Pembury, 24th May

Shoulder-striped Wainscot - a nice easy moth to ID!



Knot Grass - another rather distinctive moth.

Clouded Border - rather stunning, but a pain to photograph!

Great Prominent - Massive moth but still very lively.

Another productive evening in my dads garden...getting rather into this moth trapping lark at the moment.

Paddock Wood, 23rd May 2010

Turnip Moth - A highly variable relatively common moth.

Heart & Dart - More bread and butter which hasn't featured yet on this blog.

Grey Birch

Grey Birch - Taken by Alan Pavey in his Sissinghurst garden. Fairly common over much of England and Wales in wooded habitats.

Paddock Wood, 21st May 2010

Common Pug - always happy to be corrected on id of pugs, but I'm fairly happy that this is a Common.

Pale Tussock - of the melanic form (C.p. concolor)

White Ermine - Widely distributed, but always a favourite.

Common Swift - The commonest of the Swifts

The Cinnabar - Several in the trap at the moment, frequently disturbed from long grass as well.

Pembury, 23rd May

Scorched Carpet - Just plain stunning to see!

Least Black Arches - A locally distributed species.

Eulia Ministrana - A rather striking micro.

Foxglove Pug - The larvae feed inside the flowers of Foxglove - surprise, surprise!

Scalloped Hazel - One of three in the trap this morning.

The Miller - A common moth occuring throughout Great Britain, Ireland and the Channel Islands. It is very variable with the whitest forms usually occuring in Scotland.

I'm still waiting to trap any species of hawkmoth, so the trap went out again at my dads house and produced a splendid selection of moths.

Hayes 24/05/2010

A nice catch last night but just the one photo - Two pristine Poplar Hawkmoths!

21st May, Biddenden

Obscure Wainscot


Mullein

'Friday night was good here as well (last night not so great). This Obscure Wainscot and the Mullein were only the second site records.' Steve Broyd

Knockholt 22nd May

White-spotted Pug

Rustic Shoulder-knot

Nut-tree Tussock

Scalloped Hook-tip

I must apologise for this deluge of moth photos from me! My trap and gardens are really producing at the moment! A few from last night are above.

Knockholt, 20th May

Dwarf Pug

Nut-tree Tussock

Ochreous Pug

Red Twin-spot Carpet

Chinese Character

Orange Footman

Trapping in my Knockholt garden last night revealed a good haul.

17th & 18th May, Pembury

Waved Umber

Early Grey

Pale Prominent

Pale Prominent

Buff-tip

Shuttle-shaped Dart

Mottled Pug

More photos from trapping in my dads garden over the last few days. Pretty stunning selection of moths if I may say so myself! Buff-tip was one of my most wanted so I'm rather please with that!

Josh

Pembury, 16th May

Grey Pine Carpet

probably Freyer's Pug

Pebble Prominent


I had the trap out in my dads garden on Sunday night which yielded just a Pebble Prominent, Grey Pine Carpet and a possible Freyer's Pug. The rain through the night wasn't a great help - hopefully tonight will be more productive. Comments welcome on the pug.

Josh

Possibly Freyer's - Steve Broyd/Sean Clancy

Dungeness Bird Observatory, 2nd May 2010

Lime-speck Pug - A well distributed and distinctive pug - which makes a nice change!

Light Feathered Rustic - "A very variable moth, with examples ranging from pale buff to dark brown with varying markings.

Distributed mainly in the south of England, but also in the Welsh hills, the favoured habitats are calcareous soils, shingle beaches, quarries and similar stony areas." (UKMoths)

Cochylis atricapitana (966) - Quite well distributed throughout Britain but more commonly found around the coast.

Dungeness Bird Obs 30th April to 3rd May

Ethmia Bipunctella - Restricted to shingle habitats on the coast in south-east England feeding on Viper's bugloss. (Top photo Marcus, lower one by Josh)


Small Waved Umber - Distributed through southern England and southern Wales.

Tawny Shears - 'Inhabiting dry grassy or stony habitats such as chalk downland and shingle beaches, this species is fairly well distributed across England and Wales and into the south of Scotland.' UK Moths This was by far the commonest moth in the trap. (Top photo by Josh, lower one showing variability of species by Marcus)


Shuttle-shaped Dart - 'A sexually dimorphic species, the males having brownish variegated forewings and white hindwings, the females fairly plain dark brown forewings and buffish hindwings.' UK Moths

I'm sure Marcus will have some more photos to display here...