Friday 24 June 2016

An early morning in Wigston Magna, Leicestershire - June 23, 2016

The trap was out again last night and there were 108 moths covering fifty-one species with one new, Small Fan-foot, and another fifteen new for the year.


The following were recorded: Bird-cherry Ermine [1]; Diamond-back Moth [2]; Argyresthia goedartella [1]; Brown House-moth [1]; Timothy Tortrix [1]; Light Brown Apple Moth [8]; Pseudargrotoza conwagana [3]; Aethes smeathmanniana [1]; Eucosma cana [1]; Codling Moth [1]; Bee Moth [2]; Small Magpie [4]; Udea olivalis [1]; Garden Pebble [1]; Scoparia pyralella [1]; Eudonia mercurella [1]; Chrysoteuchia culmella [1]; Crambus pascuella [1]; Crambus perlella [1]; Agriphila straminella [3]; Brown China-mark [1]; Elephant Hawkmoth [1]; Small Dusty Wave [2]; Riband Wave [1]; Common Marbled Carpet [1]; Green Pug [1]; Foxglove Pug [1]; Lime-speck Pug [1]; Common Pug [1]; Mottled Pug [1]; Scorched Wing [1]; Brimstone Moth [5]; Peppered Moth [1]; Willow Beauty [1]; Clouded Silver [1]; Straw Dot [3]; Buff Ermine [5]; Small Fan-foot [1]; Silver Y [1]; Marbled Beauty [1]; Uncertain [1]; Brown Rustic [1]; Large Nutmeg [1]; Rustic Shoulder Knot [5]; Dark Arches [1]; Marbled Minor species [1]; Middle-barred Minor [2]; Bright-line Brown-eye [2]; Heart and Dart [20]; The Flame [1] and Setaceous Hebrew Character [1].


Brown China Mark


Peppered Moth


Small Fan-foot

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