Hello

Hi, I'm Lee and have just moved into VC37 (Evesham) from VC38 (Bidford-on-Avon).

I started moth'ing in 2014 in my garden and also the occasional field trip, I like to take a trap whenever I travel for holidays too.

My new digs are on farmland on the outskirts of Evesham so quite open but close to the river and with some nice hedgerows.

I've had the trap out over my first week with most notable being Streamer and Pine Beauty.

As today has been glorious I thought I'd give the EMP lure a run out and was delighted to have this stunner turn up. That's the lure back in the freezer until March next year.

Looking forward to hopefully contributing to the moth records for VC37 and in seeing how my new garden compares to my last which gave me some great species.

Lee

Emperor Moth

 

I was pleased to see this male Emperor Moth on the farm at Norchard, Worcs, this afternoon at 3.15pm. attracted to my new lure. I-record says that it is outside the known range for the moth. I have had no luck in my garden so far. I live three miles from Hartlebury Common where the moth has already been seen this year.

Bringsty Common March 30th

 What an amazing day after such a long and cold winter. It stayed warmer into the night than forecast and the moths responded.  22 species and listed in no particular order: Frosted Green (1), Early Thorn (2), Small Quaker (19), Common Quaker (10), Twin-spotted Quaker (1), March (5), Engrailed (1), Shoulder Stripe (2), White-marked (4), Early Grey (2), Water Carpet (2), Oak Beauty (1), Pale Pinion (1), Clouded Drab (3), White-spotted Pug (1), Brindled Beauty (1), Early Tooth-striped (1), Brindled Pug (1), Chestnut (4), Diurnea fagella (1), Acleris literana (1) and 2 Caloptilia yet to be determined. The White-spotted Pug is early, so just to be absolutely certain, I've retained it for a closer loook. Peter Hall

Bringsty Common: Pale Pinion

 

 I took a pheremone lure, (MOL) to Grafton Wood (the Hereford one) today. In a brief period of sunshine one moth came in, a Pammene giganteana. Quite a distinctive moth when it was fulttering around the trap as it has silvery white hindwings with a black border. This is a particularly dark individual, most have a prominent white horseshoe mark. Peter informs me that this is the first county record since 1988!

Tuesday looks like a much better day weatherwise so I will have another go then, and maybe find a brighter individual.

Not much in my Hereford garden but the Powdered Quakers have started to arrive this week.

Bringsty Common update

I ran a Robinson trap here in the garden on the 23rd and caught the usual batch of moths plus a single female Lead-coloured Drab. This is the first record for me of this species here and then on the 25th, I caught my second one, this time a male. Spurred on by Penny's Scarlet Tiger larval records I gave my comfrey a better search and despite it being quite a small amount of comfrey, counted 111 larvae on it, mostly basking in the sunshine. Peter Hall

Bringsty Common: Lead-coloured Drab female

Bringsty Common: Lead-coloured Drab male

 

Trench Wood 23rd March

The first proper survey with MV lights was helped by cloud rolling in at 20:15. The Lead-coloured Drab colony is obviously still doing well with 4 in by 23:20. A Dotted Chestnut, 6 Red Chestnut, 2 Shoulder Stripe, 2 Engrailed, March Moth, Early Thorn, 4 Oak Beauty, Early Grey, 8 Twin-spotted Quaker, 2 Brindled Pug, a Yellow Horned, one Acleris cristana and lots of Diurnea fagella.

Scarlet Tiger Larvae Mansell Gamage

 I am seeing Scarlet Tiger larvae in my garden now, on comfrey.