Moths on the night of 1st/2nd May (UK)

Paul Bryan plbwant at cableinet.co.uk
Fri May 7 06:13:58 EDT 1999


My own list from the same nights from a market town in Oxfordshire is as
follows
Nut tree tussock
Chocolate tip
Pale prominent
Hebrew Characte
Brimstone
Waved Umber
Garden Carpet
Muslin Moth
Bright line Brown eye
The Mullein
Dark Dagger
Pale Mottled Willow
The Spectacle

Nick Greatorex-Davies wrote:

> I am always fascinated to see lists of moths from other peoples traps
> in the UK so I hope some will be interested in another list - and that
> this may prompt a few more - though I don't think there are many UK
> moth-ers on the list. (This won't be feasible of course in the summer
> when numbers of species and individuals are much greater!)
>
> [Incidently we had an adult Cinnabar (Tyria jacobaeae) here in March
> - in the building! This is the second time I have seen the Cinnabar so
> early and almost certainly is the result of larvae getting inside the
> building and finding somewhere suitable to pupate and then emerging
> early due to the warmer inside temperatures.]
>
> I put the MV out in my suburban garden near St Ives in Cambridgeshire
> UK on the nights beginning 1st and 3rd May (last night). Various
> macros but very few micros (13 macros on 1st and 19 on 3rd) but
> nothing particularly early, despite several warm days recently. I note
> that on May 3rd 1997 I had 36 species of macro-moth to the MV in the
> garden!
>
> 01.05.99
> 2   Grey Pine carpet (Thera obeliscata)
> 1   Red Twin-spot Carpet (Xanthorhoe spadicearia)
> 1   Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet (Xanthorhoe ferrugata)
> 1   Scarce Tissue (Rheumaptera cervinalis)
> 1   Brimstone moth  (Opisthograptis luteolata)
> 1   Chocolate-tip (Clostera pigra)
> 1   Least Black Arches (Nola confusalis)
> 2   Bright-line Brown-eye (Lacanobia oleracea)
> 2   Pale Mottled Willow (Caradrina clavipalpis)
> 6   Shuttle-shaped Dart (Agrotis puta)
> 1   Spectacle (Abrostola triplasia)
> 2   Flame Shoulder (Ochropleura plecta)
> 2   Hebrew Character (Othosia gothica)
>
> 03.05.99
> 2   Red Twin-spot Carpet (Xanthorhoe spadicearia)
> 1   Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet (Xanthorhoe ferrugata)
> 2   Yellow-barred Brindle (Acasis viretata)
> 1   Oak-tree Pug (Eupithecia dodoneata)
> 2   Waved Umber (Menophra abruptaria)
> 1   Scarce Tissue (Rheumaptera cervinalis)
> 2   Brimstone moth  (Opisthograptis luteolata)
> 1   Common White Wave (Cabera pusaria)
> 1   Peppered Moth (Biston betularia var. carbonaria)
> 1   Pale Prominent (Pterostoma palpina)
> 1   Iron Prominent (Notodonta dromedarius)
> 3   Swallow Prominent (Pheosia tremula)
> 4   Least Black Arches (Nola confusalis)
> 14 Shuttle-shaped Dart (Agrotis puta)
> 2   Flame Shoulder (Ochropleura plecta)
> 2   Hebrew Character (Othosia gothica)
> 1   Common Quaker (Orthosia cerasi)
> 1   Clouded Drab (Orthosia incerta)
> 1   Grey/Dark Dagger (Acronicta psi/tridens)
> micos
> 4   White-shouldered House Moth (Endrosis sarcitrella)
> 2   Garden Pebble (Evergestis forficalis)
>
> Regards
>
> Nick Greatorex-Davies
> Mr J Nick Greatorex-Davies
> (Butterfly Monitoring Scheme co-ordinator)
> Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
> Monks Wood
> Abbots Ripton
> Huntingdon
> Cambridgeshire PE17 2LS  UK
>
> Tel: (+44) (0) 1487 773 381
> Fax: (+44) (0) 1487 773 467
> E-mail: n.greatorex-davies at ite.ac.uk


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