SP9326: 24/08/11 - New carpet bagged

Although a common moth, the Green Carpet was new* for the garden. The first Copper Underwing and Six-striped Rustic for the year.

1331 Water Veneer

1776* Green Carpet

2087 Turnip Moth

2133 Six-striped Rustic

Dusk

List for 24/08/11


    15    Orange Swift    7
  658    Carcina quercana    1
1076    Celypha lacunana    1
1304    Agriphila straminella    2
1305    Agriphila tristella    25
1309    Agriphila geniculea    3
1331    Water Veneer    1
1356    Garden Pebble    1
1728    Garden Carpet    1
1742    Yellow Shell    4
1776*  Green Carpet    1
1862    Double-striped Pug    2
1906    Brimstone Moth    1
2087    Turnip Moth    1
2092    Shuttle-shaped Dart    1
2107    Large Yellow Underwing    8
2126    Setaceous Hebrew Character    2
2133    Six-striped Rustic    1
2134    Square-spot Rustic    1
2297    Copper Underwing    1
2353    Flounced Rustic    2
2384    Vine's Rustic    3

Total: 22 species

SP9326: 23/08/11 - Reasonable numbers

The first Old Lady of the year appeared, but did not stay.

1742 Yellow Shell

List for SP9326: 23/08/11

    15    Orange Swift    9
  972    Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix    1
1305    Agriphila tristella    23
1309    Agriphila geniculea    2
1344    Eudonia mercurella    1
1388    Udea lutealis    1
1524    Emmelina monodactyla    2
1728    Garden Carpet    1
1738    Common Carpet    1
1742    Yellow Shell    3
1862    Double-striped Pug    2
1937    Willow Beauty    4
2092    Shuttle-shaped Dart    1
2107    Large Yellow Underwing    9
2126    Setaceous Hebrew Character    2
2134    Square-spot Rustic    3
2293    Marbled Beauty    1
2300    Old Lady    1
2303    Straw Underwing    3
2321    Dark Arches    1
2353    Flounced Rustic    5
2384    Vine's Rustic    5

Total: 22 species

SP9326: 21/08/11 - Pyralid trio

After a fine day, the temperature dropped to 9 Celsius, with light airs.

A quiet night, the trap was unattended throughout, and not checked until well after day-break. Three members of the Pyraustinae were represented, Udea lutealis, Pyrausta purpuralis and a rather brown Pyrausta aurata.

1361 Pyrausta aurata

1362 Pyrausta purpuralis

1388 Udea lutealis

2134 Square-spot Rustic

2134 Square-spot Rustic

2160 Bright-line Brown-eye

List for SP9326: 21/08/11

    15    Orange Swift    8
1304    Agriphila straminella    1
1305    Agriphila tristella    9
1361    Pyrausta aurata    1
1362    Pyrausta purpuralis    1
1388    Udea lutealis    1
1738    Common Carpet    1
1742    Yellow Shell    2
1862    Double-striped Pug    1
1937    Willow Beauty    3
2092    Shuttle-shaped Dart    1
2111    Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing    1
2134    Square-spot Rustic    2
2160    Bright-line Brown-eye    1
2293    Marbled Beauty    3
2353    Flounced Rustic    1
2384    Vine's Rustic    3

Total: 17 species

SP9326: 19/08/11 - Lesser Wax Moth

Low of 12.2 Celsius, mild breeze at times.

Two new* moths for the garden - Lesser Wax Moth shows only 10 records on the NBN Gateway, and Cream-bordered Green Pea which, considering the amount of  Salix nearby, was overdue.

1426* Lesser Wax Moth

2418* Cream-bordered Green Pea

List for SP9326: 19/08/11

    15    Orange Swift    11
  648    White-shouldered House-moth    1
  658    Carcina quercana    1
  974    Argyrotaenia ljungiana    2
1048    Garden Rose Tortrix    1
1063    Celypha striana    1
1245    Grapholita Janthinana    1
1260    Cydia splendana    1
1293    Chrysoteuchia culmella    1
1304    Agriphila straminella    3
1305    Agriphila tristella    9
1309    Agriphila geniculea    1
1426*   Lesser Wax Moth    1
1439    Trachycera advenella    1
1713    Riband Wave    1
1742    Yellow Shell    1
1838    Tawny Speckled Pug    1
1906    Brimstone Moth    1
1937    Willow Beauty    4
2092    Shuttle-shaped Dart    1
2107    Large Yellow Underwing    3
2126    Setaceous Hebrew Character    4
2293    Marbled Beauty    6
2303    Straw Underwing    1
2343    Common Rustic    1
2384    Vine's Rustic    1
2418*   Cream-bordered Green Pea    1

Total: 27 species

Apple Leaf Miner - Cherry chomper

Although I've not seen the adult Apple Leaf Miner I did discover a leaf mine of this specie on a Prunus sp. forty yards from the garden. The mines are narrow and winding on various fruit trees, the frass is broken.

263 Apple Leaf Miner

SP9326: 18/08/11 Soap-Box

Grim reality hit home today as Mr Postie delivered a copy of a planning proposal to build 2160 dwellings and other associated concrete paraphernalia on greenbelt land east of my garden.
Key words such as 'Country Park' (read: 'dog turds/bite wounds'), 'Great-crested Newt mitigation' (read: 'never to be seen again') and 'Neutral Grassland' (read: 'shorn to within an inch of its life every 45 seconds') leapt from the page.

As a full-time NIMBY-ist, I didn't (as you may expect) leap on the keyboard and compose an email of fiery rhetoric about 'how it should be'.
No. Instead, I sought my 'Crystal Ball for the Pragmatist' and saw a vision of the future - it was a blog entry !
I couldn't quite see all of the detail due to swirling mist, and poor eyesight, but the entry went something like this:

The coolest night since early February - minimum 25 Celsius

List for SP9326: 20/07/2021

  647    Brown House-moth    17
1293    Chrysoteuchia culmella    250

Total: 2 species
+ 4 East-European sp. TBI 

Anyway - mustn't grumble  :-(

Back to the present -
Minimum 8.0 Celsius.

A dismal showing - not surprising after the rain set in for the day.

1076 Celypha lacunana

2087 Turnip Moth

2353 Flounced Rustic

List for SP9326: 18/08/11

  647    Brown House-moth    1
1076    Celypha lacunana    1
1305    Agriphila tristella    4
1742    Yellow Shell    1
2087    Turnip Moth    1
2111    Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing    2
2353    Flounced Rustic    3

Total: 7 species

SP9326: 17/08/11 - A reasonable catch

Minimum temp. 9 Celsius.
An interesting sallow sky at dusk preceded the first Centre-barred Sallow of the year - Autumn is surely not far off.

Dusk

2269 Centre-barred Sallow

1497 Amblyptilia acanthadactyla

1707 Small Dusty Wave

List for SP9326: 17/08/11

    15    Orange Swift    1
  647    Brown House-moth    2
1020x  Cnephasia agg.    1
1304    Agriphila straminella    7
1305    Agriphila tristella    4
1306    Agriphila inquinatella    1
1344    Eudonia mercurella    1
1405    Mother of Pearl    1
1497    Amblyptilia acanthadactyla    1
1524    Emmelina monodactyla    1
1707    Small Dusty Wave    1
1728    Garden Carpet    1
1738    Common Carpet    1
1906    Brimstone Moth    1
1937    Willow Beauty    6
2111    Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing    1
2269    Centre-barred Sallow    1
2293    Marbled Beauty    1
2303    Straw Underwing    2
2321    Dark Arches    1
2343x  Common Rustic agg.    1
2353    Flounced Rustic    1
2384    Vine's Rustic    1

Total: 23 species