Overton Biodiversity Society

Friday 18^th / Saturday 19^th September 2009

Three traps (one MV-Robinson, two actinic-Skinner), loaned by Mike Wall, Mike Duffy and James Andrews, were installed in the garden of 1 Southington Lane (SU 506 495) overnight for National Moth Night (part one). 155 moths of 28 species were recorded.
 

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Laburnum Leaf Miner 1

1076

Celypha lacunana 1

1138

Epinotia nisella 1 - Picture (1) Mike Wall

1336

Eudonia pallida 6

1682

Blood-vein, imandra comae 1 - Picture (2) Nick Montegriffo

1764

Common Marbled Carpet 1

1776

Green Carpet, Colystigia pectinataria 4 - Picture (3) Mike Wall

1862

Double-striped Pug 1

1888

Scorched Carpet, Ligdia adustata 1 - Picture (4) Paul Boswell

2064

Ruby Tiger, Phragmatobia fuliginosa 1 - Picture (5) Simon Ingram

2092

Shuttle-shaped Dart 1

2107

Large Yellow Underwing 32

2110

Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1

2123

Small Square-spot 4

2126

Setaceous Hebrew Character, Xestia c-nigrum 47 - Picture (6) Mike Wall

2134

Square-spot Rustic 3

2199^th

Common Wainscot 20

2270

Lunar Underwing, Omphaloscelis lunosa 6 - Picture (7) Mike Wall

2273

Pink-barred Sallow, Xanthia togata 1 - Picture (8) Paul Boswell

2274

Sallow 3

2297

Copper Underwing, Amphipyra pyramidea 2 - Picture (9) Andy Mitchell

2361

Rosy Rustic 5

2364

Frosted Orange, Gortyna flavago 1 - Picture (10) Mike wall

2384

Vine's Rustic 2

2434

Burnished Brass, Diachrysia chrsitis 1 - Picture (11) Mike Wall

2441

Silver Y 1

2474

Straw Dot 1

2477

Snout, Hypena proboscidalis 6 - Picture (12) Paul Boswell

Thanks to Ken and Jane Mackenzie for allowing their garden to be used, to Mike Wall for helping to set up the traps and to Mike, again, and Nick. Montegriffo for revealing the overnight catch at the Overton Community Centre Saturday morning.

The warm dry night did not really live up to expectations, the only "migrant" being a Silver Y.

The most interesting moth was a specimen of Laburnum Leaf Miner Leucoptera laburnella (Picture 13 Paul Boswell).

Peter E. Hutchins