Some really good species last night and hence the play on the Moody Blues title, I managed a White Satin, Satin Beauty and 2 Dark Sword-grass.
The Satin Beauty is still quite a scarce moth in the County, but maybe it isn't? To the untrained and tired eyes perhaps it looks just like a worn Willow Beauty, but check out those antennae!
The general shape, size and appearance just didn't look right either and as always with moths, if you have the other confusion species in the same night to compare then it makes identification a much easier task.
Sycamore surprised me. It is a species that I thought I had quite a good chance of catching, what with the 3 mature Sycamore trees running alongside the bridle path and within 50 metres of my light.
A pleasing 67 species in total.
Catch Report - 21/07/15 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap
Macro Moths
1x Satin Beauty [NFG]
1x Shaded Broad-bar [NFG]
1x Sycamore [NFG]
1x White Satin Moth [NFY]
1x Chinese Character [NFY]
1x Marbled Beauty
2x Cloaked Minor
2x Dark Sword-grass
1x Fern
3x Shuttle-shaped Dart
6x Uncertain
1x Flame Shoulder
2x Small Blood-vein
1x Herald
1x Early Thorn
2x Nut-tree Tussock
13x Dot Moth
3x Swallow-tailed Moth
3x Clay
1x Haworth's Pug
1x Elephant Hawk-moth
1x Smoky Wainscot
1x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
5x Riband Wave
16x Silver-Y
2x Yellow-tail
2x Mottled Beauty
2x Mottled Rustic
10x Common Rustic
1x Fan-foot
2x Burnished Brass
2x Large Yellow Underwing
1x Buff Footman
3x Scalloped Oak
3x Least Carpet
1x Brimstone Moth
1x Buff Arches
5x Heart & Dart
1x Heart & Club
1x Bright-line Brown-eye
2x Dun-bar
3x Common Footman
3x Small Fan-footed Wave
13x Dark Arches
1x Double Square-spot
Micro Moths
1x Scrobipalpa acuminatella [NFY]
2x Crambus perlella [NFY]
1x Cochylis hybridella [NFY]
1x Acleris variegana [NFY]
1x Crambus pascuella
1x Agonopterix heracliana
2x Agapeta hamana
1x Yponomeuta evonymella
6x Eudonia lacustrata
5x Eudonia mercurella
4x Udea prunalis
1x Amblyptilia acanthadactyla
12x Chrysoteuchia culmella
1x Anania hortulata
2x Acleris schalleriana
3x Celypha striana
1x Plutella xylostella
4x Endotricha flammealis
1x Paraswammerdamia nebulella
1x Blastobasis adustella
1x Phlyctaenia coronata
1x Pandemis heparana
Sycamore |
White Satin |
Cochylis hybridella |
Dark Sword-grass |
Satin Beauty |
Acleris variegana |
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