QUODITCH EDUCATION DEVON

  
QUODITCH MOOR NATURE RESERVE

PLYMOUTH

MOTHS IN APRIL

We have recently set up a moth trap in our garden in Plymouth.

Here are some of our results. Not all have yet been named. We're getting there, but, at the moment, many of them look much the same to us. This is what we found in April.

2008 April 23rd

This is a Brimstone Moth Opisthograptis luteolata

(1906) .

We had about half a dozen of these over a couple of evenings. We have also seen these at Quoditch.

 

2008

 April 26th

This is a Light Brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana

998

This is a Common Quaker

Orthosia cerasi

2187

2009

 April 30th

Angle Shades

Phlogophora meticulosa

2306

 

 

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Page last updated 2nd May 2009

REFERENCES

TOWNSEND, M and WARING, P.(2007) - Concise Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and ireland, British Wildlife Publishing, Gillingham

Mc CORMICK, R (2001) - The Moths of Devon, McCormick, Buckfastleigh.

HOFMANN, H and MARK TANNER,T. () - Butterflies and Moths of Britain and Europe, Harper Collins, London .

BROOKS MARGARET, (1991) - A Complete Guide to British Moths, Jonathan Cape, London

LYNEBORG, L (1976) - Moths in Colour - Blandford Press, Poole.

PORTER, Jim (1997) - The Colour Identification guide to Caterpillars of the British Isles,Viking, London.

BACK GARDEN MOTHS - http://www.back-garden-moths.co.uk/index.php

UK MOTHS - http://ukmoths.org.uk/. Our thanks to Ian Kimber for permission to link to his excellent and extensive site.

SOMERSET MOTH GROUP - http://www.somersetmothgroup.org.uk/portal

 

Our thanks also to our friend John Randall who helps us so much with identification and has taken such an encouraging interest in Quoditch.

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