Last Nights Moths

Just before bed time the rain eased, so seeing as I was due to be looking after Morgan all day I thought I’d put the moth trap out so that we could go through them this morning.

It wasn’t a huge catch, but there was enough to keep us busy and a few new ones as well.

  • 1 x Bright-line Brown-eye
  • 1 x Single-dotted Wave
  • 4 x Heart and Dart
  • 1 x Lime-speck Pug
  • 6 x Garden Tiger
  • 4 x Rosy Minor
  • 2 x White-line Dart
  • 2 x Chinese Character
  • 3 x July Highflyer
  • 1 x Dingy Footman
  • 1 x Riband Wave
  • 1 x Poplar Hawkmoth
  • 1 x Flame
  • 18 x Large Yellow Underwing
  • 11 x Dark Arches
  • 3 x Scarce Footman
  • 1 x Red Twin-spot Carpet
  • 2 x Smoky Wainscot
  • 6 x Common Rustic / Lesser Common Rustic agg.
  • 2 x Uncertain
  • 1 x Common Wainscot
  • 3 x Scalloped Oak
  • 1 x Rustic
  • 1 x Broom Moth

3 Responses

  1. Avatar forComment Author chloe griffiths says:

    Hi,

    I’m the partner of Alan Chamberlain, who came to see you about his new project around Ynyslas a while ago, (he is tall, long hair, earrings). I don’t know if he mentioned it, but I’m trying to learn more about butterflies and moths this year, and I was very interested to see this blog! You seem to be trapping an amazing variety of moths where you are! I have only really been looking at butterflies here in Penparcau, and only in our garden, but so far have seen Peacock, Small Tortoiseshell, Red Admiral, Large White, Small White, Comma, Meadown Brown, Speckled Wood and Green veined White. O yes and a Hummingbird Hawk Moth on our Centranthus Rubra! I did see a Ringlet down the hill near Morrison’s.

    I’ve just been asked to teach at Denmark Farm, on the subject of “how to make a garden for butterflies, moths and bees”, which will be half theory, half practice planting up a new border for them with my students. I’ve bought myself the Richard Lewington “Guide to Garden Wildlife” so I can learn all the food plants for larvae, etc. but was wondering if there was anything in particular that I you think would be worth mentioning? I’m going to look at siting the plot, extending the season of nectar, larvae plants, etc.

    If you ever do a moth trap that the public can come to, I’d really love to come. I feel very ignorant about moths!

    Well done on the blog anyway, great to see such expertise locally!

    All the best,

    Chloe Griffiths (Alan Chamberlain’s partner)

  2. Avatar forComment Author Alan says:

    Hi Chloe,
    Glad you like the blog – It’s always nice to hear from people who read it so that I know I’m not wasting my time writing all of this stuff!

    Your gardening with butterflies, moths and bees course sounds good, and it sounds as though you have most things covered. I think once people start looking at the wildlife in the garden then it becomes second nature to want to protect and promote it. All of the obvious stuff like having a slightly unkempt area, providing water, log piles, leaving cutting plants back until spring etc etc. will of course be useful.

    And don’t forget, for those who aren’t into the invertebreates, the more butterflies, moths, bees and other ‘bugs’ you attract, the more birds, bats and other vertebrates will follow.

    I’ll post here when we next have a moth meeting – you’ll be more than welcome to attend. Also, I’m sure it can be arranged that I could set up a trap in your ‘wildlife garden’ at some point to see what moths you have.

    E-mail me if you want to arrange something.

    Al.

  3. Avatar forComment Author chloe griffiths says:

    Hi, thanks for getting back to me, I’ll incorporate your suggestions in my course. The garden we’ll be planting will be down at Denmark Farm by Lampeter, so a bit of a way to go, but we live in Penparcau, and we’d love to know what moths are in our garden!

    I found a moth this morning by some privet, with a patch of peach colour on it, the rest of its colouring was grey, so it was fairly well camouflaged against the granite kerb it had fallen on to. I wonder what it was? Not the privet hawk moth.

    Do you know of any good leaflets available for “gardening for moths” that I could get hold of for my students? I got a good one from Butterfly Conservation called – unsurprisingly – “gardening for butterflies”.

    All the best

    Chloe

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