SP9326: 17/08/15 - Two New Moths

Tmin: 11.6°C; W: WNW 0-4 mph; P: 0 mm;

Twin-spotted Wainscot, like the recently caught Webb's Wainscott, is an uncommon resident with a local distribution. The VC30 database indicates c.40 of each have been recorded so far. The larval food plants of Webb's include Yellow Flag Iris & typha (Bulrush/Reedmace), while those of Twin-spotted Wainscot munch on Phragmites australis (Common Reed).

There are only 33 records of Acleris aspersana in the VC30 database, but are nationally common, so a welcome new visitor here.

Stats !

1st garden records of:
Ginger Button Acleris aspersana
Twin-spotted Wainscot Archanara geminipuncta

3rd garden record of Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis corylana

969 Pandemis corylana

1043 Acleris aspersana

2370 Twin-spotted Wainscot

Date: 17/08/15 Site: Leighton Buzzard: Garden Trap: Skinner

Total:

27

species

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70

moths

B/F	Taxon	Vernacular	Qty
15	Hepialus sylvina	Orange Swift	1
779	Bryotropha affinis	Dark Groundling	2
873	Blastobasis adustella	(=lignea) Dingy Dowd	1
965	Cochylis hybridella	White-bodied Conch	1
969	Pandemis corylana	Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix	1
974	Argyrotaenia ljungiana	Heather Tortrix	1
998	Epiphyas postvittana	Light Brown Apple Moth	2
1043	Acleris aspersana	Ginger Button	1
1063	Celypha striana	Barred Marble	1
1293	Chrysoteuchia culmella	Garden Grass-veneer	2
1304	Agriphila straminella	Pearl Veneer	2
1305	Agriphila tristella	Common Grass-veneer	18
1306	Agriphila inquinatella	Barred Grass-veneer	5
1309	Agriphila geniculea	Elbow-stripe Grass-veneer	1
1388	Udea lutealis	Pale Straw Pearl	1
1439	Trachycera advenella	Grey Knot-horn	1
1708	Idaea dimidiata	Single-dotted Wave	1
1732	Scotopteryx chenopodiata	Shaded Broad-bar	1
1738	Epirrhoe alternata	Common Carpet	1
2107	Noctua pronuba	Large Yellow Underwing	4
2293	Cryphia domestica	Marbled Beauty	4
2297x	Amphipyra pyramidea agg.	Copper Underwings	1
2303	Thalpophila matura	Straw Underwing	7
2321	Apamea monoglypha	Dark Arches	1
2343x	Mesapamea secalis agg.	Common Rustic agg	7
2353	Luperina testacea	Flounced Rustic	1
2370	Archanara geminipuncta	Twin-spotted Wainscot	1

	First - for - year
	First - for - garden