(James) Some of the highlights from trapping in Wales. From top: great brocade which I nearly trod on, the most beautiful bordered straw you have ever seen, one of 5 large ear, and one of the 8 individual scarce bordered straw caught in 2 consecutive traps! More scarcity photos to come from Denver...

Denver 21/09/2006

Pearly underwing - a different individual to the one on 17th! It landed on the bedroom window whilst Simeon and I were doing our homework (as rare moths do), and although I passed it off as a lesser yellow underwing Simeon dutifully brought it in - that was a nice surprise! We're on a roll here with 5 rarities in the last 6 traps, so let's hope it continues for National Moth Night on Saturday...


Dissapointing news for Denver - the moth which we identified as hoary footman was probably not. After contacting Dave Hipperson (the county recorder) it turns out that several apparent hoary footmen were trapped around the time we got ours. Jon Clifton dissected his specimen and discovered that it was in fact a continental race of scarce footman which is inseparable from hoary except by examination of genitalea. Of course it cannot be proved that this is what our moth was, but it seems highly likely........ Oh well, we can't complain with the array of moths we've had this year - our time will come (hopefully)!

Recent Highlights from Denver and Wales as we took the trap with us on holiday!

Denver
20/7/06
Common Rustic 32
Striped Wainscot 2
Rufous Minor 1
Fen Wainscot 2
Beautiful Brocade 1
Broad - Bordered Yellow Underwing 31
Lesser - Yellow Underwing 36
Uncertain 33

Bates Wood (Denver)
21/7/06
White Satin 5
Plain Wave 1
Fen Wainscot 10
Yellow Tail 8
Ruby Tiger 8
Poplar Hawkmoth 8
Lesser Cream Wave 1
Dark Umber 1
Slender Brindle 1
Dog's Tooth 1
Crescent 1
Striped Wainscot 3
Olive 31

Denver
4/8/06
Straw Underwing

Denver
7/8/06
Fen Wainscot 1
Great Brocade 1
Setaceous Hebrew Character 34

Denver
8/8/06
Red Underwing 1
Small Wainscot 1

Wales
16/8/06
Northern Spinach 1
Bordered Straw 1

Wales
17/8/06
Lesser Broad Bordered Yellow Underwing 36
Flounced Rustic 29
Lesser Cream Wave 3
Foxglove Pug 1
Scarce Bordered Straw 2
Large Ear 5

Wales
18/8/06
Great Brocade 1 (1st for the county!)
Flounced Rustic 37
Scarce Bordered Straw 7
Lesser Cream Wave 2
Large Ear 3
Swallow Prominent 1 (very rare in that county!)

Denver
4/9/06
Common Wainscot 94
Setaceous Hebrew Character 65
Large Yellow Underwing 32
Large Thorn 1

Denver
9/9/06
Frosted Orange 2
Brown Spot Pinion 1
Scarce Bordered Straw 1

Denver
17/9/06
Rosy Rustic 2
Orange Sallow 1
Pearly Underwing 1

Sorry that Denver hasn't been updated for ages. We have decided that it takes too long to upload the full details for every single trap, so we will just be doing the highlights from now on.