The night at Stockhill was windy and going cold. Could not get in the car park due to the low barrier and my top box on the 4X4. Just as well because there were many folk and new age travellors(Being politic there) and It looked a bit vunerable. But it was a Forestry Commission site so with my trusty key we gained access. Mike Ridge, Robin Clatworthy and I trapped at various points in this conifer woodland with some heathy scrub. Well the wind got worse and it got colder and when it started to rain at 11pm I had had enough so had my chums. Collectively though we did amazingly well. We managed to get to 41 species and its a pity Mike did not take a full tally of his footman or should I say footmen but well I did. I caught some very odd looking Common Rustics which I will dissect at leisure which I will report on later
Just a couple of the hundreds we saw that night
- Code Taxon Vernacular Quantity
- 15 Hepialus sylvina Orange Swift 1
- 969 Pandemis corylana Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix 1
- 1304 Agriphila straminella 3
- 1313 Catoptria pinella 1
- 1334 Scoparia ambigualis 2
- 1344 Eudonia mercurella 12
- 1388 Udea lutealis 1
- 1640 Euthrix potatoria Drinker 3
- 1647 Watsonalla cultraria Barred Hook-tip 1
- 1665 Pseudoterpna pruinata Grass Emerald 2
- 1702 Idaea biselata Small Fan-footed Wave 2
- 1708 Idaea dimidiata Single-dotted Wave 1
- 1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 3
- 1724 Xanthorhoe spadicearia Red Twin-spot Carpet 6
- 1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 2
- 1732 Scotopteryx chenopodiata Shaded Broad-bar 1
- 1738 Epirrhoe alternata Common Carpet 3
- 1759 Ecliptopera silaceata Small Phoenix 8
- 1762 Chloroclysta citrata Dark Marbled Carpet 1
- 1769 Thera britannica Spruce Carpet 1
- 1776 Colostygia pectinataria Green Carpet 2
- 1784 Melanthia procellata Pretty Chalk Carpet 1
- 1830 Eupithecia absinthiata Wormwood Pug 1
- 1856 Eupithecia lariciata Larch Pug 9
- 1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 3
- 1940 Deileptenia ribeata Satin Beauty 1
- 1956 Cabera exanthemata Common Wave 1
- 2008 Ptilodon capucina Coxcomb Prominent 1
- 2033 Lymantria monacha Black Arches 4
- 2044 Eilema griseola Dingy Footman 238
- 2049 Eilema depressa Buff Footman 86
- 2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 5
- 2064 Phragmatobia fuliginosa Ruby Tiger 1
- 2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 8
- 2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 39
- 2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 6
- 2176 Cerapteryx graminis Antler Moth 1
- 2318 Cosmia trapezina Dun-bar 1
- 2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 1
- 2343x Mesapamea secalis agg. Common Rustic agg. 13
- 2489 Zanclognatha tarsipennalis Fan-foot 1