Parc Slip

30 species caught at Parc Slip last night with plenty FFY: peppered moth, peach blossom, scorched wing, marbled brown, treble lines, small angle shades, campion, buff ermine, iron prominent and cream wave. Top scorers were treble lines (7) and poplar hawk (6). There were also a couple of micros: Ancylis badiana and what I believe is Monopis weaverella but I'll post a photo later for confirmation. I also had these two pugs which I need help with please:

Above: common pug?

Above: oak-tree pug?

Diplodoma laichartingella

Last Friday, I found this psychid case on a Holm Oak trunk in the main car park at Merthyr Mawr dunes. Dave is happy that this is Diplodoma - which appears from the description in MBGBI Vol 2 to be the only case which is made of coarse granular material (bits of insects, plant fragments etc) and triangular in cross section. If you click on the photo to enlarge the image you can see all sorts of debris is used to construct the case.

There are only two previous VC41 records, from Lavernock in 1919 and Sully in 1934 (both made by H.M. Hallett), so it is good to know we still have this species in the county.

George

Parc Slip geometrid

Found this moth resting on the wall of the Visitor Centre this afternoon and struggled to id it for a while - is it yellow-barred brindle??

WCP from Kenfig Rivermouth to Margam Moors (Sunday 18/5/14)

An early Large Skipper (seen very well) on the south facing slope of Morfa Tip and a Mother Shipton here too. It was cracking day for butterflies and seeing 15 Dingy Skippers and 20+ Brown Argus was a real treat, mainly found near the Kenfig sidings. Walls and Small Blues in good numbers with Common Blue, Peacock, Small Tortoiseshell, Orange Tip, Brimstone, Small White & Green-veined White all noted along the Wales Coast Path.

Gorseinon

Nice to get a decent haul at last with 85 moths of 45 species last night. There was nothing of special note, the most interesting beasts including Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1, Twenty-plume Moth 1, Pebble Hook-tip 1, Figure of Eighty 1, Yellow-barred Brindle 2, Waved Umber 1, Eyed Hawk-moth 1, Poplar Hawk-moth 1, Elephant Hawk-moth 1, Ruby Tiger 1, Broad-barred White 1, Hebrew Character 1, Poplar Grey 1 & Alder Moth 1

Cwm Colhuw bat/moth event

WTSWW had a bat walk/moth trap event at Cwm Colhuw on friday night - successful in terms of participants but rather quiet on the bat and moth front. Brisk cool wind may have dissuaded them - 17 macro species with the most interesting being waved umber, common swift, least black arches, rustic shoulder-knot and broken-barred carpet. Thankfully there were a couple of crowd-pleasers with lots of brimstones, a couple of green carpets and a pale tussock.

Bryngarw last night

Had a good night at Bryngarw, with just short of 30 species including Oak Hook-tip, Marbled Brown, Poplar Kitten.