Barred Carpet - Via Gellia

The Barred Carpet is one of the rarest resident moths in the County and Via Gellia is one of the few places where it can be seen. I've mentioned in past posts the difficulty of catching a fresh example of the Barred Carpet but Simon caught this one earlier this week which is one of the best I've seen.

Barred Carpet 

Barred Carpet - Via Gellia

A couple of interesting moth records from Simon Roddis. This is the Barred Carpet which has a status of Nationally Scarce A which means it is only known from 16-30 10km squares in Great Britain since 1 January 1980. The Via Gellia is the only site I am aware of where there is a significant population. I have yet to see a fresh specimen, the Barred Carpet seems to loose its scales very quickly.

Barred Carpet

Barred Carpet distribution - c. NBN Gateway

Via Gellia - Barred Carpet

At last decent weather and a successful trip to the Via Gellia which produced Barred Carpet a national rarity, designated Na, it looks like this is the back end of their flight period as I only caught one and it was very dark which appears to occur with wear. Also Red-necked Footman, a Derbyshire rarity plus Small White Wave and Barred Yellow for the year. I've added another photo of Triple-spotted Clay, I caught three last night but still confuse them with Double Square-spot. Still to sort the micro's but Udea olivalis was by far the commonest moth with perhaps 50, also several Pandemis cinnamomeana. Clouded Magpie was the commonest macro with 30+.

Barred Carpet