Traps on people, it's hotting up out there!To start off with I had some incredible luck chasing a Micro moth around the garden with a pot (god knows what the neighbour's think!) I managed to scoop it mid-flight into my pot and get the lid on in a split-second.The moth in question was a small metallic Adelidae of somekind, half the size of reamurella and I suspected rufimitrella.A few macro shots were taken and it indeed turned out to be a garden first Adela rufimitrella, in fact my first for Hertfordshire and only my second ever in 8 years (previous record from Essex)To the evening....I ran the garden trap last night as it had been a lovely warm day with a high of 21 degrees, and although it cleared at dusk it stayed relatively mild with little or no wind.This morning it was still registering 11 degrees and so my expectations were quite high, and I was pleasantly rewarded with some nice species and 5 new species for the year.Both the Carpets refused to lay flat like a carpet and so it's underwing shots all the way here... hoping it will help anyone identifying them this way.Trapping again tonight hopefully.Catch Report - 15/05/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson TrapMacro Moths1x Maiden's Blush [NFY]1x Clouded Border [NFY]2x Common Marbled Carpet [NFY]1x Silver-ground Carpet [NFY]1x Bright-line Brown-eye [NFY]2x Spectacle 2x Rustic Shoulder-knot 2x Pale Mottled Willow1x Waved Umber4x Muslin Moth5x Shuttle-shaped Dart2x Common Pug1x Brimstone MothMicro Moths 1x Evergestis forficalis1x Alucita hexadactyla1x Syndemis musculana1x Phyllonorycter harrisella2x Epermenia chaerophyllella
The evening party assembled as planned at the Ivinghoe Beacon car park. It was almost immediately agreed that the air temperature was far too low for any trapping in this area in spite of the theoretical possibility of catching Wood Tiger and/or Light Feathered Rustic. However, having come all this way we felt that we ought to do something, so we drove to the Bridgewater Monument on the Ashridge Estate about a mile down the road and split into two camps within the (theoretically warmer) woodland. We set up 6 lights (a sheet on the side of the Landrover plus five traps) on the Hertfordshire side of a ditch whilst the chaps (and one chap-ess) from Buckinghamshire ran a further three lights on the other side of the ditch in their own county a couple of hundred yards away. The intended inter-county competition was largely forgotten as both teams considered it increasingly likely that the most probable result would be a no score draw, but eventually a moth did appear to set the ball rolling. The 9 lights ran from about 21.30 to midnight, but in the last hour, perhaps the last hour and a half, the moths stopped flying altogether as the temperature plummeted to a depressing 7 degrees Celsius (an interesting situation, given that we were a mere 29 days from mid-summer and only 26 days off the longest day of the year!). We eventually managed 10 macros and a micro with a grand overall total of 22 individual moths in our 6 Hertfordshire lights. Two traps had absolutely zero moths. The Buckinghamshire crew scarcely did better; one of their traps also scored a duck, though they did get a Brimstone moth, which we did not. Words such as dire do not adequately convey the situation. Can it possibly get any worse? Is this the future of mothing as we know it? The Hertfordshire list was as follows: Macro Moths1x Frosted Green1x Water Carpet2x Small Phoenix2x Common Pug1x Brindled Pug1x Purple Thorn 5x White-pinion Spotted1x Coxcomb Prominent1x Common Quaker2x Nut-tree TussockMicro Moths5x Nematopogon swammerdamella
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Summary[edit] Description: Adela reaumurella 14 april 2007 IJmuiden, the Netherlands. Date: 14 April 2007 (according to Exif data). Source: No machine-readable source provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims). Author: No machine-readable author provided. Svdmolen assumed (based on copyright claims).
Exemplar found: Russia, Moscow Oblast, Serebryano-Prudsky District, near village Lishnyagi, 25.06.2016, on field scabious (Knautia arvensis) flowers, days (right, left is Emmelia trabealis) МО, Серебряно-Прудский р-н, окрестности деревни Лишняги 25.06.2016, на цветках короставника, днём (справа; слева Emmelia trabealis)
Description: Nematopogon robertella (Clerck, 1759), to Robinson trap, Søborg, Denmark, 21/22 May 2014 The combination of dark, reticulate forwings, a pale tornal spot and a yellowish frons rule out other Nematopogon species. In particular N. magna lacks the tornal spot and N. pilella has a white frons. Other species are paler. Date: 22 May 2014, 07:26. Source: Nematopogon robertella. Author: Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark. Camera location55° 43′ 20.68″ N, 12° 30′ 10.29″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 55.722411; 12.502858.
Summary[edit] Description: English: female. Date: 28 March 2016. Source: Own work. Author: Michael Kurz. Permission(Reusing this file): Deutsch: Dieses Foto wurde vom Autor und Fotografen der Naturkundlichen Gesellschaft (www.nkis.info) Michael Kurz erstellt und unter der Lizenz CC BY-SA 3.0/at veröffentlicht. Das Bild kann frei verwendet werden, wenn ich als Urheber genannt und die weiteren Lizenzbestimmungen eingehalten werden. Genaueres unter Beschreibung der richtigen Lizenz English: This photograph was taken by the author and photographer of the austrian Natural History Society (www.nkis.info) Michael Kurz and released under the CC BY-SA 3.0/at license(s). You are free to use it for any purpose as long as you credit me as the author and follow the terms of the license. More details about the License Description of License Um mir ein Belegexemplar zu senden, kontaktiere mich unter / To send me a voucher copy, please contact me → michael.kurz[at]gmx.at :.