Monday 31st May 2004 Church Wood complex
A couple of hours netting around midday 31/5, Church
Wood complex, Denstroude Farm entrance.
Incurvaria oehimanniella, Nematopogon
swammerdamella, Caloptilia alchimiella, Phyllonorycter harrisella,
Anthophila fabriciana, Glyphipterix simpliciella, Esperia sulphurella,
Alabonia geoffrella, Cochylis nana, Ptycholoma lecheana, Capua vulgana,
Eulia ministrana, Aleima loeflingiana, Tortrix viridana, Olethreutes
arcuella, Lobesia reliquana, Ancylis mitterbacheriana, Ancylis laetana,
Epinotia bilunana, Anania funebris, Scoparia pyralella, Speckled Yellow. (FS)
Monday 31st May 2004 2nd Kent record - as
per Ferguson
Monopis monachella taken at Kingsgate
on 19th May 2004 is believed to be only the 2nd Kent record - as per (Ian
Ferguson) (FS)
Saturday 29th May 2004 Pegwell night of
the 28th
Cream Spot Tiger taken by (FS)
Friday 28th May 2004 Dumpton
Garden night of
the 27th
Campion Moth to Light was the
Best moth of the night. (Gadget)
Friday 28th May 2004 North Foreland Golf Course
1 Yellow Shell, 10 Cinnabar, 1 Treble-bar,
2 Mother Shipton, 1 Adela reamurella, Esperia sulphurella -
common, Crambus lathoniellus (grass moth) Chrysoteuchia culmella (grass
moth) (FS)
Wednesday 26th May 2004 Garden Shoulden, near
Deal.
Lynn Hurst caught a Fern (2nd for her garden)
on 24.05.04 at Shoulden, near Deal.
Wednesday 26th May 2004 Dumpton
Garden night of
the 25th
First White Point for the garden this year also
my 5th Lime Hawk Moth, a total of 23 species of 34 moths. (Gadget)
Tuesday 24th May 2004 Stodmarsh
NNR Trip Report
Monday
24th May 2004 Daytime moth netting session Hover
Pad
I
tried a bit of netting for an hour or two on the Hoverpad near Pegwell.
Lots of micro moths on the wing plus the odd macro. Nothing you wouldn’t
expect amongst the moths, Most of the micro moths have Latin names only so
I have put their numbers next to them just in case anyone out there wants
to look them up?
0610 ELACHISTIA ARGENTELLA: 1
0649 ESPERIA SULPHERELLA: c.5
0939 AETHES TESSERANA: 100s OF THEM.
0947 AETHES SMATHMANNIANA: 1
0985 CACOECIMORPHA PRONUBABA: A FEW.
0998 LIGHT BROWN APPLE MOTH: A FEW
1241 GRAPHOLITA COMPOSITELLA: c.6
???? DICHRORAMPHA ACUMINATA: 100+
1301 CRAMBUS LATHONIELLUS: 1
1333 SCOPARIA PYRALELLA: 4 - 5
1361 PYRAUSTA AURATA: 1
PLUS: 2 TREBLE-BAR, 4 YELLOW BELLE, 5 MULLEIN WAVE,
12 LATTICED HEATH (PHIL M)
Saturday 22nd May 2004 RSPB
& Church Wood National Moth Night
Saturday 22nd May 2994
National Moth Night Pegwell
Bay
Wednesday 19th May 2004 RSPB
& Church Wood Complex Trip Report
Wednesday 19th May 2004 Garden Dumpton Thanet night of
the 19th
Number 4 Lime Hawk-Moth 14 species 46 Moths (Gadget)
Tuesday 18th May 2004 Garden Dumpton Thanet night of
the 18th
First Eyed Hawk-Moth this year for the garden, also No: 3 Lime
Hawk-Moth this one very tatty 11 species 32 Moth (Gadget)
Tuesday 18th May 2004 Kingsdown Beach
Trip Report
Monday 17th May 2004 Dumpton
Garden night of
the 16th
9 species 21 moths Best moth of the night Lime-hawk
Moth Number two for Garden. (Gadget)
Sunday 16th May 2004 Dumpton
Garden night of
the 15th
2 Diamond-back Moth (Plutella
xylostella) 4 Double-striped Pug, 10 Brimstone,1 Early
Grey, 1 Codling Moth, 1 Setaceous Hebrew Character,1 Common Swift,1 Waved
Umber, 3 Bright - line, Brown – Eye, 1 Mottled Pug 2 Shuttle-shaped
Dart, 2 Muslin Moth, 1 Garden Pebble, 1 Broad-barred White, 1 Swallow
Prominent. (Dylan)
May 16th 2004 Garden in St David’s, Road Ramsgate Thanet
1 Common Pug, 3 Brimstone, 1 Common Swift, 1 Angle
Shades. (Phil B)
May 15th 2004 Garden in St David’s, Road Ramsgate Thanet
1 Garden Carpet, 6 Brimstone, 1 Cabbage Moth, 2 Common
Pugs, 2 Pale Mottled Willow, 1 Dark Spectacle.
(Phil B)
Saturday 15th May Dumpton
Garden Thanet
This beauty Pyrausta aurata flew into the garden today
(Gadget)
Friday 14th May 2004 Stodmarsh
NNR Trip Report
Emperor Moth taken at Stodmarsh NNR by (FS)
Thursday 13th May 2004 Old Hover Pad Pegwell Bay
Moth netted on hover pad Day time Mother Shipton (FS)
Tuesday 11th May 2004 Dumpton Garden Thanet night of
the 10th
Still nothing out of the ordinary. 1 Peppered Moth,
1 Hebrew Character, 1 Early Grey, 1 Angle Shades, 2 Shuttle-shaped
Dart, 12 Light Brown Apple Moth (Dylan)
Tuesday 11th May 2004 Elvington Garden night of
the 10th
Had a Buff Tip and a very dark Iron Prominent
(TRP)
Tuesday 11th May 2004 Dumpton Garden Thanet night of
the 10th
3
Brimstone, 1 Double Striped-Pug, 2 Common Swift. A
very warn Clouded Drab, 1 Common Quaker, 1 Campion 1st
this year, 2 Angel Shades one being very small, 11 Light
Brown Apple Moths. (Gadget)
Monday 10th May 2004 Pegwell Bay
male Emperor Moth flying by day at Pegwell
(FS)
Monday 10th May 2004 Shoulden Garden night of
the 9th
Lynn Hurst had an interesting moth that she had taken
in her Shoulden garden. It was the melanic form of Pale Tussock and is the
first example of this coloration I have ever seen! A really smart moth.
(Dylan)
Monday 10th May 2004 Dumpton Garden Thanet night of
the 9th
At last some moth in the garden the 1st Lime Hawk
Moth this year, another Herald this being my 3rd and a Nutmeg
also a new moth for the garden and what a beauty the Pale Prominent. (Gadget)
Saturday 1st May 2004 Dumpton Garden Thanet night of
the 30th April
Very quiet through out April in my garden over on
Thanet, know doubt the best looking moth for April was the Mullein on
the 29th the night of the 30th yielded only 2 Angle Shades
and 1 Brimstone. (Gadget)
