Wednesday 5 August 2015

An early morning at Wigston Magna, Leicestershire - August 3, 2015

A much better night last night with 209 moths trapped and identified with four, Large Fruit-tree Tortrix, Cydia splendana, Cloaked Minor and Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing new for the year.


The following were recorded: Blastobasis adustella [12]; Large Fruit-tree Tortrix [1]; Light Brown Apple Moth [4]; Cnephasia sp. [1]; Celypha striana [1]; Celypha lacunana [1]; Eucosma cana [1]; Cydia splendana [1]; Rhodophaea Formosa [4]; Acrobasis advenella [1]; Gold Triangle [1]; Small Magpie [1]; Mother of Pearl [3]; Eudonia mercurella [2]; Chrysoteuchia culmella [19]; Crambus pascuella [7]; Crambus perlella [1]; Agriphila tristella [2]; Agriphila straminella [3]; Chinese Character [2]; Riband Wave [6]; Common Carpet [1]; Willow Beauty [2]; Buff-tip [1]; Yellow-tail [2]; The Spectacle [1]; Silver Y [2]; The Sycamore [1]; Marbled Beauty [1]; The Uncertain [4]; Small Dotted Buff [1]; Dark Arches [14]; Common Rustic group [46]; Cloaked Minor [2]; Marbled Minor group [1]; Nutmeg [1]; Bright-line Brown-eye [2]; Dot Moth [2]; Common Wainscot [1]; Smoky Wainscot [5]; The Clay [1]; Heart and Dart [5]; Shuttle-shaped Dart [3]; Large Yellow Underwing [25]; Broad-borded Yellow Underwing [1]; Lesser Yellow Underwing [3] and Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing [5].


Large Fruit-tree Tortrix


Cydia splendana


Gold Triangle


Acrobasis advenella


Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing

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