Saturday, 1 June 2013

Poor year....but that is more like it!

By recent standards, a superb selection of moths greeted me this morning at 5.30am, with 9 new for the year and 6 of them new for the garden, a grand total of 29 moths of 21 species was quite frankly overwhelming!
Best moth of the night was undoubtedly Epermenia chaerophyllella which is only my second record of this rather non-descript moth. My last record was on the 3rd of April 2008 in Essex so this is my first Hertfordshire example of this supposed 'common' moth?
Other than that all of the other species were to be expected.
Clouded Drab was nearly my first June example.....


Catch Report - 31/05/13 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson trap

Macro Moths

1x Peppered Moth [NFG]
1x Mottled Pug [NFG]
1x Rustic Shoulder-knot [NFG]
1x Silver-ground Carpet [NFG]
2x Common Swift [NFY]
1x Vine's Rustic [NFY]
1x Green Carpet [NFY]

3x Shuttle-shaped Dart
2x Red Twin-spot Carpet
1x Orange Footman
4x Brimstone Moth
1x Yellow-barred Brindle
1x Clouded Drab
1x Pebble Prominent
1x Flame Shoulder
1x Angle Shades
1x Nut-tree Tussock
1x Garden Carpet


Micro moths

1x Epermenia chaerophyllella [NFG]
2x Syndemis musculana [NFG]

1x Adela reamurella

Vine's Rustic












Epermenia chaerophyllella









Epermenia chaerophyllella in 2008











Common Swift









Green Carpet









Mottled Pug









Peppered Moth








Rustic Shoulder-knot










A pair of Syndemis musculana