The moth trap was pretty good all week with about 70 species a night of about 120-150 individuals. Observations HERE. The project lep list is now on 385 species HERE which subject to validation is 66 new species for the project from this trip.
The day flying Synaphe moldavica was very common in the grasslands this week.
We've now moth trapped in April/early May, early July, September, October, November and now early June so getting a good snap shot of the moth calender here.
There wasn't so many butterflies about- apparantely it's only warmed up round here in the last week or so.
A few mothing photo highlights below.
Giant Peacock moth- we had four of these on the last night and also saw a single along the path at Shabla Tusla indicating an emergence
Oak Hawkmoth
Spurge Hawkmoth- we also had Elephant, Small Elephant, Lime and Hummingbird Hawkmoths
Plum Lappet
Lappet
Garlic Mottled
Nychiodes waltheri
Citrus Looper
Gnopharmia stevenaria
Beautiful Marbled- always nice to see
Buff Arches- a new one for the project
Orache- never tire of these
Maybe Aporophyla canescens
Dichagyris nigrescens
Dolicharthria sp
Maybe Orange Naked Pearl
Charissa sp maybe variegata
Cucullia tanaceti
Orange-bar Grass-Veneer
Maybe Dichomeris rasilella
Mirificarma eburnella
Probably Lacanobia praedita
Mythimna congrua
Euphithecia breviculata
I presumed this was Twenty-plume moth but it doesn't occur here. It's probably Alucita huebneri
The trapping site
