Forward and back buttons now completed on every page. Some success this month with one of my target species on a trapping session on Portland (Feathered Brindle) and again with the Essex Moth Group survey of FIsher's Estuarine Moth; but a complete failure with all target species in a week in the Scottish Highlands. The 6 species shown below added to the site this month, bringing the total presented to 1582. 9 Species have been added to the site this month - bringing the total presented to 1576 species. August started, as July ended, in Cumbria with two trapping sessions at Cliburn Moss; later I returned to Essex and did trapping sessions at Pound Wood and on Foulness Island. 4 new species identified from these sessions have not yet been added to the site and will follow in September. Also this month I have written a page on separation of Spilonota species. I have doubts about whether any external or genital feature reliably separates Eucosma aemulana from E.tripoliana - if anyone believes they know how this can be done, or feels able to confirm or refute my identification of E.aemulana, I would be pleased to hear from you. The 12 species shown below have been added this month - bringing the total presented to 1567. Visitors to the site continue to rise with 3700 in the last week of July. In the early months of this year I have been adding images and text to existing pages and making some progress with installing forward and back buttons (which are now complete as far as Geometridae: Larentiinae: Eupitheciini).
I am concentrating my trapping efforts on ancient woodland sites in 2019. In May and June I have visited Pound Wood in Essex (3 trapping sessions), Cliburn Moss in Cumbria (2 trapping sessions) and Orlestone Forest in Kent. I have also paid a 2 night visit to Dungeness in Kent and made daytime visits to Duxford, Arnside Knott and the Cumbrian hills. The 17 species with images below have been added to the site, bringing the total presented to 1555. There has been a steady increase in the number of visitors to this website with 2800 in the past week.
After last year's blank, this was an exceptional year for rare migrants on the Isles of Scilly. Migrant totals are recorded below - the numbers show total obtained in 18 nights of trapping / highest number for a single night and / number of nights on which the species was obtained.
Other rare migrant species seen and photographed by me but obtained by others were;
Those species with images above have been added to the site this month - bring the total to 1532 species.
Forward and back buttons added to families and species in the 'Families 1' group and Gelechioidea as far as Gelechiidae Pages written on identification of Yponomeuta, Bryotropha and Monochroa species Prays fraxinella page revised following identification of specimens as P.ruficeps and P.ruficeps page added
Total number of species presented: 1524
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