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TOTAL MOTH SPECIES RECORDED IN 2003:
359
This is an archive
of the UTB moth sightings for the year 2003.
Photographs have
been removed to save space on the website.
The intriguing
Hummingbird Hawk Moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) is an immigrant to this country and can be
seen in the daytime feeding on garden plants such as lavender, honeysuckle, red
valerian, petunia, buddleia and others.
** HUMMINGBIRD HAWK MOTH COUNT = 48 **
8th
December 2003
Moths seen at Keith Mitchell’s front door lights in November and
early December in Stoke Goldington, Bucks:
Dark
Sword-grass (1 on
5/11); December Moth (first on 19/11, max 3 on 4/12); Feathered Thorn
( max - 3 on 5/11, last 1- on 28/11); Mottled Umber (2 on 2/12, 1 banded, 1 speckled); Red-line quaker (1 on 7/11); The Sprawler (1st - 4 on 5/11, max 7
on 7/11, last - 1 on 19/11); Yellow-line Quaker (1 on 7/11); Winter
Moth (1st - 2 on 22, 1-2 regular since)
8th
November 2003
Peter Hall’s weekly moth trap is still
attracting a number of species – these records are from 05/11/2003:
Ballinger - Blair's Shoulder-knot; December
Moth; Feathered Thorn; Large Yellow Underwing; November Moth; Red-green Carpet;
Setaceous Hebrew Character; Sprawler; Yellow-line quaker; and micros: Alucita hexadactyla (Twenty-plume);
Blastobasis decolorella; Emmelina monodactyla
The Lee - Feathered Thorn.
2nd
November 2003
1st
November 2003
October records from Keith Mitchell’s garden in Stoke Goldington,
Bucks:
Autumnal
Moth (14th), Beaded Chestnut (7th, 14th), Blair's Shoulder-knot (7-10th),
Feathered Thorn (2 on 31st),
Sallow
(13th, 26th), Twenty-plume Moth (13th).
And from Peter Hall’s weekly moth trap in
his Ballinger garden on 19/10/2003:
Barred
Sallow; Large Yellow Underwing; Lunar Underwing; Setaceous Hebrew Character;
Spruce Carpet; Square-spot Rustic;
micros: Nomophila
noctuella (Rush Veneer); Orthopygia glaucinalis
21st
October 2003
Dave
Maunder noted four moth species last week in Aylesbury:-
Lunar U/wing, Sallow Moth, Large Ranunculus and a Grey Shoulder Knot - one of
each species.
18th
October 2003
From just slightly outside
the Upper Thames Branch area, this sighting received today from Roger and Hanne
Asbey:
I know I'm a long way from the Thames valley however... just for your interest I have today sighted a Hummingbird Hawk Moth at 1600 hrs in my garden in Aberdeen Scotland. It was feeding predominantly on geranium flowers.
Is this the most northerly sighting of the Hummingbird
Hawk this year?
Wendy Campbell spotted
a well camouflaged Large Ranunculus on the wall of her house today.
14th
October 2003
A couple of moths seen in the Aylesbury area last week by Dave
Maunder were:-
Sallow Moth and Large Yellow u/wing.
13th
October 2003
Keith Mitchell sent in the following today,
adding 2 new species to the UTB species count for this year:
Please find below some recent and not so recent records from my garden in Stoke
Goldington, all attracted to outside fluorescent courtesy lights at the front
door. Stoke Goldington (Bucks) is about
as far North in the recording area as you can get. All records have been sent
to the County Recorder and have been photographically confirmed.
Last two weeks:
Large Ranunculus (End Sept); Large Wainscot (3rd
Oct); Blair's Shoulder-Knot (on wall from 28 Sept to 10 Oct); Grey
Shoulder-knot (5th and 6th Oct); Bloodvein; Beaded Chestnut; Lunar
Underwing; Mallow; Snout.
Previous:
Hummingbird Hawkmoth (June 14th);
Privet Hawkmoth (26th June); Garden Tiger (29th June),
12th
October 2003
Tim and Colleen Watts are still reporting regular sightings of Hummingbird Hawk Moths. They’ve seen another 3 in their Whitchurch garden on 19th, 23rd and 30th September and one in Waddesdon on 28th September.
11th October
2003
A Hummingbird Hawk Moth turned up
in Wendy & Mick Campbell’s garden today, attracted by the scent of the
recently trimmed lavender and fed briefly on the newly flowering stems.
6th October
2003
This
report received today from Dave Maunder:
Just a few moths seen last week including my 7th Hummingbird
Hawk Moth on 6th October, feeding on a buddleia in
Aylesbury town. Also 1 Square-spot Rustic, 1 Lg. Yellow u/wing, 1 Large
Ranunculus, 1 Lunar u/wing and 1 Grey Shoulder Knot.
29th
September 2003
Abingdon based moth enthusiast Bob Eeles, has reported seeing a Convolvulus
Hawk Moth in his
garden on 2nd September.
Weekly records from Peter Hall’s garden in
Ballinger for 21st September, with one new species to add to this
year’s list:
Angle Shades; Beaded Chestnut; Black Rustic; Bloodvein; Brimstone
Moth; Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing; Common Marbled Carpet; Common Wainscot;
Deep-brown Dart; Dusky Thorn; Grey Pine Carpet; Large Yellow Underwing; Lesser
Yellow Underwing; Lunar Underwing; Oak Hook-tip; Red-green Carpet; Setaceous
Hebrew Character; Shuttle-shaped Dart; Spruce Carpet; Square-spot Rustic;
Svensson's Copper Underwing; Yellow-line Quaker
and the following micros:
Acleris variegana (Garden Rose Tortrix); Blastobasis lignea;
Celypha lacunana; Hypsopygia costalis (Gold Triangle); Nomophila noctuella
(Rush Veneer); Orthopygia glaucinalis; Plutella xylostella (Diamond-back);
Ypsolopha parenthesella
28th
September 2003
Mick Campbell saw
another Hummingbird Hawk Moth in his
garden on Thursday 25th September, feeding on lavender.
22nd September
2003
On Tuesday 16th September Paul Bowyer saw
another Hummingbird Hawk Moth in his
front garden in Flackwell Heath at about 6.30 P.M.
20th
September 2003
Wycombe
Wildlife Group held what was probably their last moth trap evening of the year
at Mop End on Friday 19th September, led by Paul Bowyer. Although
the temperature dropped quite rapidly after dark – down to about 10-12 degrees
- and the skies were rather clear, the 3 traps recorded above average species
numbers for Bucks in September:
Barred
Hook-tip; Barred Sallow; Beaded Chestnut; Black Rustic; Bloodvein; Brimstone
Moth; Brindled Green; Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing; Brown-spot Pinion;
Common Marbled Carpet; Common Wainscot; Dark Sword-grass; Garden Carpet; Large
Ranunculus; Large Yellow Underwing; Lesser Yellow Underwing; Lunar Underwing;
Red-green Carpet; Sallow; Setaceous Hebrew Character; Shuttle-shaped Dart;
Snout; Spruce Carpet; Square-spot Rustic; Straw Dot; Svensson's Copper
Underwing; Yellow Shell
Micros:
Acentria ephemerella (Water Veneer); Acleris sparsana; Agonopterix
arenella; Archips podana (Large Fruit-tree Tortrix); Blastobasis lignea;
Epinotia trigonella; Hypsopygia costalis (Gold Triangle); Nomophila noctuella
(Rush Veneer); Plutella xylostella (Diamond-back)
Also
received today was this list of moths seen in the Aylesbury area by Dave
Maunder last week:
My 6th Hummingbird Hawk Moth was again seen on
Buddleia in Aylesbury town centre on the 15th; also Vapourers (4), Lesser
Yellow U/wing (1), Lg. Yellow U/wing (1), Sycamore moth larva (click here to see a picture on the “Junior
Spotters” web page), Red-Green Carpet, Garden Carpet (4), and a Small
Dusty Wave.
19th
September 2003
Peter
Hall’s weekly moth trap, 15/09/2003, in his garden in Ballinger recorded 47
species, 8 of which are new for the year and bring the species count on this
website to 343:
Oak
Hook-tip; Bloodvein; Small Dusty Wave; Garden Carpet; Common Marbled Carpet;
Grey Pine Carpet; Spruce Carpet; Brimstone Moth; Dusky Thorn; Ruby Tiger; Flame
Shoulder; Large Yellow Underwing; Lesser Yellow Underwing; Broad-bordered
Yellow Underwing; Lesser Broad-border; Setaceous Hebrew Character; Square-spot
Rustic; Common Wainscot; Deep-brown Dart; Black Rustic; Large Ranunculus; Centre-barred
Sallow; Lunar Underwing; Barred Sallow; Sallow; Copper Underwing; Svensson's
Copper Underwing; Angle Shades; Rosy Rustic; Pale Mottled Willow; Silver Y;
Straw Dot; Snout
Micros:
Acleris sparsana; Acleris variegana (Garden Rose Tortrix); Celypha
lacunana; Agriphila geniculea; Nomophila noctuella (Rush Veneer); Hypsopygia
costalis (Gold Triangle); Orthopygia glaucinalis; Galleria mellonella (Wax);
Tinea semifulvella; Ypsolopha parenthesella; Plutella xylostella
(Diamond-back); Batia unitella; Blastobasis lignea; Epiphyas postvittana (Light
Brown Apple)
18th
September 2003
David Moore has been recording moths
for the past 20 years, in Wallingford & Cholsey for the past 15. He also
records nationally and in mainland
13 Sep 03 - Common Carpet, Oak Hooktip, Ruby
Tiger, Large Yellow Underwing, Common Wainscot, Centre Barred Sallow, Lunar
Underwing, Vines Rustic
14 Sep 03 - Small
Dusty wave, Brimstone Moth, Swallowtailed Moth, Dusky Thorn, Willow Beauty,
Ruby Tiger, Turnip Moth, Lesser Yellow Underwing, Large Yellow Underwing, Broad
Bordered Yellow Underwing, Setaceous Hebrew Character, Square Spot Rustic,
Common Wainscot, Black Rustic, Lunar Underwing, Angle Shades, Flounced Rustic,
Rosy Rustic, Small Mottled Willow, Pale Mottled Willow, Vines Rustic, Silver Y
15 Sep 03 - Willow
Beauty, Yellow Tail, Ruby Tiger, Turnip Moth, Shuttle Shaped Dart, Lesser
Yellow Underwing, Large Yellow Underwing, Setaceous Hebrew Character, Square
Spot Rustic, Common Wainscot, Centre Barred Sallow, Angle Shades, Pale Mottled
Willow, The Uncertain, Bordered Straw, Small
Mottled Willow, The Snout
16 Sep 03 - Oak
Hook Tip, Garden Carpet, Brimstone Moth, Canary Shouldered Thorn, Shuttle
Shaped Dart, Lesser Yellow Underwing, Setaceous Hebrew Character, Square Spot
Rustic, Common Wainscot, Lunar Underwing, Black Rustic, The Rustic, Pale
Mottled Willow, Straw Dot.
I was pleased to see Bordered Straw again,
since I have not seen it in this country since 1996 at
16th
September 2003
Four more Hummingbird Hawk Moths reported by Tim & Colleen Watts in their Whitchurch garden. They saw one on 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 7th September. They also had an Angle Shades in the kitchen on 16/9/03!
14th
September 2003
Dave
Maunder saw his
5th Hummingbird Hawk Moth of the year
feeding on Buddleia at Quainton railway centre, also a Silver-Y and a
Vapourer moth.
Mick &
Wendy Campbell were out walking near Chilton today and recorded 2 Red Underwing
moths and a Silver-Y moth.
Jon Swain reports another Hummingbird Hawk Moth in his garden in Swan
Bottom, near Gt Missenden today.
On
Saturday 13th September Paul Bowyer made a brief visit to Sands Bank High
Wycombe looking
for butterflies (see his report on the butterfly sightings page). He saw 2 macro moths while he was there:
Silver-Y Moth and Hummingbird Hawk Moth.
Peter
Hall’s garden records for last week:
Oak
Hook-tip; Barred Hook-tip; Bloodvein; Garden Carpet; Brimstone Moth; Willow
Beauty; Flame Shoulder; Large Yellow Underwing; Lesser Yellow Underwing;
Setaceous Hebrew Character; Square-spot rustic; Feathered Gothic; Common
Wainscot; Centre-barred Sallow; Lunar Underwing; Mouse; Flounced Rustic; Pale
Mottled Willow; Silver Y; Spectacle; Straw Dot; Snout
Micros:
Acleris variegana; Agriphila geniculea; Nomophila noctuella (Rush
Veneer); Emmelina monodactyla; Prays fraxinella (Ash Bud); Plutella xylostella
(Diamond-back); Cochylis hybridella
13th
September 2003
Dave
Maunder sent in the following email today:
Only a few moths to report this week, just 1 Hummingbird
Hawk Moth (my 4th this year), nectaring on Buddleia near Safeways in
Aylesbury; 1 Flounced rustic, and 1 Garden carpet.
Dave also
sent in this very unusual report which, although not recent, is something to
look out for next summer:
Two years ago I found the Scarlet Tiger moth
(3 specimens) at Waterperry gardens - I don't know if they are still found in
there, it would be interesting to find out next year.
The Scarlet Tiger moth can be seen flying in sunshine and is on the wing in June
and July. It is normally confined to the Southern and Western counties of
England.
11th
September 2003
Mick Campbell reports
seeing a Hummingbird Hawk Moth feeding on lavender in his garden in Holmer Green
today.
10th
September 2003
Sightings
of Hummingbird Hawk Moths are still being reported – this one just received
from Zoe Phillips:
Today at approx
6pm 10th Sept 2003 my boyfriend called me to our back garden as he
was amazed to have spotted what we now know (having searched the internet)
to be a Hummingbird Hawk Moth. It
was hovering and feeding from a Bergamot flower. Our location is Aston
Clinton nr Aylesbury Bucks.
7th September
2003
Wendy
& Mick Campbell saw a Hummingbird Hawk Moth on Pyrton Hill in the Chilterns
today and a single Silver-Y moth.
Dave
Maunder sent in the following two reports today, adding another new species to
the 2003 total count with his sighting of the Brick Moth:
I saw my third Hummingbird hawk moth of the year feeding on
Honeysuckle in the Waterperry Gardens nursery today- always nice to watch! I
also saw a Brick moth and a Silver-Y.
Moths I saw at Dormer Close, Aylesbury, this week
were:-
Square spot rustic, Flounced rustic, Snout moth, Vapourers(3), Orange
swifts(4), Brimstone moth, Garden carpet, Marbled Beauty and a Hummingbird hawk moth - this I saw as it flew
over my allotment at Ardenham lane, near the town centre!
6th September
2003
Peter Hall’s weekly moth trap records for 05/09/03:
Oak Hook-tip; Barred Hook-tip; Chinese Character; Maiden's Blush;
Bloodvein; Small Dusty Wave; Flame Carpet; Common Marbled Carpet; Green Carpet;
Brimstone Moth; Dusky Thorn; Dark Sword-grass; Large Yellow Underwing;
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing; Setaceous Hebrew Character; Square-spot rustic;
Feathered Gothic; Common Wainscot; Brindled Green; Centre-barred Sallow; Copper
Underwing; Angle Shades; Rosy Rustic; Pale Mottled Willow; Silver Y; Straw Dot;
Snout
and these micros:
Acleris variegana (Garden Rose Tortrix); Celypha lacunana;
Agriphila tristella; Agriphila geniculea; Acentria ephemerella (Water Veneer);
Nomophila noctuella (Rush Veneer); Emmelina monodactyla; Niditinea fuscella
(Brown-dotted Clothes); Prays fraxinella (Ash Bud); Ypsolopha parenthesella;
Agonopterix arenella; Blastobasis lignea
An
article in Friday’s Daily Telegraph (05/09/03) quotes wildlife experts as
saying that an unprecedented number of Hummingbird Hawk moths have migrated to
Britain as a result of the hot summer.
The article states that more than 200 sightings have been reported this
year, including some as far north as Kircudbrightshire in Scotland.
1st September
2003
Colleen Watts reports yet another Hummingbird
Hawk Moth in her garden in Whitchurch at 4pm today – the fifth she’s
reported so far this year.
On Friday 29th August the Wycombe Wildlife Group met for a
moth trapping session, led by Paul Bowyer, at Roger Wilding's new house. Once
again this year the weather was not favourable, being cool and blustery with a
clear sky. Species seen were as follows :-
Large Yellow Underwing, Lesser Broad Bordered Yellow
Underwing, Setaceous Hebrew Character, Orange Swift, Brimstone, Snout, Angle
Shades, Silver-Y, Hummingbird Hawk moth and
Common Marbled Carpet.
A report
just in from Brendan McCartney, Berkshire
Birding:
My son ran a race at Highclere in Berkshire on Sunday and whilst walking around
the "Secret Garden" during the morning he and his wife saw an Elephant
Hawkmoth caterpillar on one of the lawns. I don't know how unusual
this may be?
Dave
Maunder sent in the following sightings tonight. Here
are some moths I've seen at my home, also near Friars square, Aylesbury during
the last week:
Engrailed moth, Small Blood-vein, Small Dusty Wave, Brimstone (2), Dusky
Thorn (3), Lg. Yellow u/wing (2), Silver-Y (4), Flounced Rustic, Square Spot
Rustic (2), Common Wainscot (6), Snout moth, Orange Swift (4), Chinese
Character, Vapourer (2).
31st August 2003
A fraction over the Bucks border in Tring, Nick Bowles
had 2 Hummingbird Hawk Moths in
the garden. First seen 29th and again today 31st.
30th August
2003
Colleen Watts reports seeing a Hummingbird Hawk Moth at Waddesdon garden centre this afternoon (30/8/03) and then another one at 7:20pm in her garden in Whitchurch.
29th August
2003
Peter Hall’s weekly garden records from 23/08/03:
Orange Swift; Bloodvein; Small Dusty Wave; Garden Carpet; Purple
Bar; Common Marbled Carpet; Green Carpet; Brimstone Moth; August Thorn; Dusky
Thorn; Swallow Prominent; Coxcomb Prominent; Vapourer; Ruby Tiger; Heart &
Dart; Dark Sword-grass; Flame Shoulder; Large Yellow Underwing; Lesser Yellow
Underwing; Lesser Broad-border; Setaceous Hebrew Character; Six-striped Rustic;
Square-spot rustic; Feathered Gothic; Smoky Wainscot; Common Wainscot;
Centre-barred Sallow; Mouse; Angle Shades; Pale Mottled Willow; Burnished
Brass; Silver Y; Straw Dot; Snout
Micros:
Acleris laterana; Acleris rhombana (Rhomboid Tortrix); Acleris
variegana (Garden Rose Tortrix); Cydia splendana; Agriphila tristella;
Agriphila geniculea; Parapoynx stratiotata (Ringed China-mark); Eurrhypara
hortulata (Small Magpie); Nomophila noctuella (Rush Veneer); Pleuroptya ruralis
(Mother of Pearl); Prays fraxinella (Ash Bud); Ypsolopha parenthesella; Coleophora
frischella (Small Clover Case-bearer); Blastobasis lignea; Pandemis corylana
(Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix); Epiphyas postvittana (Light Brown Apple)
28th August
2003
A
report just in from Peter Hall,
that a Convolvulus Hawk turned up in Flackwell Heath on the 15th. This large migrant Hawk Moth, with an
impressive wingspan of over 10cm (about 4”) has been seen in moderate numbers
further south during the last few weeks.
25th August
2003
News received from Colleen & Tim Watts today of their recent moth
sightings:
25/8/03 Hummingbird Hawk Moth on Calvert landfill.
23/8/03 Hummingbird Hawk Moth in garden in Whitchurch
(our eighth sighting this year).
13/8/03 Red Underwing.seen clearly in flight and at rest
in dark hedgerow footpath near Greatmoor heading towards Edgcott at 6pm - a
large moth about 3 inches we thought and dazzling bright red showing in flight.
We have seen plenty of Orange Underwings and as we never caught one of these
when we moth trapped wondered how common they are?
Also 6 Magpie
moths.
(The Red Underwing sighting is the first reported this year to the website
and takes the species count to 320. See also Tim & Colleen’s report on the Butterfly Sightings page.)
24th August
2003
Dave Maunder sent this moth report in today:
I have just
seen a Hummingbird Hawk moth opposite
my house in Aylesbury, my first sighting this year. Earlier today up on Coombe
Hill, I saw 1 Antler moth, 1 Vapourer moth, and a batch of 27 Buff-tip moth
larvae, all young 5th stage.
(Dave
also sent in a sighting of Silver spotted Skippers – see the Butterfly Sightings page.)
The following email received this morning from
Kelvin Parker of Bracknell:
I thought that I would let you know that I have just seen my very first Hummingbird Hawk moth in my garden 24th August
2003 10:35am. It was hovering on my pelergoniums, red and pink.
and another report of 2 Hummingbird Hawk Moths from Swan Bottom on
22nd August, (near The Lee, Great Missenden) by Jon
Swain.
23rd August
2003
An email just in from Nicolas Grove takes the count for the
Hummingbird Hawk to 12 for this year:
I came across your
website whilst looking for info on the Hummingbird
Hawk Moth, which I first saw last year in Wendover. So I thought I should
let you know that the above has been seen in Wendover, Bucks on 21/08/03 about
10am and again on 22/08/03 at 8pm on Pelargoniums (flower colour - red). I hope this helps. Nick.
21st August
2003
The
next set of records from Peter Hall’s garden in Ballinger, from 18th
August, a count of 67 species, adding another 6 to the species count for the
year:
Angle Shades; Bloodvein; Brimstone Moth; Canary-shouldered Thorn;
Centre-barred Sallow; Clay Triple-lines; Common Marbled Carpet; Common Rustic;
Common Wainscot; Copper Underwing; Dark Arches; Dark Sword-grass; Dusky Thorn;
Flame Carpet; Flame Shoulder; Flounced Rustic; Heart & Dart; Hummingbird Hawk; Iron Prominent; Large Yellow
Underwing; Least Yellow Underwing; Lesser Broad-border; Lime-speck Pug; Magpie;
Mouse; Poplar Hawk; Rosy Rustic; Scarce Bordered Straw; Setaceous Hebrew
Character; Shuttle-shaped Dart; Silver Y; Six-striped Rustic; Small Phoenix;
Small Square-spot; Smoky Wainscot; Snout; Square-spot rustic; Straw Dot; Straw
Underwing; Tawny-barred Angle; Willow Beauty; Yellow Shell
and these
micros:
Acleris laterana; Acleris variegana (Garden Rose Tortrix); Agapeta zoegana;
Agonopterix ocellana; Agriphila geniculea; Agriphila tristella; Alucita
hexadactyla (Twenty-plume); Blastobasis decolorella; Blastobasis lignea;
Carcina quercana; Celypha lacunana; Cydia splendana; Epiphyas postvittana
(Light Brown Apple); Evergestis forficalis (Garden Pebble); Hofmannophila
pseudospretella (Brown House); Hypsopygia costalis (Gold Triangle); Nomophila
noctuella (Rush Veneer); Pandemis corylana (Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix);
Pandemis heparana (Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix); Pleuroptya ruralis (Mother of
Pearl); Plutella xylostella (Diamond-back); Pyrausta purpuralis; Tinea
trinotella; Udea ferrugalis (Rusty-dot Pearl); Ypsolopha parenthesella
20th August
2003
Thanks
to Lin and John Tyler for the following
report, just received:
Earlier this evening we sighted a Humming-bird
hawk moth, feeding on the verbenas in a hanging basket in our
garden in Ley Hill, Chesham.
19th
August 2003
From just
on the Buckinghamshire border near Ivinghoe, Ken
and Mary Smith were delighted to see 2
Hummingbird Hawk Moths feeding on flowers in their garden last
Saturday.
18th August
2003
Friday 15 August: 2 Hummingbird Hawk moths in my front garden in the cool of
the evening. As I got close they went into next door's back garden!
Paul Bowyer.
12th August: The
following moths were recorded at Green Farm High Wycombe by Peter Hall:
Brimstone Moth; Canary-shouldered Thorn; Common Carpet; Common
Rustic; Common Wainscot; Dark Arches; Double-striped Pug; Dun-bar; Dusky Thorn;
Flame Shoulder; Large Yellow Underwing; Lesser Broad-border; Lime-speck Pug;
Maple Prominent; Mocha; Mouse; Pebble Hook-tip; September Thorn; Setaceous
Hebrew Character; Shuttle-shaped Dart; Silver Y; Small Fan-footed Wave; Smoky
Wainscot; Straw Dot; Straw Underwing; Vine's Rustic; Willow Beauty; Yellow
Shell
and the following micros:
Acentria ephemerella (Water Veneer); Acleris cristana; Agonopterix
arenella; Agonopterix purpurea; Agriphila geniculea; Agriphila straminella;
Agriphila tristella; Batia unitella; Blastobasis lignea; Carcina quercana;
Celypha lacunana; Cydia splendana; Nomophila noctuella (Rush Veneer); Pandemis
corylana (Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix); Pandemis heparana (Dark Fruit-tree
Tortrix); Pleuroptya ruralis (Mother of Pearl); Pyrausta aurata; Pyrausta
purpuralis; Yponomeuta padella (Orchard Ermine); Ypsolopha horridella;
Ypsolopha parenthesella; Ypsolopha scabrella; Ypsolopha sequella
11th
August: Peter Hall sent in the
following list of moths from his weekly garden moth trap:
Angle Shades; Barred Hook-tip; Bloodvein; Bordered Straw;
Brimstone Moth; Common Carpet; Common Marbled Carpet; Common Rustic; Common
Wainscot; Common Wave; Dark Arches; Double-striped Pug; Dusky Thorn; Early
Thorn; Flame Carpet; Flame Shoulder; Flounced Rustic; Garden Carpet; Hedge
Rustic; Iron Prominent; Knotgrass; Large Yellow Underwing; Least Yellow
Underwing; Lesser Broad-border; Lesser Swallow Prominent; Lime-speck Pug;
Nut-tree Tussock; Orange Swift; Pale Prominent; Pebble Hook-tip; Pebble
Prominent; Riband Wave; Rosy Rustic; September Thorn; Setaceous Hebrew
Character; Shuttle-shaped Dart; Silver Y; Single-dotted Wave; Six-striped
Rustic; Small Phoenix; Small Square-spot; Smoky Wainscot; Spectacle;
Square-spot rustic; Straw Dot; Straw Underwing; Willow Beauty; Yellow Shell
and the following micros:
Acentria ephemerella; Acleris cristana; Acleris laterana;
Agonopterix heracliana; Agriphila geniculea; Agriphila straminella; Agriphila
tristella; Alucita hexadactyla; Ancylis badiana; Anthophila fabriciana;
Blastobasis lignea; Catoptria falsella; Celypha lacunana; Epinotia nisella;
Epiphyas postvittana (Light Brown Apple); Euzophera pinguis; Galleria mellonella;
Hofmannophila pseudospretella (Brown House); Nomophila noctuella; Pandemis
corylana (Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix); Pandemis heparana (Dark Fruit-tree
Tortrix); Parapoynx stratiotata; Pleuroptya ruralis; Pyrausta aurata; Ypsolopha
parenthesella; Ypsolopha scabrella
9th August
2003
Another Hummingbird Hawkmoth was
seen nectaring on lavendar in a Holmer Green garden today – their second in the
garden this year (the first one was on 27th July).
Peter
Hall recorded 66 species in his garden in Ballinger Common on 8th
August:
Oak Hook-tip; Pebble Hook-tip; Chinese Character; Bloodvein;
Single-dotted Wave; Riband Wave; Flame Carpet; Common Carpet; Small Phoenix;
Lime-speck Pug; Larch Pug; Brimstone Moth; August Thorn; Dusky Thorn; Scalloped
Oak; Peppered; Willow Beauty; Poplar Hawk;
Iron Prominent; Swallow Prominent; Coxcomb Prominent; Black Arches; Dingy
Footman; Dark Sword-grass; Shuttle-shaped Dart; Flame Shoulder; Large Yellow
Underwing; Lesser Broad-border; Least Yellow Underwing; Small Square-spot;
Setaceous Hebrew Character; Six-striped Rustic; Square-spot rustic; Smoky
Wainscot; Common Wainscot; Marbled Beauty; Copper Underwing; Mouse; Straw
Underwing; Dun-bar; Dark Arches; Common Rustic; Ear; Bulrush Wainscot; Rustic;
Nut-tree Tussock; Silver Y; Straw Dot
and these Micros:
Acleris laterana; Celypha lacunana; Cydia splendana; Agriphila
straminella; Agriphila tristella; Agriphila geniculea; Catoptria falsella;
Evergestis forficalis (Garden Pebble); Nomophila noctuella (Rush Veneer);
Pleuroptya ruralis (Mother of Pearl); Endotricha flammealis; Trachycera
advenella; Ypsolopha dentella (Honeysuckle); Plutella xylostella
(Diamond-back); Agonopterix propinquella; Blastobasis lignea; Pandemis corylana
(Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix); Pandemis heparana (Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix)
Relatively low numbers of moth species
were recorded in a garden near Amersham last night, 8th August,
possibly due to the full moon? However,
Large Yellow Underwings seemed unaffected and were attracted to the Skinner
trap in large numbers!
6-striped
Rustic; Angle Shades; Brimstone; Common Carpet; Common Rustic; Dagger (sp.);
Dark Arches; Dark Marbled Carpet; Flame Shoulder; Large Yellow Underwing;
Lesser Yellow Underwing; Mother of Pearl; Orange Swift; Pyrausta aurata; Setaceous
Hebrew Character; Shuttle-shaped Dart; Silver-Y; Smoky Wainscot; Spectacle;
Square-spot Rustic; Straw Dot; Straw Underwing; Willow Beauty; Yellow Shell.
6th August
2003
A brief moth trap in a hot and humid garden in
Flackwell Heath.
Plenty of moths but many of the same species.
Species identified by Paul Bowyer were as follows:-
Large Yellow Underwing , Lesser Broad Bordered Yellow Underwing, Least Yellow Underwing, Brimstone, Flame Shoulder, Iron Prominent, Setaceous Hebrew Character, The Crescent, Yellow Shell, Dark Arches, Beautiful Golden Y and Maiden's Blush.
Also reported today were the following daytime moth sightings
by 2 UTB members who were out looking for butterflies:
Yeosden Bank, nr. Radnage on 5th August: Hummingbird Hawk Moth
Bowdown Wood, nr. Newbury on 21st July: Peacock Moth (see photo above).
Bald Hill, Aston Rowant on 27th July: Broom Moth larva (see photo above), Vapourer Moth larva and Dusky
Sallow moth.
4th August
2003
Garden in Holmer Green – the
following moths were recorded, although the abundance of Large Yellow
Underwings took over the moth trap!
Ruby Tiger; Sallow Kitten; Dark Arches; Willow Beauty (v. worn); Mother of
Pearl; Flame Shoulder; Early Thorn; Brimstone; Common Rustic; Common Carpet;
Pebble Hook Tip; Spectacle; Lesser Yellow Underwing; Yellow Shell; Lime-speck
Pug; Pyrausta aurata.
29th July 2003
Garden
in Ballinger Common: Peter Hall recorded the
following 103 species of moths on 22nd July:
Oak Hook-tip; Bloodvein; Small Fan-footed Wave;
Single-dotted Wave; Red Twin-spot Carpet; Shaded Broad-bar; Yellow Shell; Small
Phoenix; Spruce Carpet; Green Carpet; July Highflyer; Small Rivulet; Lime-speck
Pug; Larch Pug; Magpie; Clouded Border; Brimstone Moth; Early Thorn; Scalloped
Oak; Peppered; Willow Beauty; Mottled Beauty; Engrailed; Light Emerald; Pine
Hawk; Poplar Hawk; Elephant Hawk; Iron Prominent; Swallow Prominent;
Yellow-tail; Black Arches; Dingy Footman; Scarce Footman; Buff Footman; Common
Footman; Ruby Tiger; Heart & Dart; Shuttle-shaped Dart; Flame; Flame
Shoulder; Large Yellow Underwing; Lesser Yellow Underwing; Broad-bordered
Yellow Underwing; Lesser Broad-border; Least Yellow Underwing; Double
Square-spot; Bright-line Brown-eye; Brown-line Bright-eye; Clay; Smoky
Wainscot; Straw Underwing; Dun-bar; Dark Arches; Slender Brindle; Common
Rustic; Dusky Sallow; Uncertain; Rustic; Vine's Rustic; Mottled Rustic;
Nut-tree Tussock; Burnished Brass; Silver Y; Spectacle; Straw Dot; Snout; Small
Fan-foot
micros:
Acleris holmiana; Acleris laterana; Ancylis badiana;
Rhyacionia pinicolana; Cydia splendana; Alucita hexadactyla (Twenty-plume);
Chrysoteuchia culmella; Crambus pascuella; Agriphila straminella; Agriphila
tristella; Catoptria falsella; Dipleurina lacustrata; Elophila nymphaeata
(Brown China-mark); Parapoynx stratiotata (Ringed China-mark); Eurrhypara
hortulata (Small Magpie); Udea prunalis; Nomophila noctuella (Rush Veneer);
Pleuroptya ruralis (Mother of Pearl); Hypsopygia costalis (Gold Triangle);
Endotricha flammealis; Conobathra repandana; Trachycera advenella; Phycita
roborella; Pterophorus pentadactyla (White Plume); Yponomeuta evonymella
(Bird-cherry Ermine); Plutella xylostella (Diamond-back); Batia unitella;
Hofmannophila pseudospretella (Brown House); Carcina quercana; Blastobasis
lignea; Blastobasis decolorella; Agapeta hamana; Pandemis corylana (Chequered
Fruit-tree Tortrix); Archips podana (Large Fruit-tree Tortrix); Epiphyas
postvittana (Light Brown Apple)
26th July 2003
Paul Bowyer sent in the following report
for 25th July:
A moth
night with the Wycombe Wildlife Group in a member’s garden situated between
Loudwater and Wycombe Marsh which incorporates part of the old Maidenhead to
Wycombe railway line. A very wet day followed by a clearing sky kept the
numbers of moths down. The species seen and identified were:-
Brimstone
, The Phoenix , Mother of Pearl , Large Yellow Underwing , Dark Arches , Brown
Line Bright Eye , Small Phoenix , Riband Wave , Flame Shoulder , Common Rustic
, Black Arches , Willow Beauty , Dot , *Dusky Thorn ,
Common
Wainscot. (*first sighting for this year)
Thanks
to Jenny Bottrill for letting us use her garden. If you look at the Wycombe Wildlife Group web site
there may be pictures of some of the moths.
14th July 2003
Garden
in Ballinger Common: Peter Hall recorded the
following 93 species of moths:
Scalloped Hook-tip; Pebble Hook-tip; Buff Arches; Common Emerald; Small Emerald; Clay Triple-lines; Small Fan-footed Wave; Single-dotted Wave; Riband Wave; Flame Carpet; Red Twin-spot Carpet; Large Twin-spot Carpet; Shaded Broad-bar; Common Carpet; Green Carpet; July Highflyer; Small Rivulet; V-Pug; Magpie; Clouded Border; Brimstone Moth; Early Thorn; Swallow-tailed; Peppered; Willow Beauty; Mottled Beauty; Engrailed; Common White Wave; Common Wave; Clouded Silver; Light Emerald; Elephant Hawk; Buff-tip; Iron Prominent; Yellow-tail; Black Arches; Scarce Footman; Common Footman; Ruby Tiger; Heart & Club; Heart & Dart; Flame; Flame Shoulder; Large Yellow Underwing; Lesser Yellow Underwing; Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing; Lesser Broad-border; Triple-spotted Clay; Double Square-spot; Green Arches; Dot; Bright-line Brown-eye; Brown-line Bright-eye; Clay; Smoky Wainscot; Dun-bar; Lunar-spotted Pinion; Dark Arches; Slender Brindle; Common Rustic; Uncertain; Rustic; Nut-tree Tussock; Burnished Brass; Silver Y; Plain Golden Y; Straw Dot; Snout; Fan-foot; Small Fan-foot
Micros:
Pseudargyrotoza
conwagana; Acleris variegana (Garden Rose Tortrix); Celypha striana;
Hedya nubiferana; Agriphila straminella; Agriphila tristella; Catoptria
falsella; Acentria ephemerella (Water Veneer); Parapoynx stratiotata (Ringed
China-mark); Nomophila noctuella (Rush Veneer); Pleuroptya ruralis (Mother of
Pearl); Hypsopygia costalis (Gold Triangle); Orthopygia glaucinalis; Endotricha
flammealis; Conobathra repandana; Euzophera pinguis; Swammerdamia pyrella; Ypsolopha
dentella (Honeysuckle); Plutella porrectella; Carcina quercana; Blastobasis
lignea; Pandemis heparana (Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix); Archips podana (Large
Fruit-tree Tortrix)
12th July 2003
UTB held a moth trap evening at their Holtspur Bottom
Reserve, recording the following moths – leader Paul Bowyer:
Bright-line
Brown-eye; Brimstone; Brown-line Bright-eye; Buff Arches; Common Footman; Dark
Arches; Flame; Flame Shoulder; Ghost Moth; Green Carpet; Heart & Dart;
Large Yellow Underwing; Light Emerald; Mother of Pearl; Nut Tree Tussock;
Pebble Hook Tip; Riband Wave; Shaded Broad Bar; Shears; Small Magpie; Smoky
Wainscot; Snout; Swallow-tailed; Yellow Tail
27th June 2003
Wycombe Wildlife Group organised
a moth recording evening in a private garden on Amersham Hill, High Wycombe.
Our thanks to Pat for an enjoyable evening:
Brimstone; Buff
Arches; Dark Arches; Dot Moth; Double Square Spot; Flame; Heart & Club;
Heart & Dart; Large Yellow Underwing; Mottled Beauty; Phoenix; Riband Wave;
Rustic; Small Magpie; Swallow-tailed; Tawny Marbled Minor; Yellow Shell
26th June 2003
Garden
in Ballinger Common: Peter Hall recorded the
following 69 species of moths:
Barred
Yellow; Beautiful Golden Y; Bright-line Brown-eye; Brimstone Moth; Buff Arches;
Buff Ermine; Buff-tip; Burnished
Brass; Clay; Clouded Brindle; Clouded Silver; Common Emerald; Common Footman;
Common Marbled Carpet; Common White Wave; Coxcomb Prominent; Dark Arches; Dot;
Double Square-spot; Dwarf Cream Wave; Elephant Hawk; Fan-foot; Flame; Flame
Shoulder; Green Pug; Heart & Club; Heart & Dart; Ingrailed Clay; Large
Nutmeg; Large Yellow Underwing; Light Emerald; Lobster; Marbled Beauty;
Middle-barred Minor; Mottled Beauty; Pale Mottled Willow; Pale Oak Beauty;
Peppered; Phoenix; Pine Hawk; Plain Golden Y; Purple Clay; Reddish Light
Arches; Riband Wave; Rustic; Short-cloaked; Silver Y; Small Blood-vein; Small
Fan-foot; Small Fan-footed Wave; Smoky Wainscot; Snout; Straw Dot;
Swallow-tailed; Treble Brown Spot; Turnip; Uncertain; White Ermine; Willow
Beauty
Micros:
Acentria
ephemerella (Water Veneer); Archips podana (Large Fruit-tree Tortrix); Celypha
lacunana; Cydia pomonella (Codling); Elophila nymphaeata (Brown China-mark);
Eurrhypara hortulata (Small Magpie); Gypsonoma dealbana; Pseudargyrotoza
conwagana ; Udea olivalis; Yponomeuta
evonymella (Bird-Cherry Ermine)
25th June 2003
At the 2nd Thursday meeting on 12th June the following moths were recorded – thanks to Mark Calway for providing the records:
Ghost Moth; Common Swift;
Agapeta hamana; Tortrix viridana (Green Oak Tortrix); Crambus perlella;
Eurrhypara hortulata (Small Magpie); Buff Arches; Silver-ground Carpet; Common
Marbled Carpet; Small Yellow Wave; Brimstone Moth; Peppered Moth; Willow
Beauty; Mottled Beauty; Light Emerald; Heart and Dart; Shuttle-shaped Dart;
Flame; Flame Shoulder; Large Yellow Underwing; Setaceous Hebrew Character;
Bright-line Brown-eye; Broom Moth; Middle-barred Minor; Straw Dot;
Chrysoteuchia culmella; Water Veneer (Acentria ephemerella).
21st June 2003
Paul Bowyer
spotted the stunning Hummingbird
Hawk Moth in his garden in Flackwell Heath today, feeding on Red
Valerian. Paul also recorded the
following moths later on that evening, using a standard Skinner trap:
Blue Bordered Carpet; Bright-line Brown-eye; Buff Arches; Elephant Hawk
Moth; Figure of Eighty; Flame; Heart and Dart; Large Yellow Underwing; Leopard
; Light Emerald; Silver Y; Swallow-tailed
20th June
2003
Garden in Holmer Green – the
following moths were recorded on 20th June between 10.30 p.m. and
02.30 a.m.
Angle Shades; Barred Yellow; Bright-line
Brown-eye; Brimstone; Buff Ermine; Burnished Brass; Clouded Silver; Dark
Arches; Dot Moth; Dusky Brocade; Elephant Hawk (12); Eyed Hawk Moth; Fan Foot; Fern; Flame; Flame Shoulder;
Foxglove Pug; Garden Carpet; Ghost; Green Arches; Heart & Dart; Iron
Prominent; Large Yellow Underwing; Mottled Beauty; Peppered; Plain Golden Y;
Small Magpie; Spectacle; Straw Dot; Willow Beauty
and the following moths in one hour of recording on 17th
June:
Buff Arches; Dot Moth; Drinker Moth;
Elephant Hawk; Heart & Dart; Large Yellow Underwing; Little Emerald;
Scorched Wing; Small Magpie; Straw Dot
19th June
2003
Garden in Ballinger Common: Peter Hall recorded an
impressive 79 species of moths:
Common Swift; Barred Yellow; Beautiful Golden Y;
Beautiful Hook-tip; Bright-line Brown-eye; Brown Rustic; Buff ; rmine;
Burnished Brass; Clouded Border; Clouded Silver; Common Marbled Carpet; Common
Wainscot; Common ; hite Wave; Coxcomb Prominent; Dark Arches; Dot; Double
Square-spot; Dusky Brocade; Elephant Hawk;
Fan-foot; Flame; Flame Carpet; Flame Shoulder; Garden Carpet; Green Arches;
Green Carpet; Green Pug; Green Silver-lines; Heart & Club; Heart & Dart;
Ingrailed Clay; Large Nutmeg; Large Yellow Underwing; Light Emerald; Lobster;
Middle-barred Minor; Mottled Beauty; Mottled Rustic; Pale Oak Beauty; Pale
tussock; Peppered; Plain Golden Y; Purple ; lay; Riband Wave; Scorched Wing;
Setaceous Hebrew Character; Shoulder-striped Wainscot; Silver Ground Carpet;
Small Phoenix; Smoky Wainscot; Snout; Spectacle; Straw Dot; Striped Lychnis;
Tawny-barred Angle; Treble Brown Spot; Treble Lines; Uncertain; White-pinion
Spotted; White Ermine; Willow Beauty
Micros:
Lozotaenia forsterana; Agapeta hamana; Agonopterix
arenella; Aphomia sociella; Archips podana; Celypha lacunana; Chrysoteuchia
culmella; Cnephasia stephensiana; Crambus lathionellus; Crambus pascuella;
Eurrhypara hortulata; Evergestis forficalis; Hedya pruniana; Hypsopygia
costalis; Pandemis cerasana; Pseudargyrotoza conwagana; Tortrix viridana; Udea
olivalis
The following moths were recorded by the Bucks Invertebrate
Group – thanks to Peter Hall for
providing the records:
Langley Park – Wood
Bird's Wing; Blotched
Emerald; Brimstone Moth; Brown Rustic; Brown Silver-line; Buff-tip; Cinnabar;
Clouded Border; Common Carpet; Common Wainscot; Common White Wave; Flame
Shoulder; Ghost; Great Oak Beauty; Grey Arches; Heart & Dart; Ingrailed
Clay; Large Yellow Underwing; Light Emerald; Lime Hawk; Lobster; Maple
Prominent; Marbled Brown; Marbled White Spot; Middel-barred Minor; Pale Oak
Beauty; Pale tussock; Peacock Moth; Pebble Hook-tip; Pinion-streaked Snout;
Poplar Hawk; Riband Wave; Rosy Marbled; Scorched Wing; Shears; Silver Y; Small
Fan-foot; Small Yellow Wave; Straw Dot; Treble Lines; Uncertain; White Ermine;
Willow Beauty
micros: Acentria ephemerella; Aleimma
loeflingiana; Apotomis turbidana; Archips podana; Celypha lacunana; Epiblema
uddmanniana; Pandemis cerasana; Tortrix viridana
Langley Park – Oak Avenue
Blotched Emerald; Brown Rustic;
Buff-tip; Buff Ermine; Clay Triple-lines; Common Emerald; Green Pug; Grey
Arches; Heart & Dart; Ingrailed Clay; Light Emerald; Lobster; Marbled
Brown; Middel-barred Minor; Mottled Beauty; Pale Oak Beauty; Pale Prominent;
Peach Blossom; Plain Golden Y; Scorched Wing; Shoulder-striped Wainscot; Small
Fan-foot; Straw Dot; White Ermine
micros: Aleimma
loeflingiana; Apotomis turbidana; Archips podana; Celypha lacunana; Crambus
lathionellus; Crambus pascuella; Epiblema uddmanniana; Pandemis cerasana;
Tortrix viridana
Whiteleaf Cross
Privet Hawk
11th June
2003
Garden in Holmer Green
Angle Shades; Beautiful Golden Y;
Brimstone; Broken-barred Carpet; Clouded Border; Clouded Silver; Common White
Wave; Common Swift; Elephant Hawk Moth; Figure of Eighty; Flame Shoulder; Ghost
Moth; Heart and Dart; Lime Hawk Moth; Setaceous Hebrew Character; Small Angle
Shades; Small Magpie; Smoky Wainscot; Spectacle; Treble Lines; Varied Coronet
6th June 2003
Wycombe Wildlife Group organised
a moth recording evening in a private garden near The Rye in High Wycombe. Our thanks to the hosts for an enjoyable evening
and excellent refreshments. The
temperature was approximately 12 degrees and the following moths were recorded
before rain stopped play:
Beautiful Golden Y; Bright-line Brown-eye; Brimstone
Moth; Buff Ermine; Common Marbled Carpet (2); Green Carpet (3); Heart &
Dart; Lime-speck Pug; Silver-ground Carpet; Small Magpie; The Flame; Treble
Lines
2nd June 2003
Garden in Ballinger Common: Peter Hall recorded the
following moths on 27th May:
Angle Shades; Barred Umber;
Bright-line Brown-eye; Brimstone Moth; Broken-barred Carpet; Brown Silver-line;
Buff Ermine; Buff-tip; Cinnabar; Clay Triple-lines; Clouded Silver;
Clouded-bordered Brindle; Common Carpet; Common Marbled Carpet; Common Swift;
Flame Shoulder; Foxglove Pug; Garden Carpet; Heart & Dart; Large Nutmeg;
Large Yellow Underwing; Least Black Arches; Lime-speck Pug; Lobster; Marbled
Brown; Mottled Pug; Muslin; Nut-tree Tussock; Oak Hook-tip; Pale Oak Beauty;
Pale tussock; Pebble Prominent; Peppered; Poplar Hawk; Puss; Red Twin-spot
Carpet; Rustic Shoulder-knot; Scorched Wing; Shoulder-striped Wainscot;
Shuttle-shaped Dart; Silver Ground Carpet; Small Phoenix; Smoky Wainscot;
Spectacle; Spruce Carpet; Striped
Lychnis; Swallow Prominent; Sycamore; Treble Lines;
Waved Umber; White Ermine; White-pinion Spotted
and the following micros: Alucita hexadactyla; Scoparia ambigualis;
Evergestis forficalis; Argyresthia trifasciata; Hofmannophila pseudospretella
30th May 2003
Garden in Holmer Green Another very warm evening with the
following moths recorded (and many more that didn’t get recorded!):
Brimstone; Broken-barred Carpet; Clouded Silver(3); Common Marbled
Carpet(3); Common Wainscot; Figure of Eighty(3); Flame Shoulder(2); Heart and
Dart(2); Iron Prominent; Pale Tussock(2); Scorched Wing; Small Magpie; Small
Phoenix; Treble Lines; White Ermine; White Pinion Spotted
28th May 2003
Garden in Holmer Green A warm evening at last, producing the
following records:
Bright-line Brown-eye; Brimstone (5); Clouded Silver; Clouded-bordered
Brindle; Common Marbled Carpet; Figure of Eighty; Flame Carpet; Flame Shoulder
(4); Heart and Dart; Peppered Moth; Scalloped Hazel; Setaceous Hebrew
Character; Small Square Spot (2); The Miller; The Shears; The Spectacle; White
Ermine (2); White Pinion Spotted.
27th May 2003
In an overgrown garden in Central Flackwell Heath 9.30 - 11.30 P.M. Paul Bowyer recorded the following
moths:-
Common Marbled Carpet, Flame Shoulder, Clouded Silver, Currant Pug, Scorched
Wing, Brimstone and 3 Lime Hawk-Moths.
24th May 2003
Garden in Holmer Green
- temperature 8
degrees and using a standard Skinner’s moth trap.
Angle Shades; Bright-line Brown-eye (2); Brimstone (2); Common White Wave;
Flame Shoulder; Nut Tree Tussock; Scalloped Hazel. Also 6 Cockchafers.
8th May 2003
Garden in High Wycombe
- temperature 11
degrees and using a standard Skinner’s moth trap.
Bright-line Brown-eye; Brimstone(2);
Flame Shoulder; Hebrew Character (3); Knot Grass; Pale Tussock; Waved
Umber
4th May 2003
Ballinger Common:
Brindled Pug; Common Quaker; Hebrew Character; Nut-tree Tussock; Swallow Prominent; Pale tussock; Least Black Arches; Red Twin-spot Carpet; Small Phoenix; Broken-barred Carpet; Small Waved Umber; Yellow-barred Brindle; Brimstone Moth; Scalloped Hazel; Peppered; Lobster; Flame Shoulder; Eupoecilia angustana
24th April 2003
Garden in Holmer Green
- temperature 8-10
degrees and using a make-shift moth trap consisting of a sheet hung in front of
a UV 40W strip light.
Early Grey; Hebrew Character (2); Knot Grass; The Streamer; Twin-spotted Quaker.
National Moth Night -
Saturday 12th April 2003
Butterfly Conservation's Upper Thames
Branch ran 5 traps at Bernwood and 4 in other locations
around UTB. Thanks to Peter Hall
for providing the following records:
Bernwood - Oakley Wood
Brindled Pug; Clouded Drab; Common Quaker; Diurnia fagella; Early Grey;
Early Tooth-striped; Engrailed; Lunar Marbled Brown; Satellite; Small Quaker;
Twin-spotted Quaker; Water Carpet
Bernwood - Shabbington Wood
Blossom Underwing; Brindled Pug; Clouded Drab; Early Tooth-striped;
Nut-tree Tussock; Semioscopis steinkelleriana; Small Quaker; Twin-spotted
Quaker
Bernwood - Shabbington Wood Turning Circle
Blossom Underwing; Brindled Pug; Clouded Drab; Common Quaker; Diurnia
fagella; Early Grey; Early Thorn; Early Tooth-striped; Engrailed; Frosted
Green; March Moth; Nut-tree Tussock; Oak Beauty; Red Chestnut; Semioscopis
steinkelleriana; Small Quaker; Twin-spotted Quaker
Small Dean Lane
Diurnia fagella; Early Thorn; March Moth; Red Chestnut; Streamer; Water
Carpet; Waved Umber; White-marked
Ballinger Common
Chestnut; Clouded Drab; Common Quaker; Dotted Border; Double-striped
Pug; Early Grey; Early Thorn; Hebrew Character; Pale Pinion; Small Quaker;
Twin-spotted Quaker
Wycombe Wildlife Group organised
a moth trap which took place in the Sheepridge Nature Reserve and was led by
Paul Bowyer. A standard Skinner's trap was used. It turned out to be quite a
cool and breezy evening - temperatures staying below 10 degrees. The trap was
run from 8.00 p.m. until 10.30 p.m. (when it got too cold for moths and
people!). As none of us had seen moths in the car headlights on the way to the
site, expectations were not high. The skies were rather clear, with a full
moon. Fortunately the clouds covered the moon for a time and during this period
we had a small flurry of activity when we recorded the following moths:
Nut Tree Tussock (3); Common Quaker (2) and Clouded Drab (1).
~~~oOo~~~
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