Micro magic

Had a session last night with my spare trap at my son's in Dyserth and managed to catch a new moth for me, ypsolopha sequella, quite a smart micro and apparently only the eighth record for Denbighshire.

ypsolopha sequella Also trapped a beaded chestnut at Dyserth, a paler one than 2 more richer coloured ones I had at home the previous night.

Autumnal Moths in Cemaes

 Pearly Underwing

 Pearly Underwing and Feathered Ranunculus

 Feathered Ranunculus

 Burnished Brass

 Dusky Thorn

 Frosted Orange

 Lunar Underwing

 Common Marbled Carpet

 Marbled Carpet sp. 1

Marbled Carpet sp. 2

Above is a selection of moths I caught last night. Is Pearly Underwing a common immigrant in North Wales? Also any tips on separating Marbled Carpets would be good :-)

Orange appeal

Nice frosted orange trapped at R&R's in Colwyn Bay overnight while back home had my first lunar underwing of the autumn and 5 feathered ranunculus.

Frosted orange

More micros

Several new micros caught over the last couple of days, the first 2 at R&R's in Colwyn Bay and the last in Penrhyn Bay. The Bay ones were carcina quercana and acleris sparsana while back home I had either acleris laterana or the strawberry tort acleris comariana which can only be reliably sperarated by gen dis, although on size I would go for the former. Another trapping session produced one more new record for Conwy RSPB with setaceous hebrew character.

Acleris sparsana

carcina quercana

acleris laterana/comariana

Few more new records

New records keep coming for the site at R&R's in Colwyn Bay with several more added in the last couple of days including feathered gothic (a male) which is a moth I'd not seen before and is the first record for the north west corner of Denbighshire with most seen on the eastern side of VC50. Also centre-barred sallow and a chevron were other new records.

feathered gothic

centre barred sallow

chevron

Recent Moths, Mynydd Bodafon, Anglesey

There are still plenty of moths around up on the mountain. Amongst all the underwings and rustics, I have caught my first Feathered Gothic and Buff Footman recently. Last night amongst about 250 moths were two local scarcities, both of which I have one previous record, Crescent and Haworth's Minor. Both have a preference for wet boggy areas, which are abundant around here! Also three Canary-shouldered Thorn last night.

Crescent



Haworth's Minor

Couple more

Small square spot was new for the year last night while also had second generation pebble prominent.

small square spot

pebble prominent