Up on the Downs again

Another attempt at Pewley Downs last evening with Paul Wheeler gave limited success, despite the warm start. Don't get me wrong, plenty of nice moths were seen, but nothing new. Best was probably my second Clouded Brindle, Festoon, and Triple-spotted Clay (I still can't 'do' the latter!).

CORRECTION: In the blog entry for the Pewley Downs session on June 3rd, the Coronet I have labelled as Varied, is in fact a Marbled, which is a lifer!

Pewley Down, July 3rd:

Dark Umber

Brown Scallop

Brown-line Bright-eye

Cloaked Minor

Dunbar

Light Arches

Reddish Light Arches

Scarce Footman

Silver Y

Clay

Fan-foot

Riband Wave

Dusky Sallow

Heart and Dart

Heart and Club

Dingy Shears

Brimstone

Large Yellow Underwing

Clouded Silver

Swallow-tail

White Point

Pine Hawk

Buff Arches

Dark Arches

Double-striped Pug

Small Purple-barred

Coronet

Pretty Chalk Carpet

Common Carpet

Dark Sword-grass

Flame

July Highflyer

Elephant Hawk

Smoky Wainscot

Triple-spotted Clay

Mottled Beauty

Scalloped Oak

Festoon

Clouded Brindle

Clouded Brindle

Pine Hawk

Pretty Chalk Carpet

Small Purple-barred

Triple-spotted Clay

Chafers don't Hog precedings at Norbury Park

I just had to be away for the week when it started to warm up didn't I! As a result I have not trapped in my garden for ages (I'll hopefully rectify that this evening), but I managed to get a fix from the mothing drug last night, and what a dramatic one it was.

I went to Norbury Park and trapped til 1am with David Gardner. The main surprise of the night was the shear number of Cockchafers. I think we got to about 50 come the end! They really were quite an inconvenience to say the least. Halfway through the night we also had a visit from a Hedgehog, and we were willing it over to help us clear the trap of Beetles!

Onto the moths, and we got 37 macros in the end, including a few surprises. I managed to get eight brand new species during the course of the night too. An interesting haul of Great Prominent also.

The final list (* is new to me):

Mocha

Coronet (a dark form)

Treble Lines*

Small White Wave* x 5

Mottled Pug

Brindled Pug x 3

Pebble Hook-tip x 2

Common Carpet x 2

Pale Tussock x 3

Purple Bar x 2

Clay Triple-lines x 2

Nut-tree Tussock x 4

Brown Silver-lines* x 2

Red-green Carpet

Small Waved Umber x 2

Water Carpet

Scalloped Hazel x 2

Currant Pug*

Treble-bar

Marbled Brown* x 6

Common White Wave

Coxcomb Prominent x 2

Silver-ground Carpet*

White Ermine
Pale Prominent

Flame Shoulder x 2

Oak Nycteoline

Scorched Carpet x 2

Least Black Arches x 2

Flame Carpet x 2

Brimestone x 5

Red Twin-spot Carpet x 4

Great Prominent x 10

Green Carpet x 16

Pretty Chalk Carpet

Waved Umber* x 2
White-pinion Spotted* x 7

Apologies for the poor shots, they were very much done on the spur of the moment.

Our late night visitor...

Waved Umber

Small White Wave

Pretty Chalk Carpet

White-pinion Spotted

Pebble Hook-tip

Pale Tussock

Oak Nycteoline

The Mocha

Marbled Brown

Great Prominent

Green Carpet

Coxcomb Prominent

Clay Triple-lines

Cockchafers

The full trap!