Cullaloe 27th March, 2015

A bit of a washout with fuse issues sidelining the MV traps and not much to show from the heath trap, whose battery seems to be on the wane. The only moth picked up by wandering around with headtorches was this lonely Hewbrew Character

Falkland Palace, 20/03/2015

Trap run from 18:45 to 21:00. A steady trickle, with one target species gathered for square NT20. One of the Satellites I found sitting on the bridge and resolutely stayed there, either oblivious to, or not caring about, the light. One of the other highlights was a flurry of stoneflies on the wooden bridge above the stream.

Yellow Horned (1)
Common Quaker (2)
Hebrew Character (3)
Agonopterix heracliana (2)

Satellite

Hebrew Char

Common Quaker

Stonefly

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!

Falkland Palace, 13/02/2015

Good to get the moth trap running again in 2015 - no records for February here before, so anything would be a new 'stake in the ground' for future recording. A nice evening saw a small but nice haul, with 6 moth of 4 species and a Great Diving Beetle.

Of course mothing at this time of the year is unknown to me, so the ID struggle is up and running again! Hopefully I will soon be overlaying last year's learning with some repetition and reinforcement.

Dotted Border

Pale Brindled Beauty

Pale Brindled Beauty

Satellite

Common Quaker?

Great Diving Beetle

From the superb flight times pages of East Scotland Butterfly Conservation - if you want to see a Pale Brindled Beauty, this is the time!

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)

Falkland Palace, 23/11/2014

Trap left overnight and examined in the morning turned up some nice winter specialities - all therefore new to the Palace and to the hectad, which I assume hasn't been done in November before

The Count
December Moth (1)
Scarce Umber (1)
Mottled Umber (1)
Winter Moth (6)
Epirrita sp. (1)