Wednesday
29th November 2006 Newington Thanet
I'm still catching a few moths of late - Light-brown Apple Moth, Emmelina
monodactyla - plus the occasional Silver Y, Rusty Dot or a
bit more regularly 1 - 3 Diamond Back's. Overnight I took Mottled
Umber - quite a rare moth in my garden and nowhere near annual. (Phil
M)
Wednesday 29th November 2006 Kingsgate &
Pegwell Traps
Night of
28/11. Still a trickle of light weight 'rubbish' turning up in the
traps, at Kingsgate - 1 November Moth, 1 Dark Sword-grass, 1
Silver Y, 2 Diamond-backs, 1 LBAM and 1 Emmelina
monodactyla. At Pegwell, 2 December Moths, 3 LBAM's,
1 Acleris sparsana and 1 Rusty Dot. It doesn't get
much better than that! (F Solly)
Wednesday 29th November
2006 Dumpton Thanet
Night
of 28th November 2006, the first moths in the trap for some
time 1 Silver Y , 1 Diamond-back
and 1 Light-brown Apple Moth. (Gadget)
Friday
24th November 2006 Kingsgate & Pegwell Traps
Night
of 23/11. The excitement continues almost unabated in the moth traps
with a veritable plethora of the critters. At Kingsgate, 1 November
Moth, 1 Diamond-back, 7 LBAM's, 1 Crocidosema
plebejana, 1 Blastobasis lacticolella, 1 Blastobasis
lignea and 1 Mompha epilobiella. Whilst at Pegwell,
1 Feathered Thorn, 1 Dark Sword-grass, 1 Silver Y, 2
LBAM's, 1 Rusty Dot, 1 Eudonia angustea and 2 Emmelina
monodactyla. No sign of either the Cauliflower or
Concrete Moths, which is surprising given the amount of habitat
available locally. (F Solly)
Thursday
23rd November 2006 Newington Thanet
A few moths overnight - the normal Light-brown Apple-moths/Emmelina
monodactyla also a little bit of migration with 3 Silver Y,
3 Rusty Dot and a Diamond Back. (Phil M)
Thursday 23rd November 2006 Kingsgate &
Pegwell Traps
Night of the 22nd November 2006 At Kingsgate, 2 November
Moths, 1 Angle Shades, 7 Silver Y's, 2 Rusty Dots,
10 LBAM's, 5 Diamond-backs and 1 Emmelina monodactyla.
Pegwell didn't quite match the excitement, with 1 November Moth, 1 Turnip,
2 Silver Y's and 4 LBAM's. (F Solly)
Saturday
18th November 2006 Newington Thanet Late
News
Moths overnight included singles of Silver Y, Dark Swordgrass and Eudonia
angustia. Very little of late a late Lesser Yellow Underwing
the night before last the only noteworthy thing. (Phil M)
Friday 17th November 2006 Dumpton Thanet
Night
of the 16th November 2006, to 125MV light 3 Light-brown
Apple-moth, 1
Silver Y, with 1 Angled Shades, 1 Emmelina
monodactyla and 1
Amblyptilia acanthadactyla, (Gadget)
Tuesday
14th November 2006 Newington Thanet
A few moths arrived overnight, a few of them migrant species. The total
catch was: c20 Light-brown Apple-moths, 3 - 4 Emmelina
monodactyla, 1 Monopis obviella, 2 Eudonia
angustia, 1 Rusty Dot, 1 Diamond Back, 3 November
Moths, 3 Silver Y, 1 Pearly Underwing and 1 Dark
Sword-grass. (Phil M)
Sunday 12th November 2006 Westgate Thanet
A very late Small Dusty Wave last night. (Tim
Hodge)
Thursday
9th November 2006
Kingsgate, Garden & Pegwell Traps
Night of 8/11. A scattering of moths in the traps but rather
disappointing, especially for residents given the conditions in the first
part of the night.
At Kingsgate, there were: 1 Gem, 3 November Moths, 1 Turnip,
1 Lesser Yellow Underwing, 1 Pearly Underwing, 1 Dark
Chestnut, 2 Silver Y, 3 Rusty Dot, single Monopis
obviella, Diamond-back, Eudonia angustea, Palpita
vitralis and a few LBAM's.
A Clancy's Rustic, Large Wainscot and Rusty Dot were the
highlights from my garden and they really are highlights as my garden is
'rubbish'.
At Pegwell, 2 November Moth, single Feathered Thorn, Large
Yellow Underwing, Lesser Yellow Underwing, Pearly Underwing, Satellite,
Dark Chestnut, Angle Shades, Scarce Bordered Straw, and Silver Y,
2 Green-brindled Crescents, 3 Diamond-backs, 3 Rusty Dots,
1 Rush Veneer, 1 Crocidosema plebejana, 1 Blastobasis
decolorella and a few LBAM's (F Solly)
Thursday
9th November 2006 Newington Thanet
The temperature was up overnight and although I caught a few moths, the
species I took were disappointing if I'm honest. The traps contained: 2 Rusty
Dot, 1 Monopis obviella, 1 Diamond Back, 1 November
Moth, 3 Silver Y, 1 Lesser Yellow Underwing, 1 Setaceous
Hebrew Character and most remarkably an insanely late Celypha
lacunana. There was also a Hawthorn Shield-bug and 2 Harlequin
Ladybirds in the traps. (Phil M)
Tuesday 7th November 2006 Newington Thanet
Only 1 macro moth overnight - a Feathered Thorn. (Phil M)
Tuesday 7th November 2006 Dumpton Thanet
Night
of the 6th November 2006, to 125MV light 1 Light-brown
Apple-moth and a single Emmelina monodactyla, 1
Silver Y, with 1 Pearly Underwing and 2 Green-brindled
Crescent. (Gadget)
Monday 6th November 2006 Newington Thanet
Whilst the only moths that actually made it into the traps were a handful
of Light-brown Apple-moths and a single Emmelina monodactyla,
I did find singles of Eudonia angustia, Rusty Dot, November
Moth and Large
Wainscot sitting around on the walls around the lights overnight.
(Phil M)
Monday 6th November 2006 Westgate Thanet
A few moths last night included 2 Rusty Dot Pearls,
1 Large Wainscot and 1 Agonopterix alstromeriana (Tim
Hodge)
Sunday 5th November 2006 Newington Thanet
Still
quiet but I did find yet another Red-line Quaker on the outside of
one of the traps overnight. I've only ever taken 4 in the past seven years
of back garden trapping and this individual was the 9th of this autumn so
far. Other than the obvious Light-brown Apple-moth and Emmelina
monodactyla the only other things I came across were a pair of November
Moths. There was also a Harlequin Ladybird sitting in one of
the traps. (Phil M)
Sunday 5th November 2006 Dumpton Thanet
Only 1 Feathered Thorn within the past three nights in my
garden. (Gadget)
Sunday 5th November 2006 Westgate Thanet
I ran my trap last night, the first time for several days. I caught a
moth (just the one), a Large Wainscot. (Tim Hodge)
Saturday
4th November 2006 Newington Thanet
Buoyed by the sighting of November Moth, Rusty Dot plus a few Apple
Moths and Emmelina monodactyla being seen on the outside
of the traps I decided to open up both traps today (I haven’t even
looked in them for 2 days) and was pleasantly surprised to find a few
macro moths a surprise due to the very low temperatures weave had this
past few nights. The first traps was empty save for a few Light-brown
Apple moths but in the second trap I came across 1 Green-brindled
Crescent, 2 Angle
Shades and a Large Wainscot. (Phil M)
Wednesday 1st November 2006 Westcliff
Thanet
Night of 31 October/1 November. I was surprised to
catch any moths last night considering the cool temperature. However, I
caught 1 Scarce Bordered Straw, 1 Diamond-back
Moth, Rusty-dot Pearl, 2 Turnip,
an Angle Shades and a tardy Shuttle-shaped Dart.
Not a lot but the best I could do on this Halloween night. (Dave B)
Tuesday 31st October 2006 Westgate Thanet
A few bits last night included a Brick, 2 Large
Wainscots, 2 Angle Shades, 3 Diamond-backs, 3 Lesser
Yellow Underwings, 2 Rusty Dot Pearls, 2 Turnip Moths, 4
Blair's Shoulder Knots and 2 Silver Y. (Tim Hodge)
Tuesday
31st October 2006 Newington Thanet
A few bits and pieces made it into the traps overnight. The catch included
12 Rusty Dot, 2 Rush Veneer, 1 Diamond Back, 2 November
Moth, 1 Gem, 1 Turnip, 1 Angle Shades, 5 Silver
Y, 1 Large Wainscot and 1 Dark Sword-grass. The night
previous was very quiet with only 4 macros and a handful of migrant
Pyralids on show - though 2 of the macros were singles of Vestal
and Yellow-line Quaker, which made up for the lack of numbers.
Looks like it'll hard to get much moth-wise for the next night or two
looking at the weather forecast - dammit!! (Phil M)
