Moth Records for the 22nd August 2009.
15W Actinic on the terrace.
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| 9100 Acontia lucida (Pale Shoulder). |
Again I was using the 125MV trap, it was a warm night with the temperature not dropping below +20 and the sky was clear. There were a couple of new species for the year 10034 Leucania loreyi (The Cosmopolitan) and 9100 Acontia lucida (Pale Shoulder) and a couple of new moths for the garden list.
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| 10034 Leucania loreyi (The Cosmopolitan). |
8691 Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Pine Processionary) which is a moth that I have seen more as larva, forming there long nose to tail line and 9023 Eutelia adulatrix which is quite distinctive in the way that the wings and abdomen rest.
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| 8691 Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Pine Processionary). |
10335 Agrotis lata, 8211 Rhodometra sacaria (The Vestal), 9460 Spodoptera exigua (Small Mottled Willow), 9142 Eublemma parva (Small Marbled), 7725 Menophora japygiaria (Brassy Waved Umber), 8965 Tyta luctuosa (Four-spotted Moth), 9081 Ni Moth (Trichoplusia ni) and 6704 Antigastra catalaunalis were a few of the other species caught.
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