Wednesday August 24th 2011 Saltwood
Night of the 23rdA single Bloxworth Snout to MV (Paul Howe)
Monday 22nd August 2011
Newington Ramsgate
There were lots of moths
around the garden traps last night - well lots of micros anyway but as is
usual in 2011 there wasn't too much of any note when I checked the contents
this afternoon. Numbers were well up - 31 Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow
Underwings being the most numerous but Orange Swift, Willow
Beauty, Setaceous Hebrew Character, Square-spot Rustic,
Common Wainscot and Vine's Rustics were all taken in double
figures too. Of note were 1 Diamond Back, Cochylis atricapitana,
1 Pyrausta aurata, 4 Pyrausta despicata, 1
Bordered Pug, 1 Mathew's Wainscot and 2 Tree Lichen Beauties.
(Phil M)
Sunday 21st August 2011
Saltwood night of 20th August
A
much better night. Singles of Vestal, Dark Sword-grass and
Convolvulus Hawkmoth.
And a Lesser Spotted Pinion
(Paul Howe)
Sunday 14th August 2011 Pegwell Trap
Night of 13/8. A Dusky Hook-tip in the Pegwell trap otherwise
absolutely awful - fewer moths than the previous night in seemingly better
conditions. The best of the 'rest' were Restharrow, Epinotia
ramella and Caloptilia semifascia. (F Solly)
Saturday 13th August 2011 Dumpton Thanet
It's been very poor in garden trap for some
time, so this morning to find the Rest-Harrow in the trap was a
surprise, (Gadget)
Saturday 13th August 2011 Newington
Ramsgate
A few bits and pieces arrived overnight - singles
of Cochylis mollilcilana, Ringed China Mark, Brown
China Mark, Pale Prominent and Straw Underwing. (Phil M)
Saturday13th August 2011 Kingsgate Trap
Night of 12/8. With the exception of a Jersey Tiger at Kingsgate
(new for the site) another very disappointing night in seemingly promising
conditions - if nothing else just for general mothing. Numbers and variety
were dreadful. (F Solly)
Friday 12th August 2011 Newington
A few moths arrived overnight - singles of
Ethmia bipunctella, Aethes smeathmanniana, Small
Fan-footed Wave, Maiden's Blush, Iron Prominent,
Mathew's Wainscot, Straw Dot, Straw Underwing and Tree
Lichen Beauty the best haul of reasonable quality stuff in ages. The
entire summer has been absolutely awful around my garden - easily the worst
since I started trapping here. I also caught a Greater Diving Beetle
which was nice. I've taken hardly anything worth mentioning at all since the
start of this month - one other Tree Lichen Beauty on the 5th,
Rosy Minor on the 2nd, Langmaid's Yellow Underwing on the 1st and
a Chocolate Tip on the 7th about it. (Phil M)
Thursday 11th August 2011 Pegwell & Kingsgate Traps
Eee
by gum its grim! A totally uninspiring week for the scaled sprites. Night of
10/8. Marginally better than it has been although that is not saying much.
Pick of the bunch were singles (of course) of Pebble Hook-tip,
Maiden’s Blush, Pigmy Footman and Garden Tiger (now rather scarce
on the grey concreted Isle) (F Solly)
Sunday 7th August 2011 Adjacent to King
George VI Park, Broadstairs
22 species last night: 1 Agapeta Hamana, 3
Large Yellow Underwing, 5 Endotricha flammealis, 1
Pyrausta aurata, 1 Dark Arches, 4 Lesser Broad
Bordered Yellow Underwing, 1 Ruby Tiger, 1 Dun-Bar, 3
Shuttle-Shaped Dart, 1 Buff Ermine, 1 Marbled Green, 2
Turnip, 1 Mottled Rustic, 1 Mother of Pearl, 1 Common
Wainscot, 2 Rustic, 1 Swallow Prominent, 1 Cydia
splendana, 1 Crambus perlella f.
warringtonellus, 1 Common Carpet, 1 Stenoptilia
zophodactylus and 1 Marbled Green. (Sue Smith)
Saturday 6th August 2011 Adjacent to King George VI Park, Broadstairs
A reasonable catch last night approx 29 species: 10 Large Yellow Moth, 1
Ruby Tiger, 2 Least Carpet, 2 Light brown apple moth, 1
Riband Wave f rem, 2 Brown House Moth,1 Wormwood Pug, 1
Yellow Shell, 1 Marbled Beauty, 5 Shuttle Shaped Dart,
1 Broad Bordered Yellow Underwing, 1 Grass Veneer, 2
Uncertain, 1 Dark Sword Grass, 2 Lesser Broad Bordered Yellow
Underwing, 1 Marbled Green, 1 Dark Arches, 1 Heart +
Club, 1 Common Rustic, 2 Endotricha flammealis, 1
Agapeta Hamana, 2 Pyrausta aurata, 2 Eudonia
mercurella, 1 Blastobasis lacticolella , 1
Cochylis dubitana, 1 Lathronympha strigana , 1 Cydia
splendana , 1 Synaphe punctalis, 1 Blastobasis
lacticolella and 1 Pyrausta purpuralis. (Sue
Smith)
Thursday 4th August 2011
Pegwell Trap
Night of 3/8. Seemingly very good conditions but
very poor. Much reduced numbers and variety from the previous night.
Ethmia quadrillella at Pegwell was probably the ‘best’ of the catch
– the remainder of minor local interest included: Eucosma metzneriana,
Ancylosis oblitella, Annulet, Rosy Footman, Garden Dart and
scraping the bottom of the barrel 21 Crescent Striped at Pegwell
Wednesday 3rd August 2011
Kingsdown & Thanet
It’s been hell! Not the absence of
Planetthanet; moffing of late. Night of 2/8/11. Finally some decent weather.
Considerably more moths than of late, better variety but given the
conditions not particularly big numbers. With the chance of a migrant fest,
I spent the night on Kingsdown beach along with running the usual Thanet
traps. Hopes for migrants were quickly dashed though there were some
interesting bits and pieces. The pick at Kingsdown was – Sussex Emerald,
Hoary Footman, Jersey Tiger, Confused and Ethmia quadrillella.
The pick on Thanet – Brussels Lace, Lunar Thorn, 10 Tree-lichen
Beauty and Plumed Fan-foot. (F Solly)
Monday 1st August 2011
Dumpton Thanet
Not a great amount of moth around my garden of
late, a Copper Underwing last night was the fist for this year and a
Dark Sword-grass was the only migrant for sometime, (Gadget)
