On Thursday 24th August Night Mike Ridge and I joined by Pat Owen and David Ayling tried once again to do sites near Dunkery Beacon on Exmoor. We had got rained off from the previous Friday and pat said that they had had Torrential rain on the Wednesday night. However we did a recce and found two good sites for Mike and I. It was a very slow night and by 11pm Mike had packed up with less than twenty species. I had my sheet a robo trap and four actinc traps but fared little better, But the last trap had a surprise in store. In all the total so far is 31 species with a pug and a brown job to do. My thanks to them all for their help and Pat found the anomalous first.
- 969 Pandemis corylana Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix 1
- 1260 Cydia splendana 2
- 1288 Alucita hexadactyla Twenty-plume Moth 1
- 1305 Agriphila tristella 7
- 1344 Eudonia mercurella 14
- 1648 Drepana falcataria Pebble Hook-tip 1
- 1722 Xanthorhoe designata Flame Carpet 2
- 1724 Xanthorhoe spadicearia Red Twin-spot Carpet 1
- 1751 Lampropteryx otregiata Devon Carpet 3
- 1755 Eulithis testata Chevron 12
- 1759 Ecliptopera silaceata Small Phoenix 3
- 1762 Chloroclysta citrata Dark Marbled Carpet 1
- 1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 6
- 1774 Colostygia olivata Beech-green Carpet 2
- 1776 Colostygia pectinataria Green Carpet 1
- 1777 Hydriomena furcata July Highflyer 2
- 1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 9
- 1913 Ennomos alniaria Canary-shouldered Thorn 1
- 1917 Selenia dentaria Early Thorn 3
- 2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 9
- 2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 1
- 2117 Eugnorisma glareosa edda Autumnal Rustic 1
- 2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 1
- 2269 Atethmia centrago Centre-barred Sallow 7
- 2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 1
- 2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 1
- 2394 Stilbia anomala Anomalous 3
- 2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 2
The autumnal rustic was the last to be found in the last trap