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Sussex Moth Group Newsletter SussexSussex MothMoth GroupGroup NewsletterNewsletter November 2014 Alexander Keith by Underwing Yellow Oak Main features inside this issue: Mothing Memorabilia by David Burrows 2 Oak Yellow Underwing by Keith Alexander 5 On Safari by Heather Marn 6 Some Spring/Summer/Autumn highlights 10 Scarlet Tiger by Jeremy Paerson 16 More on Musoma by Hew Prendergast 17 Burnets in Brief by Neil Hulme 19 Hasngs Area Moth News by Crystal Ray 20 A Complete History of the Buerflies & Moths in Sussex Volume 4 by Colin Pra 22 Commiee members and 2015 indoor meeng dates Back page Chairman’s Corner Dave needs to write this bit! Dave Green 11 Mothing Memorabilia by David Burrows Some while ago my wife and I visited a small nursery garden in Bale. It was off the beaten track, family run and truly old fashioned. It was one of those places where vegetable plants or wallflowers in season would be pulled to order from their drilled rows in the open ground, and sold in twenty‐fives ed with raffia. There was no sign of the paraphernalia cluering modern garden centres, where the staff tends not to know a Doronicum from a Dandelion; at this place they had a rack of wooden shelves holding second hand books. ‘Buerfly Haunts’ by L Hugh Newman caught my eye and it was mine for a modest dona‐ on. This was a decent enough find by itself, to join other tles that I already have from the same author. When I opened the book at home it was not only a numbered and signed copy, but ‘Buerfly Farm’ leaflets and price lists from the years 1950, 1951 and 1952 fell out: gold dust ephemera. Mr Newman (and his father before him) ran a very successful business from Bexley in Kent dealing in “Everything for the naturalist, ready for immediate dispatch”. He was one of the panellists on BBC radio’s monthly ‘Nature Parliament’ with eminent naturalists of the day. Some of today’s mothing folk will have early memories of the Buerfly Farm and its mail order efficiency. Newman’s regular price lists were a barometer of rarity that stays with me to this day, so it was nice to glance back sixty odd years in a ‘comparison‐fest’. Firstly, some of the English names now seem unfamiliar: Rose Carpet (from the larval food plant) is today’s Shoulder Stripe, Iris Wainscot (Iris=larval food plant) becomes Webb’s Wainscot, and Fiery Clearwing was then Ruby Clearwing. For many years I knew what is now known as San Lutestring as San Carpet. I somemes sll want to write Wood Leopard for Leopard. In buerfly names (I know we are a moth group, sorry) Newman was sll using Greasy Frillary for Marsh Fri‐ llary and Clifden Blue for Adonis Blue. The Buerfly Farm winter livestock list for 1950 and 1951 apologised for its paucity, due to very bad weather during the summer months, but sll included the ferle ova of Large Thorn at 2/6 (about 25p) a dozen, and Clifden Nonpareil (from Ashford, Kent) at 12/‐ per dozen (about 10p an egg). In the same list, ‘hibernang living larvae’ (‘Valuable Hints’ pam‐ phlet, price nine pence), of Lappet, various Tigers, Large Emerald, Swallow‐tailed Moth could be bought for up to five shillings per dozen. The only pupae on offer that year were 22 Connued…. Kensh Glory. Looking at the spring and summer price list for the 1952 season; ova, larvae and pupae of twenty four buerfly species and thirty odd moths were listed. A supplementary list contain‐ ing the Irish forms of fourteen buerfly species in all stages was offered, to be mailed direct from Ireland. There were separate livestock lists for American or Indian Giant Foreign Silk Moths in larval or pupal stage. You must, however, trawl through Newman’s main price list of set insects to find the stark‐ est picture of the decline in so many species over sixty years. In his list you will find the V‐ Moth, now a very uncommon insect but then its list price of tuppence showed how common it once was. The Barberry Carpet, now teetering towards exncon, was then listed as four pence, the same price as the Scalloped Hazel. Next for comparison, a very choice trio: Black‐veined Moth (currently protected under schedule V of the Wildlife and Countryside Act), Scarce Chocolate‐p (now listed as endan‐ gered, RDBI), and the previously menoned Ruby Clearwing (another schedule 5 insect from the Wildlife and Countryside Act). The first of these three was priced at sixpence, the second again at sixpence and the third was a shilling (10p today) on a par with the Peacock Moth at 1950 rangs, which really makes you think! Lastly, the Death’s‐head Hawk‐Moth had a price tag of fieen shillings, whilst the Clifden Nonpareil was top money at twenty five shillings (75p and £1.25 respecvely), the laer rep‐ resenng almost a week’s wages for me at the me, pung the whole thing in perspecve. Watkins and Doncaster (established five years earlier than LW Newman in 1879) also pub‐ lished wonderful price lists and I have one from 1933, complete with slightly rusty staples (so this is rather fragile). Besides offering everything for the entomologist, Watkins and Don‐ caster would supply tools, books and apparatus for taxidermists: brain scoop and hook, one shilling each; arsenical soap, by the pound weight, or fat scraper, one and sixpence. Ento‐ mologists could be supplied with brass chloroform boles (best quality), five shillings; im‐ proved American moth trap with lamp and reflector, seventy five shillings or with electric light fings, an extra ten shillings. Elder Pith (do not ask) was eight pence a bundle. Orni‐ thologists, oologists, geologists, botanists and coleopterists were all catered for. A forty‐ drawer cabinet in solid mahogany with glass door? Yours for £52.10s. The range of entomo‐ logical pins on offer occupied nearly one page and priced per ounce, per 100 and per 1000‐ 33 in “silvered”, nickel, black, white or stainless. Looking at the lists of sets of insects, this table (below) shows the scores of telling price comparisons across the seventeen years from 1933 to 1950. Here are ten to reflect on:‐ 1933 (Watkins and Doncaster) 1950 (Newman) Pound, shillings and pence Pound, shillings and pence Pine Hawk‐moth 6d 6/6 (Connental stock only) Alder Kien 7/6 6/6 Lobster Moth 2/6 2/‐ Grass Eggar 1/‐ 1/6 San Carpet (now known 2/6 2/6 as San Lutestring *) Orange Underwing 5d 5d L‐Album Wainscot (listed 5d 3/6 in 1933 as an introduced species) Small Eggar 2d 3d Argent and Sable 4d 4d Straw Belle 3d 3d Figure 1 showing table of comparisons of moth species across seventeen years from 1933 to 1950. *At this price it was of equal rarity to the Light Crimson Underwing in Newman’s 1950 list. Finally, described as their ‘Short list’ of preserved buerfly and moth larvae, in the Watkins and Doncaster publicaon there were 174 different species. Un‐put‐down‐able. 44 Oak Yellow Underwing by Keith Alexander I approached my trap on the morning of the 22nd July 2014 without any great expecta‐ ons, as all the talk of the Spanish Plume over the weekend had resulted in only a single Silver Y. My 60w acnic Skinner trap has a wooden ledge on the inside and aer sorng out half the trap, I ran my finger along underneath and out popped a moth which gave a flash of yellow as it dropped to the trap floor. It was soon in a pot, and aer a quick glance I realised what it might be, and happily it was quickly confirmed by Colin Pra as Sussex’s first Oak Yellow Underwing Catocala nymphagoga, and apparently the sixth for Britain. The Spanish Plume had brought an ex‐ cing moth to my Bexhill garden aer all! 55 On Safari by Heather Martin Two traps – yes. Two sheets – yes. Eight legs, eight poles – yes. Spare bulb – yes. And so the check list goes on. Cable – yes. Books and notebook – yes. Plasc pots of vari‐ ous sizes. Torches plus spare baeries – yes. And on ………Snack bag, water, flask, matches. And on ………Fleece jackets, waterproof jackets, hats – yes. Finally we get to the generator – the last item to be loaded because it smells. Our car’s huge boot is almost full. Are we off on an exoc expedion for a few weeks? No, we’re off for a few hours of moth trapping in our wood! Wouldn’t it be easier just to connect the trap to the main’s supply at home then toddle off to a warm, comfortable bed, rising early the following morning to invesgate the contents? Well yes, but then I would have missed some truly magical experiences and fascinang ob‐ servaons of the wildlife acve in our woodland at night. We always make a point of sing the generator as far away as possible from the shelter where we set up camp so the connual rasping purr doesn’t drown out all natural sounds. Once the traps have been assembled and the fire has been lit, we sele down to eat our supper watching as the detail and colour drains from the surrounding trees unl they be‐ come silhouees against a darkening sky. Bats flier over our heads on their patrol of the clearing’s perimeter. Badgers emerge from their se scratching, scraping and snuffling along a well‐worn pathway out to the field, while Tawny owls ‘tu‐whit’ then ‘whooo’ to one another.
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