My wife, Michelle, and I at the Pyramids, Giza. The development to the left on the skyline is the new open air museum: everything is being moved from the Cairo Egyptian Musuem here soon.
So, suffering withdrawal symptoms from mothing, I put the Robinson out last night. It was clear and breezy but warm (16°C at midnight - a little cooler that the night-time 30°C I'd just been used to) giving 62 species. A fair list with highlights of Maiden's Blush, Dog's Tooth and Bulrush Wainscot. Good to see the second generation Prominents out too. Also worth mentioning is that 2 of the 14 Dingy Footman in the trap were the 'pale' form ab. stramineola. This is a recurrent variety that you occasionally see amongst the normal forms.
Maiden's Blush
Pale form of the Dingy Footman
Oops! I decided to try out a little voice recorder for the first time today - and recorded the entire trap contents. All went well until I accidentally erased it just prior to writing anything down! I thought I was tidying up some test recordings but actually deleted the bit I needed. So, the following is entirely from memory (plus 20 or so moths potted up at the time). Lesson learnt.
Full trap list (see above):
- 0642 Batia unitella 1
- 0695 Agonopterix alstromeriana 1
- 0998 Light Brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana 1
- 1076 Celypha lacunana 1
- 1293 Garden Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia culmella 1
- 1304 Agriphila straminella 2
- 1305 Agriphila tristella 10
- 1358 Evergestis pallidata 1
- 1376 Small Magpie Eurrhypara hortulata 1
- 1395 Rusty-dot Pearl Udea ferrugalis 1
- 1398 Rush Veneer Nomophila noctuella 10
- 1405 Mother of Pearl Pleuroptya ruralis 10
- 1470 Euzophera pinguis 5
- 1648 Pebble Hook-tip Drepana falcataria 1
- 1680 Maiden's Blush Cyclophora punctaria 2
- 1713 Riband Wave Idaea aversata 2
- 1713 Riband Wave [non-banded form] Idaea aversata ab. remutata 5
- 1724 Red Twin-spot Carpet Xanthorhoe spadicearia 1
- 1728 Garden Carpet Xanthorhoe fluctuata 1
- 1738 Common Carpet Epirrhoe alternata 1
- 1752 Purple Bar Cosmorhoe ocellata 1
- 1825 Lime-speck Pug Eupithecia centaureata 1
- 1853 Oak-tree Pug Eupithecia dodoneata 1
- 1884 Magpie Moth Abraxas grossulariata 1
- 1906 Brimstone Moth Opisthograptis luteolata 1
- 1913 Canary-shouldered Thorn Ennomos alniaria 1
- 1917 Early Thorn Selenia dentaria 1
- 1921 Scalloped Oak Crocallis elinguaria 2
- 1937 Willow Beauty Peribatodes rhomboidaria 5
- 2000 Iron Prominent Notodonta dromedarius 1
- 2007 Swallow Prominent Pheosia tremula 2
- 2008 Coxcomb Prominent Ptilodon capucina 1
- 2030 Yellow-tail Euproctis similis 1
- 2044 Dingy Footman Eilema griseola 12
- 2044 Dingy Footman [pale form] Eilema griseola ab. stramineola 2
- 2049 Buff Footman Eilema depressa 1
- 2050 Common Footman Eilema lurideola 5
- 2064 Ruby Tiger Phragmatobia fuliginosa 1
- 2077 Short-cloaked Moth Nola cucullatella 1
- 2089 Heart and Dart Agrotis exclamationis 1
- 2092 Shuttle-shaped Dart Agrotis puta 1
- 2098 Flame Axylia putris 1
- 2102 Flame Shoulder Ochropleura plecta 5
- 2107 Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba 4
- 2109 Lesser Yellow Underwing Noctua comes 2
- 2110 Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing Noctua fimbriata 1
- 2111 Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing Noctua janthe 1
- 2126 Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum 1
- 2134 Square-spot Rustic Xestia xanthographa 1
- 2145 Nutmeg Discestra trifolii 1
- 2159 Dog's Tooth Lacanobia suasa 1
- 2198 Smoky Wainscot Mythimna impura 1
- 2289 Knot Grass Acronicta rumicis 1
- 2295 Marbled Green Cryphia muralis 1
- 2321 Dark Arches Apamea monoglypha 5
- 2343x Common Rustic agg. Mesapamea secalis agg. 50
- 2369 Bulrush Wainscot Nonagria typhae 1
- 2382 Rustic Hoplodrina blanda 1 (need confirmation)
- 2441 Silver Y Autographa gamma 3
- 2450 Spectacle Abrostola tripartita 4
- 2469 Herald Scoliopteryx libatrix 1
- 2474 Straw Dot Rivula sericealis 4
190 moths of 61 Species.