Records from two new recorders

Post date: Nov 27, 2011 12:46:50 PM

Well, recorders new to our database anyway! Both Peter Holland and Neil Fletcher are experienced recorders but haven't sent in Berks moth records before.

Peter's first set of records covers the last 6 years or so, and include the 24th record on the database for Pinion-spotted Pug and 27th for Obscure Wainscot, as well as a good crop of new 10km square records:

• • 0161: Leopard Moth (Zeuzera pyrina), Wallingford, 10/07/2005; 197 records on database - new for 10km square

  • 1699: Least Carpet (Idaea rusticata), Wallingford, 18/07/2009; 734 records on database - new for 10km square

  • 1752: Purple Bar (Cosmorhoe ocellata), Wallingford, 26/04/2008; 240 records on database - earliest ever record by a few days

  • 1760: Red-green Carpet (Chloroclysta siterata), Wallingford, 06/04/2010; 494 records on database - new for 10km square

  • 1769: Spruce Carpet (Thera britannica), Wallingford, 28/05/2010; 497 records on database - new for 10km square

  • 1820: Pinion-spotted Pug (Eupithecia insigniata), Wallingford, 26/04/2008; 24 records on database - good record

  • 1830: Wormwood Pug (Eupithecia absinthiata), Wallingford, 01/05/2009; 214 records on database - new for 10km square

  • 1879: Seraphim (Lobophora halterata), Wallingford, 23/04/2011; 115 records on database - new for 10km square

  • 1930: Oak Beauty (Biston strataria), Wallingford, 25/03/2005; 503 records on database - new for 10km square

  • 1934: Dotted Border (Agriopis marginaria), Wallingford, 06/03/2006; 711 records on database - new for 10km square

  • 1980: Eyed Hawk-moth (Smerinthus ocellata), Wallingford, 13/06/2009; 342 records on database - new for 10km square

  • 2019: Chocolate-tip (Clostera curtula), Wallingford, 09/04/2007; 375 records on database - new for 10km square

  • 2155: Dot Moth (Melanchra persicariae), Wallingford, 29/08/2009; 845 records on database - latest ever

  • 2179: Pine Beauty (Panolis flammea), Wallingford, 24/04/2010; 196 records on database - new for 10km square

  • 2192: Brown-line Bright Eye (Mythimna conigera), Wallingford, 30/08/2009; 520 records on database - latest ever by over a week

  • 2204: Obscure Wainscot (Mythimna obsoleta), Wallingford, 31/05/2008; 27 records on database - good record, new for 10km square

  • 2245: Green-brindled Crescent (Allophyes oxyacanthae), Wallingford, 10/10/2009; 792 records on database - new for 10km square

  • 2252: Large Ranunculus (Polymixis flavicincta), Wallingford, 19/09/2009; 476 records on database - new for 10km square

  • 2314: Dingy Shears (Parastichtis ypsillon), Wallingford, 05/07/2010; 237 records on database - new for 10km square

  • 2336: Double Lobed (Apamea ophiogramma), Wallingford, 14/07/2005; 106 records on database - new for 10km square

  • 2353: Flounced Rustic (Luperina testacea), Wallingford, 16/07/2005; 3461 records on database - earliest ever

  • 2421: Scarce Silver-lines (Bena bicolorana), Wallingford, 28/06/2009; 131 records on database - new for 10km square

Neil lives in Buckinghamshire but has been recording on BBOWT reserves in Berkshire during 2011, turning up some species that have very few records on the database, including the first record on the database for Tischeria dodonaea (not recorded in Berks since 1981):

• • 0102: Stigmella aceris, Woolley Firs BBOWT, Maidenhead, 09/11/2011; 4 records on database - good record, new for 10km square

  • 0124: Tischeria dodonaea, Shepperlands BBOWT, Aborfield Garrison, 29/09/2011; first record on database, first in county since 1981, new for 10km square

  • 0164: Cistus Forester (Adscita geryon), Seven Barrows BBOWT, Lambourn, 09/06/2011; 2 records on database - good record

  • 0274: Bucculatrix ulmella, Shepperlands BBOWT, Aborfield Garrison, 29/09/2011; 15 records on database - new for 10km square

  • 0315: Phyllonorycter harrisella, Shepperlands BBOWT, Aborfield Garrison, 29/09/2011; 33 records on database - new for 10km square

  • 0397: Glyphipterix thrasonella, Wildmoor Heath BBOWT, Sandhurst, 08/06/2011; 15 records on database - new for 10km square

  • 0701: Agonopterix ocellana, Rack Marsh BBOWT, Bagnor, 22/11/2011; 31 records on database - new for 10km square

  • 0894: Cosmopterix zieglerella, Moor Copse BBOWT, 02/08/2011; 5 records on database - good record, new for 10km square

  • 1111: Bactra lancealana, Wildmoor Heath BBOWT, Sandhurst, 08/06/2011; 77 records on database - new for 10km square

  • 1970: Grass Wave (Perconia strigillaria), Wildmoor Heath BBOWT, Sandhurst, 14/06/2011; 24 records on database - good record