Monday, 30 May 2011

Two Noctuids Identified as Large Nutmegs

Thanks to Paul Sokoloff and Eamonn O'Donnell for getting me on the right track for these two Large Nutmegs.

Noctuid 1 - Slightly larger than Rustic Shoulder-knot. A brocade or brindle?

Noctuid1 - on 2mm grid

Noctuid 2 - Just about the same size as the Rustic Shoulder-knot caught with it.

Noctuid2 - on 2mm grid
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4 comments:

  1. Broom Birder31 May 2011 at 22:58

    Both look like LArge Nutmeg to me Tony, I'm plagued with them!

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  2. Tony Morris31 May 2011 at 23:17

    Thanks Matt, that seems to be 100% agreement. Interestingly Nigel Jarman, who moths at Kingsdown (2.5 miles north along the coast) hasn't ever had one there. So they are not so common in our neck of the woods.

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  3. Das Blogist2 June 2011 at 17:37

    Quite a few of these turning up in Thanet too Tony ... unfortunately in everyone's traps barring the two I run in my garden. Francis has taken quite a few around his two coastal traps and Gadget took two one night last week from his garden trap. I know one of the other garden Pegwell traps took one as well. They have been around in unprecedented numbers. Good mothing/birding ... Phil.

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  4. Tony Morris2 June 2011 at 20:51

    Thanks phil, I wonder then if they are migrants, with so many turning up at coastal traps.
    cheers,
    Tony

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