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Mothing again...

Posted by on June 25, 2006 3:25 PM | 

Cranked up the trap again for a few hours on Friday night (23.6.06), although it was cool, there was plenty of cloud and moths came in in numbers nearer midnight.

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Caught nothing out of the ordinary, but it was still nice (Tawny Owl calling as I blundered around in the glare of the bulb too).
I know both these shots are a bit blurry, but I like 'em because they show the eyes on the quivering Eyed Hawkmoth (above) and the nice pinkish wing patches of the Poplar Hawkmoth below.

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Small Angle Shades, although not rare, is one of my favourite moths too - look at the patterns!

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Anyway, I caught:

Large Yellow Underwing 15+
Scarce Silver Y 1
Heart and Dart 20+
Brimstone 15+
Grey Arches 7
Flame Shoulder 3
Spruce Carpet 1
Poplar Hawkmoth 2
Eyed Hawkmoth 1
Clouded Border 2
Peppered Moth 1
Silver Y 1
Garden Carpet 4
The Flame 7
Dark Arches 5+
Shaded Broad Bar 1
Common Wainscot 1
Spectacle 2
Snout 1
Common Footman 1
Buff Ermine 1
Marbled Minor 3
Marbled Beauty 2
Common Ear 3
Little Emerald 1
Small Magpie 1
Small Angle Shades 1
Foxglove Pug 1
Fanfoot 1
Lesser Yellow Underwing 2

Plus the usual shedloads of micros and carpets that I didn't have time to check out.....Thought I heard a Little Owl too, which would be weird in our neck of Ainsdale, but that could just have been the Shiraz....
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies.....

Comments (5)

Barrie wrote...

I'm not trying to out do you honest...but just this second I've just had a Hummingbird Hawkmoth pause in the garden here in SW Lincolnshire to feed on the honeysuckle and sweet william - if I'd followed the masses and watched the footie I'd have missed it.

Keep up the blog,

Barrie

Posted by: Barrie  | June 25, 2006 4:47 PM

john dempsey wrote...

Fear not Barrie - we have Hummingbird Hawks up here too, and believe me, they are a damn sight prettier than the England performance I witnessed this afternoon!
Cheers,
John

Posted by: john dempsey  | June 25, 2006 7:10 PM

Viki Brooks wrote...

We recently grew a moth from a cauliflower! Well, what I mean is, there was a caterpillar in a cauli that we bought from sainsburys so we decided to see if we could keep it going and to our surprise it did!
The newly hatched Angle Shades is doing quite well in a disused fish tank but I don't know what to feed it.
I have put a sugar and water solution in and a bit of banana (having reared Painted Lady butterflies
previously) but am not sure whether that's right or if I should just let it go and face the freezing nights. It's silly, I know, but I don't want it to die of the cold! Any ideas??

Posted by: Viki Brooks  | February 17, 2008 9:02 PM

john wrote...

Hi Viki - I'd keep your Sainsbury's Angle Shades in the fish tank for a while yet.
Foodplants are nettle, bramble, birch etc as a larvae, but if it has emerged as a moth, the adult won't say no to a bit of sugar, or even grass!
Good luck!

Posted by: john  | February 17, 2008 10:00 PM

Viki Brooks wrote...

Hi John.
Thanks for getting back to me so promptly. The moth is doing well and really loves the sugar - it's fascinating to watch it feed and the kids seem suitably impressed!
Will give the grass a try too! Thanks again.

Posted by: Viki Brooks  | February 18, 2008 10:46 AM

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