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

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I am uk moth-er.

Your
Andy Renshaw 

On 4 May 1999 03:15:20 -0700, NGD at WPO.NERC.AC.UK (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
>