Species List for 23/7/2016

Back in the days I was growing up we had no TV, computers or phones, and in the summer holidays we used to spend our time outdoors. As well as various adventure games with Russell Pierce we used to collect the local wild life, grasshoppers, butterflies etc, and watch the birds in the area. For me it became a passion, but for many years one of the missing groups, apart from finding Privet-hawk caterpillars and Woolly Bears, Garden Tiger Caterpillars. That was moths. Then around 1996 Ann Lawson and Andrew Duff did something amazing. In their garden, using a home made trap they caught a moth that had been thought to be extirpated from the UK for 30 years. I went to see this little beauty and that started me on the new hobby of Mothing. In Crayford I caught six Small Ranunculus, and of course have slide pictures of them all. We moved here in 2000 and although I had caught around 445 species of macro moths in the garden, Small Ranunculus didn't feature. You can imaging my delight then when my eyes alighted om a small Noctuid and immediately thought "that looks like a Small Ranunculus and so it proved.

Code	Taxon	Vernacular	Individuals
0	Cnephasia sp.	Cnephasia species	2
290	Caloptilia semifascia		1
464	Plutella xylostella	Diamond-back Moth	29
647	Hofmannophila pseudospretella	Brown House Moth	6
658	Carcina quercana		1
861	Acompsia schmidtiellus		1
873	Blastobasis adustella		3
874	Blastobasis lacticolella		2
937	Agapeta hamana		1
998	Epiphyas postvittana	Light Brown Apple Moth	7
1036	Acleris forsskaleana		1
1048	Acleris variegana	Garden Rose Tortrix	2
1063	Celypha striana		11
1293	Chrysoteuchia culmella	Garden Grass-veneer	7
1302	Crambus perlella		3
1304	Agriphila straminella		1
1344	Eudonia mercurella		2
1361	Pyrausta aurata		1
1375	Ostrinia nubilalis	European Corn Borer	1
1378	Phlyctaenia coronata		3
1417	Pyralis farinalis	Meal Moth	3
1424	Endotricha flammealis		4
1428	Aphomia sociella	Bee Moth	2
1441	Oncocera semirubella		2
1651	Cilix glaucata	Chinese Character	1
1653	Habrosyne pyritoides	Buff Arches	1
1673	Hemistola chrysoprasaria	Small Emerald	1
1690	Scopula imitaria	Small Blood-vein	2
1699	Idaea rusticata atrosignaria	Least Carpet	4
1702	Idaea biselata	Small Fan-footed Wave	7
1708	Idaea dimidiata	Single-dotted Wave	9
1713	Idaea aversata	Riband Wave	22
1758	Eulithis pyraliata	Barred Straw	1
1804	Perizoma bifaciata	Barred Rivulet	2
1830	Eupithecia absinthiata	Wormwood Pug	2
1858	Chloroclystis v-ata	V-Pug	1
1862	Gymnoscelis rufifasciata	Double-striped Pug	1
1884	Abraxas grossulariata	Magpie Moth	1
1917	Selenia dentaria	Early Thorn	1
1921	Crocallis elinguaria	Scalloped Oak	10
1922	Ourapteryx sambucaria	Swallow-tailed Moth	2
1931	Biston betularia	Peppered Moth	1
1937	Peribatodes rhomboidaria	Willow Beauty	1
1941	Alcis repandata	Mottled Beauty	1
1991	Deilephila elpenor	Elephant Hawk-moth	2
2029	Euproctis chrysorrhoea	Brown-tail	1
2050	Eilema lurideola	Common Footman	16
2061	Spilosoma luteum	Buff Ermine	9
2064	Phragmatobia fuliginosa	Ruby Tiger	1
2089	Agrotis exclamationis	Heart and Dart	2
2092	Agrotis puta	Shuttle-shaped Dart	1
2098	Axylia putris	Flame	2
2107	Noctua pronuba	Large Yellow Underwing	8
2109	Noctua comes	Lesser Yellow Underwing	2
2110	Noctua fimbriata	Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing	11
2111	Noctua janthe	Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing	2
2128	Xestia triangulum	Double Square-spot	2
2155	Melanchra persicariae	Dot Moth	6
2165	Hecatera dysodea	Small Ranunculus	1
2193	Mythimna ferrago	Clay	2
2198	Mythimna impura	Smoky Wainscot	2
2284x	Acronicta tridens/psi	Dark Dagger / Grey Dagger	2
2289	Acronicta rumicis	Knot Grass	1
2291	Craniophora ligustri	Coronet	2
2318	Cosmia trapezina	Dun-bar	1
2321	Apamea monoglypha	Dark Arches	9
2322	Apamea lithoxylaea	Light Arches	1
2343	Mesapamea secalis	Common Rustic	6
2381	Hoplodrina alsines	Uncertain	9
2382	Hoplodrina blanda	Rustic	4
2387	Caradrina morpheus	Mottled Rustic	1
2434	Diachrysia chrysitis	Burnished Brass	1
2441	Autographa gamma	Silver Y	1
2489	Zanclognatha tarsipennalis	Fan-foot	1