Lee Mount - 5th September

Very warm and humid at around 17c, quite cloudy but no wind.
Autumnal Rustic x 1 was a first for the autumn here - a stunning moth
Copper Underwing agg x 2
Large Yellow Underwing x 7 (very subdued)!
Common Marbled Carpet x 2 (both with the orange blaze)
Silver Y x 1

 Autumnal Rustic

 

Silver Y

Lee Mount - 4th September

12c, light cloud and no wind but not many moths - but an interesting Spider with very very long legs! maybe a Daddy Long-legs Spider ?
Large Yellow Underwing x 14
Dunbar x 1 very worn
Copper Underwing agg x 2
Orange Sallow x 1
Square-spot Rustic x 1
Garden carpet x 1
Dark Arches x 1
Light-brown Apple-moth x 2

 Unidentified (so far) Spider - total leg span c110mm and a very small body - next to a Garden Carpet

 

 

Orange Sallow

 

Dark Arches - think maybe a bit out of season ?

2 Aquilegiae Leaf Miners, ID request.

Hi

I've been looking at the leaf mine tracks in our cultivated Aquilegia for a while now. Finally, I got round to photographing them. I think I've got the ID's right, but would like a second opinion as to what they are please. If I'm correct, they are both small flies.Thanks.

Phytomyza aquilegiae leaf mine 1 TBC

Phytomyza aquilegiae Leaf mine 2 TBC

Phytomyza minuscula leaf mine TBC

Lee Mount - 2nd September

Put the trap out by 8:30 but not too hopeful for much as it was cool with a light breeze strengthening. Went out with a cuppa around 9:15 and a large dark moth came in. Thought at first it was a Hawk-moth by it's size but it didn't just look right for that as it strafed the windows. Couldn't believe the luck as it went straight in the trap and settled. Old Lady, a first for us here, still identifiable despite the very worn out appearance.

Old Lady

 

Others

Copper Underwing agg x 3 (think these are the same ones coming back each evening)

Dunbar x 1

Small Phoenix x 1

Large Yellow Underwing x 9

Square-spot Rustic x 1

Lesser Yellow Underwing x 1

Unidentified Carpet type below - very similar to one on the 30th August keeps coming back but will it open it's wings - NO !

Lee Mount micro ?

Micro from 30th August with approx 8mm length.
Wonder maybe Acleris laterana or Acleris comariana (Strawberry Tortrix). 2 photos of the same moth but from the book it suggests a gen test to be sure which one.
There are loads of Strawberry plants over in the next door neighbours garden !

Cunnery Wood LNR 1st .September 2016

Sallow
Blastobasis adjustella
Dark Twin Spot Carpet
Bird Cherry Ermine
Large Yellow Underwing
Dunbar (worn)
49.069 BF1041 Acleris sparsana
Copper Underwing
Lesser broad Bodies Underwing

Three Micros

This micro looks like Tortricidae and images despite variation on shooting technique did not bring out the detail the eye could see , namely raised white dots or "tufts"  on the wing . The moth was  uniform dark grey

49.069 BF1041 Acleris sparsana









The next Micro have only one shot possibly Query  Epinotia ramella ????????????

Third Micro Query

Lee Mount

11c feeling cooler with 5/8 cloud cover and slight wind.
I think these 2 different moths below are maybe both Common Rustic agg (very straight costa with wing length c 15mm) - not seen any since last year so a bit 'rusty' on them.

Common Rustic agg

Other macro species
Large yellow Underwing x 15
Copper Underwing agg x 2
Lesser Yellow Underwing x 2
Dunbar x 1
Common Marbled Carpetv x 1
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing x 1
Silver Y x 1
Riband Wave x 1 (not had a Plain Wave all season)!
+ a few micros to have  a look at later

Willow Beauty Pale Form, Peribatodes rhomboidaria.

This year I've had my first Willow Beauty Pale Form. It was on the inside of our door. It was showing its antennae, it's the first time I've ever seen them extended. I thought I'd show them.

Willow Beauty Pale Form.

Lee Mount - 30th August

16c some cloud and very calm evening with 10 macro sp. (mostly the usual recent suspects) and 5 micro sp.- still going through them with a query on the second one down.

 Orange Sallow - the photo does not do justice to the colour - it was much yellower than this shows !

 

 

 I couldn't get this Carpet type to open it's wings other than the best I could do here. It looked to have  a raised abdomen with strong dark spots showing on both the upper and underwing - am still trawling through the books but ideas/pointers welcome !

 Angle Shades

 

 Garden Carpet
 

More on my last ID request

I thought I had read the post before sending.  The word "work" is supposed to be the word "worn".  I'm not paying attention to what I'm typing. I think I must be tired. Also, I've repeated a line, more or less anyway. Must try harder. Sorry. Gordon.

Micro ID please

Hi

First, I think The unidentified  moth is a Eudonia lacustrata, judging by the small "x" like shape low down by the outside of the wings. On some I've seen, there is a circle of dark scales near the wing costa which has a shape a bit like a pair of bulls horns at on it facing the centre of the moth. Sorry, bad description. A ring with horns?

Now I found a very worn micro about 2 cm wingspan on my wall. It's VERY worn but there is evidence of of it having had a lot of green colouring. I wondered if it was a Carpet of some description. Does anyone recognise it please?

Unknown, possibly a carpet?

Thanks, Gordon.

Lee Mount - 29th Aug

Pretty quiet again given the conditions 14c and very calm evening. Well perhaps not so quiet when I look at the list !
Large Yellow Underwing x 7
Copper Underwing agg x 3
Light-brown Apple Moth x 1
Marbled Beauty x 1
Common Carpet x 1
Garden Carpet x 2
Bird-cherry Ermine x 1
Square-spot Rustic x 3
Brimstone x 1
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing x 2 looking fairly worn
Brown House Moth x 1
Broad-bordered Yellow underwing x 1
Lesser Yellow underwing x 2
Acleris emargana (I think)
Unidentified Eudonia type

 Still to look at this one - I find this a difficult group !

 

 

 Acleris emargana maybe (same moth)

 

Lee Mount - 28th August

A quiet night. 15c cloudy and very still.
Large Yellow Underwing x 7
Copper Underwing agg x 3
Square-spot Rustic x 2
Common Marbled Carpet x 1
Dunbar x 3 all looking pretty worn
Willow Beauty x 1

Cromwell Bottom LNR 27 Aug 2016

Weather  High Humidity Cold Damp Still  T =10 o   in proximity to water

Comments Notable absence of larger families , probably dur#e to cold damp temp Notched wing Tortrix appears in regular numbers. There were quite a few species of Caddis I counted about 12   #in the field and in significant numbers


73.113 BF2306  Angle Shades Phlogophora meticulosa x1

73.342 BF2107  Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba x6
70.207 BF1887  Clouded Border Lomaspilis marginata x2
70.234 BF1913  Canary-shouldered Thorn Ennomos alniaria x3

49.071 BF1062  Acleris emargana x5

15.005 BF283  Caloptilia sp (betulicola)  Query (Caution Confusion spoecies in mixed food habitat alder, birch and sycamore for larval determination of 3 similars) The stance is yypical of m,oths in the family Gracillidariae x1

73.182 BF2274  The Sallow Cirrhia icteritia Query x3

49.255 BF1138   Epinotia nisella Query   variable many variations, though one of the more distinctive is f. decorana, which shows an orange area over the mid-part of the forewing. x1
70.097 BF1764 Common Marbled Carpet Dysstroma truncata Query worn x1

73.062 BF2297 Copper Underwing Amphipyra pyramidea (Copper Underwing agg) x1

72.002 BF2474  Straw Dot Rivula sericealis x1
71.012 BF2000   Iron Prominent Notodonta dromedarius x1

Copper Underwing agg





The labial Palps are white





The Underwings as shown






There is a good photo reference here in so far as they can be done without Gen Det

Copper / Svennsons Link


71.012 BF2000   Iron Prominent Notodonta dromedarius 

73.182 BF2274  The Sallow Cirrhia icteritia Query 1

49.255 BF1138   Epinotia nisella Query 2

Query 2







70.097 BF1764 Common Marbled Carpet Dysstroma truncata

Query 3 CMM



Query 4 UW



Query 5





More To follow

Lee Mount - 26th August

Cooler at 10c with clear sky with no wind. Pretty quiet on the whole and where were all the Large Yellow Underwings !!!
This one below was a first for here...pretty sure the i d is correct ?

Centre-barred Sallow

 

Totals

Centre-barred Sallow x 1

Iron Prominent x 2 (both different slightly worn ones from the one the previous one on the 24th)

Large Yellow Underwing x 4

Square-spot Rustic x 3

Riband Wave x 1

Common Marbled Carpet x 1 (with the orange blaze)

Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing x 1

Silver Y x 1

Lesser Yellow Underwing x 1

Iron Prominent