Monday 13 August 2018

An early morning in Wigston Magna, Leicestershire - July 11, 2018


After a cooler night there were fewer moths with just eighty-two trapped and identified and covering thirty-seven species, four of which were new for the year, two new for the garden and a lifer.

The Following were recorded: Ermine species [1]; Bird-cherry Ermine [1]; Brown House Moth [2]; Crassa unitella [1]; Blastobasis adustella [2]; Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix [1]; Clepsis consimilana [1]; Acleris schalleriana [1]; Lobesia abscisana [1]; Euzophera pinguis [1]; Gold Triangle [1]; Pyrausta purpuralis [1]; Eudonia Lacustrata [1]; Chrysoteuchia culmella [10]; Crambus pascuella [8]; Buff Arches [1]; Elephant Hawk-moth [1]; Least Carpet [1]; Riband Wave [3]; Lime-speck Pug [1]; Peppered Moth [2]; Willow Beauty [1]; The Snout [1]; Dingy Footman [3]; Common Footman [8]; Silver Y [2]; Dagger species [1]; Marbled Beauty [1]; The Uncertain [4]; Dark Arches [9]; Common Rustic species [5]; Marbled Minor species [1]; Bright-line Brown-eye [1]; Cabbage Moth [1]; The Clay [1] and Large Yellow Underwing [1].


Acleris schalleriana


Lobesia abscisana


Pyrausta purpuralis


Least Carpet

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