Moth Records for 6th August 2020

 Overnight trapping on 6th August 2020 resulted in a good number of moth species. Low temperature was 15.3C and the findings are listed below:

Brown House Moth 1

Common Carpet 3

Scare Silver Lines 1

Marbled Beauty 5

Light Brown Apple Moth 17

Codling Moth 1

White Satin Moth 1

Snout 1

Bird-cherry Ermine 1

Diamond-back Moth 1

Rustic agg moth 1

Uncertain agg 1

Blastobasis adustella 1

Large Yellow Underwing 47

Square-spot Rustic 10

Shuttle-shaped Dart 1

Dark Arches 2

Heart & Dart 1

Coe-sis consimilana 1

Svensson’s Copper Underwing 2

Double Square-spot 2

Rosy Minor 1

Orange Swift 1

Lesser Yellow Underwing 1

Riband Wave (banded) 1

Common Wainscot 1

Water Veneer 31

Willow Beauty 2

Old Lady 

Rosy Rustic 1

Blastodacna hellerella 1

Crassa unitella 2

Epinotia nisella 1

Flame Carpet 1

Aspliapteryx tringipennella 1

Plain Pug 2 (this moth is a rarity in VC66 - Durham with only 13 records in 100 years)

Crassa unitella

Old Lady

Blastondacna hellerella

Plain Pug

Scare Silver Lines

White Stain Moth

Rosy Minor