The Moths of Glamorgan

The RRP is £40.00 which has been reduced for those members of the GMRG listed on our database (check with us first). Cheques should be made payable to The Glamorgan Moth Recording Group.

How to obtain a copy:
Copies can be collected from David Slade at the SEWBReC offices in Cardiff, or in person from Mike Powell, David Gilmore or Barry Stewart. Please order copies from Mike Powell for postal delivery. If you are unable to collect a copy, we will be delivering by hand to addresses in Glamorgan & the Newport area for a nominal £1.50 (where possible) otherwise please add £4.50 to cover the postal & packing cost.

Mike Powell
87 Coed Glas Road
Llanishen
Cardiff
CF14 5EL
mike.powell2011@btinternet.com
07584 858770


David Slade
SEWBReC
13 St Andrews Crescent
Cardiff
CF10 3DB
david.slade@sewbrec.org.uk
029 2064 1110


Barry Stewart
36 Pencaecrwn Road
Gorseinon
Swansea
SA4 4FU
moonmoths@virginmedia.com
01792 539447


The book is also available now from Atropos Books & from the Wetlands Centre bookshop at Uskmouth, Newport, Kenfig NNR and WTSWW at Parc Slip.

Chocolate tip.

                          On the window of Maesteg tesco this morning, nice
                          way to find a tick!

Parc Slip

Set the trap on tuesday night and had a much better catch than recently with 70-odd moths of 19 species. New for the year were common wave, brimstone, small phoenix, coxcomb prominent, dark-barred twin-spot carpet and buff-tip. Most common was brindled beauty with 19.

Of the 19, 4 were micros: Epinotia immundana (9), Ancylis badiana, Digitivalva pulicariae and Phyllonorycter rajella (thanks to Paul Parsons for help with the micros).

Lanlay Meadows revisited

With a nice warm evening in Cardiff yesterday I decided at the last minute to head down to Lanlay Meadows (Peterson-super-Ely), hoping for better weather than my last visit on 12th April. When I left home it was a sultry 14.5C (with some cloud cover), 15 minutes later as I arrived on site it was down to 10.5C, and by the time I switched on it was 7.5C with no cloud whatsoever! I nearly packed up there and then, but I'm glad I didn't as the temperature didn't fall much further and the moths kept trickling in throughout the 2 hour session.

Around 33 species were recorded in total between my MV and two 6W traps, including a few leaf mines recorded while dusking. The highlight was probably Red Sword-grass which is pretty scarce in Cardiff and the Vale with just a few previous records. Other nice macros included Scorched Carpet, Devon Carpet and a range of Prominents (Coxcomb, Pebble, Lesser Swallow and Pale).

Red Sword-grass

 Among the micros, Carpatolechia proximella and Phyllonorycter harrisella were new for ST07.

Phyllonorycter harrisella

And this Eriocrania sangii mine on birch is only about the 6th county record. Worth looking for the birch-mining Eriocranias at this time of year - sangii is the easiest one to identify as the larva is dark grey (most of the others are whitish).

E. sangii on Birch

Kenfig NNR

Kenfig NNR  Interesting day spent at the reserve yesterday, lots going on and some rather early sightings including the following; Burnet Companion, Common & Garden Carpet, Common Heath in very healthy numbers. Disturbed a 'cloud' of Elachista argentella in a sheltered dune pocket along with a single Anania fuscalis. Highlight of the morning was a suberb male Emperor that posed very conveniently for a variety of images, this is the first time I have seen the species away from my more familiar haunts in the uplands.

Among the butterflies were Small Blue, Small Copper, Dingy Skipper, Orange-tip and Brimstone.

Good numbers of Common Blue Damselfly emerging and several Large Red Damselfly seen. Distant view of a Hairy Dragonfly lost to view over foliage.

Apologies for the rather poor quality of the micro images, I was too impatient!!!

 

It's here...

Rhoose

Best catch of the year last night with 16 species.  Nothing too unusual but highlights included Common Swift (which looks like the earliest Glamorgan record according to Mapmate) and Scalloped Hazel which is new for the garden.  Also present were both Waved Umber and Small Waved Umber, Lesser Swallow Prominent, Pebble Prominent, Knot Grass and White Ermine.