At last I've managed to crawl to 100 moths in the Garden Moth Challenge. As I've mentioned previously, my garden does not seem to be particularly blessed on the moth front so I've had to work hard for this total. I've run the trap 55 times this year and caught 476 moths for my troubles, making an average of a measly 8.6 per trapping. Still it's all been great fun and I'm really enjoying it. With this great effort that I'm putting in I'm just wondering what sort of total my garden can produce in a year, perhaps 150?
Below are the new additions since my last blog posting, the 8 butterflies that I have bumping the total up to 100.
66 23/06/2013 Common Nettle Tap
67 24/06/2013 Mottled Pug
68 24/06/2013 Scoparia Pyralella
69 25/06/2013 Freyer's Pug
70 25/06/2013 Enarmonia formosana
71 27/06/2013 Treble Bar
72 27/06/2013 Lozotaenia forsterana
73 27/06/2013 Lychnis
74 27/06/2013 Phtheochroa Rugosana
75 27/06/2013 Epiblema trimaculana
76 29/06/2013 Eudonia Mercurella
77 29/06/2013 Epiblema rosaecolana
78 29/06/2013 Large Yellow Underwing
79 29/06/2013 Snout
80 29/06/2013 Fan-foot
81 30/06/2013 Clouded Border
82 30/06/2013 Rush Veneer
83 30/06/2013 Heart and Club
84 30/06/2013 Uncertain
85 30/06/2013 Codling Moth
86 01/07/2013 Mottled Beauty
87 01/07/2013 Ribband Wave
88 01/07/2013 Bordered Sallow
89 01/07/2013 Buff Arches
90 01/07/2013 Flame Shoulder
91 01/07/2013 Garden Grass Veneer
92 02/07/2013 Silver-ground Carpet
My seven year old son is still very keen and each morning he rushed down with me to see what's in the trap. He's starting to recognise a few of the species so he knows "Apple Moth" (Light-brown), "Olive Moth" (Udea Olivalis), Common Marbled Carpet and Heart and Dart. His favourite part is still having the noctuids (the "finger moths") on his hand before putting them somewhere safe to sleep for the day. I'm finding that I'm getting more confident with my moth ID'ing as I learn more of the species though I do still struggle with those wretched pugs.
Finally here's some moth porn to enjoy. As always please correct me if I'm wrong with any of the ID's
The Lychnis
Phtheochroa Rugosana
Epiblema Rosaecolana
Eudonia Mercurella
The Snout
Clouded Border
Bordered Sallow
Buff Arches - one of my favourite moths
Mottled Beauty
Ribband Wave
Silver-ground Carpet, bringing up the 100
You're still getting significant numbers of species we've not had in Wolvercote - like Common Nettle Tap, Rush Veneer and Codling Moth. Also an interesting overlap in terms of some species: we've had: the Phtheochroa and the Epiblema rosaecolana being species we've also first logged in the last couple of days.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's very interesting to compare. I have this theory that I tend to do better on micros but not so well on noctuids though I don't know whether this would stand up to statistical analysis. It's interesting how suddenly one day a new moth is around (e.g. Rush Veneer) which I've now caught every night since they first appeared. All good fun!
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