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Monday 31st July 2006 Garden Newington Thanet

Very poor overnight. The only noteworthy bits were singles of the Pyralids Pempelia genistella, Euzophera pinguis, the Tortrix Phtheochroa inopiana and a Ypsolopha nemorella. Macro numbers were very low with
only 3 species in double figures. Migrant moths were only 8 Silver Y's, c15 Diamond Backs and a Rush Veneer. (Phil M)

Sunday 30th July 2006 Garden Newington Thanet

Moths overnight included: 2 Dingy Footman (1 f.straminea type), 1 Rosy Rustic, 1 Old Lady, 1 Twin-spotted Wainscot, 1 Donacaula forficella, 1 Phycita roborella and 2 Vine Moths. Migrants were: 64 Silver Y's, 2 Dark Sword Grass, 2 Rush Veneer and c20 Diamond Backs. (Phil M)

Sunday 30th July 2006 Kingsgate & Pegwell Trap

Scattering of the usual migrants in the traps the last few nights Bordered Straw, Scarce Bordered Straw, Small Mottled Willows along with single Vestal and Ni-Moth. A slight increase in Dark Sword-grass and the odd presumably of local origin White-point. Resident species have been rather bland. Odd Langmaid's Yellow Underwing and Small Ranunculus being the most notable. A male Oak Eggar in the Kingsgate trap on night of 29/7 is of note. Most of the Silver Y's being seen by day have now left the Golf Course, although they can still be seen feeding on Knapweed and Dwarf Thistle flowers with the occasional Dusky Sallow. (F Solly)

Saturday 29th July 2006 Garden Newington Thanet

Another poorish catch with the odd half decent moth showing up. Unusual stuff for the garden included singles of Reed Dagger, Scarce Bordered
Straw, Lesser-spotted Pinion, Phycita roborella and the saltmarsh plume Agdistis Bonettii. Other bits included 2 Dusky Sallow, Vine Moth (Eupocilia ambiguella) Cochylis dubitana and Epilblema foenella. Common Rustics numbers are up to 42 already plus there were 30 Silver Y's in or around the traps. (Phil M)

Friday 28th July 2006 Garden Newington Thanet

The highlights of a rather poor catch overnight were: 1 Bordered Pug, 3 Plain Pug, 1 Tawny Speckled Pug, 1 Currant Pug, 1 Small Emerald, 1 Blood Vein, 1 Red Twin-spot Carpet, 1 Small Waved Umber, 2 Dingy Footman, 1 Buff Tip, 1 Chinese Character, 1 Dog's Tooth, 1 Carnation Tortrix, 1 Epilblema Foenella and 1 Enarmosia Formosana. The migrants were: 27 Silver Y's, 1 Bordered Straw, 1 Rush Veneer and c30 Diamond-backed Moths. (Phil M)

Monday 24th July 2006 Garden Newington Thanet

Moths overnight included: 1 Plain Pug, 1 Dark Umber (a new moth to the garden traps), 1 Garden Tiger, 1 Dingy Footman, 2 Dog's Tooth, 2 Broad-barred White, 3 Fen Wainscot, 1 Dingy Shears, 1 Knotgrass, 1 Straw Dot and 14 Silver Y's. (Phil M)

Sunday 23rd July 2006 Kingsgate & Pegwell Traps

Night of 22^nd July 2006. A lot fewer moths last night and apart from a sprinkling of migrants a rather bland and unremarkable selection. Of note at Kingsgate was a Striped Hawk and Scarce Bordered Straw, whilst at Pegwell, a Gem, Tree-lichen Beauty, 2 Bordered Straw, 3 Small Mottled Willow and the pyralids Dioryctria sylvestrella and Psammotis pulveralis. (F Solly)

Sunday 23rd July 2006 Garden Newington Thanet

A few 'bits' of interest in the traps overnight. A nice example of the local Pyralid Platyes alpinella was probably pick of the bunch plus singles of Dog's Tooth, Southern Wainscot - a moth I haven’t caught in the back garden for 2-3 years and my 3rd garden example of Double-lobed made one of the traps a bit more noteworthy as the first trap I emptied, which had
very little in it of any quality. Other things included Dusky Sallow, Ringed China Mark and Evergestis extimalis. (Phil M)

Saturday 22nd July 2006 Garden Newington Thanet

Moths overnight included: 1 Haworth's Pug, 1 Small Emerald, 1 Eyed Hawk-moth, 1 Pale Prominent, 3 Least Yellow Underwing, 1 Rosy Rustic, 1 Nutmeg, 1 Small China Mark etc. Migrants were: 48 Silver Y's, 1 Dark Sword Grass and c30 Diamond Back's. (Phil M)

Friday 21st July 2006 Garden Newington Thanet

Overnight catch was slightly down on the previous night but was still fairly good.65 Species of macro included 2 Toadflax Pugs, 1 Maiden's Blush, 1 Small Emerald, 2 Scorched Carpets, 1 Pretty Chalk Carpet, 1 Rosy Footman, 1 Slender Brindle, 1 Fen Wainscot and 1 Dusky Sallow. Migrant species included - 1 Gem, 31 Silver Y's, 30 - 40 Diamond Back's and a single Rush Veneer. Amongst a good selection of micro species were singles of Ringed China Mark, Oncocera Semirubella, Rhyaciona Buoliana (Pine Shoot Moth) Marasmarcha Lunaedactyla etc (Phil M)

Friday 21st July 2006 Kingsgate & Pegwell Traps

Night of 20^th July 2006. Back to dross as far as moths were concerned last night. Kingsgate had lots of Yellow Underwings, 211 Lesser and 194 Large which always has an adverse effect on the moth trap contents. The only things of note were 2 Small Mottled Willow, 1 Tree-lichen Beauty, 2 Reed Dagger and 3 Pempelia genistella (a pyralid). Also in the trap and of note locally were 2 Eyed Ladybirds. A lot fewer moths at Pegwell and nothing really of note - 1 Small Mottled Willow and 1 Pempelia genistella being about it. (F Solly)

Friday 21st July 2006 Garden Elvington

Lots of moths again a couple of Copper Under Wings found in the house prior to checking the trap, 1 Pine Hawk Moth, 2 Privet Hawk Moth, 1 Elephant Hawk Moth, 2 Cedar Prominent, 1 Iron Prominent, 1 Leopard Moth were the best of the bunch (TRP)

Thursday 20th July 2006 Garden Newington Thanet

Lots of moths overnight - I would estimate I caught somewhere between 140 - 150 species including all the unidentified micros. The breakdown was as follows: 77 species of Macro moth including - 1 Clouded Border, 1
July Highflyer, 1 Scorched Carpet, 6 Dingy Footman, 1 Iron Prominent, 1 Round-winged Muslin, 1 Eyed Hawk-moth, 1 Double Square Spot, 2 Mathew's Wainscot, 4 Fen Wainscot, 1 Knot Grass, 44 Silver Y's, 1 Old Lady also 23 Species of Pyralid including singles of Gymnancyla Canella, Chilo Phragmitella, Calamotropha Paludella, Schoenobius Gigantella and Phycita Roborella. Lots of other micro's c20 species of Tortrix plus 50+ Diamond Back's and 2 Marasmarcha Lunaedactyla. I stayed up virtually all night as I thought it might be good with the wind going round and the cloud cover. (Phil M)

Thursday 20th July 2006 Kingsgate & Pegwell Traps

Night of 19th July 2006. The wind finally shifted a little and the Kingsgate trap was actually full of moths - 283 of which were Silver Y's. Wanderers to the area included a Gem, Bordered Straw, Reed Dagger, Ear and 2 Mere Wainscots being the pick of the bunch. Off to the Pegwell trap, expecting, as has been the recent norm, for it to be full - as indeed it was. Wow! There were a remarkable number of quality moths in the trap. Sitting on the top tray was a fine Dark Crimson Underwing followed by Clouded Magpie, Dotted Footman, 5 Tree-Lichen Beauty, Marbled Grey (a tick), Convolvulus Hawk, Ni and the pyralid Conobathra tumidana. Of lesser quality but of note for the site were Plain Golden Y, Webb's Wainscot and Small Angle Shades. (F Solly)

Wednesday 19th July 2006 Garden Newington Thanet

Lots of moths overnight though little to shout about on the quality front. There must have been a little bit of migration as there were 26 Silver Y's, 1 Bordered Straw and about 25 Diamond Back's. Resident species included: 36 Least Carpet, 2 Small Fan-footed Wave, 2 Ruby Tiger, 46 Lesser Yellow Underwing (yuk!), 49 Bright-line Brown-eye, 39 Dot Moth, 1 Herald, 3 Epilblema Foenella etc. I also caught a Dioryctria Abietella on the night of the 17th. (Phil M)

Tuesday18th July 2006 Pegwell trap

Nights of 16/7 and 17/7. Lots of moths in the Pegwell trap the last two nights although mostly just the usual Thanet mix with no migrants and little in the way of out of area wanderers. The most notable moths being Satin Lutestring, Sandy Carpet, Red-necked Footman, Tawny Shears, True Lover's Knot and Olive. (F Solly)

Tuesday18th July 2006 Garden Westgate Thanet

Francis has kindly lent me a moth trap, so I had my first ever mothing session in my back garden in Westgate this morning. I immediately tried to string a Lunar Yellow Underwing, but after consulting with him-self realised I had made my first moth misidentification, no doubt to be followed by many others. I was at a considerable disadvantage in that I didn’t have a clue what anything was. However, there were a couple of goodies, one a huge and very active Privet Hawk Moth, the other an Eyed Hawk Moth. A couple of Swallow-tailed moths were rather attractive, as were quite a lot of Buff Ermines. Large Yellow Underwings were the commonest (and most variable?) moth. I let a few of the drabber things go as I didn’t have time to see what they were. (Tim Hodge)

Monday 17th July 2006 Garden Newington Thanet

Moths overnight included: 1 Oak Eggar, 1 Phoenix, 1 Haworth's Pug, 1 Plain Pug, and 1 Maple Prominent etc. At last numbers were up after the demise of that horrible strong wind. (Phil M)

Monday 17th July 2006 Garden Cliffs End Thanet

Caught in moth trap in Cliffs End on 15th July. I think it's a Star-wort. (CW)

Sunday 16th July 2006 Garden Elvington

2 Privet Hawk Moth, 2 Poplar Hawk Moth, 1 Elephant Hawk Moth, 1 Festoon, 1 Luner Spotted Pinion, 1 Drinker (very worn) 1 Peach Blossom + good numbers of the regulars (TRP)

Friday 14th July 2006 Garden Elvington

The strong winds haven’t deterred the micro's and Pyralids the macros were down in numbers though a first for the garden a Blackneck, + 1 Elephant Hawk Moth (TRP)

Thursday 13th July 2006 Garden Newington Thanet

Quite a good number of moths at the light-traps overnight which included 23 Common Footman, 41 Bright-line Brown Eye, 28 Dot Moth etc. Quality was provided by a nice Red-necked Footman with other notable stuff such as Clouded Border, Small fan-footed Wave, Common White Wave, Poplar Hawkmoth, Varied Coronet, Epilblema Foenella and Euzophera Pinguis.
(Phil M)

Thursday 13th July 2006 Longfield NW Kent

We had our first ever Festoon on Tuesday 11 July (in our sixth year of back garden trapping near Longfield NW Kent (Peter and Pauline Heathcote)

Thursday 13th July 2006 Garden Elvington

This good weather keeps bringing those moths in, They are 1 Male Oak Eggar, 1 Festoon, 2 Swallow Tails, 1 Buff Tip. (TRP)

Wednesday 12th July 2006 Garden Newington Thanet

A bit quitter out there last night moth-wise with 2 July Highflyer, singles of Lime, Elephant and Eyed Hawk-moths plus a Short Cloaked Moth and a Euzophera Pinguis the only noteworthy 'bits'. (Phil M)

Wednesday 12th July 2006 Garden Elvington

Night of the 11^th July 2006 Still plenty of moths, Common Footman count 70+ plus 1 Burnished Brass (no bridge between gold bands) 5 Privet Hawk Moth and Lots of small stuff. (TRP)

Tuesday 11th July 2006 Garden Newington Thanet

Night of the 10^th July 2006 Lots of moths overnight in the traps. Top moth was a Small Ranunculus a national rarity (though increasing) and the first I’ve taken in the back garden. Other back-up stuff included: 1 Galium Carpet, 4 July Highflyer, 2 Latticed Heaths, 4 White Points, 1 Green Silver Lines, 1 Straw Dot, 1 Epilblema Foenella and a Marasmarcha Lunaedactyla. Also high numbers of common stuff including 23 Buff Ermine, 24 Bright-line Brown-eye and 38 Dot Moths. (Phil M)

Tuesday 11th July 2006 Pegwell moth Trap

Night of 10/7 Pegwell Trap. Considerably fewer moths last night than of late, to the point of being a poor night re numbers, however there were several species of note as far as Thanet is concerned including July Highflyer, Scorched Wing, Langmaid's Yellow Underwing, Small Ranunculus, Oak Nycteoline and Blackneck. (F Solly)

Monday 10th July 2006 Garden Newington Thanet

A few 'bits n pieces' in the trap overnight topped by a splendid Cloaked Carpet a major rarity locally. Otherwise - 2 July Highflyer and an Eyed Hawk-moth the only noteworthy thingamy's. (Phil M)

Monday 10th July 2006 Garden Elvington

Night of the 9th July 206 Good Numbers Again including 1 Pine Hawk Moth, 1 Privet Hawk Moth, 1 Poplar Hawk Moth and 2 L-Album Wainscot. (TRP)

Sunday July 9th 2006 Garden Newington Thanet

Lots of moths overnight, which included a couple of wanderers (from Sandwich no doubt) blown towards my gaff in the southerly wind - namely Dotted Fan-foot and another Bright Wave. Other bits included: July
Highflyer, 2 Bordered Pugs and an Eyed Hawkmoth. (Phil M)

Saturday 8th July 2006 Pegwell & Garden Traps

Night of 7/7/2006. Cooler than of late with the odd shower. Significantly fewer Moths, apart from Common Footman - 114 at Pegwell. The only things of note were a Pine Hawk at Pegwell (a Thanet rarity) and an Ethmia dodecea in my garden. The Robins continue to be a nuisance at Pegwell feasting on numerous moths. (F Solly)

Saturday 8th July 2006 Garden Newington Thanet

Reasonably quiet overnight as the temperature dropped just after darkness. Still a few bits and pieces in the traps - the pick of which were singles of Ruddy carpet and the Pyralid Conobathra Repandana. Otherwise all the
normal stuff in smallish numbers including singles of Eyed Hawk-moth and Dingy Footman. (Phil M)

Friday July 7th 2006 Garden Newington Thanet

Night of the 6th July 2006 Loads of moths overnight at long last - 71 species of macro plus many micro's which included a local rarity Waved Carpet - a new specie for me. Other 'bits' included 2nd garden records of Bright Wave and Double Lobed plus 2 Dwarf Cream Waves, Galium Carpet, July Highflyer, Buff Tip, 2 Dingy Footman etc. (Phil M)

Friday 7th July 2006 Garden Elvington

Night of the 6th July 2006 1 Delicate, 1 Festoon, 1 Drinker, 1 Double Lobed, 1 each of Privet & Elephant Hawk Moth and 1 Ethmia Bipunctella (TRP)

Thursday 6th July 2006 Garden Dumpton Thanet

Moths have been relatively abundant around the garden within the past week or so, on the 29th June I recorded a Beautiful Hook-tip on the 1st July 1 Clay, the 2nd of July an Old Lady was inside the trap, the 3rd and 4th of July were very good night for recording good numbers of spices, Riband Wave, Light Arches, Maple Prominent, Buff-Tip, Bramble Shoot Moth, Marbled Green and Dot Moth, also recorded were 4 Lime Hawkmoth, 3 Eyed Hawkmoth and 4 Popular Hawkmoth. (Gadget)

Wednesday July 5th 2006 Garden Newington Thanet

41 species of macro moth overnight (plus many micro's) the pick of which were: Leopard Moth, Flame Carpet, Fan Foot and singles of Lime Hawk-moth and Poplar Hawk-moth. Micro moths included - Eucosma Cana, Aethes Forsskaleana, Eupocilia Angustana, Meal Moth, Orchard Ermine, Large White Plume, Blastobasis Lignea and 2 Pine Shoot Moths. (Phil M)

Wednesday July 5th 2006 Kingsgate & Pegwell Traps

Night of 4^th July 2006 Another hot and humid night. The Kingsgate trap continues to disappoint with very poor numbers and species - nothing of note taken. By contrast the Pegwell Trap was full of moths. A good selection of the usual suspects plus a Concolorous and Splendid Brocade, although surprisingly little else in the way of migrants. The most interesting from a Thanet perspective of the resident species was probably Lunar and Lesser Spotted Pinion and the micro Nyctegretis lineana (F Solly)

Wednesday July 5th 2006 Garden Elvington

Night of 4^th July 2006 Good numbers of the usual moths best of the rest. 2 Privet Hawkmoth, 2 Elephant Hawkmoth, 2 Small Elephant Hawkmoth, 3 Festoon (1male 2 female) 1 Drinker and 1 Peach Blossom (TRP)

Tuesday 4th July 2006 Garden Elvington

Plenty of moths again last night, best of the bunch 3 Privet Hawkmoth, 1 Small Elephant Hawkmoth, an Eyed Hawkmoth, 1 Festoon and another Lobster Moth (TRP)

Tuesday 4th July 2006 News from Swansea & Scotland

It has been reported to the website within the last few days that a Popular Hawkmoth had just flown into our bungalow in Sketty, Swansea SA2 8AQ 00.05hrs on July 3 2006. (Jennifer Trollope) Also a found Elephant Hawkmoth. In Lanarkshire Scotland (Gordon Mcmorran)

Monday 3rd July 2006 Garden Newington Thanet

Another disappointing night moth-wise overnight with amongst the 40 species of macro moth very little of any quality. New for 2006 included Wood Carpet, Poplar Grey, Short Cloaked Moth, Bird Cherry Ermine, Cnephasia Longana, Aethes Beatricella and Zeiraphera Isertana. I also have an as yet unidentified Geometrid Moth which is hiding somewhere in my front room - it escaped when I tried to take a photo of it) plus a tiny gold and white moth which 'monsier Hairy' will have to sort out for me. Other than a scale perfect male Elephant Hawkmoth and a Meal Moth nothing worthy of any mention. There was a 'presumed' Harlequin Ladybird in the trap also. (Phil M)

Monday 3rd July 2006 Garden Elvington

Moth numbers have been remarkable for the last two nights, good numbers of species also. The best of the bunch last night 3 Privet Hawk Moth, 4 Small Elephant Hawk Moth, 1 Lobster Moth, 1 Leopard Moth, 2 Swallow Tail. (TRP)

Sunday 2nd July 2006 Garden Newington Thanet

Good numbers of moths overnight but nothing of any quality. New for '06 included 3 Lackey's and 2 Swallow tailed Moths. Surely it's got to get better soon? (Phil M)

Saturday July 1st 2006 Garden Newington Thanet

Another very disappointing night moth-wise with the best the garden traps could turn up being singles of Spinach and Varied Coronet. Otherwise only half reasonable amounts of common moths for the time of year. (Phil M)

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