Summary[edit] Description: C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity Catalog #: CSU_ENT1106232 Taxon: Agrotis daedalus (Smith) Family: Noctuidae Determiner: S.A. Johnson Collector: S.A. Johnson Date: 1991-05-09 Verbatim Date: 9-V-1991 Locality: United States, Colorado, El Paso, Colorado Springs, Pikes Peak Community College; Colorado Springs area 38.763283 -104.786413 +-1807m. WGS84 Life Stage: Adult Individual Count: 1. Date: 7 April 2019. Source: https://scan-bugs.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=37140100. Author: CSU, Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management.
Trip to Las Descargues 8th August - 18th August - Macro Moths I made a trip back to Robin Howard's beautiful place in the Midi-pyrenees with my wife on the second week of August. We planned to stay over our anniversary but we were unsure of what the weather would be like, so very opted for a slightly longer stay of 10 days incase the weather wasn't too good. We are very glad that we did as the first 4 days were quite wet and windy and with daytime temperatures not getting much higher than 18 degrees, it felt like the trip back in June al over again! Thankfully by Saturday the temperature had recovered and we were enjoying the sunshine finally and by Monday we made use of the stunning swimming pool that we had all to ourselves (although it was quite cold and took your breathe away). Typically on the last day (Thursday) it was really warm and the pool felt a bit warmer so we made the most of it! Of course Moths were once again on the agenda, a I was granted permission to use traps aeound thr garden, extending to the ridge with a generator if I wanted to. The first few nights were hard going and measly pickings but of course every trap had it's surprises in, and having not been here in August before there were plenty of moths that i'd never seen before. 2 of the traps on the first couple of nights got water-logged and then I had the challenging time of dealing with lively Hornets, albeit they are quite docile once the sun has rose and some mornings I just had to wait for it to get light before I could get near the traps. We also lost one of the bulbs in the lower garden, I woke up to find it glowing green/white and thought it was odd and then getting nearer and realising the bulb had smashed, not good as Robin didn't have a 3-pin spare. How on earth it smashed when we had no rain that night (and it had a secure rainguard on it anyway) is beyond me. I could still see the light in my vision for about 15 minutes after which was slightly worrying! By Saturday and Sunday, nights were really warm and temperatures kept in the high teens some nights even when the sky had cleared and working the traps in the morning (sometimes 4) was pretty hard work to say the least. Potting stuff up I didn't recognise, keeping a list on a notepad, the traps were full up and some mornings each trap had about 400 moths in, and I had 4 running! The best night I had around 160 species which is pretty incredible for August apprarently. This first post I will list the Macro Moths that I saw on my trip. I still have a few for identification as always but so far the Macro Moth species list stands at 193 species. Species highlighted in red are completely new to me. All of the Macro Moth species that I took photos of can now be viewed on my flickr page HERE Adactylotis contaminaria Angle Shades Barred Hook-tip Beautiful Hook-tip Beautiful Marbled Beautiful Yellow Underwing Birch Mocha Bird's Wing Black Arches Black V Moth Blair's Mocha Blood-vein Bordered White Bright-line Brown-eye Brimstone Moth Broad-barred White Broad-bordered Bee Hawk-moth Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing Brussels Lace Buff Arches Buff Ermine Buff Footman Buff-tip Burnished Brass Campion Chinese Character Clay Clay Triple-lines Cloaked Carpet Cloaked Minor Clouded Border Clouded Buff Clouded Silver Common Carpet Common Footman Common Rustic Common Wainscot Common Wave Common White Wave Copper Underwing Coronet Coxcomb Prominent Crescent Dart Dark Spectacle Dark Sword-grass Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet Delicate Dewick's Plusia Dingy Footman Dotted Clay Double-striped Pug Drymonia querna Dumeril's Rustic Dun-bar Dusky Marbled Brown Ear Moth Early Thorn Engrailed Epilecta linogrisea Essex Emerald Eupithecia semigraphata or impurata False Mocha Festoon Figure of Eighty Flame Shoulder Flounced Rustic Four-spotted Footman Foxglove Pug Frosted Yellow Garden Carpet Garden Tiger Gem Grass Emerald Great Dart Green Silver-lines Grey Dagger Gypsy Moth Heart & Dart Hoary Footman Horse Chestnut Humming-bird Hawk-moth Idaea deversaria Idia calvaria Iron Prominent Jersey Emerald Jersey Tiger Knot Grass Large Yellow Underwing Latin Latticed Heath Least Yellow Underwing Leopard Moth Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing Lesser Cream Wave Lesser Swallow Prominent Lesser Treble-bar Lesser Yellow Underwing Light Emerald Lime Hawk-moth Lime-speck Pug Lobster Moth Lunar Thorn Lychnis Lythria cruentaria Maiden's Blush Marbled Clover Miller Nutmeg Nut-tree Tussock Oak Eggar Oak Hook-tip Oak Processionary Orache Moth Orange Footman Paidia rica Pale Mottled Willow Pale Oak Beauty Pale Prominent Pale Shoulder Passenger Peach Blossom Peacock Moth Pebble Hook-tip Peppered Moth Phoenix Pigmy Footman Pine Hawk-moth Pine Processionary Pine-tree Lappet Pinion-streaked Snout Plum Lappet Poplar Hawk-moth Poplar Kitten Poplar Lappet Portland Riband Wave Red Twin-spot Carpet Riband Wave Rosy Footman Rosy Marbled Ruby Tiger Rustic Satin Wave Scalloped Hook-tip Scarce Bordered Straw Scarce Footman Scarce Merveille du Jour Scarlet Tiger Scopula tesselaria Scorched Wing Setaceous Hebrew Character Shark Shears Silver-Y Single-dotted Wave Small Angle Shades Small Black Arches Small Blood-vein Small Dusty Wave Small Fan-foot Small Fan-footed Wave Small Mottled Willow Small Purple-barred Small Ranunculus Small Rivulet Small White Wave Snout Speckled Beauty Spotted Sulphur Square-spotted Clay Straw Dot Straw Underwing Swallow Prominent Synopsia sociaria Tawny Prominent Tawny-barred Angle Tephronia sepiaria Toadflax Brocade Treble-bar Tree-lichen Beauty True Lover's Knot Vestal Vine's Rustic Waved Umber White Ermine White-point White-speck Willow Beauty Wood Carpet Yellow Shell Yellow-barred Brindle Yellow-headed Phoenix Yellow-tail
Summary[edit] Description: Garden Catch 26/06/18 - Common but welcome That was the status of most of the moths in the trap this morning, common yes but alway nice to see for the first time each year. A rare moth is great and probably the most exciting aspect of moth trapping, but it's also nice to photograph mint examples and new forms of common moths at the same time. And also not forgetting garden firsts of common moths, like the Brown Scallop that was found on the brick wall behind the trap this morning! Not a particularly colourful moth mind but a welcome addition to the garden list all the same. Turnip Moth was also present and some lovely forms found, one of which really threw me and resembled a dark Crescent Dart! 2 Yellow Shells brought a splash of yellow, one was particularly fresh despite seemingly missing nearly all of it's antennaes! Garden species count for 2018 now upto 275. Here are the new for year species. Catch Report - 26/06/18 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 250w Clear MV Robinson Trap Macro Moths Brown Scallop [NFG] Small Fan-footed Wave Turnip Moth 4 Yellow Shell 2 Micro Moths Oegoconia sp. Date: 20 June 2018, 15:56. Source: [2087] Turnip Moth (Agrotis segetum). Author: Ben Sale from Stevenage, UK.
Summary[edit] Description: 2 underwhelming catches saved by a garden first Cold and a chilly breeze both mornings and on Monday night I only managed 32 moths in the trap of just 8 species with no micros. The thermometer said 7c at 6am. I guess Autumn is on it's way. On this same date last year I had 143 moths of 30 species. I did have a slight reprieve though with a garden first Dark Sword-grass and a new for year Brown-spot Pinion. The following night I recorded my first Lunar Underwing of the year, a really striking example. Ypsolopha sylvella was new for the year for the micro's but generally another poor night but with more variety. Catch Report - 09/09/13 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson trap Macro Moths 1x Dark-sword Grass [NFG] 1x Brown-spot Pinion [NFY] 5x Vine's Rustic 5x Lesser Yellow Underwing 11x Large Yellow Underwing 5x Setaceous Hebrew Character 1x Angle Shades 3x Square-spot Rustic Micro Moths None recorded! Catch Report - 10/09/13 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson trap Only extras recorded Macro Moths 1x Lunar Underwing [NFY] 3x Copper Underwing 3x Brimstone Moth 1x Garden Carpet 1x Turnip Moth 1x Snout 1x Pale Mottled Willow Micro Moths 1x Ypsolopha sylvella [NFY] 1x Emmelina monodactyla. Date: 11 September 2013, 17:15. Source: [2091] Dark Sword-grass (Agrotis ipsilon). Author: Ben Sale from UK.
Summary[edit] Description: English: PLATE LVIX. Date: between 1903 and 1913 date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1903-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1913-00-00T00:00:00Z/9. Source: CATALOGUE OF THE NOCTUIDAE IN THE COLLECTION OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Author: Sir GEORGE F. HAMPSON, Bart.
Trip to Las Descargues 8th August - 18th August - Macro Moths I made a trip back to Robin Howard's beautiful place in the Midi-pyrenees with my wife on the second week of August. We planned to stay over our anniversary but we were unsure of what the weather would be like, so very opted for a slightly longer stay of 10 days incase the weather wasn't too good. We are very glad that we did as the first 4 days were quite wet and windy and with daytime temperatures not getting much higher than 18 degrees, it felt like the trip back in June al over again! Thankfully by Saturday the temperature had recovered and we were enjoying the sunshine finally and by Monday we made use of the stunning swimming pool that we had all to ourselves (although it was quite cold and took your breathe away). Typically on the last day (Thursday) it was really warm and the pool felt a bit warmer so we made the most of it! Of course Moths were once again on the agenda, a I was granted permission to use traps aeound thr garden, extending to the ridge with a generator if I wanted to. The first few nights were hard going and measly pickings but of course every trap had it's surprises in, and having not been here in August before there were plenty of moths that i'd never seen before. 2 of the traps on the first couple of nights got water-logged and then I had the challenging time of dealing with lively Hornets, albeit they are quite docile once the sun has rose and some mornings I just had to wait for it to get light before I could get near the traps. We also lost one of the bulbs in the lower garden, I woke up to find it glowing green/white and thought it was odd and then getting nearer and realising the bulb had smashed, not good as Robin didn't have a 3-pin spare. How on earth it smashed when we had no rain that night (and it had a secure rainguard on it anyway) is beyond me. I could still see the light in my vision for about 15 minutes after which was slightly worrying! By Saturday and Sunday, nights were really warm and temperatures kept in the high teens some nights even when the sky had cleared and working the traps in the morning (sometimes 4) was pretty hard work to say the least. Potting stuff up I didn't recognise, keeping a list on a notepad, the traps were full up and some mornings each trap had about 400 moths in, and I had 4 running! The best night I had around 160 species which is pretty incredible for August apprarently. This first post I will list the Macro Moths that I saw on my trip. I still have a few for identification as always but so far the Macro Moth species list stands at 193 species. Species highlighted in red are completely new to me. All of the Macro Moth species that I took photos of can now be viewed on my flickr page HERE Adactylotis contaminaria Angle Shades Barred Hook-tip Beautiful Hook-tip Beautiful Marbled Beautiful Yellow Underwing Birch Mocha Bird's Wing Black Arches Black V Moth Blair's Mocha Blood-vein Bordered White Bright-line Brown-eye Brimstone Moth Broad-barred White Broad-bordered Bee Hawk-moth Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing Brussels Lace Buff Arches Buff Ermine Buff Footman Buff-tip Burnished Brass Campion Chinese Character Clay Clay Triple-lines Cloaked Carpet Cloaked Minor Clouded Border Clouded Buff Clouded Silver Common Carpet Common Footman Common Rustic Common Wainscot Common Wave Common White Wave Copper Underwing Coronet Coxcomb Prominent Crescent Dart Dark Spectacle Dark Sword-grass Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet Delicate Dewick's Plusia Dingy Footman Dotted Clay Double-striped Pug Drymonia querna Dumeril's Rustic Dun-bar Dusky Marbled Brown Ear Moth Early Thorn Engrailed Epilecta linogrisea Essex Emerald Eupithecia semigraphata or impurata False Mocha Festoon Figure of Eighty Flame Shoulder Flounced Rustic Four-spotted Footman Foxglove Pug Frosted Yellow Garden Carpet Garden Tiger Gem Grass Emerald Great Dart Green Silver-lines Grey Dagger Gypsy Moth Heart & Dart Hoary Footman Horse Chestnut Humming-bird Hawk-moth Idaea deversaria Idia calvaria Iron Prominent Jersey Emerald Jersey Tiger Knot Grass Large Yellow Underwing Latin Latticed Heath Least Yellow Underwing Leopard Moth Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing Lesser Cream Wave Lesser Swallow Prominent Lesser Treble-bar Lesser Yellow Underwing Light Emerald Lime Hawk-moth Lime-speck Pug Lobster Moth Lunar Thorn Lychnis Lythria cruentaria Maiden's Blush Marbled Clover Miller Nutmeg Nut-tree Tussock Oak Eggar Oak Hook-tip Oak Processionary Orache Moth Orange Footman Paidia rica Pale Mottled Willow Pale Oak Beauty Pale Prominent Pale Shoulder Passenger Peach Blossom Peacock Moth Pebble Hook-tip Peppered Moth Phoenix Pigmy Footman Pine Hawk-moth Pine Processionary Pine-tree Lappet Pinion-streaked Snout Plum Lappet Poplar Hawk-moth Poplar Kitten Poplar Lappet Portland Riband Wave Red Twin-spot Carpet Riband Wave Rosy Footman Rosy Marbled Ruby Tiger Rustic Satin Wave Scalloped Hook-tip Scarce Bordered Straw Scarce Footman Scarce Merveille du Jour Scarlet Tiger Scopula tesselaria Scorched Wing Setaceous Hebrew Character Shark Shears Silver-Y Single-dotted Wave Small Angle Shades Small Black Arches Small Blood-vein Small Dusty Wave Small Fan-foot Small Fan-footed Wave Small Mottled Willow Small Purple-barred Small Ranunculus Small Rivulet Small White Wave Snout Speckled Beauty Spotted Sulphur Square-spotted Clay Straw Dot Straw Underwing Swallow Prominent Synopsia sociaria Tawny Prominent Tawny-barred Angle Tephronia sepiaria Toadflax Brocade Treble-bar Tree-lichen Beauty True Lover's Knot Vestal Vine's Rustic Waved Umber White Ermine White-point White-speck Willow Beauty Wood Carpet Yellow Shell Yellow-barred Brindle Yellow-headed Phoenix Yellow-tail
Description: Agrotis segetum (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775), Turnip Moth, to Robinson trap, Hellerup, Denmark, 7/8 June 2012 Magyar: A vetési bagolylepke (Agrotis segetum) a rovarok (Insecta) osztályának a lepkék (Lepidoptera) rendjéhez, ezen belül a bagolylepkefélék (Noctuidae) családjához tartozó faj. Date: 8 June 2012, 07:46. Source: Agrotis segetum. Author: Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark. Camera location55° 44′ 06.65″ N, 12° 33′ 45.78″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 55.735181; 12.562716.
Description: Agrotis ipsilon English: The Dark sword-grass, Lodz(Poland) Polski: Rolnica gwoździówka, Łódź(Polska). Date: 14 May 2015. Source: Own work. Author: Jerzy Strzelecki.
Summary[edit] Description: Not to much going on in the moth trap this week, partly due to the weather but mostly due to the Lammas lag - the gap between broods. Meanwhile out there in the grass the larvae chomp away, fattening up for autumn.. Shuttle-shaped Dart, Agrotis puta. Date: 4 August 2017, 09:00. Source: The Lammas Lag. Author: AJC1 from UK. Camera location52° 35′ 55.96″ N, 1° 06′ 11.15″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 52.598877; -1.103096.
Summary[edit] Description: Agrotis infusa Boisduval, 1832, to actinic light, Wyperfeld National Park, VIC, 23/24 January 2017. Date: 23 January 2017, 21:52. Source: Agrotis infusa. Author: Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark. Camera location35° 35′ 09.78″ S, 142° 02′ 46.2″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-35.586050; 142.046166.
Summary[edit] Description: English: PLATE LX. Date: between 1903 and 1913 date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1903-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1913-00-00T00:00:00Z/9. Source: CATALOGUE OF THE NOCTUIDAE IN THE COLLECTION OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Author: Sir GEORGE F. HAMPSON, Bart.