Monday 17 February 2020

2020 season well underway

So the first proper spring moths are trickling onto the board already, with March Moh, Dotted Border and Common Quaker all putting in an appearance. Might even be time to get the battery-powered gear out of the loft




Tuesday 30 April 2019

Cullaloe LNR 300th lep!

This beatiful streamer was the 300th lep recorded on the reserve. Still another 18 to go for the 300th moth though


Monday 25 March 2019

Cullaloe LNR, moths 23/3/19

A small but decent collection in actinic overnight trap in willows. Most of them seemed to be on this one egg box for whatever reason!

March Moth 3
Hebrew Character 18
Clouded Drab 4
Twin-spotted Quaker 5
Mottled Grey 1
Common Quaker 1
Early Grey 1
Chestnut 4




Wednesday 27 June 2018

Dalgety Bay, garden, 26/06/2018

Common White Wave
Dark Arches
Purple Clay
Mottled Beauty
Double Square Spot
Map-winged Swift
Snout
Foxglove Pug
Common Marbled Carpet

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Thursday 21 June 2018

Cullaloe LNR, 15/06/2018

List
Green Carpet Colostygia pectinataria
Silver-ground Carpet Xanthorhoe montanata
Common Carpet Epirrhoe alternata
Brimstone Moth Opisthograptis luteolata
Gold Swift Phymatopus hecta
Map-winged Swift Korscheltellus fusconebulosa
Brown Rustic Rusina ferruginea
Sandy Carpet Perizoma flavofasciata
Clouded-bordered Brindle Apamea crenata
Small Clouded Brindle Apamea unanimis
Riband Wave Idaea aversata
Common White Wave Cabera pusaria
Common Wave Cabera exanthemata
Clouded Silver Lomographa temerata
Clouded Border Lomaspilis marginata
Small Square-spot Diarsia rubi
Common Pug Eupithecia vulgata
Beautiful Golden Y Autographa pulchrina
Rivulet Perizoma affinitata
Small Dotted Buff Photedes minima
Small Magpie Anania hortulata
Bordered White Bupalus piniaria
Brown China-mark Elophila nymphaeata
Double Dart Graphiphora augur
Pale-shouldered Brocade Lacanobia thalassina
Scalloped Hazel Odontopera bidentata
Rustic Shoulder-knot Apamea sordens
Beautiful China-mark Nymphula nitidulata
Grey Pine Carpet Thera obeliscata
Poplar Hawk-moth Laothoe populi
Least Black Arches Nola confusalis
Peach Blossom Thyatira batis
Common Marbled Carpet Dysstroma truncata
Peppered Moth Biston betularia
Flame Carpet Xanthorhoe designata
Pebble Hook-tip Drepana falcataria
Light Emerald Campaea margaritaria
Pebble Prominent Notodonta ziczac
Phoenix Eulithis prunata
Small Phoenix Ecliptopera silaceata
Flame Shoulder Ochropleura plecta
Burnished Brass Diachrysia chrysitis
White Ermine Spilosoma lubricipeda
July Belle Scotopteryx luridata
Dusky Brocade Apamea remissa
Middle-barred Minor Oligia fasciuncula
Shoulder-striped Wainscot Leucania comma
Marbled Minor agg. Oligia strigilis agg.
Iron Prominent Notodonta dromedarius
Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis cerasana
Birch Marble Apotomis betuletana
Stenoptilia pterodactyla
Argyresthia pygmaeella
Celypha lacunana
Crambus pratella
Coleophora species Coleophora sp.
Grey Pine Carpet Thera obeliscata
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Grey Pine Carpet

Peach Blossom

Pebble Hook Tip

Sallow Kitten

Sallow Kitten
Shoulder-striped Wainscot

Burnished Brass

Ermine and July Belle

Brown China Mark
Beautiful China Mark


Dalgety Bay 19/06/2018



Tuesday 19 June 2018

Dalgety Bay 17/07/2018

Brimstone
Freyer's
Dark Arches
Double Square-spot
Bee Moth
Marbled Minor agg.
Light Emerald
Scalloped Hazel
Clay
Common Marbled Carpet
LYU

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