Fairy Moths

Cors Erddreiniog NNR. Anglesey, N. Wales. SH469820

Cors Erddreiniog NNR. Anglesey, N. Wales. SH469820

Dorsal. Scale bar 5 mm.MZLU00112319

Braughing Farmland - East Herts

Gladsaxe Municipality, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Traps on people, it's hotting up out there!To start off with I had some incredible luck chasing a Micro moth around the garden with a pot (god knows what the neighbour's think!) I managed to scoop it mid-flight into my pot and get the lid on in a split-second.The moth in question was a small metallic Adelidae of somekind, half the size of reamurella and I suspected rufimitrella.A few macro shots were taken and it indeed turned out to be a garden first Adela rufimitrella, in fact my first for Hertfordshire and only my second ever in 8 years (previous record from Essex)To the evening....I ran the garden trap last night as it had been a lovely warm day with a high of 21 degrees, and although it cleared at dusk it stayed relatively mild with little or no wind.This morning it was still registering 11 degrees and so my expectations were quite high, and I was pleasantly rewarded with some nice species and 5 new species for the year.Both the Carpets refused to lay flat like a carpet and so it's underwing shots all the way here... hoping it will help anyone identifying them this way.Trapping again tonight hopefully.Catch Report - 15/05/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson TrapMacro Moths1x Maiden's Blush [NFY]1x Clouded Border [NFY]2x Common Marbled Carpet [NFY]1x Silver-ground Carpet [NFY]1x Bright-line Brown-eye [NFY]2x Spectacle 2x Rustic Shoulder-knot 2x Pale Mottled Willow1x Waved Umber4x Muslin Moth5x Shuttle-shaped Dart2x Common Pug1x Brimstone MothMicro Moths 1x Evergestis forficalis1x Alucita hexadactyla1x Syndemis musculana1x Phyllonorycter harrisella2x Epermenia chaerophyllella

Traps on people, it's hotting up out there!To start off with I had some incredible luck chasing a Micro moth around the garden with a pot (god knows what the neighbour's think!) I managed to scoop it mid-flight into my pot and get the lid on in a split-second.The moth in question was a small metallic Adelidae of somekind, half the size of reamurella and I suspected rufimitrella.A few macro shots were taken and it indeed turned out to be a garden first Adela rufimitrella, in fact my first for Hertfordshire and only my second ever in 8 years (previous record from Essex)To the evening....I ran the garden trap last night as it had been a lovely warm day with a high of 21 degrees, and although it cleared at dusk it stayed relatively mild with little or no wind.This morning it was still registering 11 degrees and so my expectations were quite high, and I was pleasantly rewarded with some nice species and 5 new species for the year.Both the Carpets refused to lay flat like a carpet and so it's underwing shots all the way here... hoping it will help anyone identifying them this way.Trapping again tonight hopefully.Catch Report - 15/05/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson TrapMacro Moths1x Maiden's Blush [NFY]1x Clouded Border [NFY]2x Common Marbled Carpet [NFY]1x Silver-ground Carpet [NFY]1x Bright-line Brown-eye [NFY]2x Spectacle 2x Rustic Shoulder-knot 2x Pale Mottled Willow1x Waved Umber4x Muslin Moth5x Shuttle-shaped Dart2x Common Pug1x Brimstone MothMicro Moths 1x Evergestis forficalis1x Alucita hexadactyla1x Syndemis musculana1x Phyllonorycter harrisella2x Epermenia chaerophyllella

Traps on people, it's hotting up out there!To start off with I had some incredible luck chasing a Micro moth around the garden with a pot (god knows what the neighbour's think!) I managed to scoop it mid-flight into my pot and get the lid on in a split-second.The moth in question was a small metallic Adelidae of somekind, half the size of reamurella and I suspected rufimitrella.A few macro shots were taken and it indeed turned out to be a garden first Adela rufimitrella, in fact my first for Hertfordshire and only my second ever in 8 years (previous record from Essex)To the evening....I ran the garden trap last night as it had been a lovely warm day with a high of 21 degrees, and although it cleared at dusk it stayed relatively mild with little or no wind.This morning it was still registering 11 degrees and so my expectations were quite high, and I was pleasantly rewarded with some nice species and 5 new species for the year.Both the Carpets refused to lay flat like a carpet and so it's underwing shots all the way here... hoping it will help anyone identifying them this way.Trapping again tonight hopefully.Catch Report - 15/05/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson TrapMacro Moths1x Maiden's Blush [NFY]1x Clouded Border [NFY]2x Common Marbled Carpet [NFY]1x Silver-ground Carpet [NFY]1x Bright-line Brown-eye [NFY]2x Spectacle 2x Rustic Shoulder-knot 2x Pale Mottled Willow1x Waved Umber4x Muslin Moth5x Shuttle-shaped Dart2x Common Pug1x Brimstone MothMicro Moths 1x Evergestis forficalis1x Alucita hexadactyla1x Syndemis musculana1x Phyllonorycter harrisella2x Epermenia chaerophyllella

Dorsal. Scale bar 5 mm.MZLU00200247

Number 108 for the year, a female Nemophora degeerella found in our alleyway on the purposely left stinging nettles.Warm and sunny today and looking forward to seeing what is in the trap in the morning, after nearly a week break.

Martlesham, England, United Kingdom

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

The evening party assembled as planned at the Ivinghoe Beacon car park. It was almost immediately agreed that the air temperature was far too low for any trapping in this area in spite of the theoretical possibility of catching Wood Tiger and/or Light Feathered Rustic. However, having come all this way we felt that we ought to do something, so we drove to the Bridgewater Monument on the Ashridge Estate about a mile down the road and split into two camps within the (theoretically warmer) woodland. We set up 6 lights (a sheet on the side of the Landrover plus five traps) on the Hertfordshire side of a ditch whilst the chaps (and one chap-ess) from Buckinghamshire ran a further three lights on the other side of the ditch in their own county a couple of hundred yards away. The intended inter-county competition was largely forgotten as both teams considered it increasingly likely that the most probable result would be a no score draw, but eventually a moth did appear to set the ball rolling. The 9 lights ran from about 21.30 to midnight, but in the last hour, perhaps the last hour and a half, the moths stopped flying altogether as the temperature plummeted to a depressing 7 degrees Celsius (an interesting situation, given that we were a mere 29 days from mid-summer and only 26 days off the longest day of the year!). We eventually managed 10 macros and a micro with a grand overall total of 22 individual moths in our 6 Hertfordshire lights. Two traps had absolutely zero moths. The Buckinghamshire crew scarcely did better; one of their traps also scored a duck, though they did get a Brimstone moth, which we did not. Words such as dire do not adequately convey the situation. Can it possibly get any worse? Is this the future of mothing as we know it? The Hertfordshire list was as follows: Macro Moths1x Frosted Green1x Water Carpet2x Small Phoenix2x Common Pug1x Brindled Pug1x Purple Thorn 5x White-pinion Spotted1x Coxcomb Prominent1x Common Quaker2x Nut-tree TussockMicro Moths5x Nematopogon swammerdamella

Roughdown Common and Gadesprings Field Trip report - 30/04/14I was joined by Roger and Lucy last night at Roughdown Common, for our first trip to this fantastic mixture of open chalk grassland with intersecting woodland.This is the earliest in the year that we have trapped this site, and we waited with baited breath to see what might turn up to the lights.Conditions were quite good with a faint breeze and a temperature of around 15c at dusk, dropping to 10c when driving home.We set 1 light up overlooking the lower grass field, the second one along the edge of the woodland and the third (MV) within the wood itself and under a large Oak.Interestingly my Mercury blended bulb did quite well on the edge of the field and attracted a good variety of species, equal to that of the Mercury vapour (this isn't always the case!)It was slow going at first, with a few Waved Umber's and Green Carpet's first to the trap, then the variety performance turned up and we started to accumulate a nice list.Lights were on at 8.45pm and by 11.15pm we were ready to pack up as there was a distinct chill in the air and the sky had cleared.In 2 and a half hours of trapping with 3 lights we had amassed 70 moths roughly of 38 species, a very pleasing result.Moth species were also very specific to which light they went to. Only Small Phoenix, Powdered Quaker and Sallow Kitten went to the Actinic.Most of the Brimstones favoured the 160w Blended bulb.To the MV we had Knot Grass.Common Marbled Carpet was my earliest ever, and I didn't expect a Twin-spotted Quaker either having last seen them a few weeks back now thinking that they had finished.All in all a very pleasing catch and nice to add some Spring species to the site list.On our way back from Roughdown Common, we checked to see how the trap had fared at Gadesprings...we couldn't believe it. Although there was only 14 moths present, 7 species were recorded here that did not feature in the catch at Roughdown Common!I look forward to coming over again soon.Thanks to Roger and Lucy for helping me set up, and for Roger being with me as always until the bitter end!Catch Report - 30/04/14 - Roughdown Common - Hemel Hempstead - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Suitcase Trap.Macro Moths8x Brimstone Moth5x Green Carpet5x Red Twin-spot Carpet4x Waved Umber1x Streamer1x Knot Grass1x Common Pug1x Common Carpet2x V-pug3x Hebrew Character4x Least Black Arches2x Small Phoenix1x Common Marbled Carpet1x Common White Wave2x Scorched Carpet1x Spectacle1x Pebble Hook-tip1x Twin-spotted Quaker2x Brindled Pug1x Grey Dagger1x Yellow-barred Brindle1x Lesser Swallow Prominent1x Powdered Quaker1x Sallow Kitten1x Clouded Border1x Garden Carpet1x Light Brocade2x Nut-tree Tussock1x Shuttle-shaped Dart1x Coxcomb ProminentMicro Moths 2x Phyllonorycter quercifoliella2x Cochylimorpha straminea2x Alucita hexadactyla2x Phyllonorycter harrisella1x Nematopogon swammerdamella1x Agonopterix arenella2x Parornix sp1x Pseudoswammerdamia combinella----------------------------------------------------Catch Report - 30/04/14 - Gadesprings - Hemel Hempstead - 1x 125w MV Robinson Macro Moths1x Pale Tussock2x Pebble Prominent1x Grey-pine Carpet2x Clouded Drab3x Brindled Pug1x Oak-tree Pug1x Flame Shoulder1x Nut-tree Tussock1x Scalloped HazelMicro Moths None recorded!

Abersee, Salzburg, sterreich