Trapping on the sand dunes

It was nice and calm, so I ran two traps last night (Thursday) on the extensive tree-less sand dunes nearby at the back of the beach with good results. Some of the highlights were Lyme Grass, Bordered Sallow (10), Archer’s Dart, Rosy Wave, Brown-tail, Dwarf Cream Wave and micros Nyctegretis lineana (many), Eulamprotes wilkella, Anerastia lotella, Eucosma campoliliana and a number of (little brown job) gelechids still to receive a positive ID. All these were typical of the dunes. Some not so typical that must have been wanderers some way from their usual habitat were Pine Hawk-moth, Garden Tiger, Lozotaeniodes formosanus , Donacaula forficella and Piniphila bifasciana.
Trapping on the beach often produces interesting moths you don’t expect to be there.

Brian

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