Crassa tinctella

Last Saturday night here at Warndon, Worcester I was not expecting much but put the garden Robbo on anyway - 'just in case'. Next morning only 10 species were identified. However one was totally unfamiliar to me and checking books and photos I was fairly happy it was Crassa tinctella. Considering there had not been one in Worcs since June 1885 I decided to have it checked by Patrick Clement and the result was a re-sounding 'positive male'. A postscript to this is that another was attracted to light in the Shropshire side of the Wyre Forest on Wednesday night by Patrick and so it appears the species is having a good year. A friend of mine caught another near Swindon in Wiltshire last night.


Crassa tinctella

Buckenhill Wood May 21st 2020

The intention was to run a trap in the wood and another in the reversion field next to it, but there was a gang of young Herefords grazing and they'd grazed it down to not so much in the way of vegetation, so I ran two traps in the wood, not the best location for this time of year. The wood is opposite Siege Wood and I hope to trap there again later this year. Perfect start conditions, but after 2 hours the rain started and as the rainfall radar app was showing quite a lot about to arrive, I packed up early. As such, the list was a bit shorter than it maybe should have been, but mysef and equipment all stayed fairly dry. And compared to the trap in the garden, this was a quiet night out. Poplar Kitten probably the best record and maybe a Devon Carpet as well. It was just nice to get out again.. Peter Hall

Bringsty Common: Udea olivalis

Bringsty Common: Ingrailed Clay

Bringsty Common: Green Silver-lines

Bringsty Common: Poplar Kitten

Bringsty Common: Common White Wave

Buckenhill Wood 21/05/2020

SpeciesName	OtherName
Agapeta hamana
Anania hortulata	Small Magpie
Aphomia sociella	Bee
Brimstone Moth	Opisthograptis luteolata
Brown Silver-line	Petrophora chlorosata
Capua vulgana
Clouded Border	Lomaspilis marginata
Common Carpet	Epirrhoe alternata
Common Marbled Carpet	Dysstroma truncata
Common Pug	Eupithecia vulgata
Common Swift	Korscheltellus lupulina
Common White Wave	Cabera pusaria
Coronet	Craniophora ligustri
Devon Carpet	Lampropteryx otregiata
Dwarf Pug	Eupithecia tantillaria
Esperia sulphurella
Flame Carpet	Xanthorhoe designata
Flame Shoulder	Ochropleura plecta
Green Carpet	Colostygia pectinataria
Green Silver-lines	Pseudoips prasinana
Grey Pine Carpet	Thera obeliscata
Heart & Dart	Agrotis exclamationis
Ingrailed Clay	Diarsia mendica
Light Emerald	Campaea margaritaria
Marbled White Spot	Deltote pygarga
Monopis weaverella
Mottled Pug	Eupithecia exiguata
Notocelia cynosbatella
Notocelia trimaculana
Nut-tree Tussock	Colocasia coryli
Orange Footman	Eilema sororcula
Pale Tussock	Calliteara pudibunda
Poplar Hawk	Laothoe populi
Poplar Kitten	Furcula bifida
Scalloped Hazel	Odontopera bidentata
Seraphim	Lobophora halterata
Silver-ground Carpet	Xanthorhoe montanata
Small Phoenix	Ecliptopera silaceata
Spectacle	Abrostola tripartita
Spruce Carpet	Thera britannica
Straw Dot	Rivula sericealis
Tawny-barred Angle	Macaria liturata
Udea olivalis
V-Pug	Chloroclystis v-ata
Waved Umber	Menophra abruptaria
White Ermine	Spilosoma lubricipeda
White-spotted Pug	Eupithecia tripunctaria

Bringsty Common

Bringsty Common has been pretty good these past days. On the 19th I recorded exactly 60 species in the garden, running two Robinsons. The 20th similar with 57 species. I went off to trap at Buckenhill Wood on the 21st and took 2 Robinsons, which left me with one to run in the garden on that night. 82 species so far. Peter Hall

Bringsty Common: Puss moth

Site List 21/05/2020

SpeciesName	OtherName
Alder Kitten	Furcula bicuspis
Anania fuscalis
Anania hortulata	Small Magpie
Anthophila fabriciana
Beautiful Golden Y	Autographa pulchrina
Bright-line Brown-eye	Lacanobia oleracea
Brimstone Moth	Opisthograptis luteolata
Broken-barred Carpet	Electrophaes corylata
Brown Rustic	Rusina ferruginea
Brown Silver-line	Petrophora chlorosata
Buff Ermine	Spilosoma lutea
Buff-tip	Phalera bucephala
Celypha lacunana
Clouded Border	Lomaspilis marginata
Clouded Silver	Lomographa temerata
Common Carpet	Epirrhoe alternata
Common Marbled Carpet	Dysstroma truncata
Common Pug	Eupithecia vulgata
Common Swift	Korscheltellus lupulina
Common Wainscot	Mythimna pallens
Common White Wave	Cabera pusaria
Coronet	Craniophora ligustri
Coxcomb Prominent	Ptilodon capucina
Crambus lathoniellus
Cream Wave	Scopula floslactata
Elachista canapennella
Elephant Hawk	Deilephila elpenor
Epiphyas postvittana	Light Brown Apple
Eulia ministrana
Eyed Hawk	Smerinthus ocellata
Flame	Axylia putris
Flame Carpet	Xanthorhoe designata
Flame Shoulder	Ochropleura plecta
Grass Rivulet	Perizoma albulata
Green Carpet	Colostygia pectinataria
Grey Birch	Aethalura punctulata
Grey Pine Carpet	Thera obeliscata
Heart & Dart	Agrotis exclamationis
Hedya pruniana
Herald	Scoliopteryx libatrix
Iron Prominent	Notodonta dromedarius
Knot Grass	Acronicta rumicis
Lathronympha strigana
Least Black Arches	Nola confusalis
Lesser Swallow Prominent	Pheosia gnoma
Light Emerald	Campaea margaritaria
Lime Hawk	Mimas tiliae
Lobster	Stauropus fagi
Marbled White Spot	Deltote pygarga
Middle-barred Minor	Oligia fasciuncula
Monopis weaverella
Mottled Pug	Eupithecia exiguata
Muslin	Diaphora mendica
Notocelia cynosbatella
Notocelia trimaculana
Nut-tree Tussock	Colocasia coryli
Orange Footman	Eilema sororcula
Pale Tussock	Calliteara pudibunda
Pebble Hook-tip	Drepana falcataria
Peppered	Biston betularia
Poplar Hawk	Laothoe populi
Puss	Cerura vinula
Pyrausta aurata	(daytime)
Pyrausta aurata	(moth trap)
Rustic Shoulder-knot	Apamea sordens
Sallow Kitten	Furcula furcula
Scalloped Hazel	Odontopera bidentata
Scoparia ambigualis
Scorched Wing	Plagodis dolabraria
Seraphim	Lobophora halterata
Setaceous Hebrew Character	Xestia c-nigrum
Shoulder-striped Wainscot	Leucania comma
Small Phoenix	Ecliptopera silaceata
Spectacle	Abrostola tripartita
Straw Dot	Rivula sericealis
Syndemis musculana
Tinea trinotella
Treble Lines	Charanyca trigrammica
Udea olivalis
White Ermine	Spilosoma lubricipeda
Yellow-barred Brindle	Acasis viretata
Ypsolopha mucronella

A valued porch

I had to move my actinic into the porch last night to avoid the rain but was rewarded by my first Lunar Thorn for a couple of years. The Waring/Townsend field guide states that these are 'now very scarce in the Midlands' so I suppose Herefordshire is near the edge of the range.

I also potted a Tortricid from the porch window a couple of days ago and have just looked at it and think it may be a Pammene germmana. The palps are out of focus in this pic but look noticably white.

The lure of Bringsty Common

On the advise of my friend Dave Wilton, I got the FOR lure out of the freezer, put it in a pheromone trap and took it down to the nearest dingle where there's quite a bit of sallow and willow and left it there for 3 hours. I'm pleased to say there was a single Red-tipped Clearwing in the trap when I went to fetch it back. Very few county records for this one. I'll write something about moth trap catches tomorrow Peter Hall

Bringsty Common: Red-tipped Clearwing

Herefordshire: All records for Red-tipped Clearwing

 

Slightly belated news from a mega moth night at Whitchurch in the Wye Valley. 77 species were identified of which 3 were new for the site, Monopis weaverella, P.combinella & Ochreous Pug. No less than 6 Buttoned Snout came in and there were loads new for 2020 and really early too.

Full List

A quick summary of catch at <site> on <date> [Whitchurch - Greenland Villa] [9/5/20]

Taxa
12.033  a moth (Tinea trinotella)  1
12.037  a moth (Monopis weaverella)  1
16.014  a moth (Pseudoswammerdamia combinella)  1
18.001  Diamond-back Moth (Plutella xylostella)  1
28.010  Brown House-moth (Hofmannophila pseudospretella)  1
45.044  Common Plume (Emmelina monodactyla)  1
49.022  a moth (Ptycholoma lecheana)  1
49.039  Light Brown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana)  10
49.156  Marbled Orchard Tortrix (Hedya nubiferana)  1
49.166  a moth (Celypha lacunana)  1
49.240  a moth (Epinotia immundana)  2
49.292  a moth (Notocelia cynosbatella)  1
62.001  Bee Moth (Aphomia sociella)  3
62.065  a moth (Ephestia unicolorella)  1
63.025  Small Magpie (Anania hortulata)  1
63.057  Garden Pebble (Evergestis forficalis)  1
63.064  a moth (Scoparia ambigualis)  1
65.005  Pebble Hook-tip (Drepana falcataria)  2
65.007  Chinese Character (Cilix glaucata)  2
65.008  Peach Blossom (Thyatira batis)  1
69.003  Poplar Hawk-moth (Laothoe populi)  3
69.016  Elephant Hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor)  1
69.017  Small Elephant Hawk-moth (Deilephila porcellus)  1
70.027  Cream Wave (Scopula floslactata)  1
70.031  Mocha (Cyclophora annularia)  1
70.051  Red Twin-spot Carpet (Xanthorhoe spadicearia)  4
70.053  Flame Carpet (Xanthorhoe designata)  1
70.061  Common Carpet (Epirrhoe alternata)  1
70.079  Spruce Carpet (Thera britannica)  1
70.094  Small Phoenix (Ecliptopera silaceata)  1
70.095  Red-Green Carpet (Chloroclysta siterata)  1
70.097  Common Marbled Carpet (Dysstroma truncata)  1
70.100  Green Carpet (Colostygia pectinataria)  2
70.126  Small Waved Umber (Horisme vitalbata)  1
70.138  Sandy Carpet (Perizoma flavofasciata)  1
70.142  V-Pug (Chloroclystis v-ata)  1
70.156  Brindled Pug (Eupithecia abbreviata)  1
70.157  Oak-tree Pug (Eupithecia dodoneata)  1
70.171  Ochreous Pug (Eupithecia indigata)  1
70.183  Common Pug (Eupithecia vulgata)  4
70.198  Seraphim (Lobophora halterata)  1
70.200  Yellow-barred Brindle (Acasis viretata)  2
70.208  Scorched Carpet (Ligdia adustata)  3
70.226  Brimstone Moth (Opisthograptis luteolata)  2
70.240  Scalloped Hazel (Odontopera bidentata)  1
70.248  Brindled Beauty (Lycia hirtaria)  2
70.252  Peppered Moth (Biston betularia)  1
70.257  Waved Umber (Menophra abruptaria)  1
70.258  Willow Beauty (Peribatodes rhomboidaria)  1
70.279  White-pinion Spotted (Lomographa bimaculata)  1
70.283  Light Emerald (Campaea margaritaria)  2
71.003  Puss Moth (Cerura vinula)  1
71.006  Alder Kitten (Furcula bicuspis)  1
71.012  Iron Prominent (Notodonta dromedarius)  1
71.016  Great Prominent (Peridea anceps)  1
71.018  Lesser Swallow Prominent (Pheosia gnoma)  1
71.021  Coxcomb Prominent (Ptilodon capucina)  1
71.025  Buff-tip (Phalera bucephala)  4
72.004  Buttoned Snout (Hypena rostralis)  6
72.015  Pale Tussock (Calliteara pudibunda)  6
72.019  Buff Ermine (Spilosoma lutea)  1
72.020  White Ermine (Spilosoma lubricipeda)  3
72.022  Muslin Moth (Diaphora mendica)  2
72.031  Cinnabar (Tyria jacobaeae)  1
73.001  Spectacle (Abrostola tripartita)  2
73.015  Silver Y (Autographa gamma)  1
73.032  Nut-tree Tussock (Colocasia coryli)  3
73.095  Pale Mottled Willow (Caradrina clavipalpis)  1
73.099  Vine's Rustic (Hoplodrina ambigua)  1
73.101  Treble Lines (Charanyca trigrammica)  5
73.249  Hebrew Character (Orthosia gothica)  3
73.251  Silver Cloud (Egira conspicillaris)  1
73.267  Bright-line Brown-eye (Lacanobia oleracea)  1
73.317  Heart and Dart (Agrotis exclamationis)  2
73.325  Shuttle-shaped Dart (Agrotis puta)  4
73.329  Flame Shoulder (Ochropleura plecta)  2
74.004  Least Black Arches (Nola confusalis)  2

Regards, John

Small Elephant Hawk-moth

Puss Moth

Alder Kitten

Peach Blossom

Mocha

Cream Wave

P.lecheana

M.weaverella

And this time with a bigger photo of the buttoned snout!

NEIL H