Thursday, 20 October 2016

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



Thursday, 6 October 2016

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

Monday, 25 July 2016

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

List
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Wednesday, 20 July 2016

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





Wednesday, 22 June 2016

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

Wednesday, 25 May 2016

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.