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I ran my first garden moth trap last night. We managed to Id about 23 species - just a couple of tricky micros to go.

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grey dagger

Nice pictures, how are you getting on with the micro's
Is this the first trap you have ever run or just in your garden?

will be sending micro photos to county recorder
just the first trap in my garden. I suppose I have done about 30 sessions but have only recently started to learn the moths more seriously

Here is the full list (without the unknowns)[/u]. We also had an interesting spider which looked like an ant-mimic. I will get an ID for that too.

Bee Moth Aphomia sociella
Bright-line Brown-eye Lacanobia oleracea
Brimstone Moth Opisthograptis luteolata
Buff Arches Habrosyne pyritoides
Common Emerald Hemithea aestivaria
Common Rustic Mesapamea secalis
Cypress Carpet Thera cupressata
Dark Arches Apamea monoglypha
The Fan-foot Herminia tarsipennalis
A grass moth Chrysoteuchia culmella?
Grey Dagger Acronicta psi
Heart-and-Club Agrotis clavis
Heart-and-Dart Agrotis exclamationis
Large Elephant Hawk-moth Deilephila elpenor
Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba
Lesser Yellow Underwing Noctua comes
Light Arches Apamea lithoxylaea
Peppered Moth Biston betularia
Silver Y Autographa gamma
Small Blood Vein Scopula imitaria
The Uncertain Hoplodrina alsines
Willow Beauty Peribatodes rhomboidaria

Some nice moths in the list, i really like the emralds.
I run a trap nearly every other night, i am up to about 110 species since the end of March.
If you don't get anywhere with your micros, you can send me the photos and i wil see what i can come up with for you.
Is Robin Howard, who lives in France, still the county recorder for Cornwall?

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Hi Andy

I am on the Hants Dorset border so don't know. Happy to put photos on here but my friend has to send me one of them - I think they are quite common
Best wishes

SCR

For some reason i thought you were in Cornwall,
Anyway the moth is Phlyctaenia coronata the larve feed on Elder.

great thanks

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here is the other one

It looks a little bit worn, but it looks like it may be Teleiodes vulgella, in the family of Gelechiidae.
It will be interesting to see what others come up with.

thanks Andy certainly looks likely

I had another session on Saturday - this time on the undercliff. I will put on the list soon but here are the micros. Any help with ID welcome:
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moth 1

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moth 2

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moth 3

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moth 4

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moth 5

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moth 6

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moth 7

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moth 8

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moth 9

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moth 10

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moth 11

phew there were a lot of moths that night
including the black (carbonaria) form of the peppered moth

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