Ceredigion Moths – A Busy Night
The weather looked perfect for putting the moth trap out last night, mild, still and a little cloudy. The temperature only dropped to 13.1ºC overnight and there was barely any wind. I put the trap out and sat out there with it for a bit listening to the bats squeaking as they flew past and watching moths fly around the trap.
It did indeed turn out to be a good night and I’ve spent most of the morning going through the trap and trying to identify the moths I caught many of which were new to me. (Those marked * are new garden records). I still have a couple to ID but the list looks like this:
- 1x Hebrew Character
- 10x Shuttle-shaped Dart
- 1x Marbled Coronet*
- 2x Brindled Pug
- 2x Speckled Yellow*
- 1x Pale Shoulder Brocade*
- 2x Brown Silver-line*
- 1x Common Carpet
- 1x Twenty Plume Moth
- 16x Flame Shoulder
- 1x Campion*
- 2x Purple Bar*
- 3x Rustic Shoulder-knot*
- 3x Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet*
- 1x Common Pug*
- 1x Powdered Quaker
- 1x Setaceous Hebrew Character
- 1x Streamer*
- 1x V-Pug*
- 1x Ruddy Highflyer*
- 1x Small Square-spot
- 1x Lychnis*
Phew…. I need more hours in the day to go through and record this lot!
Here are the new ones
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- Brown Silver-line
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- Campion
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- Common Pug
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- Marbled Coronet
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- Pale-shouldered Brocade
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- Purple Bar
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- Rustic Shoulder-knot
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- Ruddy Highflyer
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- Rustic Shoulder-knot
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- Speckled Yellow
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- Common Carpet
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- Turnip Moth (Possibly)
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- V-Pug
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- Lychnis
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- Streamer
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- Dark-barred Twin-Spot Carpet
Stats
2010
Number of species: 52
Moths: 441
All time
Number of species: 69
Moths: 636
