Not exactly a Carpet of moths at Redlands

The event last night was at Redlands Wood, in the shadow of Leith Hill near Dorking. It had been yet another disappointing day in terms of temperatures, but it was forecast to cloud over. Did it? Of course not! Temps were down to 12 degrees when we packed up at 12:30. As a result, numbers were pretty poor, although better than I expected. Luckily, we did get one or two nice things, including a new species to me. It was a Twin-spot Carpet that was one of the first moths to appear, and we got another 4 or so by the nights end. Nice to see my second Ghost Moth and Bordered White also.

July 9th, Redlands Wood:
July Highflyer
Mottled Beauty
Twin-spot Carpet*
Small Fan-footed Wave
Common Emerald
Riband Wave
Heart and Dart
Purple Clay
Bordered White
Ghost Moth
Brimstone
Tawny-barred Angle
Barred Red
Light Emerald
Small Rivulet
Swallowtail
Satin Lutestring
Spruce Carpet
Dark Arches
Uncertain
Pine Hawk
Iron Prominent
Clay Triple-lines
Minor Shoulder-knot
Peppered Moth
Buff Arches
Scalloped Oak
Clouded Silver
Grey Arches
Suspected
Buff Footman
Grey Pine Carpet
Dunbar
Large Emerald
Fan-foot
Common White Wave
Total: 36

Epinota brunnichana

Satin Lutestring

Large Emerald

Ghost Moth

Bordered White

Twin-spot Carpet

A Ghost at Thursley Generates Some Warmth

I had my first run out with my newly acquired generator at Thursley Common last night, but it was pretty hopeless, thanks to chilly conditions. Luckily, David Gardner was running his 'monster' trap as well, so we were able to get some good macros, as well as important micro records.

Up to 0:00, we got only twelve macro species, but these did inlcude new moths for me of Ghost Swift and two Barred Red. Also nice to get Pine and Elephant Hawk-moths. A geometrid which I netted nearby caused some excitment, as it was initially thought to be a first-for-surrey Lead Belle or rare-for-surrey July Belle. The very worn creature is going to be gen. deted, but it is thought to probably be just a Tawny-barred Angle (yes it was that worn!).

2 Pine Hawk-moth

2 Spruce Carpet

2 Barred Red

2 Buff Ermine

1 Treble Brown Spot

1 Flame Shoulder

1 Treble Lines

1 Ghost Swift

1 Ture Lovers Knot

1 Elephant Hawk-moth

1 Brown Silver-line

Ghost Swift

Pine Hawk-moth

Barred Red

Elephant Hawk-moth