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Migrant Moths Ireland

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Delicate (Mythimna vitellina) © M O'Donnell

Welcome to the Migrant Moths Ireland webpage, providing up-to-date reports, summary and archival material on both common and rarer immigrant moths throughout the island.  Please email any records (recent or older), and photographs if available, as frequently as possible to  migrants [at] mothsireland.com, or post to the MothsIreland newsgroup.  Many thanks to those who have contributed to date.
 
Records listed here may include unverified reports and are subject to later updates.  Records submitted for Northern Ireland will be copied to Butterfly Conservation Northern Ireland for their website (www.bcni.org.uk/).  Records will also be used for an annual report on migrant Lepidoptera in the Irish Naturalists' Journal, and may be passed to other websites, newsgroups and the compilers of the annual report in The Entomologist's Record.

Key & photo-links DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Blair's Mocha Cyclophora puppillaria Delicate Mythimna vitellina Scarce Bordered Straw Helicoverpa armigera Nutmeg Discestra trifolii
to species Dark Hummingbird Pearly Small Mottled Silver Y Diamond- Rusty-dot Rush Bordered Straw Heliothis peltigera Eastern Bordered Straw Heliothis nubigera Striped Hawk-moth Hyles livornica Shuttle-shpd Dart A. puta
(scarcer species to right) Sword-grass Hawk-moth Underwing Willow   back Moth Pearl Veneer Convolvulus Hawk-moth Agrius convolvuli Gem Orthonama obstipata Small Marbled Eublemma parva Euchromius ocellea
red = first Irish Agrotis Macroglossum Peridroma Spodoptera Autographa Plutella Udea Nomophila Cosmopolitan Mythimna loreyi Great Brocade Eurois occulta Vestal Rhodometra sacraria Antigastra catalaunalis
orange = first reported of year ipsilon stellatarum saucia exigua gamma xylostella ferrugalis noctuella Death's Head Hawk-moth Acherontia atropos Ni Moth Trichoplusia ni White-speck Mythimna unipuncta Palpita vitrealis

January 2012

Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
06-Jan Robert's Cove Cork 1 first migrant (or over-winterer) of year Sean Bourke

November 2011

Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
27-Nov Tramore Waterford H6 1 S578014 at light Tony Bryant
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
22-Nov Dundalk Louth H31 1 J066060 at light Don Hodgers
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
21-Nov Tramore town Waterford H6 2 S578014 dusk obs Tony Bryant
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
20-Nov Clandeboye Down H38 1 1 John McLean per MI newsgroup
20-Nov Tramore town Waterford H6 1 2 2 Gem Orthonama obstipata & Crocidosema plebejana S578014 at light Tony Bryant
20-Nov Cronykeery Wicklow H20 2 T2998 at light Angus Tyner per MI newsgroup
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
19-Nov Crosshaven Cork H4 1 W7961 at light (window) Dara Fitzpatrick per MI newsgroup
19-Nov Dundalk Louth H31 1 J066060 at light Don Hodgers
19-Nov Tramore town Waterford H6 1 2 Gem Orthonama obstipata S578014 at light Tony Bryant
19-Nov Cronykeery Wicklow H20 3 3 T2998 at light Angus Tyner per MI newsgroup
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
16-Nov Tramore town Waterford H6 1 S578014 at light Tony Bryant

Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
15-Nov Tramore town Waterford H6 1 S578014 dusk obs Tony Bryant
15-Nov Cronykeery Wicklow H20 1 T2998 at light Angus Tyner per MI newsgroup
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
14-Nov Tramore town Waterford H6 1 Gem Orthonama obstipata S578014 at light Tony Bryant
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
13-Nov Tramore town Waterford H6 2 1 S578014 at light Tony Bryant
13-Nov Kilpatrick dunes Wexford H12 1 T2465 at light Michael O'Donnell per MI newsgrp
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
12-Nov Tramore town Waterford H6 1 S578014 dusk obs Tony Bryant
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
11-Nov Cronykeery Wicklow H20 Gem Orthonama obstipata T2998 at light Angus Tyner per MI newsgroup
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
10-Nov Dundalk Louth H31 1 J066060 at light Don Hodgers
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
09-Nov Great Newtown Hd, Tramore Waterford H6 1 1 X5698 day obs Tony Bryant
09-Nov Kilmore Quay Wexford H12 1 at Escallonia day obs Killian Mullarney
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
08-Nov Dundalk Louth H31 1 J066060 at light Don Hodgers
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
07-Nov Great Newtown Hd, Tramore Waterford H6 1 X5698 day obs Tony Bryant
07-Nov Newtown Cove, Tramore Waterford H6 1 X5799 day obs "
07-Nov Tramore town Waterford H6 2 S578014 at light "
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
05-Nov Tramore town Waterford H6 1 S578014 dusk obs "
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
04-Nov Ballagan Point, Cooley Louth H31 2 very worn J244074 Don Hodgers
04-Nov Great Newtown Hd, Tramore Waterford H6 14 1 1 X5698 day obs Tony Bryant
04-Nov Newtown Cove, Tramore Waterford H6 2 1 X5799 day obs "
04-Nov Tramore town Waterford H6 Gem Orthonama obstipata S578014 at light "
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
03-Nov Cronykeery Wicklow H20 1 1 2 Vestal Rhodometra sacraria T2998 at light Angus Tyner per MI newsgroup
03-Nov Tramore town Waterford H6 1 S578014 at light Tony Bryant
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
01-Nov Cliff Road, Tramore Waterford H6 1 S5700 day obs Tony Bryant
01-Nov Great Newtown Hd, Tramore Waterford H6 1 X5698 day obs "
01-Nov Tramore town Waterford H6 Vestal Rhodometra sacraria S578014 at light "
01-Nov " Waterford H6 1 S578014 dusk obs "

October 2011

Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
Oct Cobh Cork + + Gem Sean Ronayne per MI newsgrp

Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
30-Oct Brownstown Head Waterford H6 1 1 X6298 at light PM Walsh
30-Oct " " " 1 X6298 at ivy "
30-Oct Tramore town Waterford H6 2 6 S578014 at light Tony Bryant
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
27-Oct Carrickavrantry Waterford H6 1 1 day obs Tony Bryant
27-Oct Tramore town Waterford H6 1 S578014 at light "
27-Oct " " H6 6 S578014 dusk obs "
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
26-Oct Tilickafinna, Dursey Island Cork H3 Crimson Speckled Utetheisa pulchella day obs AAK Lancaster per D. Scott
26-Oct Ballagan Point Louth H31 1 J244074 day obs Don Hodgers
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
21-Oct Tramore town Waterford H6 1 S578014 dusk obs Tony Bryant

Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
19-Oct Crosshaven Cork H4 1 W8061 dusk obs PM Walsh
19-Oct Great Newtown Hd, Tramore Waterford H6 1 X5698 day obs Tony Bryant
19-Oct Newtown Cove, Tramore Waterford H6 1 X5799 day obs "
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
18-Oct Carrickavrantry Waterford H6 1 S5502 day obs Tony Bryant
18-Oct Tramore town Waterford H6 1 S578014 dusk obs Tony Bryant
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
17-Oct Tramore town Waterford H6 2 S578014 dusk obs Tony Bryant
Date Site County VC DSG HHM PU SMW SY DbM RdP RV Other species / notes Grid ref Method Recorder
16-Oct Crosshaven Cork H4 2 W8061 dusk obs PM Walsh
16-Oct Tramore town Waterford H6 1