Some recent garden moths
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2020 11:40 pm
The nights of 28th and 31st May produced bumper catches in my garden, 50-odd species each night. Here are some interesting ones (as usual, my photos won't win any prizes!)
A beautiful Geometrid, one turns up here every year or two. Maybe my beech hedge helps. Tiny and shines like a jewel. Photos can't do it justice. Appears earlier than its more common lookalike, Cydia splendana. (Incidentally I may well have got some of these IDs wrong, please let me know if I've made any howlers!) Presumably Ephestia woodiella - I'll try dissecting this one to confirm. Attracted to the ALS pheremone lure for this species. Apparently G. tenebrosana also comes to this lure, so another for microscopic examination. Also attracted to the G. funebrana lure. I've seen reports of Pammene argyrana being attracted to this lure, but Steve Hind suggested Epinotia immundana as a possibility for another of these from a few days ago and has kindly offered to dissect it in the Autumn. I'll have a go at this one - if I get any more, I'll leave them be! I never manage to ID these without help, though I've had a couple before. Must come from the wetland areas in Dibbinsdale LNR, which my garden backs on to. A new one for me. I've had a couple of these this year. A really attractive micro, not really apparent in pics. Found dead in the trap. Haven't got a clue on this one! Cheers
Paul
A beautiful Geometrid, one turns up here every year or two. Maybe my beech hedge helps. Tiny and shines like a jewel. Photos can't do it justice. Appears earlier than its more common lookalike, Cydia splendana. (Incidentally I may well have got some of these IDs wrong, please let me know if I've made any howlers!) Presumably Ephestia woodiella - I'll try dissecting this one to confirm. Attracted to the ALS pheremone lure for this species. Apparently G. tenebrosana also comes to this lure, so another for microscopic examination. Also attracted to the G. funebrana lure. I've seen reports of Pammene argyrana being attracted to this lure, but Steve Hind suggested Epinotia immundana as a possibility for another of these from a few days ago and has kindly offered to dissect it in the Autumn. I'll have a go at this one - if I get any more, I'll leave them be! I never manage to ID these without help, though I've had a couple before. Must come from the wetland areas in Dibbinsdale LNR, which my garden backs on to. A new one for me. I've had a couple of these this year. A really attractive micro, not really apparent in pics. Found dead in the trap. Haven't got a clue on this one! Cheers
Paul