{"id":2683,"date":"2016-07-24T15:47:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T15:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2016-07-24T17:58:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T17:58:28","slug":"moths-in-hemsworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2683","title":{"rendered":"Moths in Hemsworth"},"content":{"rendered":"

The moth trap regularly brings in species that I have not seen previously in my garden. Last night, a new species was the satin moth (Leucoma salicis<\/em>).<\/p>\n

\"White

White satin moth<\/p><\/div>\n

At first glance, this is similar to the yellow-tailed moth (Euproctis similis<\/em>) but there are several differences, including size.<\/p>\n

\"Yellow-tailed

Yellow-tailed moth<\/p><\/div>\n

Another new species seen was campion (Sideridis rivularis<\/em>).<\/p>\n

\"Campion

Campion moth<\/p><\/div>\n

The vapourer moth is very common but it hasn’t turned up in my moth trap until last night. This species has flightless females.<\/p>\n

\"Vapourer

Vapourer moth<\/p><\/div>\n

Recently, I’ve been making the effort to identify some of the tiny micro-moths. Starting on the left and moving clockwise, the following picture shows bee moth (Euzophera pinguis<\/em>), golden brown tubic (Crassa<\/em> unitella) and gold triangle (Hypsopygia costalis).<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Micro-moths\"

Micro-moths<\/p><\/div>\n

The bee moth is one of several species that cause problems for beekeepers by damaging the combs in beehives when they are in storage. The larvae of the golden-brown tubic feed on fungi and dead bark, whilst the larvae of the gold triangle feed on dry vegetable matter, such as hay and straw.<\/p>\n

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The moth trap regularly brings in species that I have not seen previously in my garden. Last night, a new species was the satin moth (Leucoma salicis). At first glance, this is similar to the yellow-tailed moth (Euproctis similis) but … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[240,261,262],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2694,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions\/2694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}