Moths from Ynyslas
Another good night for the moth trap last night. The weather was still, a little overcast and temperatures only dropped to 10.6ºC. In the trap this orning were 108 moths from 29 different species, which included 4 new garden records.
- 2x Scarce Footman*
- 1x Small Magpie
- 26 x Lackey
- 3x Wormwood Pug
- 2x Garden Tiger
- 6x Grey Pug
- 2x Small Seraphim
- 2x Elephant Hawkmoth
- 19x Heart and Dart
- 2x White Ermine
- 10x Dark Arches
- 3x Oligia sp.
- 1x Pebble Prominent
- 1x Double-striped Pug
- 2x Middle-barred Minor
- 4x Flame
- 1x Common Pug
- 7x Barred yellow*
- 1x Willow Beauty
- 1x Common Marbled Carpet
- 1x Shoulder-striped Wainscot
- 2x Broom Moth
- 2x Clouded-bordered Brindle
- 1x Large Yellow Underwing
- 1x Dusky Brocade
- 1x Common Carpet
- 1x Smoky Wainscot*
- 1x White-line Dart*
- 2x Lime-speck Pug
Of the new ones, the Yellow Barred is a lovely looking moth. The one I managed to photograph wasn’t the brightest of the bunch but still quite nice. The Scarce Footman, isn’t actually that scarce despite its name and the White-line Dart is quite common here too.
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- Barred yellow
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- Scarce Footman
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- Smoky Wainscot
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- White-line Dart
Time for a Stats Update:
Stats
2010
Number of species: 129
Moths: 1740
All time
Number of species: 147
Moths: 1939
