Mothing at St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, 25/10/2014

Just back from a week on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly. Pam and I, with Pete, Nina, Jack and Josh were able to moth each night as the weather was much better than the same week last year  We stayed at Grenofen, a house with a large garden, over looking Porth Thomas. We ran three traps, a 15W Actinic tube, resting on a pastic box, a small Actinic Heath trap and a home made collapsible 80W MV trap. In addition we had a guest trap from Sam Perfect on two nights.
The 25th  was a bit of a wild and blowy night, and consequently not spectacular, with just 70 moths. In addition Pete found a Bloxworth Snout at Porthmellon, flying in daylight. This is a RDB species and was formally a rare immigrant and now a scarce resident. Both Bloxworth Snout and White-speck were new moths for me.

Bloxworth Snout (Hypena obsitalis)

Code	Taxon	Vernacular	Individuals
998	Epiphyas postvittana	Light Brown Apple Moth	2
1395	Udea ferrugalis	Rusty-dot Pearl	9
1764	Chloroclysta truncata	Common Marbled Carpet	4
1771a	Thera cupressata	Cypress Carpet	1
2087	Agrotis segetum	Turnip Moth	2
2107	Noctua pronuba	Large Yellow Underwing	6
2126	Xestia c-nigrum	Setaceous Hebrew Character	1
2195	Mythimna vitellina	Delicate	1
2203	Mythimna unipuncta	White-speck	1
2232	Aporophyla nigra	Black Rustic	18
2255	Polymixis lichenea scillonea	Feathered Ranunculus	21
2263	Agrochola lota	Red-line Quaker	1
2270	Omphaloscelis lunosa	Lunar Underwing	3
2306	Phlogophora meticulosa	Angle Shades	1
2375	Rhizedra lutosa	Large Wainscot	1