Belmont Moth Observatory

Wednesday, 21 August 2013

WEDNESDAY 24/08/2013

Collecting the moths this evening revealed:

MARBLED BEAUTY 1
SVENSSON'S COPPER UNDERWING 1
AGRIPHILA TRISTELLA 2

Pics tomorrow.

Tuesday, 13 August 2013

A clear-out of the corridors in the morning before going on holiday to Yorkshire produced the following (N.B. I'm not going to keep adding '... I think' to every moth that I'm not 100% sure of - I'll just give my best guesses as to the IDs so if you reckon I've cocked up just let me know, ta)

SMALL FAN-FOOTED WAVE 1
SINGLE-DOTTED WAVE 1
EMMELINA MONODACTYLA 3
AGRIPHILA GENICULEA 1

Small Fan-footed Wave

Emmelina monodactyla

A. geniculea

Single-dotted Wave

Tuesday, 6 August 2013

TUESDAY 06/08/2013

WILLOW BEAUTY 1
COPPER UNDERWING 1
unidentified micro 1

Willow Beauty

Copper Underwing

not been able to put a name to this one... keeping it overnight and will try to get a better pic tomorrow

MONDAY evening 05/08/2013

05/08/2013
JERSEY TIGER 1
ROSY FOOTMAN 1
RUBY TIGER 1
AGRIPHILA TRISTELLA 1
AGRIPHILA GENICULEA 1

Jersey Tiger. 1st record

Rosy Footman. 2nd record

Ruby Tiger. 1st record

A. tristella

A. geniculea

Saturday, 16 February 2013

16/02/2013 MARCH MOTH

MARCH MOTH caught today.

Tuesday, 2 October 2012

LARGE RANUNCULUS

Caught today

Wednesday, 25 July 2012

Recently

LAST FRIDAY:

LARGE EMERALD

TODAY:

DUN-BAR
2 LEAST CARPETS

Saturday, 14 January 2012

Not much going on

Winter isn't really a moth season and I can't remember when I last saw a moth in the flats... awaiting the first moth of the year. Ta ta for now otherwise.

Sunday, 25 September 2011

Large Yellow Underwing

On return home from the Sandhill Crane twitch this afternoon, I found a LARGE YELLOW UNDERWING in the obs, it was photographed and released. Little other news of late.