My fifth and best trap of the year so far. Produced, in no particular order, the following 23 species:-
Snout 1 (2nd Generation); 1 Dark/Grey Dagger; 2 Freyer’s Pug; 7 Heart & Dart; 1 Poplar Hawkmoth; 1 Elephant Hawkmoth; 8 Willow Beauty; 1 Dark Arches; 1 Flame; 2 Flame Shoulder; 1 Bright-line Brown-eye; 2 Marbled Minor; 1 Fanfoot; 1 Puss Moth; 1 Cinnabar; 1 Buff Ermine; 3 Common Pug; 5 Aphomia sociella (Bee Moth); 3 Bryotropha affinis; 1 Endrosis sarcitrella (White-shouldered House-moth); 2 Epiphyas postvittana (Light-brown Apple Moth); 1 Eudonia mercurella; 1 Pseudargyrotoza conwagana (garden tick).
Puss Moth – Derbyshire – June 13th 2014 – Tony Davison©
Pseudargyrotoza conwagana – a garden tick – Derbyshire – June 13th 2014 – Tony Davison©
Cinnabar Moth – Derbyshire – June 13th 2014 – Tony Davison©
Above 2 images- Elephant Hawkmoth – Derbyshire – June 13th 2014 – Tony Davison©
Poplar Hawkmoth (Slightly worn individual) – Derbyshire – June 13th 2014 – Tony Davison©
Freyer‘s Pug – Derbyshire – June 13th 2014 – Tony Davison©
Marbled Minor – Derbyshire – June 13th 2014 – Tony Davison©
Bright-line Brown-eye – Derbyshire – June13th 2014 – Tony Davison©
Grey/Dark Dagger – Derbyshire – June 13th 2014 – Tony Davison©
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Just to say Tony, you put the wrong name on the Brown line Bright eye, above, easy to fuddle the two up.
Lovely sharp pics, really wish I could get results like this.
Andy
OK Andy Adcock, If not Bright-line Brown-eye, what?
In fairness to Andy, he was pointing out to me that I had made a spelling mistake on my original posting of Bright-line Brown-eye