SP9326: 22/08/15 - New: Scorched Carpet

Tmin: 16.5°C; W: ESE 1-9 mph; P: 0 mm

Very warm and muggy, quite breezy at times.

Scorched Carpet was new for the garden, having previously caught this specie near the chalk where spindle (the larval food-plant) is plentiful.

First garden record of Scorched Carpet Ligdia adustata

1888 Scorched Carpet

Date: 22/08/15 Site: Leighton Buzzard: Garden Trap: Skinner

Total:

29

species

/

108

moths

B/F	Taxon	Vernacular	Qty
15	Hepialus sylvina	Orange Swift	1
789	Bryotropha domestica	House Groundling	1
936	Cochylimorpha straminea	Straw Conch	1
974	Argyrotaenia ljungiana	Heather Tortrix	1
998	Epiphyas postvittana	Light Brown Apple Moth	6
1293	Chrysoteuchia culmella	Garden Grass-veneer	2
1304	Agriphila straminella	Pearl Veneer	2
1305	Agriphila tristella	Common Grass-veneer	23
1306	Agriphila inquinatella	Barred Grass-veneer	2
1309	Agriphila geniculea	Elbow-stripe Grass-veneer	8
1331	Acentria ephemerella	Water Veneer	1
1348	Parapoynx stratiotata	Ringed China-mark	1
1742	Camptogramma bilineata	Yellow Shell	2
1888	Ligdia adustata	Scorched Carpet	1
1906	Opisthograptis luteolata	Brimstone Moth	1
1937	Peribatodes rhomboidaria	Willow Beauty	1
2092	Agrotis puta	Shuttle-shaped Dart	1
2102	Ochropleura plecta	Flame Shoulder	1
2107	Noctua pronuba	Large Yellow Underwing	11
2111	Noctua janthe	Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing	1
2134	Xestia xanthographa	Square-spot Rustic	5
2199	Mythimna pallens	Common Wainscot	1
2293	Cryphia domestica	Marbled Beauty	9
2303	Thalpophila matura	Straw Underwing	6
2343x	Mesapamea secalis agg.	Common Rustic agg	1
2353	Luperina testacea	Flounced Rustic	15
2361	Hydraecia micacea	Rosy Rustic	1
2384	Hoplodrina ambigua	Vine's Rustic	1
2474	Rivula sericealis	Straw Dot	1

	First - for - year
	First - for - garden