End of year total

Hi

Everything seems to have ground to a halt now - it looks as if I will end on 461 for the year (451 moths and 10 butterflies).

grahamc

End of year total

2014, what a great year for moths.

318 species, hot sunny summer days and plenty of new moths for me.

Looking forward to 2015 now!

Added a couple SPRAWLERS recently.. But weather now turned wintery.

Bucks September Update

I saw a lot of new months this month. Sadly for this list though some of them were not in the garden and an even larger number not in this country.

So, my garden additions for the last month, in what is going to prove my worst yearly total since I started mothing, are as follows:

220. Spruce Carpet
221. Common Wave
222. Dark Sword-grass
223. Feathered Gothic
224. Black Rustic
225. Blair's Shoulder Knot
226. Large Ranunculus
227. Beaded Chestnut
228. Lunar Underwing
229. Vine's Rustic

None are new for the all-time garden list.

Also, I've had a few ids/confirmations back from June/July, adding the following to the list:

230. Emmetia marginea (lifer)
231. Monopis weaverella
232. Bucculatrix nigricomella (lifer)
233. Batia unitella
234. Teleiodes vulgella
235. Blastobasis lacticolella
236. Batrachedra preangustana
237. Argyrotaenia ljungiana
238. Holly Tortrix (Rhopobota naevana)
239. Scoparia pyralella

Those lovely moths of autumn

Although there's always a tinge of regret when June, July and early August have gone and the chances of those special migrant species declines, one compensation is the arrival of those lovely moths of autumn.These are a few of the recent visitors to my garden trap taking my total for the year to 444 (434 moths + 10 butterflies)

Barred Sallow

Brindled Green

Centre-barred Sallow

Frosted Orange

Green-brindled Crescent

Acleris sparsana

Mompha raschkiella

Psychoides filicivora

Pink-barred Sallow

Small Ranunculus

The Sallow

The Vapourer

End of Month Update from Bucks.

What a poor month it has been in my garden. Wet, wind, cold. And thus very few moths. The new species are as follows:

207. Monopis laevigella (Skin Moth)
208. Agonopterix arenella
209. Acleris emargana
210. Cydia amplana  (first for garden all-time list)
211. Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
212. Small Square-spot  (first for garden all-time list)
213. Square-spot Rustic
214. Spectacle
215. Garden Rose Tortrix
216. Lime-speck Pug (first for garden all-time list)
217. Copper Underwing
218. Flounced Rustic
219. Agriphila geniculea

Finally Four Hundred

August has turned out to be nothing like July. The weather has been poor for mothing and new-for-years hard to come by. That said, there have been some special moths this month. I won't be mothing for most of September/October so my total for the year of 411 will have to stand for a while.

Some of the past 3 week's highlights

Pyrausta cingulata

Dusky Thorn

Currant Pug

Tree-lichen Beauty

Acleris emargana



Jersey Mocha

J

Hummingbird Hawk-moth

400 up - but so slow now.

Hi

With the help of one or two gen dets my total has just managed to reach 400 (390 moths + 10 butterflies).  It would have been nice to reach that landmark with a very special moth - but it was just a Firethorn leaf Miner. Attached are a few of the latest additions to the list.

Honeysuckle Moth

Leek Moth

Chrysoesthia drurella

Epinotia solandriana f. parmatana

Small Waved Umber

 

 

Thanks Tristan  
grahamc (Leicestershire)