Saturday 30 October 2021
Very little reported last night, but a rather nice November Moth & another Musotima!
Friday 29 October 2021
Latest from the moth trap - 28/10/21 - Fordham Garden
Thursday 28 October 2021
Exceptionally mild, windy and rather poor!
Mottled Umber |
Yellow-line Quaker |
Sunday 24 October 2021
Latest from the moth trap - 23/10/21 - Fordham Garden
Saturday 23 October 2021
Latest from the home trap (22/10/21) - Fordham, East Cambridgeshire
Thursday 21 October 2021
Caloptilia betulicola on a sopping night
Wednesday 20 October 2021
Chestnut makes it 210 species for the garden
Tuesday 19 October 2021
Gem strikes twice in Fordham! (But not in my garden)
Leslie Gardiner trapped this Female Gem to his Actinic light on Sunday night. Subsequently Leslie has now caught another last night, a Male! Lightning does strike twice afterall. Leslie lives just a stones throw from my garden here in Fordham, East Cambridgeshire.
The last and only record for my old garden in Stevenage, was in August 2013! And that was a Male.
Gem (Leslie Gardiner) - 17/10/21 |
Gem - Stevenage garden - 14/08/13 |
Monday 18 October 2021
Latest from the moth trap - 17/10/21 - Fordham Garden
Red-line Quaker |
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Clifden nonpareil |
Saturday 16 October 2021
Latest from the moth trap - 14/10/21 - Fordham Garden
Common Marbled Carpet |
Dark Chestnut |
Garden Carpet |
Juniper Carpet |
Monopis crocicapitella |
November Moth |
Pale November Moth (Leslie Gardiner) |
Thursday 14 October 2021
Juniper Carpet - Moth species no.207
Wednesday 13 October 2021
Euzopherodes vapidella - New to Britain - 19/06/21
Monday 11 October 2021
9 of 6 & 6 at 6
Sunday 10 October 2021
Latest from the moth trap - 08/10/21 & 09/10/21 - Fordham Garden
Phyllonorycter messaniella |
Grey-shoulder-knot |
Large Wainscots |
Friday 8 October 2021
Latest Catch Report - 07/10/21 - Fordham Garden
Barred Sallow |
Beaded Chestnuts |
Blastobasis lacticolella |
Bright-line Brown-eye |
Pine Carpet |
Udea ferrugalis |
Monday 4 October 2021
Dark Chestnut makes it moth species no.200 for my garden.
A rather smartly marked Dark Chestnut was new for my garden last night here in Fordham, East Cambridgeshire. It makes it the 200th species for my garden since moving here at the end of August.
With no Facebook to post to, this will have to do :D
Chippenham Fen - Field Trip - 25/09/21
I made my last field trip of the year last Saturday night to my local nature reserve, Chippenham Fen.
The day had been mild but a bit breezy and this theme continued into the night, but with a minimum of 15 degrees expected, it was a last chance saloon.
It started well, but then the sky cleared and the temperature cooled somewhat and a mist shrouded all of the lights by around 11pm, not ideal and consequently the moths just stopped flying.
I packed up just before midnight with a reasonable selection of early Autumn moths.
Despite recording 22 Barred Sallow, I still to this date (04/10/21) haven't had one in the garden yet!
Some late records were observed, namely the following species..
Agapeta hamana
Apotomis betuletana
Argyresthia goedartella
Chevron
Grapholita funebrana
Spectacle
Straw Dot
All 7 species are my latest ever records since starting moth recording in 2006.
Two Epinotia species are almost certainly the Aspen feeding cinereana, one has been retained.
Catch Report - Chippenham Fen - Cambridgeshire - 25/09/21 - 3 traps - 1x 250w Clear MV Robinson Trap & 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap & 1x 160w MBT Trap
26 Macro Moth Species and 15 Micro Moth Species - 41 Species in total.
Macro Moths
Angle Shades 2
Barred Sallow 22
Black Rustic 1
Brimstone Moth 2
Centre-barred Sallow 18
Chevron 1
Common Marbled Carpet 1
Copper Underwing 1
Deep-brown Dart 2
Dingy Footman 1
Frosted Orange 3
Green Carpet 1
Large Wainscot 2
Large Yellow Underwing 1
Light Emerald 1
Lunar Underwing 25
Lunar Yellow Underwing 1
Pink-barred Sallow 2
Red-green Carpet 1
Setaceous Hebrew Character 10
Small Fan-footed Wave 1
Small Wainscot 4
Snout 2
Spectacle 1
Straw Dot 1
Willow Beauty 1
Micro Moths
Acleris comariana/laterana 2 (1 Retained TBC)
Agapeta hamana 1
Apotomis betuletana 1
Argyresthia goedartella 2
Cameraria ohridella l
Emmetia marginea l
Endrosis sarcitrella l
Epinotia cinereana/nisella 2 (1 Retained TBC)
Epinotia ramella l
Epiphyas postvittana l
Eudonia pallida 1
Grapholita funebrana 1
Hofmannophila pseudosprestella l
Phyllonorycter messaniella 1
Scrobipalpa ocellatella 3