Wildlife Photography across the Water: Moths from the Garden

Saturday, 3 July 2010

Moths from the Garden

Back before I went off to North Uist, I mentioned on this blog that I intended to build a moth trap. Well I did, and I believe I also said I would do a post on how I built it. It was more work than I expected in terms of time, but I am pleased with it, and will share that process with you another time. I have put it out a few times now, and have just completed a successful overnight session and am pleased to share some shots with you.

My list for the night is as follows;

Common Footman x 7
Swordgrass x 2
Hebrew Character x 1
Peppered x 1
Lesser Yellow Underwing x 1
Large Yellow Underwing x 2 (1m, 1f)
Beautiful Hook Tip x 2
Brownline Bright eye x 1
Garden Dart x 1
Dark Arches x 2
Grey Dagger x 3
Cock Chafer x 1 (large beetle thing - no laughing at the title at the back there)
Poplar Hawk moth x1 (m)
Speckled Footman x 2
Mottled Beauty x 4
Ypanomeuta padella x 2
Agripheida tristella x 4

Now I am very new to mothing so I hope I have the id's correct. There are plenty of confusion species with these, or at least for me there is.

If I have any of the id's below incorrect, please drop me a line via the comments and I will be happy to update and credit you. I have used the Waring and Townsend book, see Amazon link below, it is quite excellent.

Large Yellow Underwing (male)

Large Yellow Underwing (female)

Grey Dagger

Beautiful Hook Tip

Peppered

Poplar Hawk (male)

Poplar Hawk (male) - same one different perch

Martin

1 comment:

Amila Kanchana3 July 2010 at 14:24
Perfect examples of camouflage!Looking forward to know how you built the trap.

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Bio's

David Courtenay, a self taught wildlife and nature photographer, has been capturing images for over 30 years. He has had a passion for wildlife since early childhood and remembers being glued to the television whenever Survival, Wildlife on One and other natural history documentaries were shown. In the 2006 he swapped his established career for the life of a wildlife photographer, such a move demands a measure of uncompromising passion and commitment.

David has travelled extensively throughout Europe as well as spending more than 7 months in India working with local guides and trackers in search of Bengal Tiger, Asian One horned Rhino and Asian Elephant. He has also photographed Wildlife in Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Sumatra, Africa, Canada and America. Working closely with Conservation companies he tries to raise funds to help Wildlife that has been put on the endangered list by poaching and habitation loss

Martin Dyer has had a passion for avian wildlife since childhood, particularly raptors. Photography was also another keen interest and it was with the specific availability and control of the whole process that digital offers that Martin was then able to combine the two in 2003. Based in the UK, Martin is a regular visitor to Scotland, specifically the Isle of Mull to watch the Eagles resident there. Other trips to Europe and around the UK are usually part of Martin’s agenda in a typical year.

However, as a firm believer on making the most of the local patch, Martin has spent a lot of time and hard work creating a wildlife garden which is reaping the rewards with many new species and varieties of wildlife. A keen member of a number of wildlife photographic groups, Martin is keen to expand his portfolio into other areas of wildlife, and has already established a wide portfolio of images of fungi.