Ceredigion Moths

Sunday, 27 March 2022

Herald - Cross Inn/ Nebo

New moth for me (according to Tony)

More moths generally. I've just had the house exterior cleaned. Now that it's "Persil White" I'm amazed at how many moths settle on the house wall...

A delayed entry from yesterday-at last some moths! We had 16 macro species from woodland and garden in spite of a minimum temperature of 1.9°C. These included our first Frosted Green for this year and a newly emerged Herald.

Carolyn & Evan

Wednesday, 23 March 2022

Spring moths at Ynys-hir

What a difference a light makes! We ran an MV Robinson trap last night and recorded 223 moths of 23 different species. The vast majority were Common Quaker (71) and Small Quaker (65). Other common Spring moths were: Clouded Drab (17), Hebrew Character (13), Chestnut (10), Oak Beauty (10), Twin-spotted Quaker (6), Early Grey (6), Brindled Pug (4), Dotted Border (1), Herald (1), March Moth (3), Early Thorn (2), Engrailed (2), Yellow Horned (1).

Firsts for us this year were: Double-striped Pug, Red Chestnut, Pale Pinion (2), Water Carpet.

The micros were: Diurnea fagella (4), Dyseriocrania subpurpurella, Caloptilia stigmatella, Agonopterix heracliana/ciliella.

Tony & Ina

Water Carpet

Red Chestnut

Pale Pinion

Double-striped Pug

Caloptilia stigmatella

Dyseriocrania subpurpurella

Tuesday, 22 March 2022

Spring has come to the garden

Species numbers are looking up in Talybont. Despite Tony putting some different egg boxes in the trap last night and consequently having almost as many spiders in there as moths, they all seemed to get on ok with very little collateral damage.

The D.daucella must have been hiding out in the shed for the winter I would assume and was very anxious to get away. In search of a mate while there is still time?

First Pug and Twin-spotted Quaker spotted in the garden this year.

Brindled Pug

Chestnut

Clouded Drab

Common Quaker

Early Grey

Hebrew Character

Twin-spotted Quaker

Depressaria daucella

Small Quaker

Friday, 18 March 2022

Talybont moths

Another 3 moths in the garden last night: Small and Common Quaker, Yellow Horned, a first for this year. Looking back at previous years records, this garden has never been very productive in March.

Tony & Ina

Wednesday, 16 March 2022

Aberystwyth garden

A mild-ish night with drizzle finally tempted me out of hibernation yesterday, but only as far as the back garden. 23 moths of 12 species was a welcome return. Highlights were Early Thorn, Pine Beauty and Acleris literana.