A nice catch at Holborough Marshes for the Kent Wildlife Trust - including four species new for the site.
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| Buttoned Snout |
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| Chalk Carpet |
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| Gold Spot |
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| Burnished Brass |
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| Mullein Wave |
Thursday, 29 August 2013
29 August 2013 - Holborough Marshes KWT
Tuesday, 27 August 2013
27 August 2013 - More Hawk-moths at work
A colleague recently found several superb Eyed Hawk-moth caterpillars on young apple plants - thankfully some of them delayed pupation long enough to allow others to get the cameras out. Nice!
Sunday, 25 August 2013
25 August 2013 - Cliffe Marshes RSPB
Visited Cliffe Marshes RSPB for some moth surveying - a nice selection including a fine Dark Sword-grass. The ear moth has to go down as a spp - hopefully I'll get in to gen det in due course to get these things sorted correctly.
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| Dark Sword-grass |
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| ear moth spp |
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| Old Lady |
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| Micro 1 |
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| Micro 2 |
Saturday, 24 August 2013
24 August 2013 - Convulvulous Hawk-moth at work (East Malling)
The Company Secretary found this superb Convulvulous Hawk-moth whist he was passing the smokers shed at work. A quick telephone call later and we had ourselves a mini moth twitch!
Thursday, 22 August 2013
22 August 2013 - A924 in Perthshire
Took an evening drive out to the moors along the A924 - a couple of hours running the light in the mist/drizzle, along the side of the road, produced an interesting catch.
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| Heathe Rustic |
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| Neglected Rustic |
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| Grey Mountain carpet |
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| Scarce Silver-Y 1 |
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| Scarce Silver-Y 2 |
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| Scarce Silver-Y 3 |
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| Northern Deep-brown Dart |
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| Northern Deep-brown Dart |
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| Northern Spinach |
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| Micro Spp - looked really distinctive - but I can't see it in the book... |
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| Micro spp (again) |
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| Minor Shoulder-knot |
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| Minor Shoulder-knot - 2nd individual of the night |
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| Possible Barred Chestnut - but I'm really not happy with ID - all help/guidance is much appreciated. |
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| Big, worn, interesting and best left unidentified...? |
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| Dark Arches - dark version! |
Wednesday, 14 August 2013
14 August 2013 - Cairngorms, Aberdeenshire
Last night I went up to some upland/moorland for some roadside moffing. The Northern Rustic was the highlight of the moth front - but a presumed Scottish Wild Cat stole the show on the way home at 1.30am.
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| Northern Rustic - A wonderful shiny lump of a moth |
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| Northern Rustic - The undoubted highlight of an evening out. |
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| Grey Mountain Carpet - 20+ of these very variable large carpets |
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| Chevron - 30+ of these beautiful, often purple-coloured, moths. Superb! |
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| Autumnal Rustic - first of the year. |
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| presumed Ingrailed Clay (though at high altitude I did suspect this was a Northern Dart for a while - but in the cold light of day, I'm not really sure why I quite so excited...) |
Tuesday, 13 August 2013
13 August 2013 - Drimmie Woods, Perthshire
Took the wee lad out for a short walk this lunchtime - loads of Twin-spot Carpets flying around everywhere.
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| Twin-spot Carpet - One of 20+ seen in a 20 minute walk. |
Monday, 12 August 2013
12 August 2013 - Blairgowrie, Perthshire
A few bits in the garden trap - the Gray Chi being a personal favourite
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| Barred Chestnut |
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| Grey Chi - white form of this lovely moth |
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| Brown-line Bright-eye - A new spp for the garden |
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| Canary-shouldered Thorn - Another new spp for the garden |
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| Dotted Clay |
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| Dotted Clay |
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| Micro spp |
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| Grasshopper spp |
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| poss Juniper pug, poss something else...! |
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| Lesser Yellow Underwing |
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| Sallow |
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| Tawny-speckled Pug |
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| Zieraphera isertana - I assume |
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