Lönnkantmal (Altenia scriptella)
An absolutely astonishing evening I had with good friends Graham Bailey and Don Down. An evening totally eclipsing my previous highest count of 197 species, from this very site a few years back now. The weather was perfect, a little breezy at first but plenty of thin cloud cover and very mild. Do set his tripod up first and witin seconds things were flying around it, the usual stuff first and then a few specialities. It was a slow start mind and as we found out when we were packing up at 2am, species were still comng in! The traps on inspection as we slowly packed up, were brimming with moths and there were so many that it was difficult to breath in whilst looking through the catch with fear of inhaling one of the moths. Highlights for me were not one but two Marbled Green, we did see this moth here a few years ago, but both Graham and I attracted one each, a very special moth indeed. We also managed other resident specialities such as Garden Tiger, White-line Dart, Reed Dagger, Lappet and Silky Wainscot. All in all it was a night that I won't forget in a hurry and thoroughly worth the 2 hours of sleep I got before going to work in the morning! 231 total species (150 Macros and 81 Micros) Numbers below are approximate and may be altered. Graham, please email me any corrections or additions, as it was very hard to keep up! 12/07/13 – Canvey Island - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x Actinic/Synergetic bulb, 1x 160w MBT Trap and 1x 80w Actinic Trap run from 10.00pm until 2.00am Macro Moths 2x Angle Shades 5x Barred Straw 40+ Barred Yellow 2x Beautiful Hook-tip 1x Blackneck 4x Blue-bordered Carpet 3x Bordered Pug 5x Bright-line Brown-eye 10x Brimstone Moth 1x Brindled White-spot 1x Broad-barred White 1x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1x Brown Silver-line 2x Brown-line Bright-eye 10x Brown-tail 30+ Buff Arches 5x Buff Footman 3x Buff-tip 1x Burnished Brass 1x Chinese Character 30+ Clay 2x Cloaked Minor 20+ Clouded Border 2x Clouded Brindle 30+ Clouded Silver 1x Clouded-bordered Brindle 2x Common Carpet 5x Common Emerald 10x Common Footman 2x Common Marbled Carpet 5x Common Rustic 2x Common Wave 5x Common White Wave 3x Coxcomb Prominent 10x Cream-bordered Green Pea 20+ Dark Arches 2x Dark Spinach 1x Dark Sword-grass 1x Dingy Shears 2x Dotted Fan-foot 20+ Dot Moth 10x Double Square-spot 1x Double-striped Pug 5x Drinker 2x Dun-bar 5x Dusky Brocade 3x Dwarf Cream Wave 2x Early Thorn 10x Elephant Hawk-moth 2x Engrailed 2x Eyed Hawk-moth 2x Fan-foot 1x Fen Wainscot 20+ Flame 30+ Flame Shoulder 1x Foxglove Pug 1x Garden Carpet 2x Garden Tiger 4x Ghost Moth 5x Green Pug 1x Green Silver-lines 5x Grey Dagger 2x Haworth's Pug 4x Heart & Club 5x Heart & Dart 1x Herald 2x Iron Prominent 5x July Highflyer 10+ Kent Black Arches 2x Lackey 2x Lappet 10x Large Emerald 3x Large Yellow Underwing 1x Latticed Heath 2x Least Carpet 1x Least Yellow Underwing 3x Leopard Moth 1x Lesser Cream Wave 2x Lesser Yellow Underwing 5x Light Arches 1x Light Brocade 5x Light Emerald 1x Lime Hawk-moth 1x Lime-speck Pug 1x Lunar-spotted Pinion 6x Magpie 2x Maple Prominent 3x Marbled Beauty 2x Marbled Green 5x Marbled Minor 10x Marbled White Spot 8x Miller 5x Mottled Beauty 2x Mottled Rustic 1x Mullein Wave 1x Oak Eggar 1x Oak nycteoline 1x Orange Footman 2x Pale Oak Beauty 2x Pale Prominent 2x Peach Blossom 1x Pebble Hook-tip 1x Pebble Prominent 5x Peppered Moth 1x Pine Hawk-moth 10x Plain Pug 2x Poplar Grey 2x Poplar Hawk-moth 2x Obscure Wainscot 1x Reed Dagger 15x Riband Wave 1x Round-winged Muslin 1x Ruby Tiger 5x Rustic 1x Scalloped Oak 1x Scarce Silver-lines 2x Setaceous Hebrew Character 2x Shaded Broad-bar 10x Shaded Pug 2x Shark 5x Sharp-angled Peacock 3x Short-cloaked Moth 5x Shoulder-striped Wainscot 5x Silky Wainscot 2x Silver-Y 2x Single-dotted Wave 8x Slender Pug 2x Small Blood-vein 1x Small Dotted Buff 1x Small Emerald 3x Small Scallop 5x Smoky Wainscot 2x Snout 4x Southern Wainscot 1x Spectacle 2x Star-wort 2x Straw Dot 3x Suspected 1x Swallow Prominent 10x Swallow-tailed Moth 2x Tawny Marbled Minor 5x Uncertain 3x V-pug 2x Vapourer 1x White Ermine 10x White-line Dart 2x White-point 2x Willow Beauty 3x Wormwood Pug 2x Yellow Shell 1x Yellow-tail Micro Moths 1x Thiodia citrana [NEW!] 3x Cnaemidophorus rhododactyla [NEW!] 2x Trachycera marmorea [NEW!] 1x Apotomis lineana [NEW!] 1x Altenia scriptella [NEW!] 1x Phlyctaenia stachydalis [NEW!] 1x Phycitodes sp pos maritima [NEW!] to be gen det 5x Phycita roborella 1x Tinea semifulvella 1x Caloptilia alchimiella 2x Scythropia crataegella 5x Yponomeuta evonymella 2x Paraswammerdamia albicapitella 5x Argyresthia brockeella 10x Argyresthia goedartella 2x Argyresthia curvella 2x Plutella xylostella 10x Coleophora sp 2x Coleophora mayrella 10x Blastobasis laticolella 1x Hoffmannophila pseudospretella 5x Batia unitella 1x Batia lunaris 2x Carcina quercana 2x Anacampsis blattariella 2x Emmelina monodactyla 1x Adaina microdactyla 2x Phtheochroa inopiana 1x Agapeta hamana 5x Cochylis hybridella 2x Aethes rubigana 1x Pandemis cerasana 3x Pandemis heparana 5x Archips podana 5x Archips xylosteana 2x Aphelia paleana 2x Tortrix viridana 20x Aleimma loeflingiana 2x Acleris forsskaleana 2x Epiphyas postvittana 2x Ditula angustiorana 5x Ephestia parasitella 10x Trachycera advenella 10x Udea prunalis 5x Cnephasia sp 5x Celypha striana 2x Celypha lacunana 1x Batrachedra praeangusta 5x Apotomis capreana 100+ Hedya salicella 10x Epinotia biluna 8x Gypsonoma dealbana 2x Eucosma campoliliana 2x Epiblema foenella 5x Epiblema uddmanniana 2x Aphomia sociella 10x Synaphe punctalis 30x Melissoblaptes zelleri 5x Platytes alpinella 5x Oncocera semirubella 10x Calamotropha paludella 5x Homoeosoma sinuella 2x Crambus perlella 5x Catoptria pinella 2x Catoptria falsella 5x Chrysoteuchia culmella 5x Ancylis achatana 1x Schoenobius gigantella 4x Dipleurina lacustrata 2x Accentria ephemerella 2x Scoparia ambigualis 2x Elophila nymphaeata 2x Cataclysta lemnata 1x Evergestis extimalis 2x Pyrausta despicta 4x Eurrhypara hortulata 1x Sitochroa verticalis 1x Ostrinia nubilalis 2x Perinephela lancealis 5x Phlyctaenia perlucidalis 3x Ebulea crocealis