Moth Sightings 2010 – BC Upper Thames Branch

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Species List 2010 – Last updated 02/03/10
(most recent additions in red text)

TOTAL SPECIES RECORDED
23
(Target for 2010 is 812 – total was 811 in 2009, 766 in 2008 & 714 in 2007)

 

Please note: Caterpillars, eggs and pupae of moths are included in the UTB Moth Species Count, so please

keep your eyes open for these other life stages. Some moths, such as the Striped Lychnis,

are rarely seen in the adult form but can be found quite easily as caterpillars. The Species Count

will only be increased by one even if all 4 life stages of a moth have been found during the year.

 

 

Macros = 17, Micros =6

 

 

Blue-bordered Carpet Moth (eggs 28/01/10)

Chestnut

December Moth

Dotted Border

Dotted Chestnut

Double-striped Pug

Drinker (caterpillar 28/01/10)

Early Moth

Green-brindled Crescent (egg 29/01/10)

March Moth

Mottled Umber

Oak Beauty

Pale Brindled Beauty

Satellite

Small Brindled Beauty

Spring Usher

Winter Moth

 

 

Acleris hastiana

Agonopterix heracliana

Esperia sulphurella

Mompha jurassicella

Plodia interpunctella (Indian Meal Moth)

Tortricodes alternella

 

 

 

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