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Summary[
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[1509] Stenoptilia pterodactyla. Author:
Ben Sale from UK.
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Summary[
edit] Description: Stenoptilia_pterodactyla 17 June 2006 IJmuiden, the Netherlands (jha uhm heeft dit diertje ook een kortere naam? zo jha typ het dan want ik wil het heel graag weten groetjes Lola van Tissta) (have this animal a chorter name so yes whrite it back here plz i want to know that greetings. Lola van Tissta From NL). Date: 17 June 2006 (according to
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Svdmolen assumed (based on copyright claims).
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Summary[
edit] Description: English: Stenoptilia pterodactyla. Date: 2 July 2017, 17:42:26 (according to
Exif data). Source: Own work. Author:
AfroBrazilian.
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Field Trip - Ashwell Quarry - 18/06/16 On Saturday night the Herts Moth Group made a trip to the far North of the County to Ashwell Quarry. Having been granted permission from the local land-owner, HMWT and a local neighbour who kindly got us access to the site via a locked gate, we went about setting up 8 lights spread around the Chalk grassland, Quarry and scrub. Ashwell Quarry is an important site for wildlife and is to be found just outside of the village of Ashwell with its rich wildflower meadows and chalk grassland. Unfortunately the site in certain parts was swathed in long grass, great for Crambus species but not ideal for the low-growing chalk plants for which the specialist moth caterpillars feed upon. The weather through the course of the day had been grey, overcast but with little wind and as there was no sun the temperature had struggled to reach 16 degrees. Upon a arrival at 8pm we were greeted with clearing skies and a bright near-full moon or the 'enemy' as Colin put it. Thankfully by 10pm as it was just getting dark, cloud began to roll towards us from the North-east and granted us the cloud cover that we so desperately needed if we were to actually catch some moths on the night. With 8 traps set-up it may have seemed a bit over-kill but I find that the more effort you put in, the more you get out and this was the case tonight where the suitcase Actinic trap attracted both Marbled Coronet and Phtheochroa sodaliana, completely new moths for me and well worth the brave effort of running cables along the chalk cliff face. The third most interesting moth was a single specimen of the unusual looking Luquetia lobella, a moth that seems to be quite scarce in he County, another new moth for me. Netted Pug was also a hit with everyone, two stunning examples trapped on the night. We also got two wetland wanderer's possibly blown in on the breeze which picked up at around midnight, they were Southern Wainscot and Dotted Fan-foot. All in all a pleasing 108 species were recorded with a few outstanding micro moths to check. List in Alphabetical order. Numbers below are approximate. Catch Report - 18/06/16 - Ashwell Quarry - 6x 125w MV Robinson Trap 1x 26w & 40w Actinic Trap and 1x 80w Actinic Suitcase Trap 103 Species in total Macro Moths - 72 Species Angle Shades 1 Barred Straw 2 Beautiful Hook-tip 5 Bright-line Brown-eye 1 Broken-barred Carpet 1 Brown Rustic 4 Buff Ermine 1 Burnished Brass 3 Clouded Border 1 Clouded Brindle 2 Clouded-bordered Brindle 1 Common Carpet 4 Common Marbled Carpet 3 Common Pug 1 Clouded Silver 6 Common Swift 20+ Common Wainscot 5 Dark Arches 1 Dotted Fan-foot 1 Flame 4 Flame Shoulder 1 Freyer's Pug 2 Ghost Moth 1 Green Carpet 15+ Green Pug 5 Grey Pug 3 Heart & Club 2 Heart & Dart 30+ Ingrailed Clay 1 Large Nutmeg 20+ Large Yellow Underwing 5 Light Arches 2 Light Brocade 2 Light Emerald 4 Marbled Coronet 1[NEW!] Marbled Minor 2 Middle-barred Minor 3 Mottled Beauty 5 Mottled Pug 2 Mottled Rustic 3 Netted Pug 2 Pale Oak Beauty 4 Peppered Moth 1 Pretty Chalk Carpet 2 Purple Bar 1 Rustic Shoulder-knot 2 Sandy Carpet 1 Setaceous Hebrew Character 40+ Shaded Broad-bar 1 Shaded Pug 20+ Shoulder-striped Wainscot 1 Silver-ground Carpet 3 Silver-Y 2 Small Clouded Brindle 2 Small Dotted Buff 1 Small Fan-foot 1 Small Waved Umber 1 Snout 5 Southern Wainscot Spectacle 1 Straw Dot 10 Tawny Marbled Minor 3 - Gen Det Treble Brown Spot 1 Treble Lines 5 Turnip Moth 1 Uncertain 1 Vine's Rustic 1 White Ermine 3 White-point 1 Willow Beauty 2 Yellow Shell 1 Yellow-barred Brindle 1 Micro Moths - 36 Species Agapeta hamana 5 Agapeta zoegana 4 Anania hortulata 1 Aphomia sociella 1 Argyresthia spinosella 1 Blastobasis lacticolella 1 Celypha lacunana 3 Chrysoteuchia culmella 10+ Clepsis consimilana 1 Cnephasia asseclana 1 - Gen Det Cochylimorpha straminea 2 Cochylis hybridella 3 Cochylis molliculana Crambus lathoniellus 10+ Crambus pascuella 1 Ditula angustiorana 1 Ephestia parasitella 1 - Gen Det Epiphyas postvittana 2 Eucosma cana 5 Eucosma obumbratana 1 Hedya nubiferana 1 Hedya pruniana 8 Homoeosoma sinuella 2 Luquetia lobella 1 [NEW!] Metzneria metzneriella 2 Notocelia trimaculana 4 Notocelia uddmanniana 2 Phtheochroa rugosana 1 Phtheochroa sodaliana 1 [NEW!] Plutella xylostella 15+ Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 3 Scoparia ambigualis 10+ Scoparia pyralella 2 Stenoptilia pterodactyla 1
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Summary[
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AfroBrazilian.
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Summary[
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AfroBrazilian.
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Catch Report - 03/07/11 - Farmland/Back Garden - Hertfordshire Trapped last night under semi-cloudy conditions and perfect temperatures once again. Little or no wind made the catch immense come the morning, the final tally is 91 species. Best species were a single Small Mottled Willow and 2 Dark Sword-grass, which are migrants from Europe. Other species of note included my first Mompha propinquella & Stenoptilia pterodactyla and also an unidentified micro, which turns out to be Eulamprotes atrella a good record for Hertfordshire. Catch Report - 03/07/11 - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap - Farmland/back garden Macro Moths 1x Angle Shades 3x Beautiful Hook-tip 1x Blood-vein 2x Bright-line Brown-eye 2x Brimstone Moth 3x Brown Rustic 2x Brown-line Bright-eye 2x Buff Arches 1x Buff Ermine 4x Buff-tip 3x Burnished Brass 1x Clay 1x Clouded Silver 1x Common Emerald 59x Common Footman 1x Common Wainscot 14x Dark Arches 2x Dark Sword-grass 3x Dot Moth 6x Double Square-spot 2x Dun-bar 3x Dwarf Cream Wave 1x Elephant Hawk-moth 1x Engrailed 2x Flame 3x Flame Shoulder 1x Green Pug 1x Grey Dagger 2x Heart & Club 8x Heart & Dart 1x Large Twin-spot Carpet 3x Large Yellow Underwing 3x Latticed Heath 1x Least Carpet 1x Lesser Yellow Underwing [NFY] 2x Light Arches 1x Marbled Minor 4x Mottled Beauty 2x Mottled Rustic 1x Nutmeg 1x Peach Blossom 6x Peppered Moth 1x Poplar Grey 2x Privet Hawk-moth 3x Riband Wave 1x Rustic 2x Scalloped Oak 1x Short-cloaked Moth 1x Shoulder-striped Wainscot 2x Single-dotted Wave 1x Small Dotted Buff 1x Small Emerald [NFY] 1x Small Fan-foot 1x Small Mottled Willow [NFY] 1x Small Yellow Wave 3x Smoky Wainscot 3x Snout 2x Swallow-tailed Moth 17x Uncertain 1x Willow Beauty 1x Yellow-tail Micro Moths 1x Red-barred Tortrix Ditula angustiorana [NFY] 1x Eulamprotes atrella [NEW!] 1x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1x Lozotaenia forsterana 1x Lozotaeniodes formosanus 3 x Blastobasis lacticolella 1x Mompha propinquella [NEW!] 3x Cnephasia sp. 2x Agapeta hamana 1x Udea olivalis 2x Scoparia ambigualis 1x Bird-cherry Ermine Yponomeuta evonymella 14x Chrysoteuchia culmella 3x Celypha striana 2x Phycita roborella 4x Celypha lacunana 1x Stenoptilia pterodactyla [NEW!] 1x Emmelina monodactyla 2x Cochylis atricapitana 1x Codling Moth Cydia pomonella 2x Thistle Ermine Myelois circumvoluta 1x Gold Triangle Hypsopygia costalis [NFY] 1x Cyclamen Tortrix Clepsis spectrana 2x Dipleurina lacustrata 5x Water Veneer Acentria ephemerella [NFY] 1x Small Magpie Eurrhypara hortulata 2x Aleimma loeflingiana 2x Large Fruit-tree Tortrix Archips podana 6x Crambus perlella
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Summary[
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Exif data). Source: Own work. Author:
AfroBrazilian.
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David, Roger, Steve and myself tried a session trapping on the Westbrook Hay site consisting of unimproved grassland and surrounding ancient woodland. We parked up and intended to run a few traps from the Old Barn electrics and then walk with a few traps and the genny to somewhere towards Ramacre Wood, overlooking Hay Wood as well. Unfortunately the electric sockets in the Old Barn did not work (although strangely all the lights did) so after setting up two traps and laying 100 metres of cable to find they wouldn't work, we had to pack it all up and go to plan B, take all but one of the traps with us alongside the bridlepath leading to Ramacre Wood. This part of Westbrook Hay has been previously untrapped, unfortunately it was very humid (good for moths) and we were plagued by Horse-flies, well I was! One got the tip of my index finger but I got off lightly luckily. Not to be put off anymore, as soon as I pulled the cord on the generator the wind got up! You couldn't make it up! Luckily the wind was on and off, but when it was on it was blowing quite considerably. I thought we should put a trap on the bridlepath shielded from the wind, and this trap did pretty well indeed. All in all a great trip marred by a few niggles, you can't have it all I suppose. The catch was mainly made up of Middle-barred Minor, Straw Dot, Tortrix viridana, Pseudargyrotoza conwagana, Aleimma loeflingiana and Chrysoteuchia culmella. Highlights were Green Arches, White-point, Phlyctaenia perlucidalis, Alabonia geoffrella and Archips crataegana. Stenoptilia pterodactyla was potted up in my car, it must have still been in one of the traps as we were loading them in. Identified by its white costal streak. Catch Report - 20/06/14 - Westbrook Hay - Hemel Hempstead - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 40w Lucent Suitcase Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Suitcase Trap. 59 Macros and 49 Micros ( 108 species) Macro Moths 2x Beautiful Hook-tip 5x Brimstone Moth 2x Buff Ermine 2x Buff Footman 1x Burnished Brass 2x Clouded Border 30+ Clouded Silver 1x Common Marbled Carpet 1x Common Swift 2x Common Wainscot 1x Common White Wave 1x Coronet 8x Dark Arches 2x Double Square-spot 1x Drinker 2x Engrailed 5x Fan-foot 2x Flame 3x Flame Shoulder 1x Foxglove Pug 2x Garden Carpet 2x Ghost Moth 1x Green Arches 4x Green Silver-lines 4x Grey Pug 3x Heart & Club 12x Heart & Dart 2x Ingrailed Clay 1x Large Nutmeg 1x Large Twin-spot Carpet 5x Large Yellow Underwing 2x Light Arches 1x Light Brocade 4x Light Emerald 1x Lobster Moth 1x Maiden's Blush 5x Marbled Minor 2x Marbled White Spot 20x Middle-barred Minor 7x Mottled Beauty 4x Mottled Rustic 3x Peach Blossom 2x Peppered Moth 5x Riband Wave 1x Scorched Wing 2x Setaceous Hebrew Character 1x Shears 4x Shoulder-striped Wainscot 1x Silver-ground Carpet 1x Small Clouded Brindle 5x Small Square-spot 2x Snout 20+ Straw Dot 2x Treble Brown Spot 8x Uncertain 3x White Ermine 1x White-point 1x Willow Beauty 3x Yellow Shell Micro Moths 1x Alabonia geoffrella [NEW!] 1x Blastobasis laticolella 1x Zeiraphera isertana 1x Swammerdamia pyrella 1x Bryotropha terrella 1x Parachronistis albiceps 8x Epinotia abbreviana 1x Ancylis achatana 2x Eucosma hohenwartiana 1x Agonopterix arenella 7x Aphomia sociella 20+ Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1x Eurrhypara hortulata 1x Hofmannophila pseudospretella 20+ Tortrix viridana 50+ Chrysoteuchia culmella 10x Pabdemis cerasana 5x Pandemis heparana 4x Celypha lacunana 2x Archips podana 1x Archips crataegana 2x Hedya pruniana 10x Hedya nubiferana 2x Clepsis consimilana 1x Acentria ephemerella 2x Argyresthia albistria 1x Argyresthia conjugella 2 Eudonia mercurella 15+ Aleimma loeflingiana 1x Phycita roborella 2x Cnephasia sp 1x Scrobipalpa acuminatella 1x Ditula angustiorana 1x Phlyctaenia perlucidalis 1x Homoeosoma sinuella 1x Orthopygia glaucinalis 2x Crambus perlella 5x Udea olivalis 1x Udea prunalis 1x Lozotaenia forsterana 12x Archips xylosteana 2x Celypha striana 2x Crambus lathoniellus 2x Scoparia ambigualis 2x Anthophila fabriciana 1x Elachista argentella 1x Teleiodes luculella 1x Emmetia marginea 1x Stenoptilia pterodactyla
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En fjädermott, troligen arten Stenoptilia pterodactyla, sittande på en fönsterruta på Falbygdens museum i Falköping, Västergötland, Västra Götalands län, Sverige. Här ses motten från undersidan. Bilden är tagen innifrån medan motten sitter på utsidan av rutan. Lägg märke till hur motten lagt ett benpar utmed bakkroppen, så att motten ser ut som en T-formad tagg e.d.
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David, Roger, Steve and myself tried a session trapping on the Westbrook Hay site consisting of unimproved grassland and surrounding ancient woodland. We parked up and intended to run a few traps from the Old Barn electrics and then walk with a few traps and the genny to somewhere towards Ramacre Wood, overlooking Hay Wood as well. Unfortunately the electric sockets in the Old Barn did not work (although strangely all the lights did) so after setting up two traps and laying 100 metres of cable to find they wouldn't work, we had to pack it all up and go to plan B, take all but one of the traps with us alongside the bridlepath leading to Ramacre Wood. This part of Westbrook Hay has been previously untrapped, unfortunately it was very humid (good for moths) and we were plagued by Horse-flies, well I was! One got the tip of my index finger but I got off lightly luckily. Not to be put off anymore, as soon as I pulled the cord on the generator the wind got up! You couldn't make it up! Luckily the wind was on and off, but when it was on it was blowing quite considerably. I thought we should put a trap on the bridlepath shielded from the wind, and this trap did pretty well indeed. All in all a great trip marred by a few niggles, you can't have it all I suppose. The catch was mainly made up of Middle-barred Minor, Straw Dot, Tortrix viridana, Pseudargyrotoza conwagana, Aleimma loeflingiana and Chrysoteuchia culmella. Highlights were Green Arches, White-point, Phlyctaenia perlucidalis, Alabonia geoffrella and Archips crataegana. Stenoptilia pterodactyla was potted up in my car, it must have still been in one of the traps as we were loading them in. Identified by its white costal streak. Catch Report - 20/06/14 - Westbrook Hay - Hemel Hempstead - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 40w Lucent Suitcase Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Suitcase Trap. 59 Macros and 49 Micros ( 108 species) Macro Moths 2x Beautiful Hook-tip 5x Brimstone Moth 2x Buff Ermine 2x Buff Footman 1x Burnished Brass 2x Clouded Border 30+ Clouded Silver 1x Common Marbled Carpet 1x Common Swift 2x Common Wainscot 1x Common White Wave 1x Coronet 8x Dark Arches 2x Double Square-spot 1x Drinker 2x Engrailed 5x Fan-foot 2x Flame 3x Flame Shoulder 1x Foxglove Pug 2x Garden Carpet 2x Ghost Moth 1x Green Arches 4x Green Silver-lines 4x Grey Pug 3x Heart & Club 12x Heart & Dart 2x Ingrailed Clay 1x Large Nutmeg 1x Large Twin-spot Carpet 5x Large Yellow Underwing 2x Light Arches 1x Light Brocade 4x Light Emerald 1x Lobster Moth 1x Maiden's Blush 5x Marbled Minor 2x Marbled White Spot 20x Middle-barred Minor 7x Mottled Beauty 4x Mottled Rustic 3x Peach Blossom 2x Peppered Moth 5x Riband Wave 1x Scorched Wing 2x Setaceous Hebrew Character 1x Shears 4x Shoulder-striped Wainscot 1x Silver-ground Carpet 1x Small Clouded Brindle 5x Small Square-spot 2x Snout 20+ Straw Dot 2x Treble Brown Spot 8x Uncertain 3x White Ermine 1x White-point 1x Willow Beauty 3x Yellow Shell Micro Moths 1x Alabonia geoffrella [NEW!] 1x Blastobasis laticolella 1x Zeiraphera isertana 1x Swammerdamia pyrella 1x Bryotropha terrella 1x Parachronistis albiceps 8x Epinotia abbreviana 1x Ancylis achatana 2x Eucosma hohenwartiana 1x Agonopterix arenella 7x Aphomia sociella 20+ Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1x Eurrhypara hortulata 1x Hofmannophila pseudospretella 20+ Tortrix viridana 50+ Chrysoteuchia culmella 10x Pabdemis cerasana 5x Pandemis heparana 4x Celypha lacunana 2x Archips podana 1x Archips crataegana 2x Hedya pruniana 10x Hedya nubiferana 2x Clepsis consimilana 1x Acentria ephemerella 2x Argyresthia albistria 1x Argyresthia conjugella 2 Eudonia mercurella 15+ Aleimma loeflingiana 1x Phycita roborella 2x Cnephasia sp 1x Scrobipalpa acuminatella 1x Ditula angustiorana 1x Phlyctaenia perlucidalis 1x Homoeosoma sinuella 1x Orthopygia glaucinalis 2x Crambus perlella 5x Udea olivalis 1x Udea prunalis 1x Lozotaenia forsterana 12x Archips xylosteana 2x Celypha striana 2x Crambus lathoniellus 2x Scoparia ambigualis 2x Anthophila fabriciana 1x Elachista argentella 1x Teleiodes luculella 1x Emmetia marginea 1x Stenoptilia pterodactyla
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Summary[
edit] Description: Wednesday evening at Ashwell Quarry On Wednesday evening the car was all packed and ready for another visit to Ashwell Quarry. On arrival at 8pm it was still warm at 17 degrees but the sky looked quite menacing coming in from the South-west and rain was forecast for around 2am. Thinking that the breeze was going to blow the rain in way before the predicted time, I decided to leave the gear in the car and have a walk around with the net. I found many different species (18 to be precise) which was pleasing enough in itself and so as the first few rain drops fell at just after 9pm, I wimped out and decided to schedule the trip for another night. Below are a few of the best species I netted. Pseudargyrotoza conwagana, Celypha lacunana and Nemapogon cloacella were by far the commonest species netted with about 2 in 3 species netted being one of these! On specimen of Pseudargyrotoza conwagana did stand out with its dark markings, all of the others were very pale yellow. Of note was a second record for the site of the uncommon Phtheochroa sodaliana. I will be back soon to try again at dusk and hopefully into the night as well. Date: 8 June 2017, 07:13. Source:
[1509] Stenoptilia pterodactyla. Author:
Ben Sale from UK.