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| 2010-08-15 |
Long Rock (SW5031) - Geoff Littler - Heath Trap (22W Circular Actinic)
1 Bloxworth Snout RDB
Picture Provided |
| 2010-08-01 |
Treboul, nr Polbathic (SX3457); Rose Bradley; Found by day
Death's Head Hawk-moth caterpillar. Photographed (photo copied to Leon Truscott) |
| 2010-07-30 |
Carnyorth, Pendeen (SW3733); John Swann; Heath Trap (22W Circular Actinic)
1 Devonshire Wainscot Na List
Picture provided. |
| 2010-07-17 |
Bodelva (SX0455); John Gregory; Robinson Trap (125W MV)
1 Clancy's Rustic Immigrant Rarely Reported
Pictures Provided. |
| 2010-07-08 |
Cabilla Woods (SX1365); Marilyn Edyvean, John Cook, & Les Webb; Dusking near light trap.
1 Leopard Moth Rarely Recorded in Cornwall
1 White-line Snout Nb List species.
Pictures provided. |
| 2010-07-05 |
St. Neot (SX1867); Andy Whitney; At rest on Car near 15W Actinic trap
1 Ruddy Carpet Nb List
Picture provided. |
| 2010-06-12 |
Lizard (Village, SW7012), Terry Thirlaway, To Light
1 Striped Hawk (female) Rare Migrant
Picture provided. |
| 2010-06-09 |
Greatwork, Ashton (SW5930 ) Tony James - Own-build trap 25W UV + 25W White lamps
1 Pseudocoremia suavis Adventive
The New Zealand Common Forest Looper has only been recorded in the UK in the back garden at Greatwork. Five were recorded in 2007, two in 2009, and now this specimen.
Pictures available. |
| 2010-06-09 |
Torpoint (SX4355); Alan Pease; Actinic light
1128 Ancylis myrtillana x1 new to Cornwall. A 'northwestern' species in Britain. |
| 2010-05-21 |
Cardinham Woods, Bodmin (SX099668), Group Event, Lamp & Sheet Traps (2)
1 Marbled Brown Local T&P James
4 Devon Carpet Nb List T&P James
2 Barred Umber Local T&P James
1 Barred Umber Local F Johns
1 Grey Birch Rarely Recorded F Johns
Visually confirmed. |
| 2010-03-17 |
Tervergy Farm, Cury (SW6722), Frank Johns, Heath Trap (6W Actinic)
Red Sword Grass 1 Local, Immigrant? |
| 2010-03-13 |
Tremayne Woods, Helford River (SW7325), Tony James, Sheet and Pyramid (2x25W Daylight + 2x25W UV)
Acleris notana 1 Rarely Reported
Determined by F.Johns |
| 2009-11-13 |
Great Trethew (SX2860); John Nicholls; Daytime observation
1051 Acleris logiana New for Cornwall
(Its British distribution was exclusively Scottish until 2003, when it was found in Hampshire) |
| 2009-10-01 |
Church Cove (SW7112); Paul Kitchener (Suffolk); 125W MV
Lyonetia prunifoliella 1 1st Record for Cornwall
ID verified Martin Honey (NHM), Picture Provided.
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| 2009-09-29 |
Downderry (SX316540); Steve Madge; Actinic light 15W
1990 Striped Hawk-moth x 1 Rare migrant |
| 2009-09-29 |
Church Cove (SW7112); Paul Kitchener (Suffolk); 125W MV
Clancy's Rustic 1 Rare Migrant |
| 2009-09-10 |
Torpoint (SX4354); Leon Truscott; Heath trap (40W Actinic)
896b Cosmopterix pulchrimella A recent coloniser to Cornwall (and S.England). Found in several places as a leaf-mine, but I don't know if the moth has been recorded at light in Cornwall before. |
| 2009-08-26 |
Egloshayle (SX0072); Mary Bower
Death's Head Hawk-moth found dead in garden |
| 2009-07-24 |
NT Trelissick Gardens, Nr.Truro (SW8339) Public Trapping Event
.. (3 Lamps on Sheets - FJ, T&PJ, G&PL)
Yponomeuta sedella 1 Nb List F.Johns
Tachystola acroxantha 1 pRDB3 T&P.James
Epinotia abbreviana 1 Uncommon F.Johns
Cydia nigricana 1 Scarce, Rarely Reported F.Johns
Endotricha flammealis 1 Scarce F.Johns
Endotricha flammealis 2 Scarce G&P.Littler
Slender Brindle 1 Rarely Reported F.Johns
White-line Snout 1 Nb List F.Johns
Four-spotted Footman 17 Na List F.Johns
Four-spotted Footman 23 Na List T&P.James
Four-spotted Footman 17 Na List G&P.Littler
Beautiful Snout 1 Local T&P.James |
| 2009-07-15 |
Tehidy Woods (SW6443) Ad-hoc Joint Trapping event
. (2 Lamps on Sheets - GL, T&P.J [With JF & JS])
Lead-coloured Pug 1 Nb List T&P.James
White-line Snout 1 Nb List T&P.James |
| 2009-07-12 |
Marazion (SW5131), Chris Barnard - Robinson Trap (125W MV)
Bloxworth Snout 1 RDB Very rare migrant. |
| 2009-07-12 |
Greatwork, Ashton (SW5930 ) Tony James - Own-build trap 25W UV + 25W White lamps
Lunar-spotted Pinion 1 Rarely Recorded
Agonopterix nervosa 1 Rarely Recorded |
| 2009-07-03 |
Poltesco Mill, The Lizard (SW7215) Ad-hoc Joint trapping event
...(4 Lamps on Sheets - FJ, T&PJ, G&PL, JF)
Small Grass Emerald 1 Na List P&T.James
Small Grass Emerald 2 Na List G&P Littler
Amblyptilia punctidactyla 1 New record for VC1 P&T.James
This Plume species previously only recorded in VC2 |
| 2009-07-01 |
Kilminorth Wood (SX2453); Phil Boggis; MV lamp on sheet
Agrotera nemoralis A nationally rare pyralid moth (RDB1 - endangered) and new to Cornwall (although there is an undated, unsited 19th century reference to "West Cornwall" in the Victoria County History, quoted by Frank Smith in The Butterflies & Moths of Cornwall & IOS). PB considers this specimen to probably be a migrant. |
| 2009-06-28 |
Long Rock (SW5031) - Geoff Littler - Heath Trap (22W Circular Actinic)
White Satin Moth 1 Local, Rarely Recorded |
