Fairy Moths

Kværkeby Mose, Midtsjælland, Denmark

Hobro

Cors Erddreiniog NNR. Anglesey, N. Wales. SH469820

Gladsaxe Municipality, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Durham, Maine

Traps on people, it's hotting up out there!To start off with I had some incredible luck chasing a Micro moth around the garden with a pot (god knows what the neighbour's think!) I managed to scoop it mid-flight into my pot and get the lid on in a split-second.The moth in question was a small metallic Adelidae of somekind, half the size of reamurella and I suspected rufimitrella.A few macro shots were taken and it indeed turned out to be a garden first Adela rufimitrella, in fact my first for Hertfordshire and only my second ever in 8 years (previous record from Essex)To the evening....I ran the garden trap last night as it had been a lovely warm day with a high of 21 degrees, and although it cleared at dusk it stayed relatively mild with little or no wind.This morning it was still registering 11 degrees and so my expectations were quite high, and I was pleasantly rewarded with some nice species and 5 new species for the year.Both the Carpets refused to lay flat like a carpet and so it's underwing shots all the way here... hoping it will help anyone identifying them this way.Trapping again tonight hopefully.Catch Report - 15/05/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson TrapMacro Moths1x Maiden's Blush [NFY]1x Clouded Border [NFY]2x Common Marbled Carpet [NFY]1x Silver-ground Carpet [NFY]1x Bright-line Brown-eye [NFY]2x Spectacle 2x Rustic Shoulder-knot 2x Pale Mottled Willow1x Waved Umber4x Muslin Moth5x Shuttle-shaped Dart2x Common Pug1x Brimstone MothMicro Moths 1x Evergestis forficalis1x Alucita hexadactyla1x Syndemis musculana1x Phyllonorycter harrisella2x Epermenia chaerophyllella

Revine Lago, Veneto, Italia

Ca Tron, Veneto, Italy

Peglio, Lombardy, Italy

Hlabisa, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Martlesham, England, United Kingdom

Briantspuddle, England, United Kingdom

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

The evening party assembled as planned at the Ivinghoe Beacon car park. It was almost immediately agreed that the air temperature was far too low for any trapping in this area in spite of the theoretical possibility of catching Wood Tiger and/or Light Feathered Rustic. However, having come all this way we felt that we ought to do something, so we drove to the Bridgewater Monument on the Ashridge Estate about a mile down the road and split into two camps within the (theoretically warmer) woodland. We set up 6 lights (a sheet on the side of the Landrover plus five traps) on the Hertfordshire side of a ditch whilst the chaps (and one chap-ess) from Buckinghamshire ran a further three lights on the other side of the ditch in their own county a couple of hundred yards away. The intended inter-county competition was largely forgotten as both teams considered it increasingly likely that the most probable result would be a no score draw, but eventually a moth did appear to set the ball rolling. The 9 lights ran from about 21.30 to midnight, but in the last hour, perhaps the last hour and a half, the moths stopped flying altogether as the temperature plummeted to a depressing 7 degrees Celsius (an interesting situation, given that we were a mere 29 days from mid-summer and only 26 days off the longest day of the year!). We eventually managed 10 macros and a micro with a grand overall total of 22 individual moths in our 6 Hertfordshire lights. Two traps had absolutely zero moths. The Buckinghamshire crew scarcely did better; one of their traps also scored a duck, though they did get a Brimstone moth, which we did not. Words such as dire do not adequately convey the situation. Can it possibly get any worse? Is this the future of mothing as we know it? The Hertfordshire list was as follows: Macro Moths1x Frosted Green1x Water Carpet2x Small Phoenix2x Common Pug1x Brindled Pug1x Purple Thorn 5x White-pinion Spotted1x Coxcomb Prominent1x Common Quaker2x Nut-tree TussockMicro Moths5x Nematopogon swammerdamella

Abersee, Salzburg, sterreich

Longitude (deg): -1.2. Latitude (deg): 51.3. Longitude (deg/min): 1° 20' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 20' N. Vice county name: Berks. Vice county no.: 22. Country: England. Stage: Male imago. Associated species: Pteridium aquilinum. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: On Bracken stem. Category: standard photograph or close-up. Photographic equipment used: Nikon D100 dSLR with Tamron SP T90 AF Macro 1:1 lens.

Longitude (deg): -1.1. Latitude (deg): 51.7. Longitude (deg/min): 1° 10' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 50' N. Vice county name: Oxon. Vice county no.: 23. Country: England. Stage: Male imago. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Detail to note: long antennae. Category: standard photograph or close-up. Photographic equipment used: Nikon Coolpix 950.

Longitude (deg): -1.6. Latitude (deg): 51.8. Longitude (deg/min): 1° 40' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 50' N. Vice county name: Oxon. Vice county no.: 23. Country: England. Stage: Female imago. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Category: macro-photograph. Image scaling: enlarged. Real world width(mm): 15.19766666667. Background: black background. Photographic equipment used: Specimen directly scanned on HP Scanjet 5470c flatbed scanner. For some photographs of some specimens (eg leaf mines) the transparency adaptor was used.

Longitude (deg): 1.2. Latitude (deg): 52.7. Longitude (deg/min): 1° 10' E. Latitude (deg/min): 52° 40' N. Vice county name: East Norfolk. Vice county no.: 27. Country: England. Stage: Male imago. Identified by: Raymond Watson. Comment: Male. Category: macro-photograph. Image scaling: enlarged. Photographic equipment used: "35mm transparencies (on a variety of films, but Agfa CT18 in the 1960's to early 1980's followed by Fujichrome in the late 1980's.) Transparencies scanned with Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II AF-2820U transparency scanner.".

Longitude (deg): -1.2. Latitude (deg): 51.4. Longitude (deg/min): 1° 10' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 20' N. Vice county name: Berks. Vice county no.: 22. Country: England. Stage: Female imago. Identified by: Berkshire Moth Group. Comment: "Female, resting on bramble". Category: standard photograph or close-up. Photographic equipment used: Nikon Coolpix 950.

Kværkeby Mose, Midtsjælland, Denmark

Hobro