We went to Yorkshire for a week. I took two Heath traps with me and trapped in the two gardens that I used in October 2021. The first night the garden in the village did well with NFM Shuttle-shaped Dart and Light Brown Apple Moth, which I don't think I've seen previously. Brown-spot Pinion were in both gardens and also new I think. Earlier in the day a leaf mine in a cherry (Prunus), in the garden up the hill, was from a Stigmella species I thought, feasibly, S.oxyacanthella. And a small brown job eventually turned out to be Beaded Chestnut. So a good do!
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Beaded Chestnut.
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Brown-spot Pinion
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Cherry leaf, upper.
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Cherry leaf, under, mine maybe from Stigmella oxyacanthella, re-identified, thanks CC, as Lyonetia clerkella.
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Light Brown Apple Moth, Epiphyas postvittana.
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Shuttle-shaped Dart.
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Other species seen or captured included: (up the hill) Red Admiral, Nettle-tap, Silver Y, Setaceous Hebrew Character, Blastobasis adustella, Large Yellow Underwing, Lesser Yellow Underwing, Dark Arches, Large Wainscot and Common Marbled Carpet; (in the village) Green-brindled Crescent, Yellow-line Quaker, Red-green Carpet, Autumnal Rustic, Diamond-backed Moth, Common Wainscot, Blastobasis lacticolella, LYU, DA.
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Common Wainscot - upperside of hind wing examined and was pale.
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Brindled Green Crescent.
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(Red-green Carpet) or maybe Autumn Green Carpet - thanks SS. Unfortunately I didn't photograph the hind underwing. I did photograph Red-green Carpet on another date, to be added.
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Silver Y
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Yellow-line Quaker.
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The next night it rained a lot, late on. I brought the moor side trap in very early, and the village trap a few hours later. The moor side trap produced a very nice Least Yellow Underwing, Noctua interjecta. I took a specimen of this as the ID required good views of the upper side of the hind wing.
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Female genitalia
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Wings, uppers, fore (top), hind (below). The hind wing confirms the ID. Fore wing length14.4mm.
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Pretty chuffed with this, a decent record and NFM.
However, more good stuff to come as when I brought the village Heath in there were some moths in the mouth of the trap and on the wall, nearby.
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Canary-shouldered Thorn, male, very nice, it was in the mouth of the trap.
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And, there were three Copper Underwing agg on the nearby wall. One escaped but I captured two rather worn ones. A bit of a tricky determination these, especially as I'd not seen one before. I took the specimens and brought them back home for some dissection.
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Head to show labial palps, which were pale below.
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I broke the aedegus whilst opening it and the top lot of spine-like cornuti should actually be under the lower set, anyway, there are just 11 or so of them and not 30 so that makes this moth A. pyramidea, Copper Underwing
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Male genitalia with the aedegus in place.
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The uncus is the top bit that is hanging down, this is a lateral view.
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So this all adds up to this one being Amphipyra pyramidea, Copper Underwing, as opposed to A. berbera, Svensson's Copper Underwing. Again, good result.
The second moth was a female, on this one the wing colour was a bit more helpful, handy as I wasn't gentle enough with the genitalia dissection and distorted the crucial bits.
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Fore wing.
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Copper Underwing.
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Also in the trap A Yellow-line Quaker, two LYUs and a Common Marbled Carpet.
I didn't trap the following night but on the night of the 20th the moor side trap produced, Red-green Carpet, Yellow-lined Quaker, 3; a Canary-shouldered Thorn, Spruce Carpet, Common Marbled Carpet, and a Feathered Thorn, plus another Copper Underwing, another male.
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Despite the wings being inconclusive, the other factors allowed identification as A. pyramidea.
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Canary-shouldered Thorn
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Spruce Carpet.
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Feathered Thorn
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Yellow-line Quaker
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