Ynys-hir 25th Feb

Another mothing session at Ynys-hir last night. 
We caught 9 species, the most numerous of which was Tortricodes alternella, 39 in and around the trap.

Satellite

The others were Dotted Border, Spring Usher, Pale Brindled Beauty (both forms), Chestnut, Hebrew Character, Mottled Grey, Satellite and Early Grey.

Early Grey

February Mothing

We set two traps two nights ago, one in our garden and the other in nearby mixed woodland with a total of eight moths - a fresh Mottled Grey, Oak Beauty, Spring Usher and 5 Chestnuts.

Carolyn & Evan

Mottled Grey

Oak Beauty

Spring Usher

Spring Usher and T.alternella

Much colder this week for mothing at Ynys-hir, but we thought this could be the best night of the week.
A much lower count than last week too, only 15 Spring Usher, 1 Dotted Border and 1 Tortricodes alternella.

Spring Usher

T.alternella

Acleris cristana

Despite the high winds last night we had a good catch from 2 heath traps in some oak woodland at Ynys-hir. There were 48 Spring usher, 8 Pale brindled beauty, 5 Dotted border, 4 Chestnut, 2 Mottled umber, 12 Tortricodes alternella, and this Acleris cristana.

 

According to the field guides this is an extremely variable moth with over 130 known forms and a rarely recorded moth in the county.

 

Hebrew Character Flight Period

Sarah,

Here is both the distribution and flight period of the Hebrew Character

Evan

Shore Wainscot anyone?

At Ynys Las today and wondered how the Shore Wainscot larvae have coped with this!  There has been a large scale re-arrangement of sand so they may have had a long walk to the nearest bit of marram grass.  Interestingly the sand is also eroded on the estuary side.  Hopefully the name 'Shore' may not be too literal and there will be plenty in the dunes where they only have to contend with rabbits and dogs re-arranging the sand.

Emoth News

The latest Emoth is now available from the Mothscount web site.  Link Below.
http://www.mothscount.org/article/56/37/e_moth_january_2014_published.html