Saturday 28 May 2011

This Little Piggy...

Small and Large Elephants.

Clouded Bordered Brindle of the form combusta

Angle Shades.
10 Degrees all night, windy and overcast with an odd shower.

Taxa
0017 Common Swift (Hepialus lupulinus) 12 inc a mating pair.
1076 Celypha lacunana 1
1727 Silver-ground Carpet (Xanthorhoe montanata) 2
1738 Common Carpet (Epirrhoe alternata) 1
1750 Water Carpet (Lampropteryx suffumata) 1
1776 Green Carpet (Colostygia pectinataria) 1
1837 Grey Pug (Eupithecia subfuscata) 1
1991 Elephant Hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor) 2
1992 Small Elephant Hawk-moth (Deilephila porcellus) 1 NFY
2003 Pebble Prominent (Notodonta ziczac) 1
2060 White Ermine (Spilosoma lubricipeda) 1
2089 Heart and Dart (Agrotis exclamationis) 3
2102 Flame Shoulder (Ochropleura plecta) 2
2123 Small Square-spot (Diarsia rubi) 4
2147 Shears (Hada plebeja) 1
2158 Pale-shouldered Brocade (Lacanobia thalassina) 2
2190 Hebrew Character (Orthosia gothica) 1
2302 Brown Rustic (Rusina ferruginea) 1
2305 Small Angle Shades (Euplexia lucipara) 1
2306 Angle Shades (Phlogophora meticulosa) 1 NFY
2326 Clouded-bordered Brindle (Apamea crenata) 2
2326 Clouded-bordered Brindle [melanic form] (Apamea crenata ab. combusta) 1 NFG
2334 Rustic Shoulder-knot (Apamea sordens) 4
2337x Marbled Minor agg. (Oligia strigilis agg.) 1
2441 Silver Y (Autographa gamma) 4
2442 Beautiful Golden Y (Autographa pulchrina) 3

55 Moths of 25 species.

Also this morning,

1870 Chimney Sweeper (Odezia atrata) at least 57 in a quick binocular scan of Howick Pond Field this morning. There may have been double this number!

Chimney Sweeper

2 comments:

  1. The large and small Elephants look good together, Stewart. And I particularly like your Chimney Sweeper picture - I must try to get a better picture of one this year.

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  2. Just visited your Moth website Stewart - it's excellent. Congratulations.

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