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Cradley, Malvern, Worcs. U.K. SO729470
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Another trip to undisclosed woodland last night, did not yield a great deal. On arrival and after a cloudy day....the sky inevitablycleared and at half past midnight the moths had stopped altogether and the temperature had dropped to 7 degrees with a bright moon! 25/06/13 - 1x 125w MV Robinson, 1x 160w MBT Trap and 1x 80w Actinic Trap - 9.45pm til 1.00amMacro Moths1x Angle Shades1x Brimstone Moth2x Brown Rustic2x Buff Ermine1x Clouded Border1x Clouded Silver3x Common Carpet1x Common Marbled Carpet5x Common Swift1x Common Wave3x Common White Wave1x Fern10x Green Carpet2x Ingrailed Clay3x Light Emerald1x Lime Hawk-moth1x Maple Prominent1x Marbled Minor5x Pale Oak Beauty1x Pale Tussock1x Privet Hawk-moth1x Rivulet1x Scorched Wing2x Setaceous Hebrew Character10x Silver-ground CarpetMicro Moths3x Celypha lacunana1x Tinea semifulvella1x Nematopogon swammerdamella4x Hedya pruniana2x Udea olivalis2x Epiblema cynosbatella1x Eurrhypara hortulata1x Triaxomera parasitella
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Field Trip - 13/06/18 - Ashwell Quarry My second field trip of the year as to the far North-west of the County of Hertfordshire to Ashwell Quarry. I'm quite fond of this small disused chalk quarry and grassland, and i've had some fantastic species of the last few years that I have been recording here. This night back in mid-june was no different. In total over 4 lights (Sorry Mercury Blended trap, but I couldn't find your bulb...which I have now found luckily) I recorded 95 species of which only 36 were Macro Moths, leaving the Micro Moths to bolster the list by 59 species! The day had been warm at 25 degrees and the temperature was holding up nicely at dusk. Unfortunately the wind increased and with clear skies I was cursing the conditions from the offset (Particularly as it had been cloudy, still and muggy all day), there was now a distinct coolness in the breeze but I was determined to see what would turn up. It turned out to be worth it with one new moth for my records. There were at least 5 examplrs of Sloe Pug! Hardly surprising given the fact that the reserve is bordered by umpteen Prunus bushes, but the fact that I had never seen them before at this time of the year was a nice surprise in itself. Also Netted Pug made it's annual appearance, not a particularly fresh example mind. Both common species of Metzeneria turned up giving a nice comparison between the two species. Other than that, Tawny Shears was most welcome and another two good micros for the night were the distinctive Luquetia lobella and Telechrysis tripuncta, the latter quite scarce in the County. Below is the full list. 36 Macro and 59 Micro species recorded Catch Report - 13/06/18 - Ashwell Quarry - 1x 250w Frosted MV Robinson Trap, 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x twin 20w Wemite Actinic + 1x 40w Actinic & 15w LED corn light Macro Moths Bright-line Brown-eye Brown Rustic Cinnabar Clouded Brindle Common Wainscot Dagger sp Dark Spectacle Elephant Hawk-moth Eyed Hawk-moth Fern Freyer's Pug Garden Carpet Green Silver-lines Haworth's Pug Large Nutmeg Large Yellow Underwing Light Arches Middle-barred Minor Mottled Beauty Mottled Rustic Netted Pug Pale Prominent Pale Tussock Peppered Moth Poplar Grey Purple Bar Riband Wave Royal Mantle Sandy Carpet Scorched Wing Silver Y Sloe Pug [NEW!] Tawny Shears Treble Lines Wood Carpet Yellow Shell Micro Moths Agapeta hamana Agapeta zoegana Agonopterix arenella Anania hortulata Anania perlucidalis Ancylis achatana Anthophila fabriciana Aphomia sociella Argyresthia pruniella Blastobasis lacticolella Borkhausenia fuscescens Bryotropha terrella Celypha lacunana Chrysoteuchia culmella Clepsis consimiliana Cnephasia sp Cochylimorpha straminea Cochylis atricapitana Crambus lathoniellus Crambus pascuella Crambus perlella Crassa unitella Elachista apicipunctella Elachista atricomella Endrosis sarcitrella Ephestia sp Epinotia signatana Epiphyas postvittana Eucosma cana Eucosma hohenwartiana Eudonia pallida Eupoecilia angustana Hedya nubiferana Hedya pruniana Hypsopygia costalis Luquetia lobella Metzneria lappella Metzneria metzneriella Monopis crocicapitella Monopis laevigella Monopis obviella Nemapogon cloacella Notocelia cynosbatella Notocelia trimaculana Notocelia uddmanniana Pandemis cerasana Paraswammerdamia nebulella Phtheochroa rugosana Phtheochroa sodaliana Plutella xylostella Prays fraxinella Scoparia ambigualis Scoparia basistrigalis Scrobipalpa costella Stenoptilia pterodactyla Telechrysis tripuncta Teleiodes vulgella Tinea semifulvella Udea olivalis
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Dr. Heinz Levié: 20 Jahre Pelzmotte... - ...herzliche Glückwünsche ihr und ihren Gründern!
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Gladsaxe Municipality, Hovedstaden, Denmark
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Cradley, Malvern, Worcs. U.K. SO729470
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A huge catch last night for the conditions! and for this year which has been the worst recording year for moths since I started back in 2008.Lots of new for year's but highlights were 4 species of Hawk-moth, a second Cochylis molliculana and a pretty Cherry-bark Moth Enarmonia formosana. Catch Report - Braughing 17/06/12 - 2x 125w MV Robinson TrapMacro Moths2x Privet Hawk-moth [NFY]1x Eyed Hawk-moth [NFY]2x Vine's Rustic [NFY] 1x Common Rustic [NFY] 2x Mottled Rustic [NFY]1x Shoulder-striped Wainscot [NFY]2x Straw Dot [NFY]1x Pine Hawk-moth3x Dark Arches 1x White-point1x Beautiful Golden-Y2x Cinnabar3x Angle Shades2x Common Wainscot4x Flame2x Freyer's Pug2x Poplar Hawk-moth1x Beautiful Golden-Y1x Shuttle-shaped Dart2x Light Emerald4x Large Nutmeg1x Brimstone Moth2x Heart & Dart2x Scorched Wing6x Flame Shoulder7x Ingrailed Clay 1x Orange Footman 1x Brown Rustic1x Large Yellow Underwing5x Minor sp.2x Common Pug 1x Grey-pine Carpet1x Buff Ermine2x Snout3x Double Square-spot2x Burnished Brass3x Clouded Silver44x Common Swift1x Pale Tussock3x Ingrailed Clay1x Common Footman2x Treble Lines1x Spectacle1x Common Wave3x Ghost Moth 1x Middle-barred Minor3x White Ermine 1x Buff Ermine18x Setaceous Hebrew Character1x Silver-ground Carpet3x Rustic Shoulder-knotMicro Moths1x Epinotia biluna [NFY]1x Celypha striana [NFY]2x Tinea semifulvella [NFY]1x Eucosma cana [NFY] 1x Metzneria metzneriella [NFY]1x Rusty Dot Pearl Udea ferrugalis [NFY]1x Cherry-bark Moth Enarmonia formosana [NFY]2x Cochylimorpha straminea [NFY]1x Tinea trinotella 1x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana2x Aethes smeathmanniana1x Cochylis molliculana1x Agapeta hamana2x Small Magpie Eurrhypara hortulata19x Celypha lacunana4x Udea olivalis2x Bee Moth Aphomia sociella 2x Garden Pebble Evergestis forficalis2x Crambus lathoniellus3x Chrysoteuchia culmella1x Blastobasis laticolella 1x Plum Tortrix Hedya pruniana2x Scoparia ambigualis 3x Cnephasia sp.
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Found in my bedroom the other day, a really bad sign as it feeds on clothes... eeeek!
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Gladsaxe Municipality, Hovedstaden, Denmark
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Field Trip - Scales Park - 16/05/17 + New for County record! On Tuesday night I joined several fellow moth'ers to a very large Wood in the North-east corner of Hertfordshire for some moth trapping. We had been granted permission to be there because this is quite a highly guarded site with reasonable tight security as it has a shooting ground in the vicinity and use to be a main RAF/USAF base in WW2, in fact looking on a map from 1944, my traps were positioned right over where the bomb dump use to be! The weather was warm and sunny and up to 24 degrees in the afternoon but extremely windy which made netting nearly impossible! But by the evening the wind had dropped but the rain started as soon as we turned up and with less wind, it wasn't going to be blown through anytime soon. We got soaked and the equipment suffered as well with no less than 5 blown bulbs, luckily my gear just about survived although I had to throw a load of egg trays out as they were completely sodden and ripped. Firstly though, I managed to do some day-time netting before the night trapping effort and was rewarded with some great moths, including a new one for me, Pammene rhediella (unfortunately it was quite worn). Adela croesella also turned up, and is the County 3rd record after both 1st and 2nd County records were found in 2011 by myself and Andrew Wood on the same night! A joint County first record doesn't happen very often. In fact...was this to be a sign? Spookily Andrew and I may have caught the same moth again on the same night and a County first once again. Mine has been confirmed as of last night as the first South-east record of Pammene ignorata and the 12th County that it has been recorded in. Some great moths were found and a few are still pending identification including two possible Epinotia tetraquetrana which would also be a new moth for me, but having never seen it before I thought I would get it checked. I'm not pretty confident that it is Epinotia tetraquetrana. Day-time 16/05/17 - Scales Park - North-east Herts 1x Adela croesella 2x Adela fibulella 15+ Anthophila fabriciana 15+ Cauchas rufimitrella 5x Celypha lacunana 1x Common Pug 1x Crambus lathoniellus 2x Dichrorampha sp (to be gen det by Graeme Smith) 1x Dichrorampha plumbana 1x Epiblema scutulana sp (to be gen det by Graeme Smith) 2x Epinotia subocellana 1x Epinotia tedella 100+ Glyphipterix simpliciella 100+ Micropterix calthella 1x Monopis weaverella 1x Nemapogon schwarziellus 1x Notocelia cynosbatella 1x Orange Footman 1x Pammene rhediella [NEW!] 3x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1x Pyrausta aurata 1x Red Twin-spot Carpet 1x Rivulet 1x Silver-ground Carpet 1x Silver-Y 1x Syndemis musculana 3x Psyche casta (Case) Catch Report - 16/05/17 - Scales Park - North-east Herts - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap 1x Synergetic Skinner Trap & 1x 40w Actinic Trap 70 species Macro Moths 1x Angle Shades 1x Barred Hook-tip 2x Brimstone Moth 1x Brindled Pug 1x Broken-barred Carpet 2x Chinese Character 2x Clouded Border 2x Common Carpet 2x Common Pug 1x Common Swift 1x Common White Wave 15x Cream Wave 4x Flame Shoulder 2x Grey pine Carpet 2x Hebrew Character 1x Iron Prominent 5x Latticed Heath 1x Least black Arches 1x Light Emerald 2x Maiden's Blush 1x Maple Prominent 15x Mottled Pug 2x Nut-tree Tussock 5x Oak-tree Pug 60x Orange Footman 1x Pale Oak Beauty 2x Pale Prominent 10x Pale Tussock 5x Pebble Hook-tip 1x Pebble Prominent 1x Peppered Moth 3x Poplar Hawk-moth 5x Poplar Lutestring 5x Red Twin-spot Carpet 1x Rustic Shoulder-knot 1x Sandy Carpet 8x Scalloped Hazel 1x Scalloped Hook-tip 2x Scorched Carpet 4x Seraphim 1x Setaceous Hebrew Character 2x Silver-ground Carpet 5x Small Phoenix 1x Spectacle 1x Streamer 3x V-Pug 1x Waved umber 3x White Ermine 1x Yellow-barred Brindle Micro Moths 1x Agapeta hamana 1x Agonopterix arenella 1x Argyrotaenia ljungiana 5x Bucculatrix nigricomella 1x Caloptilia robustella/alchimiella 1x Crambus lathoniellus 1x Cryptoblabes bistriga 10+ Glyphipterix simpliciella 20+ Epinotia subocellana 5x Epinotia tedella 2x Epinotia tetraquetrana [NEW!] (to be gen det by Graeme Smith) 1x Endrosis sarcitrella 2x Eulia ministrana 1x Monopis weaverella 1x Notocelia cynosbatella 1x Pammene Ignorata [NEW!] (Gen det by Graeme Smith) 2x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1x Strophedra sp (to be gen det by Graeme Smith) 1x Swammerdamia caesiella?? (to be gen det by Graeme Smith) 3x Syndemis musculana 1x Tinea semifulvella
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Cradley, Malvern, Worcs, SO729470
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Field Trip - Ashwell Quarry - 22/05/17 On Monday night and after a really warm day peaking at around 25 degrees, it was off to Ashwell Quarry with traps in tow. Trevor and myself set about setting up all of the lights spread across the reserve covering nearly all of it. We did a little bit of 'dusking' before it was time to switch the lights on and turned up a few micros, notably Cauchas fibulella (Is this moth on every patch of Germander Speedwell in the County of does it just favour chalky areas where the plant seems to flourish?). The night started well and we had a bit of cloud cover to boot, but that did disappear eventually to leave a large clear sky and a slight drop in temperature to 13 degrees by 2am. The thing that did hamper us slightly was the fact that the wind got up a bit as the night went on. It was good to get Netted Pug which is still a scarce moth in the County and cracking to look at, also Trevor saw his first ever Pseudargyrotoza conwagana, a pretty little tortrix moth. Also a Geometer had us really stumped. To Trevor's trap we potted up a dark grey Emerald looking species, which after much searching of books and the web I finally settled on the rare 'nigra' form of Blood-vein, minus the vein marking and with a hint of 'blood' along the fringe of the forewings There a few outstanding specimens to be gen det, a Cochylis species and a Scrobipalpa species. Generally numbers were a little down on what we had hoped and we didn't quite get to the target of 100 species but nevertheless some good fresh specimens were observed and it was a pleasure to just get out there and give it a go! Catch Report - 22/05/17 - Ashwell Quarry - North-west Herts - 8 traps in total - 3x 125w MV Robinson Trap 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap 1x 40w Actinic + 15w LED Trap 1x 5w LED Trap Uva/uvb Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Trap 92 species Macro Moths Angle Shades Blood-vein Brimstone Moth Brown Rustic Common Pug Clouded Silver Common Carpet Common Marbled Carpet Common Swift Common Wainscot Figure of Eighty Flame Shoulder Garden Carpet Green Carpet Grey-pine Carpet Large Nutmeg Large Yellow Underwing Latticed Heath Least Black Arches Light Brocade Light Emerald Lime-speck Pug Marbled Minor Mottled Pug Netted Pug Oak Hook-tip Orange Footman Pale Tussock Poplar Grey Purple Bar Red-green Carpet Red Twin-spot Carpet Rustic Shoulder-knot Sandy Carpet Scorched Carpet Setaceous Hebrew Character Silver-ground Carpet Silver-Y Small Fan-foot Small Square-spot Small Waved Umber Snout Spectacle Treble Lines V-Pug Waved Umber White Ermine White-spotted Pug Willow Beauty Yellow-barred Brindle Micro Moths Aethes smeathmanniana Agapeta hamana Agonopterix alstromeriana Agonopterix arenella Aphomia sociella Argyresthia trifasciata Aspilapteryx tringipennella Blastobasis lacticolella Cauchas fibulella (Swept from Germander Speedwell) Celypha lacunana Cochylimorpha straminea Cochylis atricapitana Coleophora sp Crambus lathoniellus Depressaria radiella Dichrorampha alpinana Elachista argentella Endrosis sarcitrella Epiblema cirsiana/sticticana Epiphyas postvittana Esperia sulphurella Evergestis forficalis Glyphipterix simpliciella Hedya pruniana Homoeosoma sinuella Monopis crocicapitella Monopis laevigella Monopis weaverella Nemapogon cloacella Nematopogon swammerdamella Nematopogon schwarziellus Notocelia cynosbatella Notocelia trimaculana Plutella xylostella Pseudargyrotoza conwagana Scrobipalpa costella Scrobipalpa sp - to be gen det Scoparia ambigualis Scoparia pyralella Syndemis musculana Tinea semifulvella Udea olivalis
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edit] Description: Heatwave continues More trapping again this week and I put the trap out again on the most favourable night that the forecasters had predicted. Thursday morning saw me going through the trap once again at 6am and jotting down the species present. I would love to trap every night, but couldn't justify the time making lists day after day, often repeating the same species. The trap wasn't brimming this morning but there was one surprise towards the bottom. The wetland Pyralid Donacaula forficella. A little tatty but a very welcome addition to the ever growing garden list. A nice collection of Micros were also new for the year. Catch Report - 24/07/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap Macro Moths 1x Flounced Rustic [NFY] 1x Small Rivulet [NFY] 1x Black Arches 1x Bright-line Brown-eye 1x Brimstone Moth 1x Buff Arches 2x Buff Footman 1x Buff-tip 1x Cloaked Minor 1x Common Carpet 3x Common Footman 15x Common Rustic 1x Dark Arches 8x Dot Moth 1x Double Square-spot 1x Double-striped Pug 2x Dun-bar 1x Dwarf Cream Wave 1x Elephant Hawk-moth 2x Fern 2x Flame Shoulder 2x Garden Carpet 1x Grey Dagger 1x Large Twin-spot Carpet 1x Large Yellow Underwing 2x Least Carpet 3x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1x Light Arches 1x Maple Prominent 1x Maple Pug 1x Nutmeg 1x Pale Prominent 2x Peppered Moth 1x Phoenix 12x Riband Wave 2x Scalloped Oak 1x Scarce Footman 1x Setaceous Hebrew Character 1x Shuttle-shaped Dart 3x Single-dotted Wave 1x Small Emerald 1x Small Fan-footed Wave 1x Straw Underwing 2x Uncertain 1x Willow Beauty 2x Yellow Shell 2x Yellow-tail Micro Moths 1x Donacaula forficella [NFG] 1x Eucosma hohenwartiana [NFG] 2x Acentria ephemerella [NFY] 2x Hypatima rhomboidella [NFY] 1x Bucculatrix thoracella [NFY] 1x Tinea semifulvella [NFY] 1x Agriphila tristella [NFY] 1x Pyrausta aurata [NFY] 2x Phyllonorycter harrisella 1x Helcystogramma rufescens 1x Aphomia sociella 2x Pandemis corylana 3x Bryotropha terrella 1x Epiphyas postvittana 1x Cydia splendana 1x Phlyctaenia coronata 1x Celypha striana 3x Yponomeuta evonymella 4x Batia unitella 12x Plutella xylostella 2x Pleuroptya ruralis 2x Agapeta hamana 14x Endotricha flammealis 1x Spilonota ocellana 2x Phycita roborella 1x Udea prunalis 3x Eudonia mercurella 2x Agriphila straminella 2x Crambus perlella 1x Hypsopygia costalis 5x Chrysoteuchia culmella. Date: 25 July 2014, 08:29. Source:
[0246] Tinea semifulvella. Author:
Ben Sale from UK.
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Figure 9.—Clothes' moth.—(Tinea Pellionella) A. Head of Vestianella.—B. Eggs of Pellionella.—C. Worm emerging from the Egg.—D. The Moth, in its case, feeding.
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What a beauty! another new micro added to the Garden list.