Friday 30th September 2011 Newington
Ramsgate
Quiet a few moths overnight the pick of which
were singles of Small Dusty Wave, Small Blood Vein, Mallow,
Beaded Chestnut, Barred Sallow, Blair's Shoulder Knot
and Clancy's Rustic. (Phil M)
Friday 30th September 2011
Garden & Pegwell Trap
Night of 29/9. Finally a bit of migrant activity – unfortunately just the
usual suspects. A Gem in my garden (where it’s nice just to get a
moth). At Pegwell; 3 Dark Sword-grass, 1 Delicate, 3 Silver
Y, 1 Palpita vitrealis and 1 Udea ferrugalis.
Extremely poor for the residents species – the pick as far as Thanet goes
were 2 Red-green Carpet, 1 Sallow, 2 Large Wainscot and
1 Clancy’s Rustic. (F Solly)
Wednesday 28th September 2011 Newington
Ramsgate
Although the moth traps are a bit barer than they
have been of late as summer gives way to autumn it has certainly been
slightly more interesting this past week ... well a little bit anyway.
Yesterdays trap contained amongst all the more usual suspects a Sallow
and only my third ever Dusky Thorn here, deep in concrete land and
overnight I found a late female Orange Swift, a latish Lesser
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing, 1 Double Striped Pug, 2 L
Album Wainscots, 14 Feathered Ranunculus, 17 Lunar Underwings
and one, nice orange form of Beaded Chestnut. Another flock of
Siskins flew (unseen) south over the garden at 1.45 as I was taking a few
moth photos ... I didn't see or even hear any at Pegwell this morning.
(Phil M)
Monday 26th September 2011 Newington
Ramsgate
Another slightly dull catch only enlivened by the
many differing shades and colours of numerous Lunar Underwings also a
nice Orange Sallow which is quite a scarcity for my garden traps.
(Phil M)
Sunday 25th September 2011 Dumpton Thanet
The only moths of any note worthy within the past week
are Beaded Chestnut, Orange Sallow other than that just the
normal moths that are on the wing, and the numbers are down in my garden,
(Gadget)
Sunday 25th September 2011 Pegwell
Village
Night of 24/09/11 The weather last night was
clear with cloudy periods temperatures down to 15°C . Trap produced 5
Lunar Underwing,1 Garden Carpet,2 Eudonia angustea,1
Silver Y Moth,3 Shuttle Shaped Dart,1 Square Spot Rustic,
2 Large Wainscot,1 Vine Rustic,16 Lesser Yellow Underwings,,
6 Feathered Ranunculus,2 Hebrew Charactors,15 Apple Moths,7
L Album Wainscot,1 Snout Moths. (Richard Kinzler)
Saturday 24th September 2011 Saltwood
Amongst the 21 species caught last night, Brick, Scarce Bordered
Straw, another Buff Ermine and Bramble-shoot Moth! The
next week looks promising, (Paul Howe)
Friday 23rd September 2011 Cliffsend Ramsgate
I had a nice surprise when I found a Clancy's Rustic
in the trap this morning. It is the first one for me this year. (Claire W)
Friday 23rd September 2011 Pegwell Village
Night of 22/09/11 The weather last night was clear with cloudy periods
temperatures down to 14°C . Trap produced 1 Canary Shouldered Thorn,1
Dusky Lemon Sallow,1 Silver Y Moth,1 Square Spot Rustic,
11 Lesser Yellow Underwings,4 Lunar Underwing Moths , 6
Feathered Ranunculus,2 Hebrew Charactors,16 Apple Moths,7 L
Album Wainscot Moths. (Richard Kinzler)
Thursday 22nd September 2011 on Thanet?
Night of 21/09/11 The weather last night was clear with cloudy periods
temperatures down to 11°C with wind at times. My first year and apparently a
bad year for Moth trapping but the trap produced 1 Square Spot Rustic,
6 Lesser Yellow Underwings, 2 Canary Shouldered Thorn, 2
Feathered Ranunculus & only 3 Apple Moths. (Richard Kinzler)
Thursday 22nd September 2011 Saltwood
24 species overnight, the pick were 4 Feathered Ranunculus,
Singles of Beaded Chestnut and Autumnal Rustic. Also, of note
on the night, of 20th a fresh Buff Ermine, (Paul Howe)
Wednesday 21st September 2011 Newington
Ramsgate
Lots of moths overnight mainly Underwings and
Square Spot Rustics (including 67 Lesser Yellow Underwings the highest of
autumn so far here) also singles of Trachycera advenella
(which is quite late) Lime Speck Pug, Copper Underwing,
Black Rustic, 9 L Album Wainscots, 6 Lunar Underwings, 17
Feathered Ranunculus etc. Not much else lately aside a Barred
Sallow the other night and a Canary Shouldered Thorn. (Phil M)
Saturday 18th September
2011 Newington Ramsgate
A poor catch overnight
contained five each of Lunar Underwing and Feathered Ranunculus
plus the first Centre-barred Sallow of the year ... at long last. The
rest of the catch was made up of the usual late summer leftovers. In recent
nights I've taken very little of note - the third Red Underwing of
the autumn and a couple of Rusty Dots which have been incredibly
scarce this year. Feathered Ranunculus did get into low double
figures the other night ... all in all it's been a bit dull. (Phil M)
Saturday 10th September 2011
Kingsgate area Thanet
Night of 9/9/2011. Exceptional warm overnight - exceptionally poor in
the traps - enough said. 10/9. Having done the misery of the traps, a wander
around the Golf Course at Kingsgate produced reasonable numbers of the
attractive Gelechid - Chrysoesthia drurella loafing around
Fathen (F Solly)
Friday 9th September 2011 Newington Thanet
A moth trapping night of very mixed emotions as
although I did get two new macro species for the garden one of which was a
Feathered Gothic, I lost a rarity whilst trying to pot it in the shape
of a Bloxworth's Snout. It's a new species for me and although I
didn't get any photos I am happy that it was one ... in fact it was quiet
obvious. The annoying thing is that I saw the darn thing sitting underneath
the perspex, and seeing the underside of the moth only thought it was just
one of these small second generation Snouts and then whilst emptying the
opposite side of that trap I got so caught up trying to keep a tally of the
hundreds of moths present around both traps overnight that I took the
perspex off and laid it down completely missing the fact that the moth was
there at all. It was only when I went to put the trap back together that I
saw it, turned the perspex over and got the shock of my life. I then went on
in idiotic keystone cop fashion to miss it with the pot and had to watch,
heart in mouth while the moth flew towards my open back door then fly across
the fence into my neighbours garden. If it turns up again tonight you'll
hear the shout of relief. The only other rarity was a Diamond Backed Moth
(ha ha) but I did get a world record amount of Flounced Rustics - 46
of them! Other moths in high numbers included 47 Square-spot Rustics,
107 Large Yellow Underwings (113 on the 3rd), 29 Lesser Yellow
Underwings and 21 Vine's Rustics. Other stuff included singles of
Blood-vein and Latticed Heath, 2 Large Thorns, 2
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwings, 3 Copper Underwings and a very
late Lesser Common Rustic. (Phil M)
Tuesday 6th September 2011
Kingsdown & Thanet Traps late News
Night of 2/9. In an attempt
to get away from the ultra dull Thanet moffing, I spent the night on
Kingsdown Beach in an attempt to get some migrants in seemingly favourable
conditions. Apart from the following, which are all likely to be colonists
rather than migrants it was remarkably similar to Thanet. Singles of
Jersey Tiger, Plumed Fan-foot and Bloxworth Snout were
comfortably the pick of the bunch. Other bits of minor interest – at least
from a Thanet perspective were – Feathered Gothic, Hedge Rustic,
Frosted Orange and Ypsolopha mucronella. The only definite
migrant was a single Rusty Dot. Night of 3/9. An extremely humid and
warm day. Rain from dusk of course! I was going to try another coastal
excursion but was scuppered by the rain. The Thanet traps had lots of
Large Yellow Underwings – 163 at Kingsgate – hoorah. The only things of
note were first of year Convolvulus Hawk and Palpita vitrealis
at Pegwell. (F Solly)
Sunday 4th September 2011 Adjacent to King George VI Park
Night of 2nd September, It was definitely Large Yellow Underwing
night in my garden!! 54 in my trap, plus: Setaceous Hebrew Character,
Light Brown Apple Moth, Lesser Broad Bordered Yellow Underwing,
House Moth + White Shouldered, Least Carpet, Kent Black
Arches (a first for me!), Marbled Green + Beauty, Common
Wainscot, Bright Line Brown Eye, Copper Underwing,
Square Spot Rustic, Vine's, Flounced + Rustic, Willow Beauty,
Agriphila straminella, inquinatella + geniculea,
Blastobasis adustella and 787 Bryotropha terrella.
(Sue Smith)
Friday 2nd September 2011 Cliffsend Ramsgate
The moths have been rather unexciting this last week,
(although better than Suffolk), but I have found several Toadflax Brocade
Caterpillars in the garden. (Claire W)
Friday 2nd September 2011 Dumpton Thanet
The past two nights have been better for numbers but not much in the way of
migrants, saying that within the last two days 1
Rusty Dot-Perl, 1 Dark Sword-grass,
5 Silver Y's, 2 Rosy Rustics, 1 Copper Underwing, and 1 Red Underwing which
is a very good moth for my garden, (Gadget)
Thursday 1st September 2011 Newington
Ramsgate
It's still very poor around the garden traps and
to make things even worse I opened up last nights traps to find 64 Large
Yellow Underwings present ... yuk! I did find 1 Agonoptreix
nervosa, 1 Pyrausta aurata, 1 Straw Underwing,
2 Rosy Rustics, 1 Old Lady and 2 Silver Y but that's
nothing to shout about by a long shot. Numbers were made up of 10 Orange
Swifts, 15 Setaceous Hebrew Characters, 33 Square Spot Rustics,
16 Lesser Yellow Underwings, 35 Vine's Rustics and a very high
count for here of 26 Flounced Rustics. This past week the only things
of any interest were singles of Red Underwing and a new moth for the
garden - a Small Wainscot. Just to show how poor that it's been for
common migrants this year I'm still to catch any Rush Veneers or Rusty Dots
at all! (Phil M)
