A few more from the group trapping effort at Dymock.
Orange Moth |
Green Silver-lines |
Brindled White Spot |
Dingy Shell |
Blotched Emerald |
Minor Shoulder-knot |
Apotomis capreana |
Orthotaenia undulana |
Having travelled south on Monday I spent 2 days and nights moth trapping successfully in Bucks before migrating over to Herefordshire for another 2 nights of moth trapping plus a moth breakfast with Robin Hemming. I was in a sleep deprived haze at the cold and windy moth breakfast. Dymock Forest proved to be a warm and still night but moth numbers actually fell below expectations. It's too early to suggest accurate total species numbers between the various 7 traps in use, but typical catches were plus/minus 100 species, so maybe combined after all the micros have been identified, we'll be between 150 and 200 species, I suspect. The target was Orange moth and in total 5 were seen, 4 at one pair of traps and 1 and another location. A nice bonus was 6 Great Oal Beauty which arrived at one pair of traps but not elsewhere. The following night I went to Mowley Wood but it had turned wet then cold so nothing really to report from that spot, although the bottle of beer was nice and cold and Mars bar not soggy. Peter Hall
Dymock Forest: Beautiful Snout |
Dymock Forest: Great Oak Beauty |
Dymock Forest: Great Oak Beauty |
Dymock Forest: Orange moth |
2 species have showed up in my Hereford garden so far this month, out of the 4 total known from here. I've been hanging out lures for 4 others but to no avail so far. Lunar Hornet Moth was very nice to see, fantastic mimicry. Currant Clearwing is in the first pic.
John
I put out the LUN lure today to attract Lunar Hornet Moth.
No luck so far but at about 17:15 when I was checking it a micro moth began circling the trap and and then went in.
Turned out to be Triaxomasia caprimulgella which is thought to feed on dead wood.
I suspect there are very few Worcestershire records but it is known to be attracted to the LUN lure and we are likely to get more records with increasing use of pheremone lures.