle)
08/03/2015 - Hill of Beath, 22:00-04:00 (HebChar, CloDrb, Black Sexton)
06/03/2015 - Hill of Beath, 20:00-06:00 (Clouded Drab)
05/04/2015 - Cullaloe, headtorch only, one Sallow flowering (Chestnut,Hebrew Char,Com Quaker)
04/04/2015 - Cullaloe, headtorch - (Hebrew Char, Com Quaker, Agonopterix oceallana)
27/03/2015 - Cullaloe, 19:00-22:00 (Hebrew Char, blown fuse)
20/03/2015 - Falkland, 18:45-21:00 (Yellow Horned)
11/02/2015 - Dunfermline, casual observation, March Moth, HOB 19:00-20:00 (nothing)
13/02/2015 - Falkland overnight (Pale brindled Beauty, Satellite, Dotted Border)
13/02/2015 - Dunfermline, casual observation, Pale Brindled Beauty

2014

23/11/2014 - Falkland overnight from 17:00 (Mottled Umber, Scarce Umber, Dec Moth)
10/10/2014 - Falkland, 19:40-21:40 (Black Rustic)
21/09/2014 - Hill of Beath, overnight - caught nothing!
20/09/2014 - Cullaloe, to 23:30 (Canary-shouldered Thorn, Pink-barred Sallow)
13/09/2014 - Falkland Palace, no power to trap (Angle shades on asters)
31/08/2014 - Cullaloe, day swept Silver Y
30/08/2014 - Cullaloe, overnight (Sallow, July HF, Small Phx)
21/08/2014 - Dumbarnie Links (Hedge rustic, Square-spot Rustic)
15/08/2014 - Cullaloe, overnight (Sallow)
08/08/2014 - Cullaloe, overnight (Dark Marbled Carpet)
02/08/2014 - Cullaloe, overnight (Pebble Prominent)
01/08/2014 - Falkalnd Palace - public event with three MV traps (wasps!)
26/07/2014 - Cullaloe, 21:00-00:00 - two MVs plus Heath trap, raining (Gold Spots, Double Lobed)
23/07/2014 - Cullaloe, 22:00-05:00 (Beautiful Carpet, Burnished Brass)
20/07/2014 - Hill of Beath, 22:00-05:00 (Common Rustic agg., Dark Arches)
19/07/2014 - Cullaloe: 21:30-05:00 (Blue-bordered Carpet)
15/07/2014 - Hill of Beath, 21:30-05:00 (Garden Tiger)
11.07.2014 - Falkland, 21:30-00:30 (Swallow-tailed, Lempke's Gold Spot)
10.07.2014 - Cullaloe, lunchtime, 6-spot Burnet single near the spillway
08.07.2014 - Hill of Beath, 21:30-04:00 (Marbled Beauty - 7!)
01.07.2014 - Cullaloe 21:00-04:30 (Double Square-spot)
28.06.2014 - Cullaloe 22:00-05:00 (Shoulder-striped Wainscot, July HF)
25.06.2014 - Cullaloe 2200-05:00 (Large Emerald, Marbled Beauty)
23.06.2014 - Hill of Beath, 23:45-03:30 (H&D, Marbled Bty, )
23.06.2014 - Cullaloe 22:30-23:30 (Sandy Carpet, Small Fan-footed Wave)
20.06.2014 - Hill of Beath 23:00-03:45 (Marbled Beauty, BGY, Small Angle Shades)
19.06.2014 - Cullaloe 22:30-23:30 (Mottled Beauty, Light emerald)
19.06.2014 - Cullaloe daytime, Yellow Shell and The Snout
14.06.2014 - Cullaloe 22:00-04:00 (White Ermine, Riband Wave)
14.06.2014 - Falkland Palace22:00-00:00 (Figure of Eighty, Light Emerald)
10.06.2014 - Cullaloe 22:00-05:00 (Buff-tip, Pebble Hook-tip)
08.06.2014 - Cullaloe incidental daytime (Latticed Heath, Grass Rivulet, Common White Wave)
06.06.2014 - Falkland Palace (Elephant Hawk-moth, Ghost Moth)
05.06.2014 - Cullaloe, lunchtime (Clouded Border, S-G Carpet, Crambus lathoniellus)
03.06/2014 - Hill of Beath, 21:30-04:15 (nothing!)
29.05.2014 - Cullaloe, cpt 7, Heath trap (Poplar HM, Clouded Border, The Rivulet)
29.05/2014 - Cullaloe, lunchtime, walk to spillway (Silver-ground Carpet, Common Carpet))
20.05.2014 - Hill of Beath, 21:30-23:30 (Ochreous Pug)
19.05.2014 - Cullaloe, cpt 7 (Poplar Hawk-moth)

(mains trap returned - all Heath trap unless stated from here on)

18.05.2014 - Hill of Beath, Heath trap (Small Phx, Garen Crpt, 6 HChar)17.05.2014 - Hill of Beath, Heath trap (1 HChar, 1 Pale-shouldered Brocade)
17.05.2014 - Cullaloe, cpt 2, Heath trap (Water Carpet, Flame Carpet, Common Carpet)
15.05.2014 - Cullaloe, cpt 7, Heath trap (Water Carpet, Clouded Silver, The Herald)
15.05.2014 - Hill of Beath, incidental (White-shouldered House Moth)
14.05.2014 - Hill of Beath, Heath trap (HebChar)
09.05.2014 - Falkand Palace (ComPug, BrinPug, Flame Carpet, Small Phoenix)
09.05.2014 - Hill of Beath, Heath trap (3 x HChar)
06.05.2014 - Hill of Beath, Robinson trap (GR Pug, Parsnip moth)
23.04.2014 - Hill of Beath, Robinson trap (Com Quaker, HChar, CDrab)
18.04.2014 - Hill of Beath, Robinson trap (Com Quaker, HChar, CDrab)
14.04.2014 - Hill of Beath, Robinson trap (2 HChar only))
11.04.2014 - Hill of Beath, Robinson trap (Hebrew Char, Clouded Drab)
05.04.2014 - Hill of Beath, Robinson trap (Early Grey, Clouded Drab)
04.04.2014 - Hill of Beath, Robinson trap (Mottled Grey. March Moth)

Nettle Tap Moth

One of several on White Dead-nettle this morning at Cullaloe. So there were some moths out and about.

Sitting on the Dock ...

There was nowt in the moth trap last night after a cold and clear night, but butterflies were up and about this morning at Cullaloe. Male and female Orange Tip on Dock and Cuckoo Flower respectively

Gallery - moths - family Epermeniidae (477-484)

483 Epermenia chaerophyllella

10/05/2014

Friday 9th April - HOB, Falkland Palace

With my own new heath trap out in the garden I headed for Falkland Palace, where I will hope to be 'manning' their moth trap occasionally throughout the year. Weather was a bit breezy and the sky was clear, so it wasn't with high expectations that we left the trap running. The haul in the morning was not extensive, but it did add three species to the site list. With this being the earliest date in the year the site had been worked the common Common Quaker was a new addition, as was Brindled Pug and a nicely patterned micro, Syndemis musculana.There is also one more micro that may be ID'd and added to the list later

(Addendum: unidentified micro was 688, A.heracliana, also new for the site)

688 Agonopterix heracliana

986 Syndemis musculana

1722 Flame Carpet Xanthorhoe designata
1759 Small Phoenix Ecliptopera silaceata
1834 Common Pug
1852 Brindled Pug
2187 Common Quaker (2)
2190 Hebrew Character (2)

view from the orchard

Common Quaker

Flame Carpet

Syndemis musculana

Common Pug

Small Phoenix

Hebrew Character

Brindled Pug (to be confirmed)

Natural habitat pose

Spruce Carpet

On returning to examine my spoils from yesterday it turned out that my samples had sadly expired. The macro I netted also turned out to be a Spruce Carpet - completely different from what I guessed in the field, although I was aware that the cold coloration made it look different anyway.

1769 Spruce Carpet Thera britannica (Turner H J, 1925)