SP9326: 16/06/15 - Catching Up

Tmin: 10.6°C; W: SW 0-7 mph; P: 0 mm;

Some variety, but not big numbers, of twenty-three species, only four had multiple counts.

Second garden record of Marsh Grey Eudonia pallida.

Earliest garden records of Small Magpie Eurrhypara hortulata and Privet Tortrix Clepsis consimilana.

994 Clepsis consimilana

1336 Eudonia pallida

1376 Small Magpie

2477 Snout

Date: 16/06/15 Site: Leighton Buzzard: Garden Trap: Skinner

Total:

23

species

/

42

moths

B/F	Taxon	Vernacular	Qty
17	Hepialus lupulinus	Common Swift	1
779	Bryotropha affinis	Dark Groundling	1
989	Aphelia paleana	Timothy Tortrix	1
994	Clepsis consimilana	Privet Tortrix	2
998	Epiphyas postvittana	Light Brown Apple Moth	1
1083	Hedya nubiferana	Marbled Orchard Tortrix	1
1293	Chrysoteuchia culmella	Garden Grass-veneer	4
1301	Crambus lathoniellus	Hook-streaked Grass-Veneer	1
1336	Eudonia pallida	Marsh Grey	1
1376	Eurrhypara hortulata	Small Magpie	1
1428	Aphomia sociella	Bee Moth	1
1728	Xanthorhoe fluctuata	Garden Carpet	1
1764	Chloroclysta truncata	Common Marbled Carpet	3
1937	Peribatodes rhomboidaria	Willow Beauty	1
1994	Phalera bucephala	Buff-tip	1
2089	Agrotis exclamationis	Heart and Dart	14
2126	Xestia c-nigrum	Setaceous Hebrew Character	1
2333	Apamea anceps	Large Nutmeg	1
2340	Oligia fasciuncula	Middle-barred Minor	1
2380	Charanyca trigrammica	Treble Lines	1
2387	Caradrina morpheus	Mottled Rustic	1
2474	Rivula sericealis	Straw Dot	1
2477	Hypena proboscidalis	Snout	1

	First - for - year
	First - for - garden

SP9326: 23/06/12 - Vapourer Moth larva

Discovered a final instar larva (36mm) of 2026* The Vapourer in the garden today, it was feeding on Hydrangea petiolaris (a climbing hydrangea).  The adult has not been encountered here and so this is a new* garden specie.
The plant has yet to flower this summer (unsurprisingly) and, as usual, some of the stems had not made contact with a surface, thus exposing their adventitious roots. The larva was progressing along one of these stems whilst methodically consuming the roots. Indeed, to my mind, the whitish tufts of hair on the dorsum reminded me of these roots.
I can find no reference of this foodplant used by The Vapourer on the  BRC database 'Insects and their Food Plants'.

A field record of Clepsis consimilana (male) was disturbed from Horse Chestnut 100m from garden.

0994 Clepsis consimilana

2026* The Vapourer