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.