With the prospects of a mild night on the 12th October, this presented an ideal opportunity to put the moth trap on. With lots of migrant moths being discovered in Southern England, the South West & Isles of Scilly, I chanced a good moth. You can imagine my excitement when I checked the trap at […]
An early Lime Hawkmoth was a pleasant surprise in my moth-trap this morning. Not usually on the wing until May. Also 6 Early Grey; 6 Hebrew Character; 1 Early Thorn; 1 Common Quaker; 1 Small Quaker; 1 Clouded Drab; 1 Double-striped Pug & 1 Emmelina monodactyla. PHOTOS – Top – Lime Hawkmoth / bottom –
Overnight Actinic Trap in Garden – Clouded Drab 3; Common Quaker 6; Small Quaker 3; Twin-spotted Quaker 3; Hebrew Character 1; Early Grey 4: PHOTOS – Inset – Clouded Drab; Below top – Early Grey; below bottom – Small Quaker.
The first Moth Trap of the year produced some decent garden moths – 2 Oak Beauty / 1 Twin-spotted Quaker / 1 Pine Beauty / 1 Dotted Border / 6 Common Quaker / 2 March Moth / 2 Hebrew Character / 1 Shoulder Stripe PHOTOS – insert – Oak Beauty – Below 1st & 2nd
The Isles of Scilly are recognised as one of the best places in Great Britain for recording migrant moths and in 2006 it was one of the best years on record. A permanent Moth Recording Station has been located at the Longstones Cafe now for a number of years and Mick Scott is trapping almost continuously during the
Mick Scott trapped a Pyralid species at Longstone’s, St. Mary’s, Isles of Scilly on 18th October 2006. He initially thought that it was a Grass Webworm species – possibly Herpetogramma centrostrigalis or licarsisalis (1406, 1406a), however the group are notoriously difficult to identify and therefore caution was required as to a positive ID. The species licarsisalis had been recorded
St. Agnes offers excellent opportunities for trapping rare & scarce migrant moths in the right conditions. We had several good “Moth Nights” during the week with warm southerly wind, despite being a little late in the season though. We ran a Mercury Vapour Light & Skinner Trap each night from 15th – 20th October and we
The Kentish Glory is a Category A, nationally scarce moth species in Britain. Now confined to the central & eastern Highlands of Scotland. It has declined at sites in Speyside where the birch woodland has become mature but appears to be on the increase in Deeside where birch re-growth has become extensive. Where this moth was trapped the birch seems
