We have a moth recorder staying on the farm this week, and she very kindly set our trap last night and spent most of her morning identifying what we trapped.
These are the moths she identified: Magpie |
Garden Tiger |
Purple bar |
Dark Arches |
Burnished Brass |
Northern spinach |
True lovers knot |
Antler moth |
Poplar Hawk moth |
Green Arches |
Scalloped oak |
Smoky wainscott |
Flame shoulder |
Triple spotted clay |
Straw dot |
Archers dart |
Drinker |
Bright line brown eye |
Inggrailed clay |
Dotted clay |
Lesser yellow underwing |
Middle barred minor |
Thank you Helen!
PS: Prasad has not recorded Middle barred minor before, so that is a first for Treshnish.
Prasad went along to look at the moths later and spotted a GREY (a national rarity) that we hadn't identified earlier, so that was an exciting addition to the list!
A specimen of the Grey was collected from Treshnish the first summer we were here, and is in the National History Museum in London.