Field Trip - Hexton Chalk Pit - 25/07/17
Below are the moths Trevor and myself recorded at Hexton Chalk Pit last Tuesday night.
74 Macros and 69 Micros (143 species in total) was a pleasing haul of species packing up at around 1am when the wind got up a bit, I presume that if we stayed later we would have added more.
The night was warm and relatively muggy with increasing cloud cover as the lights were switched on. At leaving time at 2am it was still 15 degrees.
Stand-out species were of course a fresh Annulet, only the second modern record, and also at least 8 examples of Teleiodes sequax, a Rock-rose feeding species and probably to be expected, again a rare moth for the County and probably confined to Chalk Grassland.
A single slightly worn Delplanqueia was kept for checking for either dilutella or inscriptella.
Acleris aspersana were absolutely everywhere and easily numbered 30+
Sitochroa palealis was also a first for me, and another Pyralid that seems to be confined to Hexton Chalk Pit in the County Paratalanta hyalinalis was recorded once again with 4 individuals.
All in all a pleasing effort and 4 new moths for me.
List below
Macro Moths
Annulet
Barred Hook-tip
Barred Rivulet
Black Arches
Brimstone
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
Brown-line Bright-eye
Buff Footman
Burnet Companion
Clay
Cloaked Minor
Clouded Silver
Common Carpet
Common Emerald
Common Rustic
Copper Underwing
Dark Arches
Dark Umber
Dingy Footman
Double Square-spot
Dun-bar
Dusky Sallow
Dusky Thorn
Dwarf Cream Wave
Engrailed
Fern
Flame Shoulder
Ghost Moth
Grey Dagger
Haworth's Pug
July Highflyer
Large Yellow Underwing
Least Carpet
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
Lesser Yellow Underwing
Light Arches
Lime-speck Pug
Maple Pug
Mottled Beauty
Mouse Moth
Nut-tree Tussock
Oak Eggar
Oak Hook-tip
Pale Prominent
Pebble Prominent
Poplar Grey
Pretty Chalk Carpet
Purple Bar
Red Twin-spot Carpet
Riband Wave
Rosy Minor
Royal Mantle
Ruby Tiger
Rustic
Scarce Footman
Setaceous Hebrew Character
Shaded Broad-bar
Shuttle-shaped Dart
Silver Y
Slender Brindle
Small Fan-footed Wave
Small Phoenix
Small Purple-barred
Small Scallop
Small Waved Umber
Smoky Wainscot
Spectacle
Straw Dot
Treble Brown Spot
White Satin
White-spotted Pug
Willow Beauty
Wood Carpet
Yellow shell
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