Guelder Rose and Old Man's Beard

  Oliver's Battery Countryside Group

Probably the Best Countryside Group in Oliver's Battery  


Moth Evening 2011

On Saturday 11th June we had a moth evening. Tim Walker brought a generator to run his moth trap.

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The group gathered around a mercury arc lamp, waiting for moths to arrive.

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Snout
Hypena proboscidalis
Snout
Hypena proboscidalis
Snout
Hypena proboscidalis
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Moth.
Scoparia pyralella
Moth.
Sp?
Moth.
Scoparia pyralella
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Ichneumon fly.
Sp?
Willow Beauty
Peribatodes rhomboidaria
Heart and Dart.
Agrotis exclamationis
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Heart and Dart.
Agrotis exclamationis
Heart and Dart.
Agrotis exclamationis
Heart and Dart.
Agrotis exclamationis
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Moth.
Scoparia ambigualis
Moth.
Sp?
Fern
Horisme tersata
We had a bulb failure about 11pm, so packed up and headed home.
Photographs
Peter Land and Norma Goodwin
Identification mainly thanks to Hants Moths and UK Moths