Warm weather brings some great moths to IGC.

The great moth trapping weather in recent nights has brought some impressive catches of moths to IGC, so much so that I’ve struggled to cope. The night of the 14th stands out as the best, with c.200sp on the list so far from 2 traps run at the work shed woods with more micros still to work through. It’s not just been about the species count, just the sheer volume of moths caught has been amazing. Not underwings or Dark arches here either like the coastal trappers thankfully.
I’ve been lucky to get some rare wanderers/migrants. The night of the 13th brought in a Peach twig borer (Anarsia lineatella). Following on from a previous post of mine about moth food plants, this moth was caught in my actinic trap running in the garden right next to my Peach tree – coincidence?
The great night of the 14th produced two very good moths – a Silver barred and a Splendid brocade. The Silver barred is my second site record and of course the brocade is a site first.
I did trap again in the garden on the 15th, but this was a noticeably more quiet night compared to previous ones with no real exciting species seen, but a good number of moths were still caught.

Neil

Peach twig borer Anarsia lineatella

Peach twig borer Anarsia lineatella

Silver barred

Silver barred

Splendid brocade

Splendid brocade

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One Response to Warm weather brings some great moths to IGC.

  1. Brian says:

    The night of the 14th was also good up here on the Waveney Valley. Two of us trapped my regular site with 200+ species coming to the lights. Our highlight was not a migrant but a nice fresh Marsh Carpet. Also, several Spinach, 50+ V-moth and large numbers of Double Dart and Phoenix. High numbers of micros including 50+ Epinotia cruciana, a dozen or so Agonopterix angelicella and several Dichomeris alacella.
    I also had a Silver Barred on night of 6th July about half a mile along the river at Crossing Water.

    Brian

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