First, a White-marked Moth. Only the second one I've had.
I had this a week or so ago - is it too far gone to determine if it is a Chestnut or Dark Chestnut?
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Next a pug that died after potting. Any chance of an ID?
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Finally a question. The UTBC slides on Clearwings suggests the Hornet Moth isn't found in Oxfordshire - is that still so? Wondering if I'd be wasting my money buying a lure for it.
Mark Griffiths, Garsington (Just outside of Oxford)
The new Upper Thames Moths website shows quite a few Oxfordshire records. I have bought the lure and I'm ready to go as soon as the time is right. After last year's success with lures (especially the totally unexpected Raspberry Clearwing) I reckon you never know what might turn up. Having said that it can become an expensive business getting all the different lures!
ReplyDeletethanks Andy. Re the expense I'm pacing myself, a few more lures every year. I bought some in January off Angleps, just bought some cheaper more common pest species ones today.
ReplyDeleteHi Mark,
ReplyDeleteYou mean we went to all that trouble to provide you with an on-line Moth Atlas and you didn't use it?!!!
Nice White-marked. I imagine the Chestnut will have been just that, while the Pug is a bit too far gone to call for sure but I suspect it will have been Brindled.
So is the atlas already up?
ReplyDeleteok, found it!
ReplyDeleteJust to add that although it might seem expensive to buy the lures, they last for years provided you store them in the freezer and don't leave them out for too long, i.e. many days, or weeks.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure its a good thing to have a lure for Hornet Moth, although it is arguably the easiest species to record as an adult as the exit holes are very obvious and they sit around on the trunk s in the morning (and you get to see both sexes). This also confirms the breeding sites whereas it is becoming more and more clear that lures attract clearwings from quite long distances.
The atlas now appears in google searches, which happened surprisingly quickly.