 Poplar Hawk Moth (2) |
 Elephant Hawk Moth (1) |
Nature Notes from Argyll
(and occasionally other places)
Wed 15 Jun 2011
At last some weather suitable for moth trapping. I ran two traps overnight, a 125w Skinner mercury vapout trap, and a 15w Actinic trap, in the garden of Small Paws Cattery in Seil. Here is the catch. Thanks to Mark Cubitt and Roy Leverton for helping to determine some of these, and thanks to Pat Blunsden for allowing me to run the traps in her garden.
The numbers of each species caught are in brackets.
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Poplar Hawk Moth (2) |
Elephant Hawk Moth (1) |
 Buff Ermine (5) |
 White Ermine (3) |
 Map-winged Swift (1) |
 Flame Shoulder (3) |
 The Campion (1) |
 The Lychnis (1) |
 The Shears (4) |
 Brown Rustic (3) |
 Clouded-bordered Brindle (4) |
 Dusky Brocade (2) |
 Rustic Shoulder-knot (3) |
 Small Square-spot (1) |
 The Flame (1) |
 The Spectacle (1) |
 Bright-line Brown-eye (1) |
 Grey Pug (1) |
 Garden Pebble (1) |
 Silver-ground Carpet (1) |
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