Field Trip - Hexton Chalk Pit - 25/07/17

Below are the moths Trevor and myself recorded at Hexton Chalk Pit last Tuesday night.

74 Macros and 69 Micros (143 species in total) was a pleasing haul of species packing up at around 1am when the wind got up a bit, I presume that if we stayed later we would have added more.

The night was warm and relatively muggy with increasing cloud cover as the lights were switched on. At leaving time at 2am it was still 15 degrees.

Stand-out species were of course a fresh Annulet, only the second modern record, and also at least 8 examples of Teleiodes sequax, a Rock-rose feeding species and probably to be expected, again a rare moth for the County and probably confined to Chalk Grassland.

A single slightly worn Delplanqueia was kept for checking for either dilutella or inscriptella.

Acleris aspersana were absolutely everywhere and easily numbered 30+

Sitochroa palealis was also a first for me, and another Pyralid that seems to be confined to Hexton Chalk Pit in the County Paratalanta hyalinalis was recorded once again with 4 individuals.

All in all a pleasing effort and 4 new moths for me.

List below

Macro Moths

 

Annulet

Barred Hook-tip

Barred Rivulet

Black Arches

Brimstone

Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing

Brown-line Bright-eye

Buff Footman

Burnet Companion

Clay

Cloaked Minor

Clouded Silver

Common Carpet

Common Emerald

Common Rustic

Copper Underwing

Dark Arches

Dark Umber

Dingy Footman

Double Square-spot

Dun-bar

Dusky Sallow

Dusky Thorn

Dwarf Cream Wave

Engrailed

Fern

Flame Shoulder

Ghost Moth

Grey Dagger

Haworth's Pug

July Highflyer

Large Yellow Underwing

Least Carpet

Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing

Lesser Yellow Underwing

Light Arches

Lime-speck Pug

Maple Pug

Mottled Beauty

Mouse Moth

Nut-tree Tussock

Oak Eggar

Oak Hook-tip

Pale Prominent

Pebble Prominent

Poplar Grey

Pretty Chalk Carpet

Purple Bar

Red Twin-spot Carpet

Riband Wave

Rosy Minor

Royal Mantle

Ruby Tiger

Rustic

Scarce Footman

Setaceous Hebrew Character

Shaded Broad-bar

Shuttle-shaped Dart

Silver Y

Slender Brindle

Small Fan-footed Wave

Small Phoenix

Small Purple-barred

Small Scallop

Small Waved Umber

Smoky Wainscot

Spectacle

Straw Dot

Treble Brown Spot

White Satin

White-spotted Pug

Willow Beauty

Wood Carpet

Yellow shell

 

Micro Moths

 

Acentria ephemerella     

Acleris aspersana            

Acleris forsskaleana       

Acompsia schmidtiellus 

Acrobasis advenella        

Aethes cnicana 

Agapeta hamana             

Agapeta zoegana            

Agonopterix arenella     

Agonopterix kaekeritziana           

Agonopterix pallorella   

Agonopterix purpurea    

Agriphila straminella      

Agriphila tristella             

Anania hortulata             

Archips podana

Argyresthia albistria       

Argyresthia goedartella 

Aspilapteryx tringipennella          

Batia lunaris       

Blastobasis adustella      

Blastobasis lacticolella   

Bryotropha terrella         

Calamotropha paludella

Carcina quercana            

Catoptria pinella              

Celypha lacunana            

Chrysoteuchia culmella 

Cnephasia sp     

Cochylimorpha straminea            

Cochylis hybridella          

Crassa unitella   

Cydia fagiglandana         

Cydia pomonella             

Cydia splendana              

Delplanqueia dilutella inscriptella             

Emmelina monodactlya

Endothenia sp   

Endotricha flammealis   

Eucosma cana   

Eucosma conterminana 

Eucosma hohenwartiana              

Eudonia lacustrata          

Eulamprotes atrella        

Euzophera pinguis           

Hypsopygia costalis        

Mompha raschkiella       

Monopis weaverella       

Oncocera semirubella    

Pammene aurita             

Pandemis corylana         

Pandemis heparana

Paratalanta hyalinalis        

Paraswammerdamia albicapitella             

Phycita roborella             

Phycitodes binaevella    

Pleuroptya ruralis           

Plutella xylostella            

Prays fraxinella 

Pyrausta aurata

Pyrausta nigrata              

Pyrausta purpuralis         

Rhopobota naevana       

Scrobipalpa costella       

Scrobipalpa sp (to check)             

Sitochroa palealis            

Stenoptilia pterodactyla

Stenoptilia pterodactyla

Syncopacma sp 

Teleiodes sequax

 

Paratalanta hyalinalis

Annulet

Teleiodes sequax

Sitochroa palealis

Agonopterix kaekeritziana

Acompsia schmidtiellus

Acleris aspersana pair

Oncocera semirubella

Phycita roborella

Cochylimorpha sp

Delplanqueia dilutella inscriptella