tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56432908954069694332024-02-19T07:42:54.361+00:00meticulosaa moth recording blogSam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-53969503008391159432017-01-01T23:40:00.000+00:002017-01-01T23:41:00.529+00:00New leaf<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's to succulent mesophyll</td></tr>
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On February 15, 2012 I discovered a colony of <i>Stigmella aurella</i> on the brambles in my parents' front garden. Nearly five years on, it's still going strong. We had six larvae mining away at the leaves on December 20, and we're now down to just two as the others have evidently got out to spin their neat little cocoons and pupate.<br />
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This chap seems to think the mesophyll is greener on the other side. Let's hope he's right. Happy 2017.</div>
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Sam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-27475788858209137182016-12-06T02:22:00.001+00:002016-12-06T02:45:18.264+00:00All quiet on the Western FrontIt's been a while. Here's a moth:<br />
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PPS. Thought I may as well whip out another idea I had back in 2013... a name change. The Lepidoptera Log is now <i><b>meticulosa</b></i>!</div>
<br />Sam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-42988360640565655342013-12-30T02:45:00.000+00:002013-12-30T02:58:23.210+00:00Mothing moments - June 2013<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I'm back! Only two weeks into a five-week, scot-free winter holiday at the end of what has been a fairly overwhelming year... it's time to relax and, on the advice of Her Majesty, time to reflect.<br />
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But first, I have a bit of explaining to do.<br />
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Last post. 30 June. Exactly six months ago.<br />
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Those eggs...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eggs?</td></tr>
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Moth eggs, of course.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mammy</td></tr>
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<span id="goog_1474651999"></span>Sitting pretty in this picture is a Cabbage Moth which I had potted in my garden on 31 May and kept overnight to photograph. This was a bad idea really. Have you heard the expression "she nearly had kittens"?<br />
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Well, the moth freaked out and laid <b>139</b> eggs in the pot.<br />
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<b>All</b> of which hatched out.<br />
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And that was chaos. When I opened the lid of the pot to put in some lettuce, the tiny, ravenous caterpillars started sprinting up to the rim. I had to take a small paintbrush and gently flick them back to the bottom one by one. Thankfully they all took to the lettuce, and minus a few casualties I released them in Glencairn Park a few days later (by which time they were looking more green, fat and healthy than in the above photo). After I'd let them go, I had a look around the meadow and found this little guy, <i>Micropterix aruncella</i>, one of my favourite micro-moths:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And how nicely he posed for me, too!</td></tr>
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Catching adult moths resulted in a couple more very nice rearing projects over the course of June. Firstly, on 8 June, I caught the first Small Phoenix for the garden. It refused to pose with its wings open, so I transferred it to a plastic sandwich bag (with care) to facilitate the photograph.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Let me out of here!!</i></td></tr>
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And of course it didn't like that, and jettisoned five white eggs, three of which turned a marbled orange colour like this one -<br />
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- and hatched into little loopy larvae which eventually grew into large loopy larvae!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See? Loop!</td></tr>
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While collecting broad-leaved willowherb from the garden to feed the Small Phoenixes (Phoenices?) I managed to find a fourth, younger, "looper" on the leaves - good to see the species is breeding naturally in the garden!<br />
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By this stage, I also had eight early-instar Beautiful Golden Y caterpillars, from eggs laid by this lovely lady -<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful Golden Y - you saw her with her friend the Silver Y in the previous post</td></tr>
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- and here's one of them moulting its skin:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The box where I kept the caterpillars. A family shot of the four Small Phoenixes - two large ones clinging to the lid with their rear claspers while suspending a leaf stalk between them, on which sits the other large caterpillar (pooing) and the young one. Now how about that for a pose!</td></tr>
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Meanwhile, a chapter of my life was closing. Exams were done, school finished, teachers thanked, friends hugged. Every upper sixth class reaching the end of seven years together feels the mixed joy and sadness of leaving. But for this class, at the end of their time together, there was far more sadness than anyone expected - a death in the school community shot a hole in everybody's hearts.<br />
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On 4 July, I bid goodbye to my wee "children", releasing the 4 Small Phoenix and 6 Beautiful Golden Y caterpillars in Glencairn Park, which is a much better place for them than my garden (where the wrath of the mower knows no bounds). That day, there were quite a lot of other moths - and butterflies - to see...<br />
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 559px;"><colgroup><col style="mso-width-alt: 5668; mso-width-source: userset; width: 116pt;" width="155"></col> <col style="mso-width-alt: 7314; mso-width-source: userset; width: 150pt;" width="200"></col> <col style="mso-width-alt: 1755; mso-width-source: userset; width: 36pt;" width="48"></col> <col style="mso-width-alt: 3803; mso-width-source: userset; width: 78pt;" width="104"></col> <col style="mso-width-alt: 1901; mso-width-source: userset; width: 39pt;" width="52"></col> </colgroup><tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;"> <td class="xl86" height="20" style="background-color: #80c9ff; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; height: 15pt; text-underline-style: none; width: 116pt;" width="155"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Golden Lance-wing</span></b></td> <td class="xl87" style="background-color: #80c9ff; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; text-underline-style: none; width: 150pt;" width="200"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Epermenia chaerophyllella</span></b></td> <td class="xl81" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none; width: 36pt;" width="48"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">25</span></b></td> <td class="xl85" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none; width: 78pt;" width="104"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Larva</span></b></td> <td class="xl78" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none; width: 39pt;" width="52"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">[Ye N]</span></b></td> </tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;"> <td class="xl78" height="20" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; height: 15pt; text-underline-style: none;">Beech Pigmy</td> <td class="xl83" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; text-underline-style: none;">Stigmella hemargyrella</td> <td class="xl81" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;">10</td> <td class="xl85" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;">Mine (vacated)</td> <td class="xl78" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"></td> </tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;"> <td class="xl86" height="20" style="background-color: #80c9ff; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; height: 15pt; text-underline-style: none;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Beech Midget</span></b></td> <td class="xl87" style="background-color: #80c9ff; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; text-underline-style: none;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Phyllonorycter maestingella</span></b></td> <td class="xl81" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">2</span></b></td> <td class="xl85" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Pupa</span></b></td> <td class="xl78" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">[eY N]</span></b></td> </tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;"> <td class="xl78" height="20" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; height: 15pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Small Magpie</span></td> <td class="xl83" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Anania hortulata</span></td> <td class="xl81" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">1</span></td> <td class="xl85" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Adult</span></td> <td class="xl78" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"></td> </tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;"> <td class="xl78" height="20" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; height: 15pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Nettle-tap</span></td> <td class="xl83" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Anthophila fabriciana</span></td> <td class="xl81" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">5</span></td> <td class="xl85" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Adult</span></td> <td class="xl78" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"></td> </tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;"> <td class="xl78" height="20" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; height: 15pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Yellow-spot Twist</span></td> <td class="xl83" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Pseudargyrotoza conwagana</span></td> <td class="xl81" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">15</span></td> <td class="xl85" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Adult</span></td> <td class="xl78" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"></td> </tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;"> <td class="xl78" height="20" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; height: 15pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Ash Bud Moth</span></td> <td class="xl83" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Prays fraxinella</span></td> <td class="xl81" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">1</span></td> <td class="xl85" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Adult</span></td> <td class="xl78" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">[Y]</span></td> </tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;"> <td class="xl78" height="20" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; height: 15pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Silver-ground Carpet</span></td> <td class="xl83" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Xanthorhoe montanata</span></td> <td class="xl81" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">1</span></td> <td class="xl85" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Adult</span></td> <td class="xl78" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"></td> </tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;"> <td class="xl78" height="20" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; height: 15pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Little Cosmet</span></td> <td class="xl83" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Mompha raschkiella</span></td> <td class="xl81" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">1</span></td> <td class="xl85" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Larva</span></td> <td class="xl78" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"></td> </tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;"> <td class="xl78" height="20" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; height: 15pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Small Phoenix</span></td> <td class="xl83" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Ecliptopera silaceata</span></td> <td class="xl81" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">4</span></td> <td class="xl85" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Larva</span></td> <td class="xl78" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Release</span></td> </tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;"> <td class="xl78" height="20" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; height: 15pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Beautiful Golden Y</span></td> <td class="xl83" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Autographa pulchrina</span></td> <td class="xl81" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">6</span></td> <td class="xl85" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Larva</span></td> <td class="xl78" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Release</span></td> </tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;"> <td class="xl78" height="20" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; height: 15pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Common Marble</span></td> <td class="xl83" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Celypha lacunana</span></td> <td class="xl81" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">1</span></td> <td class="xl85" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Adult</span></td> <td class="xl78" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">[Y]</span></td> </tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;"> <td class="xl78" height="20" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; height: 15pt; text-underline-style: none;">Common Slender</td> <td class="xl83" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; text-underline-style: none;">Gracillaria syringella</td> <td class="xl81" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;">50</td> <td class="xl85" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;">Mine</td> <td class="xl78" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"></td> </tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;"> <td class="xl78" height="20" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; height: 15pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Common Slender</span></td> <td class="xl83" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Gracillaria syringella</span></td> <td class="xl81" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">10</span></td> <td class="xl85" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Larva</span></td> <td class="xl78" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"></td> </tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;"> <td class="xl78" colspan="2" height="20" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; height: 15pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet <i>Zygaena lonicerae</i></span></td> <td class="xl81" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">6</span></td> <td class="xl85" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Adult</span></td> <td class="xl78" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">[Y]</span></td> </tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; mso-height-source: userset;"> <td class="xl78" height="20" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; height: 15pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Straw Grass-veneer</span></td> <td class="xl83" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Agriphila straminella</span></td> <td class="xl81" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">3</span></td> <td class="xl85" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Adult</span></td> <td class="xl78" style="background-color: #bfe4ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none;"><span style="color: #20124d;">[Y]</span></td></tr>
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Butterflies<br />
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<col style="mso-width-alt: 3986; mso-width-source: userset; width: 82pt;" width="109"></col>
<col style="mso-width-alt: 1426; mso-width-source: userset; width: 29pt;" width="39"></col>
<col style="mso-width-alt: 2486; mso-width-source: userset; width: 51pt;" width="68"></col>
<col style="mso-width-alt: 950; mso-width-source: userset; width: 20pt;" width="26"></col>
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<td class="xl79" height="20" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; height: 15pt; text-underline-style: none; width: 101pt;" width="134"><span style="color: #20124d;">Speckled Wood</span></td>
<td class="xl80" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none; width: 82pt;" width="109"></td>
<td class="xl81" style="background-color: #80c9ff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0.5pt solid white; font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 10pt; text-underline-style: none; width: 29pt;" width="39"><span style="color: #20124d;">2</span></td>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Epermenia chaerophyllella </i>larvae on hogweed</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Phyllonorycter maestingella </i>(confirmed by rearing through) pupa in mine on beech</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Speckled Wood butterfly</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Pseudargyrotoza conwagana</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ash Bud Moth, <i>Prays fraxinella</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The kiddies: Small Phoenix and Beautiful Yellow Underwing larvae. I think the red<b> cross</b> mark on the rump of the Small <b>Phoenix</b> is apt - a wee resurrection theme going there!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Celypha lacunana</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Gracillaria syringella</i> larvae, exposed from leaf spinning on ash</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ringlet butterfly</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet, pair in cop</td></tr>
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The reason I had to let the caterpillars go early, of course, was because on 6 July, I was to depart on a tip-top not-so-secret mission to the Swiss Alps, to climb mountains -<b> <i>and stuff!</i></b><br />
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More on that next time, God willing!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spoilers... <b>:)</b></td></tr>
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Sam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-21907413055309029202013-06-30T00:29:00.002+01:002013-07-02T11:50:55.702+01:00Snowed underFor the past month I've had to redirect all my blogging energy to exams.<br />
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So I haven't been able to talk much about these guys...<br />
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Or this guy...<br />
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Or this pair...<br />
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Ah, silly me, back in April - "I think I'll start another blog to go along with the one that I already have trouble keeping up..."<br />
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I took off the Garden Moths and Projects pages until such times as the former strikes me as a good idea again and the latter figures out what the <i>heck</i> to do with itself...<br />
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I'm away to the Swiss Alps soon, after which I'll hopefully have the energy to do the truckload of writing on the truckload of experiences I'll have and uploading the truckload of photos I'll take. So if you don't hear from me again by the end of next week, you probably won't hear from me until the end of July, or later...<br />
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Flip, I gotta compress my life...<br />
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Happy mothing! (And enjoy Wimbledon!)<br />
Sam<br />
Sam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-4606866524695000432013-05-26T16:03:00.001+01:002013-05-26T16:03:12.672+01:00Common Pug<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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This was the only interesting thing in the trap this morning, accompanied by the usual three Housing Association Microlepidoptera and a caddisfly.<br />
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Plus another moth that got away as soon as I lifted the lid. D'oh!<br />
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Trap Report 25-26 May 2013</h3>
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25W Blacklight | @ home garden, Springmartin<br />
11-12°C, B0-1, clear to cloudy</h4>
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<b>Common Pug: 1 [Y]</b><br />
<i>Mompha subbistrigella</i>: 3<br />
<i>Hofmannophila pseudospretella</i>: 1</span></span><br />
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Yesterday I was out and about in Murlough NNR and saw some real goodies. Once I have clarified that my photographic activities in relation to a particular species at the reserve are not infringing legislation, I'll be able to report on that!<br />
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Updates on Projects 36A, 37A and 38A</h3>
None of the three pupae have emerged yet. (The second <i>Lozotaenia</i> is keeping the first one waiting!)Sam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-81391733218788047532013-05-26T12:43:00.000+01:002013-06-29T23:51:00.898+01:00Munching Micropterix<br />
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The <i>Micropterigidae</i> are unique in the world of Lepidoptera in that they have functional jaws! Most other moths can only consume liquids (using their proboscis) but these little guys like to munch pollen - in particular the most common species, <i>Micropterix calthella</i>, dozens of which can be found in early summer occupying buttercup flowers.</div>
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Last year about this time I recorded 45 of these little beauties at Glencairn Park. In similar conditions on Friday, I found just three.</div>
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Another highlight was this <i>Heliozela</i> (of the three <i>Heliozela</i> species probably <i>hammoniella</i>, based on the fact that its foodplant (birch) was closest, although <i>sericiella</i> (oak) can't be ruled out).</div>
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<b>[EDIT 9 Jun:</b> Actually, I wasn't really paying attention to the vegetation at the time. Only after returning to the spot for a third time did I notice the thick canopy of alder leaves above where I saw the moth - over which towers a humungous oak tree. <i>H. hammoniella</i> would be the least likely - it was probably <i>resplendella</i>!<b>]</b></div>
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I found more suspected November/Winter Moth caterpillars, two again on beech (U#269/270) bringing the total to 8, but also a very similar one on hawthorn (U#275) along with a tortrix larva (U#276) on an adjacent leaf. I might go and retrieve the tortrix to rear.</div>
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<b>[EDIT 9 Jun:</b> I'm fairly sure they're Winter Moth! The hawthorn tortrix has now pupated.<b>]</b></div>
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<b>[EDIT 29 Jun: </b>The hawthorn tortrix emerged, revealing itself to be a Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix (<i>Pandemis cerasana</i>)!<b>]</b></div>
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Daytime Report 24 May 2013</h3>
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Flying / on vegetation | @ Glencairn Park J3075, HVC39<br />Updated 9 Jun</h4>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> <i> <span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Pandemis cerasana</b></span></i><span style="color: #20124d;"><b>: 1L</b></span></span><span style="color: #20124d;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">[eY] </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">U#276)</span></div>
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Sam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-50441294991653480742013-05-24T22:56:00.000+01:002013-05-24T22:56:12.899+01:00Hashtagged caterpillars galore<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Out running to get my fitness up last week, I chanced upon quite a few caterpillars, which I have been revisiting on subsequent days.</div>
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Daytime Report 16 May 2013 (early morning)</h3>
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On vegetation / Flying | @ Glencairn Road J3075 / Glencairn Road J2976, HVC39</h4>
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<li>Six small green Geometrid larvae, possibly of two different species (<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">U#269: 5L</span>; <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">U#270: 1L - </span>could be November Moth, Winter Moth or something similar) were munching away in spun Beech leaves, as were two micro-moth larvae (<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">U#271: 1L;</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">U#273: 1L</span>). On blackthorn was another micro (<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">U#272: 1L</span>), and up in the countryside was...</li>
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Daytime Report 22 May 2013 (early morning)</h3>
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On vegetation | @ Glencairn Park J3075, HVC39</h4>
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<li>I refound two of the green Geometrid larvae, which blurred the lines between what I had thought might be two separate species (U#269/270). A new find was a tiny brown Geometrid larva (<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">U#274: 1L</span>) on the same beech, which could possibly be Mottled Umber.</li>
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My use of hashtags to catalogue unidentified records is somewhat different from how Twitter uses them (#myrecordsmyrules) but I know some people may find them just as annoying, so apologies.<br />
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Another update on these caterpillars (and other very cool stuff) to come this weekend (hopefully), then I'm holing up for some intense revision next week...<br />
<br />Sam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-62870129184051788632013-05-24T22:12:00.000+01:002013-05-24T22:12:47.519+01:00Wings like Angles - and a lovely Lozzy<h3>
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Here she is! My Angle Shades moth emerged on Wednesday (22 May), a week and a half earlier than I expected, certainly because I kept the pupa inside for the latter part of its development.<br />
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I released her back in the garden that night.<br />
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(I say "her". I can't actually sex moths so I'm just guessing...)<br />
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I haven't been keeping my Flickr account up to date recently so no links on the photos. Next up...<br />
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Update on Project 36A</h3>
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Yes, the first <i>Lozotaenia forsterana</i> had popped out the same morning. I've kept it back until its companion emerges, then I'll release both of them in the garden. Or see if they'll breed.<br />
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In the 22 degree heat of my room, this one only took 10 days to complete its pupal stage. So as a comparison...<br />
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Update on Project 3B</h3>
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...I collected a 2cm larva from the ivy on the garden wall, and am keeping it outdoors to see how long it pupates for in more normal conditions.<br />
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I found six other larvae on the ivy, with quite a range of sizes. One of them was only about 8mm, so their emergence is going to be quite well-staggered.<br />
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I can't find the Light Brown Apple Moth larva on the apple sapling, just two empty leaf spinnings. Another mystery...</div>
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Final update on Project 29A</h3>
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Yes, that distinctive crescent-moon-with-a-nose at the end of last post could only belong to one moth. My Brimstone Moth emerged as an adult on Monday, just a day after I rescued it from its pill box coffin. A very close shave!</div>
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I released it that night in my garden - 30 miles from its home in Murlough NNR. Releasing isects that far from home isn't best practice but was the best thing to do in the circumstances. I couldn't have got it back there soon enough to justify keeping it temporarily captive, and besides Brimstone Moth is on my garden list so it should hopefully have no trouble finding a mate.</div>
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New for the year were three rather skittish Flame Carpets. It's interesting to compare the wing patterns - they are all slightly different.<br />
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Also a first for the year was this little migrant, the Diamond-back Moth, <i>Plutella xylostella</i>. I am embarrassed to admit, I thought it was a <i>Rhigognostis incarnatella </i>when I saw it at first, a similar but larger and darker species in the same family. The long winter must have left me a bit rusty!<br />
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Looking a bit pink there in the cap of one of my specimen pots...<br />
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Trap Report 19-20 May 2013</h3>
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25W Blacklight | @ home garden, Springmartin J3074 HVC39<br />Cloudy, 11-12°C, B1-2</h4>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> <i>Mompha subbistrigella</i>: 1</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> <i>Endrosis sarcitrella</i>: 1</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b> <i>Plutella xylostella</i>: 1 [Y] [GY]</b></span><br />
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Sam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-47566858920559526262013-05-19T17:11:00.000+01:002013-05-19T17:11:40.133+01:00The mystery hawthorn micro pupates<h3>
Update on Project 37A (mystery hawthorn micro U#266)</h3>
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It's even more of a mystery now...<br />
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Last update, I said the larva was still in old decaying leaves. It's possible that by that time it had already moved on, as I discovered on 16 May that it had eaten some of the fresh leaves and was now in a spinning between a fresh leaf and the bottom of the container, ready to pupate!<br />
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Then, looking closely at it this morning, I realised it had pupated, as the old larval skin was deposited outside the rear end of the cocoon. That was the only clue that it had pupated - I was expecting it to go brown like the mystery hazel micro U#267 (which I think is an <i>Epiblema</i>/<i>Notocelia</i> tortrix) but it just remained pale. The cocoon is also quite different than the tight capsule-like leaf spinning that the hazel micro pupated in. So I'm thinking it's probably not a tortrix.<br />
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Update on Project 38A (mystery hazel tortrix U#267)</h3>
And speaking of the mystery hazel tortrix, I decided to transfer the pupa to a folded piece of damp Kleenex this morning because the leaves really had gone mouldy. And once I'd got started, I realised some of the other pupae could benefit with some damp tissue as well - so in went the leaves bearing the <i>Lozotaenias</i> and the mystery hawthorn pupa too.<br />
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So here are the four jars in which the six pupae of my current rearing projects now reside: two <i>Lozotaenia forsterana</i>, a Brimstone Moth, an Angle Shades (in the jar with soil), and the two mystery micro pupae. Exciting times!<br />
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Sam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-82149794955271430492013-05-19T16:10:00.000+01:002013-05-19T16:14:47.365+01:00It ain't dead!<h3>
Update on Project 29A</h3>
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The Brimstone Moth pupa may not be wiggling, but it's still developing - you can see the change in the pattern on the abdomen and most importantly, the symmetrical markings are showing through the wing cases!<br />
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Thank goodness I took it out of the pill box I'd put it in to have a look at it this morning! I was obviously a bit too hasty in pronouncing it dead. Of course, it makes sense that once the pupa has mostly changed into a moth inside, it won't wiggle like it did when it was mostly a caterpillar inside! Moths don't wiggle their abdomens much!<br />
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I have still to post photos of it as a caterpillar - that will hopefully happen soon!<br />
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<i><span style="color: #666666;"><b>[Edit:</b> The Coxcomb Prominent pupa, however, is definitely gone - when I inspected it this morning I found a crack running down its leg case.<b>]</b></span></i><br />
<br />Sam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-43877729847419621242013-05-18T23:00:00.000+01:002013-05-19T00:44:53.528+01:00A little dwarf<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Another new micro-moth for the garden: <i>Elachista canapennella</i>! It was the only moth in the trap on Friday morning, and thankfully I managed to pot it before it flew off.<br />
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Being so drab and featureless, I thought it would probably be a gen det job but luckily for the moth it turns out it's pretty distinctive and such drastic measures were not required. Bill of <a href="http://billsbirding.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Bill's Birding</a> confirmed the ID on the <a href="http://www.back-garden-moths.co.uk/community/forum.php" target="_blank">Back Garden Moths</a> forum.<br />
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Its modern vernacular name is the "Little Dwarf". I have to admit, I'm warming to some of Porter's names now...<br />
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Number 119 on the garden list and my 16th moth this year! Also got an adult Brown House Moth indoors yesterday - and I had a very productive larval search on Thursday morning which I'll write about when I have time. No new rearing projects - yet - but some nice caterpillars to keep an eye on in the field.<br />
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Trap Report 16-17 May 2013</h3>
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8-7°C, B1, clear</h4>
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<br />Sam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-25431067907664981282013-05-16T01:23:00.001+01:002013-05-19T16:19:11.636+01:00Rearing project updates, mid-MayWith northerly winds bringing the region back to weather more fitting of March, I haven't been putting the light trap out. But it's been very busy on the larval rearing front - I have three new projects to report, updates on the others and, sadly, final bulletins on the Brimstone Moth and Coxcomb Prominent. There's almost too much to talk about!<br />
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Update on Project 3B (Angle Shades)</h3>
Nothing to report except I've moved the jar of soil with the pupa indoors and put a lid on it to keep moisture in.<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">New Project 7D</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><i>Epiphyas postvittana </i>~ Light Brown Apple Moth</span></h4>
This now well-established Aussie immigrant to the UK is breeding in my garden for the fourth time since I started recording, and, for the third time, on one of my apple saplings. I found one larva on the healthier sapling yesterday (14 May). It's a micro-moth, continuously brooded, and feeds on plenty of things other than apple (rosemary, for instance). I will be leaving this one on the plant rather than bringing it indoors.<br />
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This photo is from the first brood of LBAMs I found (Project 7A), in August 2010.<br />
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Final update on Project 29A (Brimstone Moth)</h3>
The pupa has not been moving for quite a while now, so unfortunately it looks like I've lost it. It probably got dessicated when I put it in the shelter and left the lid of the jar off. I'll keep it for a while just in case.<br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #666666;">[Update 19 May: Good thing I did - <a href="http://angleshades.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/it-aint-dead.html" target="_blank">it ain't dead!</a>]</span></i></b><br />
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Final update on Project 31A (Coxcomb Prominent)</h3>
When I put the pupa back in damp conditions the green gunge appeared again, so I'm pretty sure it's gone too. A real shame. <b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">:'(</span></b><br />
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Update on Project 36A (<i>Lozotaenia forsterana</i>)</h3>
Both larvae have now pupated! Typical dark red-brown pupae, but with very fancy moves. When disturbed, rather than giving a short, lazy wiggle like most macro-moth pupae do, they start shaking violently! Obviously that uses up ATP (#biochemistrybant) so disturbance will have to be kept to a minimum. I'll be ensuring the pupae are kept moist and hopefully both will be successful. Pupa #1 (ie. the elder larva which was the first to pupate and the one doing the shaking) measures at 12mm. I won't disturb the other one.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68576255@N02/8741736403/in/photostream" target="_blank">Large Ivy Tortrix #1, 15 May</a></td></tr>
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I also took a video <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68576255@N02/8741737927/in/photostream" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">New Project 36B</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><i>Lozotaenia forsterana </i>~<i> </i>Large Ivy Tortrix</span></h4>
The Large Ivy Tortrix larvae on the ivy on the back wall of my garden are getting on well - I opened two spinnings yesterday and found quite large larvae inside. I didn't originally call this a project when I reported my discovery of the fifteen larvae on 14 April, but for consistency's sake I've decided to make a "Project" out of any larvae I find in the garden.<br />
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Update on Project 37A (Tortrix U#266)</h3>
As I mentioned previously, the hawthorn larva had left its leaf tent and was running around the container. Well, it eventually settled down and bored a hole into the green stem and ate its way out to the youngest leaves. After I opened the spinning up, the larva moved into a loose spinning of larger leaves on the same old, smelly bit of hawthorn - despite a lovely fresh bit being provided!<br />
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Update on Project 38A (Tortrix U#267)</h3>
The hazel larva firmly spun together a leaf and a stipule on 6 May and pupated in that cocoon. Today (15 May) I opened the cocoon very carefully, removing a stipule which formed an end-cap on the cocoon, and tipped the pupa out. It's 5mm long, orange-brown in colour, and was quite determined to wiggle out of my fingers!<br />
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I'm very much looking forward to its emergence, which shouldn't take more than a few weeks.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68576255@N02/8741738261/in/photostream" target="_blank">The cocoon, with stipule end-cap peeled back, 15 May</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68576255@N02/8741738127/in/photostream" target="_blank">The pupa, 15 May</a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #990000;">New Project 39A </span></h3>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Noctuid - Unidentified #268</span></h4>
At the NI Recorders' Day I received a buddleia cutting from our local BC branch secretary which for the past few weeks has been home to a tiny larva. I originally presumed it was a sawfly, as no UK lepidopteran feeds primarily on buddleia. But on closer inspection I'm satified that it's a caterpillar, and probably an <i>Orthosia </i>species like Hebrew Character or Common Quaker, so I'll keep an eye on it. It's currently 8mm long. It's probably better to leave it on the buddleia for the time being, but when it gets a bit bigger I might see what other plants it will accept. It should be a handsome caterpillar anyway when it gets grown.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68576255@N02/8741738339/in/photostream" target="_blank">Rearing up his thorax... "rarrr, I'm big, fear me!" - 10 May</a></td></tr>
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So, with seven projects on the go, I'm a very busy mothman!<br />
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<i><span style="color: #444444;"><b>[Edited</b> to insert dates on photos, <b>19 May]</b></span></i>Sam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-60090066862170637682013-05-08T16:18:00.002+01:002013-05-13T12:06:18.421+01:00Grapholita jungiella<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Grapholita jungiella </i>(Vetch Piercer)</td></tr>
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Some little gems flying at Glencairn Park yesterday...<br />
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Daytime Observation</h3>
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7 May 2013 | @ Glencairn Park & Clarendon Park HVC39 J3075</h4>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> <i style="font-weight: bold;">Grapholita jungiella</i><b>: 3 [Y]</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> <b>Orange-tip: 6 [Y]</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Small White: 1</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Small Tortoiseshell: 2</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orange-tip male (<i>Anthocharis cardamines</i>)</td></tr>
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Sam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-39291111708306666242013-05-06T11:37:00.002+01:002013-05-13T12:03:49.048+01:00Familiar facesThe warmest night so far, but the moths just aren't abounding yet...<br />
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Trap Report 5-6 May 2013 </h3>
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25W Blacklight | @ home garden, Springmartin HVC39 J3074 <br />13-10°C, B1-2, cloud/light rain</h4>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Common Quaker: 1</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> <i>Endrosis sarcitrella</i>: 2</span><br />
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Update on Projects 37A and 38A</h3>
The hazel leaf roller (38A) is now in its third tent. It doesn't appear to be eating very much - maybe there's a very specific tissue it prefers. The hawthorn leaf roller (37A) has eaten a substantial amount of leaf tissue and this morning was "running" around the bottom of its container. It has now settled on a leaf - it could be preparing to moult.Sam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-12267001594997035302013-05-05T12:28:00.003+01:002013-05-19T20:41:43.768+01:00Excitement! (Not)Another good night for the flies but only two moths. First White-shouldered Housemoff of the year, not much to be excited about...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68576255@N02/8709189303/in/photostream/" target="_blank"><i>Endrosis sarcitrella</i> (White-shouldered House-moth)</a></td></tr>
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4-5 May 2013 | 25W Blacklight | @ home garden, Springmartin J3074 HVC39<br />11°C, B2, cloud/light rain</h2>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hebrew Character: 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A reminder: clicking on any of my photos (apart from some on the first few posts) will take you to their Flickr page. </span></div>
Sam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-85050030763649887302013-05-04T15:07:00.000+01:002013-05-13T12:09:17.053+01:00Leaf-rollers from hawthorn and hazelAmong the array of techniques employed by lepidopterists to find moths and their larvae is beating branches with a stick and catching what falls off on a tray. I went a-beating this morning for the first time this year, and with leaves well-on on most of the good moth foodplants, I was hopeful for a find or two in Clarendon Park and Glencairn Park. Using my net as a beating tray (and its detachable handle as a stick), I was able to find two larvae which I've taken home to rear. The likelihood is I'll only be able to find out exactly what they are if I can successfully get them to adulthood. Here goes!<br />
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<h3>Daytime Observation (Beating)</h3><h4>4 May 2013 | @ Clarendon Park & Glencairn Park HVC39 J3075 </h4><br />
<h3>New Project 37A</h3><h4>Unidentified #266</h4>In the woods of Clarendon Park, beside the Forth River, was this little grub on a hawthorn bush.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68576255@N02/8707527042/in/photostream/" target="_blank">Unidentified larva (U#266) on hawthorn</a></td></tr>
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<h3>New Project 38A</h3><h4>Unidentified #267</h4><div>A bigger fellow, knocked from hazel in Glencairn Park.</div><div><br />
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<div>Both larvae are now feeding away at the leaves in their pot, hiding in spinnings in the typical Tortrix way.<br />
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<h3>Update on Project 31A</h3>A few weeks ago, I'd given up hope on my Coxcomb Proninent pupa (which I collected as a larva from Murlough last summer) when I found green discoloration on it, and had left the pupa out in a planter. But after being washed in the rain it's actually still looking pretty healthy, so I put it in the jar of soil with the Brimstone Moth pupa.</div><div><br />
</div>Sam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-29753627623319874812013-05-02T19:09:00.000+01:002013-05-19T00:26:35.149+01:00April's countAt the risk of driving myself round the bend in the following months, I thought it might be nice to review the garden list for the first few months of the year.<br />
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It'll also give me a chance to work on my shockingly bad knowledge of macro-moth taxonomic names...<br />
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Moths recorded in my garden, January 2013 (0)</h2>
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Moths recorded in my garden, February 2013 (1)</h2>
<b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Mompha subbistrigella</i> (Garden Cosmet)</span></b><br />
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Moths recorded in my garden, March 2013 (1)</h2>
<b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Angle Shades (<i>Phlogophora meticulosa</i>) larva</span></b><br />
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Moths recorded in my garden, April 2013 (6)</h2>
<b><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Lozotaenia forsterana</i> (Large Ivy Tortrix) larvae [GB]</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Hofmannophila pseudospretella</i> (Brown House Moth) larva [GB]</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Common Quaker (<i>Orthosia cerasi</i>)<i> </i>[GN]</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hebrew Character (<i>Orthosia gothica</i>)</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Double-striped Pug (<i>Gymnoscelis rufifasciata</i>)</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Caloptilia stigmatella </i>(White-triangle Slender) [GN]</span></b><br />
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Here I go again, fiddling with formatting. I'll never be done doing it!<br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic;">[Update: As an aside, I saw my first </span><b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Small White</span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic;"> of the year in school in beautiful sunshine yesterday, getting some nectar from the flowers of the shrubbery. No camera obviously, so no photos. Yet!]</span>Sam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-44798691850860063262013-05-01T07:14:00.002+01:002013-05-13T11:57:47.576+01:00Best night yet... for flies!<h2>
30 Apr - 1 May 2013 | 25W Blacklight | @ home garden, Springmartin HVC39 J3074<br />
9-6°C, Beaufort 1-3, partly cloudy/light rain</h2>
<span style="color: #20124d;">Double-striped Pug: 1</span><br />
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Scores of flies were attracted to the trap last night. I thought that might be a good sign for the moth count, but as it turns out what's good for flies ain't necessary good for moths!<br />
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I could call it a post-Orthosia drought... but seeing as I've only had a maximum of two Orthosias in the trap, that doesn't seem reasonable!<br />
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Sam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-52722283620431854082013-04-28T10:17:00.000+01:002013-05-13T11:56:38.745+01:00Sticking around...<h2>
<a href="http://static.bbci.co.uk/weather/0.5.221/images/icons/individual_32_icons/en_on_light_bg/12.png" imageanchor="1"><img align="right" alt="Light Rain" height="32" src="http://static.bbci.co.uk/weather/0.5.221/images/icons/individual_32_icons/en_on_light_bg/12.png" /></a>27-28 Apr 2013 | 25W Blacklight | @ home garden, Springmartin HVC39 J3074<br />
8-7°C, Beaufort 2-3</h2>
Another wet night with very few flies arriving but, surprisingly, three moths in the egg boxes:<br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><i>Diurnea fagella</i>: 1♂</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;">Hebrew Character: 2</span><br />
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On close inspection of the scales, I found the <i>Diurnea </i>to be the same individual caught on Tuesday night! It's a small world/garden.<br />
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Sam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-18470196359745653122013-04-28T01:04:00.000+01:002013-05-13T11:57:06.266+01:00Rearing: Angle Shades (Project 3B)The focus of this blog is twofold I suppose: recording moths and rearing moths. I've got off to a good start with the recording side - so now time I think to do my first proper post about one of my current rearing projects.<br />
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I already introduced it in "<a href="http://angleshades.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-story-so-far.html" target="_blank">The story so far</a>" - this is my second Angle Shades caterpillar (<i>Phlogophora meticulosa</i>), which is of course the Moth Of The Blog...<br />
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28 MAR 2013 | ON VEGETATION | AT HOME GARDEN, SPRINGMARTIN HVC39 J3074</h2>
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This is the third Angle Shades caterpillar I've found in my garden - it's a common migrant Noctuid moth. I reared the first one I found (in 2010, on the exact same plant), and I'm doing the same with this one. At the minute it's under a half-eaten rose leaf in a cottage cheese carton on my bedroom windowsill, in the process of moulting its skin. That'll bring it to its penultimate or maybe third-last instar.</blockquote>
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Update on Project 3B</h2>
I took the caterpillar indoors the following day, by which time it had moved up the plant to a spray of leaves precariously flapping in the breeze:<br />
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On the windowsill in its cottage cheese carton, it grew and ate quite quickly, as caterpillars do...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Indoors, 29 March</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1 April</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2 April</td></tr>
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Just over a week later, it moulted onto its final instar (jargon buster: caterpillars periodically moult their skin; the periods between moults are the instars)...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moulted head case, 5 April</td></tr>
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It took me a while to remember my tactic with the previous Angle Shades caterpillar (Rosebud, the blog icon) of feeding it elder leaves, to spare mum's roses...!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nearly full grown, 9 April</td></tr>
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On 14 April I found it, with its velvety patterned complexion changed to a plain shiny yellow-green, spinning a loose cocoon of silk and chewed-up leaves in the bottom of the container. Angle Shades number one had done this and pupated and emerged successfully, but I suspected that, like other Noctuid caterpillars, it would much rather prefer some soil.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turning yellowish as it prepares to pupate, 14 April</td></tr>
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So I provided some, and it dove right in!<br />
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And that's the last I saw of it. I moved the jar outside to give it normal conditions for pupation.<br />
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Based on how long it took Rosebud to go from spinning its cocoon to emergence (49 days) I'm predicting Angie will emerge around 2 June. So until then, I just have to keep the soil moist and wait.</div>
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And wait for the Brimstone pupa to emerge. And take care of James's two Lozotaenias. I got some good photos of the older Lozzy today - and a video clip - but that's another post for another day!</div>
Sam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-11655353159251091772013-04-24T07:18:00.002+01:002013-05-13T11:56:20.671+01:00Coun't 'em - one... two...<h2>
23-24 Apr 2013 | 25W Blacklight | @ home garden HVC39 J3074<br />
11°C, Beaufort 1-3 <a href="http://static.bbci.co.uk/weather/0.5.221/images/icons/individual_32_icons/en_on_light_bg/7.png" imageanchor="1"><img alt="White Cloud" border="0" height="20" src="http://static.bbci.co.uk/weather/0.5.221/images/icons/individual_32_icons/en_on_light_bg/7.png" width="20" /></a><a href="http://static.bbci.co.uk/weather/0.5.221/images/icons/individual_32_icons/en_on_light_bg/15.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="20" src="http://static.bbci.co.uk/weather/0.5.221/images/icons/individual_32_icons/en_on_light_bg/15.png" /></a><a href="http://static.bbci.co.uk/weather/0.5.221/images/icons/individual_32_icons/en_on_light_bg/12.png" imageanchor="1"><img alt="Light Rain" height="20" src="http://static.bbci.co.uk/weather/0.5.221/images/icons/individual_32_icons/en_on_light_bg/12.png" /></a> </h2>
Thrilled to find not just one but three moths in the trap after a wet but mild night - all new for the year!<br />
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<b><span style="color: #20124d;"><i>Diurnea fagella</i>: 1 male [Y] [GY]</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #20124d;">Double-striped Pug: 1 [Y] [GY]</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #274e13;"><i>Caloptilia stigmetella</i>: 1 [Y] [n] [GY] [GN]</span></b><br />
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<i>Caloptilia stigmatella</i> bears the relatively unoffensive vernacular name "White-triangle Slender" in Jim Porter's 2002 paper. You'll hear a lot of micro-moffers grumbling about that piece of work (in which all British micro-moths which previously had no common names were landed with names with all of the character of Crayola crayon colours). I'm currently trying to get to the bottom of Whodunnit, so if anyone reading this is any the wiser on that subject I'd love to hear from you! Rant over.<br />
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</i> <i>C. stigmatella </i>is one I recorded as a larva last year (in a leaf fold on sallow) but not as an adult and not in the garden, which means it's number 118 on the garden list!<br />
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(By the way... <i>Caloptilias </i>are one of many moth groups which can be difficult to identify. Please don't hesitate to correct me if youthink I've got an ID wrong on this blog - <b>I don't mind</b>!)<br />
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With temperatures still up at 11°C by morning, the two micros were a bit jumpy. I immediately went in to photograph the <i>Caloptilia</i> and I'm thanking Heaven I managed to get the above photo of it before it lifted off and disappeared into thin air! First lesson of the year learned - I immediately potted the <i>Diurnea</i> to photograph later.<br />
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And when I have photographed the other two, I'll update this post.<br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #666666;">[Update:]</span></b></i><br />
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Sam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-31394647371166890912013-04-21T00:10:00.000+01:002013-05-13T11:55:55.004+01:00Butterflies and other Characters<h2>
19-20 Apr 2013 | 25W Blacklight Heath Trap | @ home garden, Springmartin HVC39 J3074 <br />8-5°C, Beaufort 1, clear with FQ moon</h2>
Resting in a very dewy moth trap this morning was a sleepy...<br />
<b><span style="color: #20124d;">Hebrew Character: 1 [Y] [GY]</span></b><br />
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20 Apr 2013 | Daytime observation | Glencairn Park, Belfast HVC39 J3075</h2>
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My first butterfly of the year was quite a surprise!</div>
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<b><span style="color: #20124d;">Peacock: 1 [Y]</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #20124d;">Small Tortoiseshell: 1 [Y]</span></b></div>
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You can read more about my butterflying afternoon at Glencairn Park on <a href="http://millar153.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/and-the-first-butterfly-of-year-is/" target="_blank">The Caterpillar</a>.<br />
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Sam • StarshipSN18http://www.blogger.com/profile/14329973363731983414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5643290895406969433.post-18182665643310977892013-04-16T17:07:00.000+01:002013-05-19T20:42:08.813+01:00The first visitor at the trapAs you can see in the details below, it was a wet and windy night on Sunday. But with temperatures far higher than they've been the moth trap got its first patron of the year!<br />
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14-15 Apr 2013 | 25W Blacklight Heath Trap | AT HOME GARDEN, SPRINGMARTIN HVC39 J3074 | 11-9°C, Beaufort 4-3, rainy</h2>
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<b><span style="color: #274e13;">Common Quaker: 1 (N) (Y) (GN) (GY)</span></b><br />
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The Common Quaker is one of the commonest spring moths, but not one I'd seen before. A great sight to see after a long winter!<br />
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Another record came in on Monday evening (14 Apr) with the discovery of a <b><span style="color: #20124d;">Brown House-moth (<i>Hofmannophila pseudospretella</i>) larva (Ye) (GYe) (GB)</span></b> on my wall. I've seen plenty of adults, but never the larva. And what an extraordinary creature it is - just look at the internal details you can see through its translucent skin! Hopefully it hadn't been getting fat on anything important...<br />
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