Moth Trapping – Like Christmas Every Day
This moth trapping malarky is like Christmas morning every day. I wake up early before everyone else, get the trap in from the garden and then have to wait around for Morgan to get up before I can open it and see what we have. At the moment there seems to be something new in it every day. Just the other day we had our first Hawkmoths, today it seemed to be the turn of the ‘Prominents’ with both a Lesser Swallow Prominent and a Pebble Prominent in the trap.
Also new for the garden records was a Broom moth and an Oligia sp. I’m not sure which species of the Oligia genus this later one is as there are three that are impossoble to tell apart. Marbled Minor (Oligia strigilis), Rufous Minor (Oligia versicolor) and Tawny Marbled Minor (Oligio latrunuclua). Apparently the only way to tell them apart is via a dissection of their genitals, which seems a little unfair to me!
Full list was:
- 4x Treble Lines
- 1x Brimstone Moth
- 10x Small Square-spot
- 2x Garden Carpet
- 2x Cinnabar
- 1x Pebble Prominent
- 4x Heart and Dart
- 4x Flame Shoulder
- 1x Shuttle-shaped Dart
- 1x Shears
- 1x Broom Moth
- 1x Lesser Swallow Prominent
- 1x Oligia sp.
Here are the new ones.
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- Broom Moth
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- Lesser Swallow Prominent
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- Lesser Swallow Prominent
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- Oligia sp.
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- Pebble Prominent
