Mothing at Limekiln Wood
An intrepid group of our select band spent an evening and very very early morning trapping, identifying and releasing safely a second set of moths in Limekiln Wood.
Led by local expert Edwards Mills – to most of us a moth is just a moth – they trapped and identified the following magnificent list.
| agriphila straminella | 1 |
| aleimma loeflingiana | 1 |
| barred fruit tree tortrix | 1 |
| bee moth | 2 |
| bramble shoot moth | 2 |
| clay | 1 |
| clay triple-lines | 1 |
| codling moth | 1 |
| common footman | 1 |
| common pug | 1 |
| common white wave | 2 |
| coronet | 1 |
| dipleurina lacustrata | 1 |
| garden carpet | 1 |
| garden pebble | 1 |
| heart and dart | 2 |
| july highflyer | 5 |
| large yellow underwing | 6 |
| light emerald | 4 |
| mother of pearl | 3 |
| muslin footman | 4 |
| northern spinach | 1 |
| peach blossom | 2 |
| peppered moth | 1 |
| phoenix | 3 |
| plain golden Y | 2 |
| pretty chalk carpet | 3 |
| purple clay | 3 |
| riband wave | 2 |
| sandy carpet | 2 |
| scoparia ambigualis | 2 |
| small fan-foot | 2 |
| small fan-footed wave | 10 |
| straw dot | 2 |
| swallow-tailed moth | 5 |
| swammerdamia caesiella | 2 |
| udea olivalis | 3 |
| uncertain | 1 |
| v-pug | 3 |
| willow beauty | 3 |
I have attached some photographs of the evening below for your enjoyment.
The pretty chalk carpet is lovely to get a second time. In Cumbria, it only lives on the limestone between Grange and Witherslack, so not many people have recorded them!
