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
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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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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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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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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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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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Some nice variety of mothage came to visit the trap last night including:
1) Yellow Shell
2) Black Arches
3) Garden Tiger
4) Scalloped Oak
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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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How well do you know your FOOTMEN moths?!
Four similar species to marvel at here:
1) COMMON FOOTMAN
2) DINGY FOOTMAN
3) SCARCE FOOTMAN
4) ORANGE FOOTMAN
* other footmen are available
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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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Four more moths from last night’s 80+ bonanza!
1) Ear Moth - bet you can’t guess why! 😅
2) Rustic
3) The Uncertain (similar but different to Rustic)
4) Sycamore
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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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Last trap for a week. Delighted to see Clancy’s Rustic return as well as first Dun-bar of 2023. Also had a Poplar Hawk-moth and a beauitful micro Swammerdamia.
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Under This Sod · @wikitect
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Pretty sure that this is a female Black-Tailed Skimmer Dragonfly resting near the honeysuckle. In the evening sun she looks to be made of gold. #dragonfly #britishwildlife #cambridgeshire
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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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Other moths to visit included the little orange pocket dynamo of Festoon, a Pale Oak Beauty, a Toadflax Pug and a Beautiful Hooktip.
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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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Some interesting moths came to visit including the ever beautiful ‘if Jim Henson did moths’ Elephant Hawk Moth and the broken twig mimic of Flame Moth. Overhead and face shots of each.
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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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Some ostentation to the light trap last night:
1) Swallow-tailed
2) Poplar Hawkmoth
3) Scarlet Tiger Moth
4) Common Footman
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