Thursday 5 September 2019

Still catching up - ID help please

I have got really behind with identifying my moths and 25th July was a really big night for me. I've now reached the 100 species mark for the year (my first year of spotting), which I'm very pleased about. Here are a few that I'm either not 100% sure on or haven't got a clue about, so I'd appreciate some help please.

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Thanks, Jacqui
Speen, Bucks
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  1. Dave Wilton5 September 2019 at 19:46

    Hi Jacqui,

    The first and last are Common Rustic agg. (either Common Rustic or Lesser Common Rustic, dissection needed to separate the two).

    The others are, in order, Dusky Thorn, a Scoparid species which is a bit too far gone to identify (possibly Eudonia mercurella), Euzophera pinguis, Dark Arches, Tree-lichen Beauty, Endotricha flammealis and Ypsolopha scabrella.

    I hope the Tree-lichen Beauty wasn't one of those which you didn't have a clue about - that's a very smart moth and quite distinctive!

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  2. Jacqui6 September 2019 at 18:08

    Thanks Dave. Yes, I got the Tree-Lichen Beauty as well as the Dark Arches and Ypsolopha scabrella. I had thought that the first one was an Ear Moth, so got that one very wrong.

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