e-mail: moths@littlesnails.com
mob: 07769 652528
Location (All records unless otherwise stated): TQ 348 248. (V.C. 14)
Description: Well stocked garden in Lindfield, West Sussex (Watsonian East Sussex). There are small shrubs, apple trees and herbaceous perennials. Small areas of the garden are allowed to grow wild but these are also planted with spring flowering bulbs. The garden also now has a pond, dug at the beginning of May ’08, and is rapidly becoming established though more vegetation is still needed. Behind the garden is a small river on the other side of which are allotments all of which are tended.
Close by though not in the garden are Ash, Oak, Alder, Birch, Maple, Hazel, Willow, Sallow, Hawthorn and Lime. The allotments are surrounded by hedges containing a variety of plants, though mainly Blackthorn and Hawthorn.
Nearby is a nature reserve with a wide variety of habitats but mostly secondary broadleaf woodland, blackthorn scrub and water meadow. Open farmland starts within about 200m from the garden.
Trap: Skinner Type with 40W Actinic light source.
Principle references:
Waring P. and Townsend M. (2006), Field Guide to the Moths of the Britain and Ireland, British Wildlife Publishing.
Skinner B. (1998) Moths of the British Isles (2nd Edition), Viking.
Manley C. (2008) British Moths and Butterflies, A & C Black.
Websites most frequently used:
Butterfly Conservation - Sussex Branch’s Moth Galleries
Ian Kimber’s UKmoths.org.uk
Mike Wall’s Hantsmoths
Invaluable Assistants: Phoebe (13) and Lucas (10).
Number of species:
This year: 232
This month: 0
Single year view: 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | Mean (μ) | All
Monday 05 July 2010
Occasional cloud, 11°C, still.
Quite a cool night and consequently not a huge number of moths in the trap, some interesting species though, including the year’s first footmen.
Yponomeutidae
- 1 Wainscot Smudge Ypsolopha scabrella Linn.
- 1 Diamond-back Moth Plutella xylostella Linn.
Tortricidae
- 1 Yellow Oak Button Aleimma loeflingiana Linn.
- 3 Cnephasia Sp.
- 3 Common Marble Celypha lacunana D. & S.
- 2 Codling Moth Cydia pomonella Linn.
Crambidae
- 10 Inlaid Grass Veneer Crambus pascuella Linn.
- 2 Water Veneer Acentria ephemerella D. & S.
- 1 Olive Pearl Udea olivalis D. & S..
- 1 Elder Pearl Phlyctaenia coronata D. & S.
- 1 Rush Veneer Nomophila noctuella D. & S.
Geometridae
- 1 Single-dotted Wave Idaea dimidiata Linn.
- 2 Riband Wave Idaea aversata Linn.
- 1 Riband Wave Idaea aversata f. remutata Linn.
- 1 Green Pug Pasiphila rectangulata Linn.
- 1 Double-striped Pug Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Haw.
- 1 Swallow-tailed Moth Ourapteryx sambucaria Linn.
- 1 Willow Beauty Peribatodes rhomboidaria D. & S.
- 2 Common Wave Cabera exanthemata Scop.
Sphingidae
- 1 Elephant Hawk-moth Deilephila elpenor Linn.
Arctiidae
- 1 Scarce Footman Eilema complana Linn.
- 2 Common Footman Eilema lurideola Zinck.
- 3 Buff Ermine Spilosoma luteum Hufn.
Sunday 04 July 2010
No trap - again.
Saturday 03 July 2010
Hoary Bell - Eucosma cana
Light Arches - Apamea lithoxylaea
Clear, 13°C, light breeze.
I think I might have been a little late getting out to the trap this morning… I don’t think I missed too much though.
Tortricidae
- 1 Light Brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana Walker
- 2 Yellow Oak Button Aleimma loeflingiana Linn.
- 2 Cnephasia Sp.
- 1 Crescent Bell Epinotia bilunana Haw.
- 1 Bramble Shoot Moth Epiblema uddmanniana D. & S.
- 2 Hoary Bell Eucosma cana Haw.
- 2 Codling Moth Cydia pomonella Linn.
Crambidae
- 8 Garden Grass Veneer Chrysoteuchia culmella Linn.
- 4 Inlaid Grass Veneer Crambus pascuella Linn.
- 1 Straw Grass-veneer Agriphila straminella D. & S.
- 1 Water Veneer Acentria ephemerella D. & S.
- 1 Little Grey Dipleurina lacustrata Panz.
- 1 Small Grey Eudonia mercurella Linn.
Pterophoridae
- 3 White Plume Moth Pterophorus pentadactyla Linn.
- 1 Common Plume Pterophorus pentadactyla Linn.
Geometridae
- 1 Small Blood-vein Scopula imitaria Hb.
- 1 Treble Brown Spot Idaea trigeminata Haw.
- 6 Riband Wave Idaea aversata f. remutata Linn.
- 1 Garden Carpet Xanthorhoe fluctuata Linn.
- 1 V-Pug Chloroclystis v-ata Haw.
- 3 Green Pug Pasiphila rectangulata Linn.
- 1 Clouded Border Lomaspilis marginata Linn.
- 1 Swallow-tailed Moth Ourapteryx sambucaria Linn.
Arctiidae
- 2 Buff Ermine Spilosoma luteum Hufn.
Noctuidae
- 2 Heart and Club Agrotis clavis Hufn.
- 7 Heart and Dart Agrotis exclamationis Linn.
- 2 Flame Axylia putris Linn.
- 2 Smoky Wainscot Mythimna impura Hb.
- 2 Dark Arches Apamea monoglypha Hufn.
- 1 Light Arches Apamea lithoxylaea D. & S.
- 1 Marbled Minor Sp. Oligia Sp.
- 7 Uncertain Hoplodrina alsines Brahm
- 1 Rustic Hoplodrina blanda D. & S.
- 1 Marbled White Spot Protodeltote pygarga Hufn.
Friday 02 July 2010
No trap I’m afraid.
Thursday 01 July 2010
Hawthorn Cosmet - Blastodacna hellerella
Pine Marble - Piniphila bifasciana
Holly Tortrix - Rhopobota naevana
Water Veneer - Acentria ephemerella
Straw-barred Pearl - Pyrausta despicata
Small Blood-vein - Scopula imitaria
Thin cloud, 16°C, still.
Three new species and the first Small Blood-vein since 2008 - not bad.
Cosmopterigidae
- 1 Hawthorn Cosmet Blastodacna hellerella Bjerk.
Tortricidae
- 1 Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis cerasana Hb.
- 1 Variegated Golden Tortrix Archips xylosteana Linn.
- 1 Light Brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana Walker
- 2 Yellow Oak Button Aleimma loeflingiana Linn.
- 1 Green Oak Tortrix Tortrix viridana Linn.
- 1 Pine Marble Piniphila bifasciana Haw.
- 1 Holly Tortrix Rhopobota naevana Hb.
- 3 Codling Moth Cydia pomonella Linn.
Crambidae
- 7 Garden Grass Veneer Chrysoteuchia culmella Linn.
- 18 Inlaid Grass Veneer Crambus pascuella Linn.
- 1 Straw Grass-veneer Agriphila straminella D. & S.
- 4 Water Veneer Acentria ephemerella D. & S.
- 1 Little Grey Dipleurina lacustrata Panz.
- 1 Small Grey Eudonia mercurella Linn.
- 1 Brown China-mark Elophila nymphaeata Linn.
- 1 Straw-barred Pearl Pyrausta despicata Scop.
- 2 Small Magpie Eurrhypara hortulata Linn.
Pyralidae
- 2 Bee Moth Aphomia sociella Linn.
Thyatiridae
- 2 Common Lutestring Ochropacha duplaris Linn.
Geometridae
- 2 Blotched Emerald Comibaena bajularia D. & S.
- 1 Small Blood-vein Scopula imitaria Hb.
- 1 Treble Brown Spot Idaea trigeminata Haw.
- 1 Riband Wave Idaea aversata Linn.
- 2 Riband Wave Idaea aversata f. remutata Linn.
- 1 Garden Carpet Xanthorhoe fluctuata Linn.
- 1 Common Marbled Carpet Chloroclysta truncata Hufn.
- 1 Mottled Pug Eupithecia exiguata Hb.
- 4 Green Pug Pasiphila rectangulata Linn.
- 1 Double-striped Pug Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Haw.
- 2 Willow Beauty Peribatodes rhomboidaria D. & S.
- 1 Clouded Silver Lomographa temerata D. & S.
Notodontidae
- 1 Buff-tip Phalera bucephala Linn.
Arctiidae
- 2 Buff Ermine Spilosoma luteum Hufn.
Noctuidae
- 3 Heart and Club Agrotis clavis Hufn.
- 10 Heart and Dart Agrotis exclamationis Linn.
- 3 Flame Axylia putris Linn.
- 1 Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum Linn.
- 1 Double Square-spot Xestia triangulum Hufn.
- 3 Smoky Wainscot Mythimna impura Hb.
- 2 Marbled Minor Sp. Oligia Sp.
- 14 Uncertain Hoplodrina alsines Brahm
- 1 Mottled Rustic Caradrina morpheus Hufn.
- 1 Marbled White Spot Protodeltote pygarga Hufn.
- 1 Straw Dot Rivula sericealis Scop.
