Chalk Carpet

Had a trip down to Grays Chalk Pit on Tuesday evening and Graham Bailey, Don Down and myself were rewarded with a single Chalk Carpet, a moth that was last seen at this locality back in 1984! naturally we were all chuffed
Other species of note included a single Festoon and a new Micro Moth Cryptoblabes bistriga


Grays Chalk Pit - 26/07/11


Macro Moths

1x Festoon [NEW!]

1x Oak Hook-tip

1x Pebble Hook-tip

1x Peach Blossom

4x Small Emerald

3x Least Carpet

20x Small Fan-footed Wave

1x Dwarf Cream Wave

1x Small Scallop

20x Riband Wave

1x Chalk Carpet [NEW!]

2x Shaded Broad-bar

1x Common Carpet

2x Yellow Shell

1x Phoenix

5x July Highflyer

1x Small Waved Umber

1x Fern

1x Slender Pug

1x Lime-speck Pug

2x Bordered Pug

3x Double-striped Pug

1x Yellow-barred Brindle

1x Clouded Border

4x Brimstone Moth

2x Canary-shouldered Thorn

1x Early Thorn

1x Scalloped Oak

2x Willow Beauty

1x Common White Wave

1x Common Wave

3x Iron Prominent

1x Lesser Swallow Prominent

1x Brown-tail

1x Black Arches

5x Dingy Footman

10x Scarce Footman

3x Common Footman

1x Pebble Prominent

1x Buff Footman

1x Common Lutestring

1x Rustic

1x Dark Sword-grass

2x Turnip Moth

8x Shuttle-shaped Dart

12x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing

2x Double Square-spot

10x Clay

1x Knot Grass

4x Tree-lichen Beauty

1x Copper Underwing

1x Old Lady

1x Lesser-spotted Pinion

3x Dun-bar

2x Dark Arches

7x Cloaked Minor

2x Bulrush Wainscot

1x Nut-tree Tussock

2x Silver-Y

1x Snout

1x Fan-foot

Chalk Carpet









Festoon










Micro Moths

1x Yponomeuta sp.

2x Argyresthia goedartella

1x Scythropia crataegella Hawthorn Moth

1x Ypsolopha scabrella

1x Batia unitella

2x Hofmannophila pseudospretella

2x Carcina quercana

1x Carpatolechia alburnella

1x Anacampsis blattariella

1x Brachmia blandella

2x Blastobasis adustella

1x Ditula angustiorana Red-barred Tortrix

1x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana

2x Acleris forsskaleana

3x Hedya pruniana Plum Tortrix

1x Apotomis betuletana

3x Eudemis profundana

1x Epinotia ramella

1x Epinotia nisella

1x Zeiraphera isertana

1x Epiblema trimaculana

1x Eucosma cana

5x Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer

1x Catoptria pinella

1x Scoparia subfusca

1x Eudonia pallida

1x Dipleurina lacustrata

1x Parapoynx stratiotata

1x Phlyctaenia coronata

3x Pleuroptya ruralis Mother of Pearl

5x Endotricha flammealis

1x Cryptoblabes bistriga [NEW!]

3x Trachycera advenella

3x Oncocera semirubella

5x Phycita roborella

Cryptoblabes bistriga