posted 13 Nov 2011 00:53 by County Moth Recorder
Anyone with an interest in Plume Moths in Britain will find this new book by Colin Hart to be the answer to resolving the identification problems beset by the group. The book also covers in full detail the biology, phenology and distribution, with plates of specimens four times their normal size, although the reader is encouraged to use the key first.
Colin is well known to the Scottish Moth Group by resolving many photographic and other queries for us.
It can be purchased from Malthouse Books by emailing admin@malthousebooks.co.uk at a cost of £24 plus p+p.
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posted 3 Oct 2011 05:44 by County Moth Recorder
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| Anna White caught a migrant Crambidae from the tropics, 1404 Spoladea recurvalis on 1st October 2011 at Milton (VC73). The first for Britain was caught in Surrey on 5th September 1951, with the UK Moths web site stating a dozen occurrences in Britain by this date. The East of Scotland web site has one record for Scotland, which was found on 30th October 2009 in Ayrshire. There have also been a number of reports of migration with Vestal's
and Silver Y's being seen. The second new migrant Crambidae for the week was also caught at Milton by Anna on the 4th October 2011, namely, 1403 Diasemiopsis ramburialis, which is also a second for Scotland as with the first moth. The first was found at Aberfoyle, Perthshire, in 1987. |
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posted 19 Sep 2011 06:33 by County Moth Recorder
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Dumfries & Galloway (VCs72-74) have now registered their digital photo archive with the East of Scotland Butterfly Conservation web site at http://www.eastscotland-butterflies.org.uk/ and by clicking on Moth records and Voucher Archive on the left you will see the photos under VC072, VC073, VC074.
This has been set up for everlasting proof that species occur here and will be helpful for succeeding CMRs. This site is purely for Scottish entomolgy and also assists the keeping of the Scottish Macro and Micro Lists, currently attended to by Roy Leverton and Mark Young respectively.
If you have a worthwhile photo to add, send it to the CMR, preferably renamed in the convention requested by the site, otherwise the CMR has to do it, as for example: 1987 Bedstraw_Hawk-moth Kelhead_Quarry 73 06Aug2010 KNaylor
If sending photos to be identified it is still important to state the site and date of the record so that they can have their full details added to the photo if necessary.
When sending in moth records for inclusion in the database it would also help to see Photo in the Comment field. |
posted 19 Aug 2011 05:05 by County Moth Recorder
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During mid-August 2011 0465 Plutella porrectella was caught at Dornockbrow, which is a new addition to Dumfriesshire. The only other record came from Wood of Cree in 2005. Dornockbrow also hosted the first 1193 Eucosma tripoliana, caught on 9th July 2011. |
posted 16 Aug 2011 04:57 by County Moth Recorder
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From the five traps set on Saturday 13th August 2011 another first for Dumfriesshire (VC72) came in the form of 0121 Pseudopostega crepusculella, a tiny member of the Opostegidae, with a wingspan between 7-10 mm. There are three previous records in Kirkcudbrightshire from Parton Waid, Auchencairn and Carsfad near Dalry. |
posted 12 Aug 2011 12:14 by County Moth Recorder
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The Bugs in Garden project held at the Logan Botanical Gardens on 12 August 2011 produced some interesting moths from the Robinson MV and two Heath traps set the previous night. Carcina quercana, a nicely coloured member of the Oecophopridae, was a first for Wigtownshire (VC74). There were three species recorded for the second time ever in VC74, Agonopterix ocellana, Acleris aspersana and Acleris rhombana. One plume moth was trapped, Amblyptilia acanthadactyla, which was the third ever for the VC and only the ninth in the region. There were also three Dark Sword-grass, a migrant.
Elsewhere, our fourth ever Bordered Sallow was trapped at Dornockbrow (VC72) during the first week of August. |
posted 10 Aug 2011 04:23 by County Moth Recorder
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2011 Autumn Newsletter is available as a pdf file under Resources. |
posted 8 Apr 2011 12:33 by County Moth Recorder
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© Lisa Ferguson
1057 Acleris rufana has now been confirmed for VC73 when it was
trapped at Glenlee; also trapped at that site and new for Dumfries &
Galloway is 1061 Acleris literana, photo, both trapped on 6th April 2011, unfortunately after a visit to National Musuems Scotland to collect further data, especially from Sir Arthur Duncan's collection, this record has now been demoted to a new VC record, Sir Arthur having trapped it at Castlehill, Kirkmahoe parish in 1977.
A further fifteen new micros have been added, bringing the regions moth species total to 1040, and greatly altering the vice-county totals now, so that we have 791 from Dumfriesshire (VC72), 934 from Kirkcudbrightshire (VC73) and 691 Wigtownshire (VC74).
Further records to add are from Pelham-Clinton's notebooks, also from NMS, which might yield further new records.
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posted 14 Feb 2011 20:39 by County Moth Recorder
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New VC records since the publication of the Checklist are as follows:
VC72 - 0130 Incurvaria masculella; 1156 Epinotia solandriana; 1849 Ash Pug Eupithecia fraxinata.
VC73 - 0142 Nematopogon pilella; 0247 Tinea trinotella; 0401 Argyresthia laevigatella; 0473 Acrolepiopsis assectella; 0564 Coleophora virgaureae; 0599 Elachista alpinella; 0691 Agonopterix purpurea; 0760 Exoteleia dodecella; 0892 Mompha subbistrigella; 1089 Apotomis semifasciana; 1111a Bactra lacteana; 1433 Cryptoblabes bistriga; 1801 Barred Carpet Perizoma taeniata; 2068 Scarlet Tiger Callimorpha dominula; 2399 Bordered Sallow Pyrrhia umbra.
VC74 - 1179 Epiblema incarnatana; 1307 Agriphila latistria; 2093 Sand Dart Agrotis ripae; 2195 The Delicate Mythimna vitellina; 2400 Scarce Bordered Straw Helicoverpa armigera.
2384 Vine's Rustic Hoplodrina ambigua has been removed from our Checklist; one RIS record in 1976 not being admitted to the Scottish Macro Moth List. |
posted 14 Dec 2010 03:14 by County Moth Recorder
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462 Ypsolopha sequella – Allanton House, Auldgirth NX9185 (72) 13.vii.2010 – P. Norman.
674 Depressaria badiella – Corserig Hill, Kelloholm NS7008 (72) 4.ix.2010 – Grey Daggers. Verified K.P. Bland.
705 Agonopterix umbellana – Castle Wood, near Caerlaverock NY0265 (72) 8.x.2010 – Grey Daggers.
706 Agonopterix nervosa – Corserig Hill, Kelloholm NS7008 (72) 4.ix.2010 – Grey Daggers. Verified by K.P. Bland.
714 Agonopterix yeatiana – Chippermore Point, Luce Bay NX2947 (74) 23.vii.2010 – R. & B. Mearns. Verified by K.P. Bland.
819 Scrobipalpa costella – Castle Wood, near Caerlaverock NY0265 (72) 8.x.2010 – Grey Daggers.
856 Anarsia spartiella – Chippermore Point, Luce Bay NX2947 (74) 23.vii.2010 – R. & B. Mearns. Verified by K.P. Bland.
969 Pandemis corylana – Mersehead RSPB Reserve NX9355 (73) 26.vi.2010 – K.A. Naylor.
1010 Ditula angustiorana – Auchenskeoch NX9059 (73) 2.vii.2010 – K.A. Naylor.
1153 Epinotia sordidana – Castle Wood, Caerlaverock NY0265 (72) 8.x.2010 – Grey Daggers. Verified by J. Clifton.
1174 Epiblema cynosbatella – East Barcloy NX8754 (73) 21.vi.2010 – R. Sutcliffe.
1175 Epiblema uddmanniana – Chippermore Point, Luce Bay NX2947 (74) 23.vii.2010 – R. & B. Mearns. Verified by K.P. Bland.
1178 Epiblema roborana – Chippermore Point, Luce Bay NX2947 (74) 23.vii.2010 – R. & B. Mearns. Verified by K.P. Bland.
1378 Phlyctaenia coronata – Glencaple NX9968 (72) 25.vi.2010 – Alison Robertson. Verified by K.A. Naylor; Chippermore Point, Luce Bay NX2947 (74) 23.vii.2010 – R. & B. Mearns. Verified by K.P. Bland.
1454 Dioryctria abietella – Kirkton NX9782 (72) 11.vii.2010 – R. & B. Mearns.
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