Although the mothing year tailed off drastically in the autumn, late spring and summer periods were excellent with lots of great moths recorded. Some key stats:
Number of Species Recorded: 417
Lifers: 39
New for Cottenham: 46
New for for the garden: 67
New moths for VC29: 2
High Street List at end of 2019: 554
Cottenham List: 615
The total of 417 falls just short of 2018s record of 422 but its clear it was one of my best years trapping. The two potential new records for VC29 referred to two micros: Povolnya leucapennella recorded in late June and Pempelia genistella in late July. The latter moth was part of a small movement of the species with the first records for Norfolk recorded at the same time.
Personal highlights were the unexpected: recording long awaited Black Arches and Magpie in the same trap in July, a tremendous Lobster Moth on the garden fence in June and my second record in Cottenham of the rare migrant Small Marbled. The latter was particularly gratifying after I recorded one at the old house but failing to get a photo of it. Finally the brilliant pyralid Oncocera semirubella was one of the best looking species I have recorded.
The full list of new for the garden moths from 2019, in reverse order of appearance, is as follows (with lifers in bold):
Number of Species Recorded: 417
Lifers: 39
New for Cottenham: 46
New for for the garden: 67
New moths for VC29: 2
High Street List at end of 2019: 554
Cottenham List: 615
The total of 417 falls just short of 2018s record of 422 but its clear it was one of my best years trapping. The two potential new records for VC29 referred to two micros: Povolnya leucapennella recorded in late June and Pempelia genistella in late July. The latter moth was part of a small movement of the species with the first records for Norfolk recorded at the same time.
Personal highlights were the unexpected: recording long awaited Black Arches and Magpie in the same trap in July, a tremendous Lobster Moth on the garden fence in June and my second record in Cottenham of the rare migrant Small Marbled. The latter was particularly gratifying after I recorded one at the old house but failing to get a photo of it. Finally the brilliant pyralid Oncocera semirubella was one of the best looking species I have recorded.
The full list of new for the garden moths from 2019, in reverse order of appearance, is as follows (with lifers in bold):
Elachista canapennella
Pyrausta purpuralis
Celypha rosaceana
Small Mottled Willow (Spodoptera exigua)
Six-striped Rustic (Xestia sexstrigata)
Batrachedra praeangusta
Rusty Dot Pearl (Udea ferrugalis)
Triangle Plume (Platyptilia gonodactyla)
Peacock Moth (Macaria notata)
Bulrush Wainscot (Nonagria typhae)
Aspilapteryx tringipennella
Evergestis pallidata
Rhodophaea formosa
Caloptilia stigmatella
Mompha epilobiella
Epiblema foenella
Acrobasis repandana
White-line Dart (Euxoa tritici)
Acompsia cinerella
Phtheochroa inopiana
Dichrorampha vancouverana
Oncocera semirubella
Pempelia genistella
Plum Fruit Moth (Grapholita funebrana)
Swammerdamia caesiella
Acleris notana . ferrugana
Eudemis profundana
Pyrausta despicata
The Magpie (Abraxas grossulariata)
Black Arches (Lymantria monacha)
Brachmia blandella
Small Scallop (Idaea emarginata)
Bryotropha terrella
Syncopacma larseniella / sangiella
Box Tree Moth (Cydalima perspectalis)
Clover Case-bearer (Coleophora alcyonipennella)
Agapeta zoegana
Acleris logiana
Eucosma metzneriana
Lime Hawk-moth (Mimas tiliae)
Caloptilia semifascia
Cnephasia longana
Lesser Wax Moth (Achroia grisella)
Small Marbled (Eublemma parva)
Povolnya leucapennella
Crescent Plume (Marasmarcha lunaedactyla)
Striped Wainscot (Mythimna pudorina)
Dingy Shears (Parastichtis ypsillon)
Morophaga choragella
Calybites phasianipennella
Aroga velocella
Lozotaenia forsterana
Platytes cerussella
Lobster Moth (Stauropus fagi)
The Shark (Cucullia umbratica)
Scarce Silver Lines (Bena bicolorana)
Wormwood Pug (Eupithecia absinthiata)
Teleiopsis diffinis
Holly Tortrix (Rhopobota naevana)
Bucculatrix albedinella
Cydia conicolana
Treble-bar (Aplocera plagiata)
Poplar Kitten (Furcula bifida)
Coleophora amethystinella
Lathronympha strigana
Acleris cristana
Twin-spotted Quaker (Orthosia munda)
So for 2020...all I want is a Garden Tiger, that isn't too much to ask surely?
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