First night moth trapping

[Dave McCormick]

Last night I was leant 2 6w heath traps and one MV trap. I put out the heath trap last night in my garden and got a few moths:

The trap:



1 Large Yellow Underwing:


1 Dark Specticle (Never seen this before, new species for me):


why its called the specticle (because of specticle (glasses) shaped mark on the front of its head):


One Brown House Moth and a common wasp and a micro moth that flew away when I opened the trap. Put two 6w traps out tonight to see what comes, then tomorrow evening I am putting out MV trap in a different area, should attract much more.

Anyone know what moth this is? Found 6 in the trap:

[Mikhail]

Double square-spot (Xestia triangulum).

Misha

[Dave McCormick]

Thanks Misha, thats exactly what it is. I put the MV Trap out tonight so see what it brings, saw quite a few moths flying near it. I am writing a full PDF report on this and will post a link when its ready.

[Dave McCormick]

Using a MV trap and generator in a forest near my house and just checked it and its crawling with insects, various wasps, swallowtail moths, underwings, flies, beetles and more...the forest is alive at night here thats for sure. Will post my results as soon as I can record all species I find. Here is one of the swallowtail moths:

[Dave McCormick]

Posting report in a day or so, caught about 200 moths last night, 150 or so Large Yellow Underwings, still identifying the last few moths and creating the report.

[Dave McCormick]

Here is my moth report link http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6R92846I its a PDF document. It took a while to create it and if there is anything about it you wish to know, let me know.

Slight edit. I was told the double lobed moth I got (image in report) might actually be a form of common rustic or a late clouded borderd brindle, not double lobed moth. And the lunar yellow underwings I found were actually lesser yellow underwings