This is our first post to Gwentmothing. We
are fairly recent moth recorders having started four years ago.
We have a MV Robinson moth trap which we
set up in our large garden at St Brides Wentlooge, a village near the coast on
the west side of the river Usk.
The area is mainly unimproved pasture and
scrub woodland with willows, poplars and ash dominating. There are also birch,
conifers and an apple orchard in the garden. Flower borders and a vegetable
patch offer sustenance to caterpillars.
After a very disappointing spring we were
delighted this morning to find 31 moths from 23 species. They were Common
carpet (x1), Brimstone moth (x3), Hebrew character (x1), White ermine (x1),
Silver-ground carpet (x1), Green carpet (x1), Bright line brown eye (x1), Small
square spot (x2), Flame shoulder (x5), Pebble prominent (x1), Shuttle-shaped
dart (x2), Ruby tiger (x1), Muslin moth (x1), Pale prominent (x1), Grey dagger
(x1), Clouded-bordered brindle (x1), Dog’s tooth (x1), Lime-speck pug (x1),
Common pug (x1), Coronet (x1), Common wave (x1), Poplar hawkmoth (x1), Iron
prominent (x1).
We do hope this bumper harvest is the sign
of things to come!
Silver-ground carpet.
Muslin moth
Perhaps White Ermine rather than a Muslin Moth?
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