7th October 2012 - Néhány őszi bükki lepke

 

  Tarka Őszibagoly   Agrochola litura      Brown-spot Pinion
 

The weather forecast was true and last night's temperature stayed above 10 degrees. The nights have been cooler in general though and the Hedera flowers, which are still busy with diptera and hymenoptera by day, are much quieter at night than they were in the last few days of September. Then we found a good range of autumn Noctuids nectaring which will be the subject of another post. So I decided to try light to record a few more species before the winter sets in.

The trap attracted a delightful range of species (about 70 moths in total) including a couple I have yet to determine.

40W actinic light, Miskolctapolca 6th-7th October 2012:

Agrochola circellaris

Agrochola laevis
Agrochola litura
Allophyes oxyacanthae
Colotois pennaria
Conistra erythrocephala
Conistra vaccinii
Cymatophorina diluta
Diloba caeruleocephala
Dryobotodes eremita
Eupithecia ericeata
Eupsilia transversa
Hypsopygia costalis
Idaea degeneraria
Idaea seriata
Lygephila craccae
Thera juniperata


Kékes Őszibagoly   Diloba caeruleocephala          Figure of Eight

Tollascsápú Araszoló    Colotois pennaria     Feathered Thorn
Some marvel at tropical orchids and hummingbirds but
what happened with evolution and moths' wings and
temperate deciduous tree leaves is pretty amazing.

Őszi Pihésszövő      Cymatophorina diluta           Oak Lutestring

 

25th September 2012 - a storm and Beautiful Arches



Őszi Porfírbagoly    Mniotype satura     Beautiful Arches

My moth trap arrived in Hungary 9 days behind me and was set the next evening. Unfortunately this coincided with a great thunderstorm and torrential rain for most of the night. The rainshield did its job though and there were still about 40 moths of 20 species inside in the morning. These included two Beautiful Arches and several other autumn noctuids (oszibaglyok).

Tiliacea sulphurago
Tiliacea aurago
Allophyes oxyacanthae
Xanthia icteritia
Cymatophorina diluta
Conistra rubiginea
Eupsilia transversa
Lygephila craccae
Noctua comes
Noctua janthe
Tholera decimalis
Mythimna l-album
Mniotype satura
Amphipyra livida
Autographa gamma
Agrochola laevis

The Geometridae were represented by The Tissue (Triphosa dubitata), Feathered Thorn (Colotois pennaria), Portland Ribbon Wave (Idaea degeneraria) and a very smart Red-green Carpet (Chloroclysta siterata).