I ran the moth trap at Barcaldine School on Wednesday night and we got 75 moths of 33 different species, which was even better than last year’s haul of 49 moths from 29 species.
The best was a Swallow Prominent, which I had never seen before and which is very rarely recorded in our area, unlike the common Lesser Swallow Prominent with which it can easily be confused. The identity of this specimen was confirmed by moth expert Roy Leverton from the above photo.
Here is the complete list
9 Clouded Border
8 Brown Silver-line
6 Lesser Swallow Prominent
5 Scorched Wing
4 Broom Moth
4 White Ermine
3 Iron Prominent
3 Pale-shouldered Brocade
2 Poplar Hawk-moth
2 Pale Prominent
2 Small Angle Shades
2 Pebble Prominent
2 Scalloped Hazel
2 Flame Shoulder
2 Small Phoenix
2 Lunar Thorn
1 Spruce Carpet
1 Buff Ermine
1 Common Marbled Carpet
1 Marbled Coronet
1 Foxglove Pug
1 Peacock Moth
1 Peppered Moth
1 Powdered Quaker
1 Map-winged Swift
1 Nut-tree Tussock
1 Silver-ground Carpet
1 Opsibotys fuscalis (a micro-moth with no English name)
1 Clouded Silver
1 Garden Carpet
1 Marbled Brown
1 Grey Pine Carpet
1 Swallow Prominent
Carl