Common marbled carpet

The garden trap last night caught 12 macro species and 2 micros. The common marbled carpet and Small phoenix looked very fresh. Other firsts for us this year were Flame shoulder and Shoulder stripe. The micros were Alucita hexadactyla (Twenty-plume) and Elachista canapennella.

Twenty-plume

Small phoenix

Common marbled carpet

Red Twin-spot Carpet

With a promise of frost later in the week we thought we had better trap in the garden while the going was good.
A ladder was needed to pot some of the pugs on the wall, but binoculars were needed for the Garden Carpet and Great Prominent further up.  Good fun this mothing business!!
New for the garden this year were Muslin Moth, Lsr Swallow Prominent, Red Twin-spot Carpet and the afore mentioned Garden Carpet.
Some photos below show the features on the underside of Red Twin-spot which are more brightly coloured orange/brown on the tip of the forewing than the Dark-barred Twin-spot.  And a Muslin Moth on my pencil...just because I like them!

Streamer

Four traps in and around our property yielded 14 macro species with the best catches in the woodland protected from the wind.  Common Quakers have ruled supreme this year unlike the Small Quakers of last year.  New for us this season were Streamer, Lesser Swallow Prominent, Least Black Arches and Brown Silver-line. 

Carolyn & Evan

Streamer

Lesser Swallow Prominent

Least Black Arches

Phyllonorycter sp.

Here is a photo of the unidentified Phyllonorycter micro moth caught at Ynys-hir yesterday. Apologies for the poor quality but it is so difficult to get these little moths to sit still.

White-marked Distribution

Sarah,

Here is the map for the White-marked.  Look carefully in the south west corner
of the map as they are black open circles - pre 2000.

Evan

Ynys-hir

A cold, clear night produced 60 moths from 2 traps, one being a new Skinner with 125W MV bulb. There were 16 macro species and 1 micro. Common quaker and Hebrew character were the most abundant, others were: Brindled pug, Brown silver-line, Powdered quaker, Brimstone moth, Flame carpet, Red-green carpet, Great prominent, Early tooth-striped, Early grey, Scalloped hazel, Clouded drab, Lunar marbled brown, Iron prominent, and Chestnut. The micro is Phyllonorycter ?

Scalloped hazel

Blossom Underwing Distribution

Peter,

A good record.  Not many of them around!

Evan