Latest posts tagged with #teammoth on Bluesky
Muslin
Waved Umber
Pebble Prominent
Grey Pine Carpet
New for year: Common Pug, Grey-pine Carpet, Brown Silver-lines, Yellow Barred Brindle, Waved Umber, 4 Muslin Moth & 3 Pebble Prominent. Record counts of 36 Brindled Beauty, 13 Frosted Green, 17 Water Carpet & 12 Shoulder Stripe. Also S. steinkellneriana, Y. mucronella & Great Prominent. #teammoth
Depressaria radiella
Emperor Moth
24/10 last night in the Cromford garden. Only Depressaria radiella nfy, but 3 Streamer, Water Carpet etc.
This afto on Beeley Moor 2 Emperor and 4+ Philedonides lunana to the EMP lure. #TeamMoth
First Pine Beauty recorded in the NT72 10-kilometre square, resting on a Larch trunk.
1st Early Thorn for me and NT72, still in pot.
An Early Tooth-striped moth, released onto a lichen-covered Rowan trunk.
#teammoth Even better last night in Roxburghshire (VC80) with Pine Beauty and Early Thorn new for me and NT72. A total of 196/16 including 2 Shoulder Stripe, 3 Early Tooth-striped, Pale Pinion and a Water Carpet that fell foul of the bats - wings were raining down! An influx of carrion beetles 🤢.
A Emperor moth facing downwards, on an egg box
A lovely Emperor moth in the trap this morning - a first time for 2026, as well as three other species new for this year. She laid eggs on the egg box and so it is now tucked into a hawthorn hedge to feed the youngsters.
#teammoth
Pammene giganteana
Epinotia immundana
Having had an Epinotia immundana in the MV this morning, I was encouraged to give my newly purchased FUN lure a go in the garden... & within an hour had my first Pammene giganteana in many years of 'lights only' moth recording - very exciting! #teammoth
Double-striped Pug
Oak-tree Pug
Common Pug?
Here are the Pugs. Relatively confident with Double-striped and Oak-tree. The Common Moth not so sure. The book said it flew in May so a bit early. I am a bit embarrassed by my Pug identification skills.This Common I had identified as a Brindled but checked it and Obs said Common #teammoth
Water Carpet
Grey Birch
Brindled Beauty
Lunar Marbled Brown
16/63 last night. A nice number of moths to process! 1 NFG and 5 NFY ( if me and obs are correct with the Pugs 😄. NFY: Water Carpet, Grey Birch, Brindled Beauty, Lunar Marbled Brown, Common Pug and NFG Oak-tree Pug. Other notables Satellite and a lovely fresh April March Moth! #teammoth (cont!)
Moth trap warming up with my 2nd ever record of Bloxworth Snout following the first in April last year. Also the 2nd Lunar marbled brown of the year. Boughton-under-Blean. #teammoth
Anticlea derivata, the violet tinted Streamer, on 🌳 bark
These are having a good year, I never ‘ad so many (2) 🤭 #teammoth
40 of 16 in SW Hants last night, despite a strong breeze early on.
Pine Beauty the only NFY.
12 Hebrew Characters, a record count for the garden.
Twenty-plume and Silver Y disturbed at work this morning NFY for the overall list.
Tonight looks very promising 🤞
#teammoth
Top view of a moth with satin white wings that have thick reddish orange lines down and across them
The change of the season was marked this morning by the arrival of the first Angled Satin Moth (Thalaina angulosa) of the year.
We see these stunning moths in the Perth Hills between April and June.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Just 11 moths last night, but 4 were nfy. Brindled Beauty. LBAM. Oak-tree Pug and V-Pug. Also 5 Common Quaker. Common Plume and Twenty-plume Moth #teammoth
This beautiful Puss Moth was so well camouflaged on the path next to my actinic light that I missed it this morning & must have almost trodden on it - just about annual for me in Ashurst, New Forest #teammoth
A slow start to the season in Central Leeds. A lovely female LBAM, a beautiful Brindled Beauty nfg and one of the quakers maybe small, any pointers #TeamMoth ?
2 Powdered Quakers this morning, one on floor of trap and one found on the grass near the trap.
Nut-tree Tussock, found on wall by trap last night at 8.50, still there this morning.
14/8 last night in Hunstanton, nfy 2 x Powdered Quakers & Nut-tree Tussock. Also a poss Scarce or Pale Maple Stilt.
1st garden Willow Warbler heard & Greenshank calling as we emptied trap.
Yesterday, Holly Blues & Orange-tips in garden
#teammoth #norfolkmoths #norfolkbirding
13 Small Mottled Willow (S. exigua), 1 Delicate (M. vitellina), 1 Pearly Underwing (P. saucia), 2 Dark Swordgrass (A. ipsilon), 8 Plutella xylostella (Diamond-back) and 11 Nomophila noctuella (Rush Veneer), to light at Longstone, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly on 7/4. M. Scott. #teammoth
Micropterix calthella from Forest farm, Cardiff yesterday.
#TeamMoth #mothsmatter
Shoulder Stripe moth found and photographed by Alison Averis in East Lothian, Scotland, on 8th April 2026.
Twin-spotted Quaker moth found and photographed by Alison Averis in East Lothian, Scotland, on 8th April 2026.
Water Carpet moth found and photographed by Alison Averis in East Lothian, Scotland, on 8th April 2026.
Shoulder Stripe, Twin-spotted Quaker and Water Carpet moths found and photographed by my wife Alison here in East Lothian, Scotland, this morning (8th April 2026). #TeamMoth
100+ Plutella xylostella (Diamond-back Moth), on the south-facing cliffs of Cape Clear, Co Cork, Ireland on evening of 7th April, and a single Nomophila noctuella (Rush Veneer). G. O'Donnell. #teammoth
9 Small Mottled Willow (S. exigua), 6 Dark Sword-grass (A. ipsilon and 7 P. xylostella (Diamond-back Moth), to light at Helston, Cornwall on 7/4. D. Wright. #teammoth
3 Small Mottled Willow (S. exigua) and 3 P. xylostella (Diamond-back Moth), to light at Truro, Cornwall on 7/4. T. Wilson #teammoth
55(!) Small Mottled Willow (S. exigua), 6 Dark Sword-grass (A. ipsilon), 3 Silver Y (A. gamma), 3 Plutella xylostella (Diamond-back Moth) and 1 Nomophila noctuella (Rush Veneer), to light at Cape Clear, Co Cork, Ireland. G. O'Donnell. #teammoth
Small Mottled Willow
A few migrants made it to St Mellion, SE Cornwall last night, among the year's highest total of 295 moths of 49 species.
12 Plutella xylostella (Diamond-back Moth), Small Mottled Willow (Spodoptera exigua) and Silver Y (Autographa gamma). #teammoth
Grey Birch NFG to light in the North Staffs garden last night, a moth I've yet to see, and perhaps unlikely to get, in the North Hampshire garden. #TeamMoth
Longniddry East Lothian VC82 - bumper haul last night including NFMs Pine Beauty and Water Carpet. Also a very smart Shoulder Stripe (NFY) #teammoth #mothinglothian #lothianmoths
13 of 10 last night. Least Black Arches and Great Prominent were nfy. The Prominent was the earliest by 3 weeks. Garden year list now up to 44. #TeamMoth.
Moth trapping at a new site in upland Oak woodland near Glais, Swansea. 18 species, including Early Tooth Stripe, Grey Birch, and Least Black Arches. #teammoth
As predicted #teammoth, best night of the year, so far, although the bar was very low! Streamer, Least Black Arches, Oak-tree Pug NFY, and Acleris Cristana (Obs ?) NFG. Camera broke so relying on phone for photos!
Oak-tree Pug (Eupithecia dodoneata) was another "new for year" species in my #Norwich moth trap this morning. The run of Frosted Green (Polyploca ridens) continues, a lovely fresh but dark individual showing variation with its counterpart. #teammoth #norfolkmoths #mothsmatter #bugsky
