hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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Some real variety last night including these weird and wonderful #moths
1) Oak Hook-tip
2) L-album Wainscot
3) Cypress Pug (new for garden)
4) Delicate
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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
164 followers · 758 posts · Server mastodon.greenThere are three temperature scenarios in which I always choose NOT to run fast:
Hot, cold and anywhere in between.
Today’s snailing #run is brought to you courtesy of the words HOT, SLOW and LIGHT EMERALD MOTH … mothing being my other hobby … and had nine of these delicate little green flappers visit overnight.
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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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Plenty of egg box roosting in the moth trap overnight. Catalogued, photographed and safely released to carry on their mothy business. Some of the nicer ones included:
1) Feathered Ranunculus
2) Nutmeg
3) Grey/Dark Dagger
4) Silver Y
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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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The night was sultry…
And it brought all the moths to the garden.
Here are four beauties:
1) Centre-barred Sallow
2) Hoary Footman
3) Setaceous Hebrew Character
4) Clancy’s Rustic
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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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Lovely Canary-shouldered thorn (1&2) came to visit last night. Love the vivid yellow head. Compare to the plainer, slightly stubbier … but just as cute … Dusky Thorn (3&4).
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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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Pluvial and crisp last night. A few moths on the wing, especially Pale Mottled Willows and Large Yellow Underwings. Best of the visitors were:
1) Nutmeg
2) White-point
3) Rusty dot pearl
4) Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing flashing a bit of floozy underskirt!
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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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Vegetable moths out last night. The rather pretty 1) Cabbage Moth and 2) Turnip Moth.
Also my first 3) Palpita Vitrealis of 2023 and the sparkliest, mintest 4) Yellow Shell. A real beauty!
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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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The wonderful world of #moths. There are the most amazing shapes and colours from last night's trap including:
1) Pale Prominent
2) Iron Prominent
3) Spectacle
4) Marbled Green
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ChristinaK · @christinak
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It's been great to see so many burnet moths this year across multiple locations (both five spot and six spot). Recently saw this six spot among many others in a place where I've never seen them previously. Gives me hope that at least these are doing fairly well in my local area. #insects #wildlife #TeamMoth
hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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EASY TIGER!!!
Last night I was visited by two tigers! A Garden Tiger (L) and Jersey Tiger (R). Also visiting was a feather-combed Male Gypsy Moth (2), a Bloxworth Snout (3) and the greyscale patterned Knot Grass (4)
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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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Some oddities in the trap last night
1) Small Plume - oxyptilus parvidactyla - only 11 officially recorded in Sussex according to Sussex Moth Group.
2) Long-legged tabby - synaphe punctalis - coastally common but rather uncommon around the rest of the country
3) Wormwood Pug - common as muck, but this is my first encounter
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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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Pretty dismal mothing last night. 150+ the other night. Last night, just 8! Weather has been very unkind for weeks although last night was at least dry and cloudy, so did offer some hope. This was the highlight of the 8:
RUBY TIGER
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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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Stormy weather meant no mothing last night, so here's a featured #moth for #MothMonday that visited the garden July 2022. This is a CHINESE CHARACTER, a rather common, UK-resident moth. It's USP is to mimic a bird-dropping to protect itself from predators, although I think it resembles a tiny porcelain dainty.
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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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Further to my Thorn #moths from earlier, here are four more beautiful randoms that paid a visit to the #garden last night:
1) the woodchip mimicking PALE PROMINENT
2) the sumptuous TOADFLAX BROCADE
3) the kaleidascopic TREE LICHEN BEAUTY
4) the sanguineous BLOOD VEIN
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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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150+ moths came to visit on a mild, cloudy, drizzly night (perfect conditions). And the theme was THORNY! Three types of Thorn here:
1) & 2) Canary-shouldered Thorn (can you guess why)?
3) Dusky Thorn
4) Early Thorn
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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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1) First ever Swallow Prominent (had Lesser SP before)
2) L-album Wainscot
3) Fan-foot (also new for garden)
4) Tiddly tiny Pammene Aurita micromoth
Abysmal numerically, only 16 moths of 13 species … 150+ would not be uncommon in July, which is very concerning from #conservation perspective.
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ChristinaK · @christinak
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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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Two strlking micromoths from last night. Never miss the tiny grains of rice in the box.
Here we have
1) argyresthia goedartella (Golden Argent)
2) cydia splendana (Marbled Piercer)
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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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Low numbers again (40ish) but nice variety to make up for it including the monsters of both Privet and Poplar Hawk-moths as well as my first ever Iron Prominent
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1) Poplar and Privet Hawk-moths
2) Privet Hawk-moth
3) Poplar Hawk-moth
4) Iron Prominent
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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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Quietish trapping last night. Quite chilly.
(1) It’s Rosy Footman time again. First sighting in 2023.
Another (2) Black Arches (different to two nights ago).
How can you not love the face of a (3) Buff Tip? (Reminds me of Janice from The Muppets).
And a new for garden Lathronympha Strigana (never ignore the miniature micromoths)!
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