The best night of the year by some distance with 104 species recorded...and 500 up! The new moths
included eight new for the garden which is fairly incredible all things considered. There was some real quality too:
[500] Morophaga choragella
[501] Calybites phasianipennella
[502] Aroga velocella
[503] Lozotaenia forsterana
[504] Platytes cerussella
[505] Lobster Moth
[506] The Shark
[507] Scarce Silver-lines
The clear headliner was the Lobster Moth - not something I ever expected to get here considering the limited woodland cover. Indeed, Chippenham Fen is the only place I have come across it before. It was located on the fence by my 5 year old after I had walked past it several times.
Morophaga chroragella was more anticipated but still new to me:
The single photo I obtained of the Calybites phasianipennella before it made its exit is a bit rubbish but fortunately it was of the distinctive quadruplella form:
Gelechiids are normally quite tricky to pin down but this one was readily identified as Aroga velocella. It is presumably quite local in Cambs, although seems quite regular in Breckland over the border:
I recorded the large tortricid Lozotaenia forsterana once or twice in my old garden but it doesn't appear to be too common locally:
Another species that has a stronghold in the Brecks and uncommon in the Fens is this small crambid, Platytes cerussella:
The Shark has been missing from my Cottenham traps for quite a few years:
Also missing for while was Scarce Silver-lines - an immaculate moth that is always a highlight:
included eight new for the garden which is fairly incredible all things considered. There was some real quality too:
[500] Morophaga choragella
[501] Calybites phasianipennella
[502] Aroga velocella
[503] Lozotaenia forsterana
[504] Platytes cerussella
[505] Lobster Moth
[506] The Shark
[507] Scarce Silver-lines
The clear headliner was the Lobster Moth - not something I ever expected to get here considering the limited woodland cover. Indeed, Chippenham Fen is the only place I have come across it before. It was located on the fence by my 5 year old after I had walked past it several times.
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| Lobster Moth Stauropus fagi |
Morophaga chroragella was more anticipated but still new to me:
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| Morophaga chorogella |
The single photo I obtained of the Calybites phasianipennella before it made its exit is a bit rubbish but fortunately it was of the distinctive quadruplella form:
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| Calybites phasianipennella f. quadruplella |
Gelechiids are normally quite tricky to pin down but this one was readily identified as Aroga velocella. It is presumably quite local in Cambs, although seems quite regular in Breckland over the border:
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| Aroga velocella |
I recorded the large tortricid Lozotaenia forsterana once or twice in my old garden but it doesn't appear to be too common locally:
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| Lozotaenia forsterana |
Another species that has a stronghold in the Brecks and uncommon in the Fens is this small crambid, Platytes cerussella:
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| Platytes cerussella |
The Shark has been missing from my Cottenham traps for quite a few years:
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| Shark Cucullia umbratica |
Also missing for while was Scarce Silver-lines - an immaculate moth that is always a highlight:
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| Scarce Silver-lines Bena bicolorana |
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