The cottage has large gardens, laid out both formally with lawns and hedges, but also has a variety of native trees and shrubs, unkempt wilder areas, and is adjacent to the Killane River which has native wildflower and fern species upon its banks. The surrounding fields are relatively small with good connectivity in the hedgerows.
I used the 25W blacklight or 20W actinic in conjunction with the Skinner Trap, in the back garden. Trapping by porchlight only in the front garden.
Despite the lack of variety, I have still seen some moth species for the first time, adding them to the “life-list” along with a couple of beetles which also came to the light, and of whom I have not seen before either.
The final species tally on the week’s trapping list is as follows:
Moths
Snout (Hypena proboscidalis)
Canary-shouldered Thorn (Ennomos alniaria) Porchlight only
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| Canary-shouldered Thorn |
Common Marbled Carpet (Dysstroma truncata)
Alucita hexadactyla Porchlight only
Brimstone Moth (Opisthograptis luteolata)
Setaceous Hebrew Character (Xestia c-nigrum)
Pink-barred Sallow (Xanthia togata) new for me
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| Pink-barred Sallow |
Angle Shades (Phlogophora meticulosa)
Square-spot Rustic (Xestia xanthographa)
Pearly Underwing (Peridroma saucia)
Beautiful Plume (Amblyptilia acanthadactyla)
Red-green Carpet (Chloroclysta siterata)
Blastobasis lacticolella new for me
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| Blastobasis lacticolella |
Green-brindled Crescent (Allophyes oxyacanthae)
Large Yellow Underwing (Noctua pronuba)
Autumnal Rustic (Eugnorisma glareosa) new for me
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| Autumnal Rustic |
White-shouldered House-moth (Endrosis sarcitrella)
Epiphyas postvittana
Green Carpet (Colostygia pectinataria)
Dark Sword-grass (Agrotis ipsilon)
Lunar Underwing (Anchoscelis lunosa)
Black Rustic (Aporophyla nigra)
Flounced Rustic (Luperina testacea)
Ypsolopha parenthesella new for me
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| Ypsolopha parenthesella |
Beetles
Black Vine Weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus)
Chrysolina bankii new for me
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| Chrysolina bankii |
Nabria sp.
Nicrophorus investigator
Acrosus rufipes new for me
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| Acrosus rufipes |
Harvestman
Leiobunum blackwalli new for me
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| Leiobunum blackwalli |
Bugs
Green Shieldbug (Palomena prasina) Porchlight only
Birch Shieldbug (Elasmostethus interstinctus)
Caddisfly
Limnephilus lunatus
Limnephilus auricula
Stenophylax permistus
Halesus radiatus
Cranefly
Tipula paludosa
BWARS
Netelia cristata new for me
