Friday 24 June 2016

An early morning in Wigston Magna, Leicestershire - June 19, 2016

I put the trap out last night and was up quite early to collects any moths outside of the trap before emptying the trap.  I trapped and identified eight-one moths covering thirty-four species, sixteen of which were new for the year.


The following were recorded: Case-bearing Clothes Moth [1]; Diamond-back Moth  [4]; Brown House-moth [1]; Argyresthia goedartella [2]; Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix [1]; Timothy Tortrix [1]; Light Brown Apple Moth [11]; Celypha lacunana [1]; Epinotia bilunana [1]; Scoparia pyralella [1]; Chrysoteuchia culmella [2]; Agriphila straminella [2]; Garden Carpet [1]; Silver-ground Carpet [2]; Common Carpet [1]; Green Pug 1[]; Foxglove Pug [1]; Mottled Pug [2]; Scorched Wing [1]; Brimstone Moth [3]; Willow Beauty [4]; Clouded Silver [1]; Iron Prominent [1]; Snout [1]; Spectacle [1]; Silver Y [1]; Rustic Shoulder-knot [1]; Dark Arches [1]; Marbled Minor species [1]; Bright-line Brown-eye [5]; Shoulder-striped Wainscot [2]; Heart and Dart [20]; Small Square-spot [1] and Large Yellow Underwing [1].


Argyresthia goedartella


Epinotia bilunana


Epinotia bilunana


Scoparia pyralella


Silver-ground Carpet


Foxglove Pug


Small Square Spot


Shoulder-striped Wainscot

The Snout

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