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PLYMOUTH MOTHS IN MAY |
We have recently set up a moth trap in our garden in Plymouth. This is what we have found in May.
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2008 | May 2nd |
Garden Carpet Xanthorhoe fluctuata |
This is a Least Black Arches Nola Confusalis 2078
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Three Common Quakers
Orthosia cerasi 2187 but none of them matching. This one is quite worn. |
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Whilst this one has scales missing on the thorax. | |
This one was quite a different shade of brown. Even when they were together it was difficult to recognise that they were the same species. | |
2008 | May 3rd |
Common Pug |
2008 | May 5th |
Spruce Carpet |
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Common marbled Carpet. | |
A couple of Common Quakers
Orthosia cerasi 2187 |
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Tachystola Acroxantha 656 | |
and again | |
Rusty Dot Pearl | |
Shuttle Shaped Dart | |
Shuttle Shaped Dart | |
2008 | May10th |
6 Brimstone Moths | |
Hebrew Character Orthosia gothica |
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The Spectacle | |
The Spectacle | |
Light Brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana 998 |
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Light Brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana 998 |
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Light Brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana 998 |
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Possibly a Double Striped Pug | |
Currant Pug Epithecia Assimilata | |
Ruby Tiger Phragmatobia fuliginosa 2064 | |
Garden Carpet Xanthorhoe fluctuata |
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probably Grey Pine Carpet rather than Spruce Carpet but really too worn to be identified with certainty | |
Pale Tussock Calliteara pudibunda 2028 | |
Tachystola Acroxantha 656 | |
Waved Umber Menophra abruptaria 1936 | |
V Pug Chloroclystis v-ata | |
Red Green Carpet | |
2008 | May 12th |
Pale Tussock Calliteara pudibunda 2028 | |
Garden Carpet Xanthorhoe fluctuata |
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Waved Umber Menophra abruptaria 1936 |
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Orange Footman | |
Common Quaker
Orthosia cerasi 2187 |
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Flame Shoulder | |
Pale Tussock Calliteara pudibunda 2028 | |
Pale Tussock Calliteara pudibunda 2028 | |
Flame Shoulder | |
Flame Shoulder | |
Shuttle Shaped Dart | |
2008 | May 19th |
Common Marbled Carpet | |
Flame Shoulder | |
Flame Shoulder | |
2008 | May 29th |
We hadn't put the trap out because of the weather. But these came into the house, attracted by a blue tinted lightbulb in one of the rooms . Tachystola Acroxantha 656 |
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Buff Ermine Spilosoma luteum 2061 | |
2009 | May 2nd |
Garden Carpet Xanthorhoe fluctuata This one was much lighter than last year's species. |
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Hebrew Character Orthosia gothica
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Common Quaker
Orthosia cerasi |
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