Day-flying moth records

Post date: Nov 3, 2011 3:02:53 PM

David Redhead sent me some very welcome day-flying moth records in, errmm, 2009, and they have now been speedily added to the main database. Day-flyers are generally under-recorded, and David has several records that are new for their 10km squares:

• • 0171: Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet (Zygaena lonicerae), Kennington Memorial Field, 19/06/2007; 156 previous records on database - 2nd for 10km square

  • 1370: Sitochroa palealis, Hinksey Heights Golf course, 03/08/2006; 43 previous records on database - good record (new for 10km square), has become scarcer again in recent years

  • 1732: Shaded Broad-bar (Scotopteryx chenopodiata), Kennington Memorial Field, 02/08/2007; 978 previous records on database - 2nd for 10km square

  • 1752: Purple Bar (Cosmorhoe ocellata), Kennington Memorial Field, 02/08/2007; 235 previous records on database - new for 10km square

  • 2069: Cinnabar (Tyria jacobaeae), Setaside south of Lower Sugworth Copse, 19/06/2007; 1275 previous records on database - 2nd for 10km square

  • 2462: Mother Shipton (Callistege mi), Kennington Memorial Field, 02/06/2007; 144 previous records on database - new for 10km square

  • 2463: Burnet Companion (Euclidia glyphica), Chilswell Valley Reserve, 05/05/2007; 234 previous records on database - new for 10km square

  • 2474: Straw Dot (Rivula sericealis), Setaside south of Lower Sugworth Copse, 20/06/2009; 2273 previous records on database - 2nd for 10km square