Species List for 1/10/2014

Ben remarked the other day that I was catching a lot more moths than he is at the moment. The main reason is that I'm still running five traps. The house sits surrounded by bits of gardens, of various sizes. Fortunately because of hedges and trees I am able to run 4 MV traps without affecting any neighbours. That's useful as we have a total of 11 of them. The yellow line marks out the borders (not as wobbly as I've drawn it).

 

 

Trap 1 is an 80W MV trap of an odd design. It is a box of the standard Skinner type size, and fitted in that way, but with a solid top with a large funnel with the bulb set in the funnel. The electrics came from an old abandoned large strip light, with a 75W ballast, that runs an 80W bulb OK. It is in an area of shrubs and trees and occasional does quite well despite not being visible for a great distance.
Trap 2 is a home made Skinner with a 125W MV lamp and electrics from ALS. It is in the biggest area of garden and is often the best trap, but fares badly when it's windy.
Trap 3 is in our side garden, and is well sheltered. It is pretty much identical to trap one in construction, it has at times had the largest catch.
Trap 4 is a 15W Actinic Trap. It is our small front garden and taps why I don't run an MV here. Often has the smallest catch, but can have moths not caught else where.
Trap 5 is in a small garden which has a greenhouse and a small vegetable patch. It is a smallish plastic box with a funnel in a plywood top. It has an 80W MV lamp with similar electrics to the other two 80W traps. I knocked up as a temporary effort when I realised Pam's greenhouse was attracting moths but I haven't got round to making something better.

 Back to Last night's mothing.
Lots of Lunar Underwings, but nothing particularly exciting. In total there were 248 moths of 30 species.

Code	Taxon	Vernacular	Individuals
464	Plutella xylostella	Diamond-back Moth	2
658	Carcina quercana		1
874	Blastobasis lacticolella		1
994	Clepsis consimilana		1
998	Epiphyas postvittana	Light Brown Apple Moth	16
1524	Emmelina monodactyla		1
1745	Larentia clavaria	Mallow	1
1764	Chloroclysta truncata	Common Marbled Carpet	4
1937	Peribatodes rhomboidaria	Willow Beauty	3
1961	Campaea margaritata	Light Emerald	2
2030	Euproctis similis	Yellow-tail	1
2087	Agrotis segetum	Turnip Moth	1
2092	Agrotis puta	Shuttle-shaped Dart	1
2107	Noctua pronuba	Large Yellow Underwing	18
2109	Noctua comes	Lesser Yellow Underwing	6
2117	Eugnorisma glareosa	Autumnal Rustic	1
2126	Xestia c-nigrum	Setaceous Hebrew Character	52
2134	Xestia xanthographa	Square-spot Rustic	1
2160	Lacanobia oleracea	Bright-line Brown-eye	1
2202	Mythimna l-album	L-album Wainscot	1
2232	Aporophyla nigra	Black Rustic	3
2255	Polymixis lichenea	Feathered Ranunculus	4
2266	Agrochola litura	Brown-spot Pinion	1
2267	Agrochola lychnidis	Beaded Chestnut	13
2270	Omphaloscelis lunosa	Lunar Underwing	102
2306	Phlogophora meticulosa	Angle Shades	3
2375	Rhizedra lutosa	Large Wainscot	1
2389	Paradrina clavipalpis	Pale Mottled Willow	4
2434	Diachrysia chrysitis	Burnished Brass	1
2477	Hypena proboscidalis	Snout	1