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Summary[
edit] Description: English: Sabra harpagula, insect collections SLU, Uppsala. Date: 4 October 2012, 17:16:34. Source: Own work. Author:
Vítězslav Maňák (SLU).
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Summary[
edit] Description: English: Sabra harpagula. Date:. Source: Own work. Author:
Dumi.
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Trip to Slovenia – 7 Night’s Mothing 28th August – 04th September 2011 Just got back from an amazing trip to Slovenia near Moravske Toplice, on the border of the Goricko National Park. It really is a stunning location and allows you to explore the 3 neighbouring Countries Austria, Hungary and Croatia, all of which are within a 20 minute drive away. In seven nights I managed 125 species of Macro Moths, which at this slow time of year was more than I expected! The conditions were perfect most evenings, clouding over as the sunset (total opposite to most night’s here in the UK!) 2 nights, Thursday & Friday we experienced huge thunderstorms and extremely wet conditions so only the wall mounted light was used on these nights. Most days ranged from 24c to 31c and there was little wind and the temperatures at night kept to a minimal 20c! Unfortunately being located within a vineyard Wasps and Hornets were a big problem (the Hornets had even taken residence under the eaves of the cottage). This did present some problems going through the catch in the morning and as a result decided against using a trap, but to just rely on the walls. Now, when I first arrived I was deciding where to put the 160w MBT Tripod set-up that I had brought, and then on inspection of the cottage, to the rear was a wall mounted bulb that was water-proofed, it turned out to be a 250w Mercury Vapour bulb, result! All I had to do was flick the switch on at dusk then check the wall in the morning. I decided to set-up my other light at the front of the property over-looking the wood. The surrounding habitat looked perfect, adjacent woodland, a good sized garden and positioned on top of a hill to intercept anything that was flying across, there was also no light pollution at all. Here is the complete list from those 7 nights, Starred species are new species to me. MACRO MOTHS Orange Swift (Hepialus sylvina) Lemonia taraxaci * Antheraea yamamai * Scalloped Hook-tip (Falcaria lacertinaria) Oak Hook-tip (Watsonalla binaria) Barred Hook-tip (Watsonalla cultraria) Pebble Hook-tip (Drepana falcataria) Scarce Hook-tip (Sabra harpagula) * Peach Blossom (Thyatira batis) Buff Arches (Habrosyne pyritoides) Little Emerald (Jodis lactearia) * Maiden’s Blush (Cyclophora punctaria) Clay Triple-lines (Cyclophora linearia) Mocha sp. * Blood-vein (Timandra comai) Streaked Wave (Scopula virgulata) * Lesser Cream Wave (Scopula immutata) Bright Wave (Idaea ochrata cantiata) * Small Fan-footed Wave (Idaea biselata Single-dotted Wave (Idaea dimidiate) Riband Wave (Idaea aversata) Gem (Orthonama obstipata) * Flame Carpet (Xanthorhoe decoloraria) Red Twin-spot Carpet (Xanthorhoe spadicearia) Royal Mantle (Catarhoe cuculata) * Yellow Shell (Camptogramma bilineata) Purple Bar (Cosmorhoe ocellata) Small Phoenix (Ecliptopera silaceata) Red-green Carpet (Chloroclysta siterata) Pine Carpet (Thera firmata) * Cloaked Carpet (Euphyia biangulata) * Small Rivulet (Perizoma alchemillata) Freyer’s Pug (Eupithecia intricata) Plain Pug (Eupithecia simpliciata) Treble Bar (Aplocera plagiata) Small White Wave (Asthena albulata) Small Seraphim (Pterapherapteryx sexalata) Clouded Border (Lomaspilis marginata) Peacock Moth (Macaria notata) Tawny-barred Angle (Macaria liturata) Latticed Heath (Chiasmia clathrata) Large Thorn (Ennomos autumnaria) August Thorn (Ennomos quercinaria) September Thorn (Ennomos erosaria) Lunar Thorn (Selenia lunularia) * Luna Beauty (Ascotis selenaria)* Willow Beauty (Peribatodes rhomboidaria) Feathered Beauty (Peribatodes secundaria) * Pale Oak Beauty (Hypomecis punctinalis) The Engrailed (Ectropis bistortata) Common White Wave (Cabera pusaria) Light Emerald (Campaea margaritata) Barred Red (Hylaea fasciaria) Convolvulus Hawk-moth (Agrius convolvuli) * Poplar Hawk-moth (Laothoe populi) Elephant Hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor) Small Elephant Hawk-moth (Deilephila porcellus) Buff-tip (Phalera bucephala) Lobster Moth (Stauropus fagi) Iron Prominent (Notodonta dromedaries) Three-humped Prominent (Notodonta tritophus) * Pebble Prominent (Notodonta ziczac) Lesser Swallow Prominent (Pheosia gnoma) Swallow Prominent (Pheosia tremula) Coxcomb Prominent (Ptilodon capucina) Maple Prominent (Ptilodon cucullina) Clostera anastomosis * Oak Processionary (Thaumetopoea processionea) * The Vapourer (Orgyia antique) Yellow-tail (Euproctis similis) Rosy Footman (Miltochrista miniata) Scarce Footman (Eilema complana) Buff Footman (Eilema depressa) Four-spotted Footman (Lithosia quadra) * Buff Ermine (Spilosoma luteum) Ruby Tiger (Phragmatobia fuliginosa) Jersey Tiger (Euplagia quadripunctaria) Small Black Arches (Meganola strigula) * Kent Black Arches (Meganola albula) Turnip Moth Agrotis segetum Heart & Dart (Agrotis exclamationis) Flame Shoulder (Ochropleura plecta) Plain Clay (Eugnorisma depuncta) * Large Yellow Underwing (Noctua pronuba) Lesser Yellow Underwing (Noctua comes) Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing (Noctua fimbriata) Pearly Underwing (Peridroma saucia) * Setaceous Hebrew Character (Xestia c-nigrum) Square-spotted Clay (Xestia rhomboidea) Square-spot Rustic (Xestia xanthographa) Beautiful Brocade (Lacanobia contigua) * Bright-line Brown-eye (Lacanobia oleracea) Double Line (Mythimna turca) * The Delicate (Mythimna vitellina) * Smoky Wainscot (Mythimna impure) L-album Wainscot (Mythimna l-album) Beautiful Arches (Blepharita satura) * Large Dagger (Acronicta cuspis)* Knot Grass (Acronicta rumicis) Copper Underwing (Amphipyra pyramidea) Orache Moth (Trachea atriplicis) * Angle Shades (Phlogophora meticulosa) The Olive (Ipimorpha subtusa) The Dun-bar (Cosmia trapezina) Common Rustic (Mesapamea secalis) Flounced Rustic (Luperina testacea) The Uncertain (Hoplodrina alsines) The Rustic (Hoplodrina blanda) Vine's Rustic (Hoplodrina ambigua) Bordered Sallow (Pyrrhia umbra) Scarce Bordered Straw (Helicoverpa armigera) Marbled White Spot (Protodeltote pygarga) Shining Marbled (Pseudeustrotia candidula) * Spotted Sulphur (Emmelia trabealis) * Oak Nycteoline (Nycteola revayana) Scarce Burnished Brass (Diachrysia chryson) * Silver Y (Autographa gamma) Dark Spectacle (Abrostola triplasia) Clifden Nonpareil (Catocala fraxini) * The Passenger (Dysgonia algira)* Beautiful Hook-tip (Laspeyria flexula) Straw Dot (Rivula sericealis) The Snout (Hypena proboscidalis) Shaded Fan-foot (Herminia tarsicrinalis) * Small Fan-foot (Herminia grisealis) Clay Fan-foot (Paracolax tristalis)
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Summary[
edit] Description: English: Sabra harpagula. Source: Own work. Author:
AfroBrazilian.
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Trip to Las Descargues 26th June - 03rd July - Macro Moths Last week I flew out to Limoges with Roger and Steve and then drove south for just over two hours and arrived at Las Descargues in the Midi-pyrenees just in time for the first night's moth trapping. The weather was warm and muggy when we landed and the further sout we drove, the cloudier and darker it got when all of a sudden the heavens opened and a monsoon was experienced just at the crucial time of trying to find the supermarket for our week's shop! With the rain came wind and plummeting temperatures, in fact the first night's temperature of 17 degrees was to be the highest until Sunday where we managed 19.5c at lower altitude. Most days we were really up against the elements, with persistant rain, wind and even hail the size of 5 pence pieces. Some days the temperature didn't get above 14 degrees, ridiculous to say the least and with lows of 9 we weren't holding out for much. Sods law was that the previous weeks temperatures were between 28 and 37 degrees! Nevertheless we were there to catch Moths, observe Butterflies and watch Birds and on some days when the weather was too grim we enjoyed a good sweep around the grass for Crickets and Grasshoppers! The best nights were the first night that we turned up, completely shattered from travelling and the last night before we had to travel back, not ideal but we just had to make do. Some beautiful species were observed at the traps and we made two trips out (It would have been more had the weather been better, but risk of lightning strikes and electrocution from the wet was too much of a risk) one to the Causse at Dolmen de la Pierre Martin and another to the Verdal Gorge. Robin and Sue were great hosts throughout the whole week and I urge people to book up and have an amazing wildlife experience that is there to offer. I enjoyed it so much that I will be returning very soon. Below are the Macro Moth highlights and some pictures of the traps, weather and scenery. The list currently stands at 192 species of Macro Moth recorded with the best moth an Arctiidae species Dysauxes punctata which we recorded at the Causse and is a very rare moth in the Midi-pyrenees with just records from this single site. More can be found on my flickr site
www.flickr.com/photos/33398884@N03/ Species in red are new to me. Alchymist Atypha pulmonaris Barred Hook-tip Bird's Wing Black Arches Black v moth Blair's Mocha Blood-vein Bordered Beauty Bright Wave Brimstone Brindled White Spot Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing Brown-tail Buff Arches Buff Ermine Buff Footman Buff-tip Burnished Brass Campion Caradrina aspersa Chequered Wave Chinese Character Clay fan-foot Clouded border Clouded Silver Common Carpet Common Emerald Common Footman Common Heath Common Rustic Common Wave Common White Wave Coronet Cream Wave Cyclophora lennigiaria Dark Arches Dark Umber Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet Delicate Dewick's Plusia Dingy Footman Dot Moth Double Kidney Drymonia querna Dun-bar Dwarf Cream Wave Dysauxes punctata Elephant Hawk-moth Engrailed Fan-foot Feathered Beauty Festoon Fiery Clearwing Flame Four-spotted Footman Frosted Orange Frosted Yellow Garden Carpet Garlic Mottled Goat Moth Great Oak Beauty Green silver-lines Grey Dagger Grey-pine Carpet Guernsey Underwing Handmaid Heart and Dart Heart Moth Herald Hoary Footman Hoplodrina Respersa Horse Chestnut Hummingbird Hawk-moth Idaea Deversaria Idaea subsaturata Idia Calvaria Iron Prominent Isle of Wight Wave Jersey Emerald Jubilee Fan-foot July Highflyer Kent Black Arches Knot Grass Lackey L-album Wainscot Lamprosticta Culta Large Dagger Large Emerald Large Yellow Underwing Latin Latticed Heath Least Carpet Least Yellow Underwing Lesser Yellow Underwing Light Arches Light Brocade Light Crimson Underwing Light Emerald Little Thorn Lobster Moth Lunar Thorn Lunar-spotted Pinion Map-winged Swift Marbled Minor Marbled White-spot Minor Shoulder knot Mottled Rustic Mouse Moth Muslin Footman Mythimna sicula Nut-tree Tussock Nyctobrya ravula Oak Hook-tip Oak Nycteoline Olive Crescent Orache Orange Footman Orange Moth Pale Mottled Willow Pale Oak Beauty Pale Shoulder Passenger Peacock moth Pearly Underwing Pebble Hook-tip Peppered Moth Pine Processionary Plum Lappet Poplar Hawk-moth Privet Hawk-moth Purple Bar Red-necked Footman Rhodostrophia calabra Rhodostrophia vibicaria Rosy Footman Rosy Marbled Rustic Sandy Carpet Scarce Bordered Straw Scarce Chocolate-tip Scarce Footman Scarce Hook-tip Scarce Silver-lines Scarlet Tiger Scorched Carpet Scorched Wing September Thorn Setaceous Hebrew Character Shark Shears Silver-Y Single Dotted Wave Small Black Arches Small Dusty Wave Small fan-footed Wave Small Marbled Small Mottled Willow Small Phoenix Small purple-barred Small Ranunculus Small White Wave Snout Southern Buff-tip Spanish Character Speckled Footman Speckled Yellow Spotted Sulphur Spurge Hawk-moth Sub-angled Wave Swallow Prominent Sycamore Tawny Wave Tephronia cremiaria Three-humped Prominent Toadflax Brocade Treble bar Treble Brown Spot True Lover's Knot Turnip Moth Uncertain Vapourer Varied Coronet V-pug Waved Umber Weavers Wave White Satin White Speck White-point Willow Beauty Yellow Shell Yellow-tail
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Exemplar found: Russia, Moscow Oblast, Odintsovsky District, near village Pestovo, 30.05.2014, by light МО, Одинцовский р-н, окрестности деревни Пестово, 30.05.2014, на свет
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Exemplar found: Russia, Moscow Oblast, Odintsovsky District, near village Pestovo, 06.08.2013, by light МО, Одинцовский р-н, окрестности деревни Пестово, 06.08.2013, на свет
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Exemplar found: Russia, Moscow Oblast, Odintsovsky District, near village Pestovo, 10.06.2012, by light МО, Одинцовский р-н, окрестности деревни Пестово, 10.06.2012, на свет
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Exemplar found: Russia, Moscow Oblast, Odintsovsky District, near village Pestovo, 21.06.2010, by light МО, Одинцовский р-н, окрестности деревни Пестово, 21.06.2010, на свет