Thursday 6 March 2014

Oak Beauty and 2 others

I had 3 moths in my garden trap last night here in Cookham. The first was an Oak Beauty which I hadn't seen before (I am fairly new to mothing).

The second I am fairly confident was a Clouded Drab.

The third one I found a bit more tricky, but eventually decided it was a Chestnut. I would be grateful for a second opinion.

They are all common species, but when you are new to mothing all catches are exciting!
Steve Trigg.

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  1. Hi Steve, all three of those IDs are indeed correct. My garden up here in mid-Bucks has managed around a dozen moths of five species over each of the past three nights, including Agonopterix ocellana which I haven't seen mentioned anywhere yet, but the species count should improve quite quickly now that we've had some decent weather. For good numbers woodland is still best at the moment. I ran a Skinner MV in some local oak woodland last night and in three hours got 289 moths of 18 species (including Shoulder Stripe, Oak Beauty, Engrailed, Small Quaker & Grey Shoulder-knot which were new for me for this year).

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    1. Hi Dave, many thanks for confirming my IDs. That is a very impressive number of moths already flying in your local woodland!

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