Description: A trip down to Dungeness in Kent on Saturday night proved to be the coolest conditions we have experienced for a while, with clear skies, bright moon and misty air coming from the sea. As you can imagine it wasn't great and the moths were few and far between, but I did manage a few new ones for me. Yellow Belle, Pale Grass Eggar, Antler Moth, Celypha cespitana, Aroga velocella and Cynaeda dentalis were all new for me. There are still some Bactra's to confirm and a few unidentified micros to sort out. All in all despite the catastrophic weather I was pleased to pick up some new ones. Date: 7 September 2014, 10:08. Source: [2167] Tawny Shears (Hadena perplexa). Author: Ben Sale from UK.
Description: After feeling pretty ill lately I still managed to set just the one trap last night and I am so glad I did, with what looked like a great night weather-wise, by the morning it was still warm with a little dew. In the trap was the usual pickings including a few new for year's Drinker, Willow Beauty, Uncertain, Beautiful Hook-tip (all trap regular's at this time of year) then my heart skipped a beat.. a Delicate sitting at the bottom, a super migrant and one I have only ever seen abroad before and that was as far away as Slovenia! though this moth is more likely to have come from France. Further rummaging through the trap, yielded not 1 but 2 extra new moths for me. The first I looked at as a Shears, but no hang on.. it's too brown, Tawny Shears it was! The 3rd I took with me to my CR to confirm that indeed it was my very first Wood Carpet. I guess double checking all of those Common Carpets had finally paid off! 3 ticks in a night was rather overwhelming I must say. Catch Report - Braughing 25/06/12 - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap Macro Moths 1x Delicate [NEW!] 1x Tawny Shears [NEW!] 1x Wood Carpet [NEW!] 1x Beautiful Hook-tip [NFY] 1x Drinker [NFY] 2x Willow Beauty [NFY] 2x Uncertain [NFY] 4x Angle Shades 2x Mottled Beauty 1x Spruce Carpet 7x Setaceous Hebrew Character 4x Nutmeg 2x Rustic Shoulder-knot 2x Spectacle 1x Eyed Hawk-moth 2x Privet Hawk-moth 1x Poplar Hawk-moth 2x Vine's Rustic 1x White Ermine 1x Buff Ermine 1x Common Footman 11x Brown Rustic 2x Large Nutmeg 4x Ingrailed Clay 2x Mottled Rustic 1x Silver-ground Carpet 2x Dark Arches 2x Bright-line Brown-eye 3x Cinnabar 1x Treble Brown Spot 1x Middle-barred Minor 1x Brimstone Moth 2x Clouded Silver 1x Light Emerald 2x Flame 1x Turnip 2x Heart & Dart 1x Scorched Wing 1x Blood-vein 2x Light Arches 2x Burnished Brass 1x Pale Prominent 1x Barred Straw 2x Orange Footman 1x Light Brocade 1x Common Wave Micro Moths 1x Dipleurina lacustrata [NFY] 3x Small Magpie Eurrhypara hortulata 4x Udea Olivalis 1x Thistle Ermine Myelois circumvoluta 5x Chrysoteuchia culmella 3x Plum Tortrix Hedya pruniana 1x Brown House-moth Hofmannophila pseudospretella 4x Agapeta hamana 2x Scoparia ambigualis 3x Ephestia parasitella 2x Marbled Orchard Tortrix Hedya nubiferana 2x Bee Moth Aphomia sociella 1x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana. Date: 26 June 2012, 10:42. Source: [2167] Tawny Shears (Hadena perplexa). Author: Ben Sale from UK.
Description: A new for garden species and a great catch Friday night and it was lights on! I had decided to do a field trip on Saturday night (more about that to come soon!) Some lovely moths were attracted to the trap including some good records for the garden such as another Small Clouded Brindle (a different marked specimen this time), a garden first Tawny Shears (unfortunately washed out) and the beautiful (uncommon for me) Enarmonia formosana. The weather continues to be warm but very windy and most nights are clear with a full moon at present.not perfect mothing conditions but it's still been pretty good. Catch Report - 09/06/17 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap Macro Moths 1x Tawny Shears [NFG] 1x Dark Arches [NFY] 1x Fan-foot [NFY] 1x Buff Ermine [NFY] 1x Mottled Beauty [NFY] 1x Treble Lines [NFY] 1x Uncertain [NFY] 1x Bright-line Brown-eye 2x Brimstone Moth 1x Brown Rustic 1x Clouded Border 2x Common Pug 3x Common Swift 2x Common Wainscot 2x Double-striped Pug 1x Garden Carpet 1x Green Silver-lines 1x Grey Pug 6x Heart & Dart 3x Ingrailed Clay 1x Light Emerald 3x Marbled Minor 3x Mottled Rustic 1x Pale Oak Beauty 1x Peppered Moth 1x Riband Wave 1x Rustic Shoulder-knot 1x Small Clouded Brindle 3x Snout 1x Straw Dot 1x Vine's Rustic Micro Moths 1x Aleimma loeflingiana [NFY] 1x Clepsis consimilana [NFY] 1x Cochylis molliculana [NFY] 1x Enarmonia formosana [NFY] 1x Epiblema cirsiana/scutulana/stictiana [NFY] 1x Acleris schalleriana 2x Anania hortulata 1x Bryotropha terrella 1x Celypha lacunana 4x Celypha striana 1x Chrysoteuchia culmella 1x Ephestia sp 1x Epiblema uddmanniana 1x Epinotia bilunana 2x Epiphyas postvittana 1x Hedya pruniana 6x Mompha subbistrigella 1x Notocelia cynosbatella 2x Pandemis cerasana 1x Scoparia ambigualis. Date: 9 June 2017, 16:32. Source: [2167] Tawny Shears (Hadena perplexa). Author: Ben Sale from UK.
