A superb evening was to be had at Parndon on tuesday night, I decided to moth trap in conjunction with the bat walk which commenced at 9pm (which was a tad early as it really did not get dark until nearly 10pm) Plenty of bats observed and slowly but surely after turning both traps on the moths started to turn up, micro's at first, mainly Tortrix viridana and Pandemis cerasana.
I intended on staying with the trap and packing up at 12am, but this was not to be the case as at least 6 Hornet's spoilt it! so I decided to return at 3am and hoped that the Hornet's would be much calmer, indeed the theory proved correct!
Lots and lots of moths found including two species totally new for me, Lackey & Bird's Wing with an unusual butterfly encounter too! a first Purple Hairstreak.
Many other good species included the Nationally Scarce B species Waved Black and the local Lunar-spotted Pinion & September Thorn.
Pictures
Lackey (one of two)
Bird's Wing
Waved Black
Purple Hairstreak
Lunar-spotted Pinion
September Thorn
Lilac Beauty
Catch Report - Parndon Wood - 06/07/10 - 2x 125w MV Robinson Traps
Macro Moths
1x Bird's Wing [NFS]
2x Lackey [NFS]
1x Waved Black [NFS]
1x Lunar-spotted Pinion [NFS]
6x September Thorn [NFS]
1x Lilac Beauty [NFS]
6x Dun-bar [NFS]
1x Light Arches [NFS]
1x Drinker [NFS]
3x Small Fan-footed Wave
3x Marbled White-spot
1x Peach Blossom
7x Common Footman
1x Scarce Footman
4x Buff Footman
12x Riband Wave
2x Common Wave
1x Common White Wave
2x Setaceous Hebrew Character
4x Heart & Dart
2x Treble Brown Spot
3x Snout
5x Mottled Beauty
6x Buff-tip
1x Ghost Moth
4x Light Emerald
2x Black Arches
1x Common Carpet
2x Engrailed
3x Willow Beauty
6x Marbled Minor
2x Brown-tail
1x Peppered Moth
9x Uncertain
1x Rustic
4x Elephant Hawk-moth
5x Buff Arches
1x Flame Shoulder
1x Lesser Common/Common Rustic
10x Dark Arches
1x Common Wainscot
1x Smoky Wainscot
2x Dusky Brocade
1x Clouded Silver
1x Maiden's Blush
3x Green Pug
1x Bright-line Brown-eye
2x Brown Rustic
1x Short Cloaked Moth
1x Buff Ermine
4x Common Emerald
1x Shoulder-striped Wainscot
Micro Moths
4x Bramble Shoot Moth Epiblema uddmanniana [NFS]
1x Juniper Webber Dichomeris marginella [NFS]
4x Phycita roborella [NFS]
11x Conobathra repandana
3x Carcina quercana
19x Crambus perlella
12x Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis cerasana
24x Crambus lathoniellus
22x Green Oak Tortrix Tortrix viridana
3x Red-barred Tortrix Ditula angustiorana
13x Aleimma loeflingiana
2x Bee Moth Aphomia sociella
5x Eudonia mercurella
6x Large Fruit-tree Tortrix Archips podana
3x Orthopygia glaucinalis
2x Gold Triangle Hypsopygia costalis
2x Endotricha flammealis
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
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Well done with the 2 new moths & the Hairstreak.
ReplyDeleteI once had a Red Admiral in the trap.
Cheers Dean, yes i've heard they are also atracted to light.
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