Rod's Birding: A morning in Newton Harcourt, Leicestershire

Friday 26 July 2013

A morning in Newton Harcourt, Leicestershire - July 24, 2013

Dave had the moth trap out again yesterday and we trapped and identified 193 moths of sixty-nine species. There were twenty-seven micros and forty-two macros with three new micros and one macro.

The following were trapped: Argyresthia goedartella [1]; Bird-cherry Ermine [8]; Spindle Ermine [1]; Diamond-backed Moth [1]; Plutella porecctella [1]; Brown House Moth [7]; Carcina quercana [1]; Blastobasis adustella [1]; Agapeta hamana [1]; Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix [4]; Large Fruit-tree Tortrix [1]; Timothy Tortrix [1]; Clepsis consimilana [1]; Lozotaenia forsterana [2]; Celypha striana [2]; Marbled Orchard Tortrix [1]; Bactra furfurana [1]; Branble Shoot Moth [1]; Chrysoteuchia culmella [22]; Crambus perlella [1]; Agriphila tristella [3]; Catoptria falsella [3]; Eudonia mercurella [3]; Small Magpie [1]; Udea lutealis [2]; Mother of Pearl [1]; Phycitodes binaevella [1]; Buff Arches [1]; Small Blood-vein [1]; Small Fan-footed Wave [2]; Riband Wave [12]; Large Twin-spot Carpet [1]; Garden Carpet [1]; Common Carpet [1]; Sandy Carpet [1]; Green Pug [2]; Clouded Border [1]; Brimstone Moth [2]; Early Thorn [1]; Swallow-tailed Moth [2]; Peppered Moth [1]; Willow Beauty [3]; Clouded Silver [1]; Privet Hawk-moth [1]; Yellow-tail [1]; Common Footman [17]; Heart and Dart [3]; Large Yellow Underwing [3]; Lesser Yellow Underwing [1]; Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing [1]; Double Square-spot [2]; Dot Moth [2]; Smoky Wainscot [4]; Dagger sp. [2]; Coronet [1]; Marbled Beauty [4]; Dark Arches [9]; Marbled Minor sp. [6]; Middle-barred Minor [1]; Common Rustic sp. [5]; Small Dotted Buff [1]; Uncertain [5]; Rustic [9]; Burnished Brass [2]; Golden Plusia [1]; Silver Y [1]; Plain Golden Y [3]; Herald [1] and Beautiful Hook-tip [1].