- Hen Harrier IrelandEducation
- Butterfly Conservation IrelandNon-Governmental Organization (NGO)
- BirdWatch Ireland Corca Dhuibhne - West Kerry BranchNonprofit Organization
MothsIreland shared a group.
We have an active Facebook Group. Here you can get an insight to the extraordinary variety and beauty of our moths. There are plenty of experts there to answer identity queries or share info on other aspects of moth recording in Ireland.
It is with great sadness to inform of the passing of Maurice Hughes. Maurice was an all-round naturalist with over 30 years’ experience studying Lepidoptera. He was the first Regional Officer for Butterfly Conservation Northern Ireland from 2001 to 2010. In this role one of Maurice’s primary aims was to gain a better understanding of knowledge gaps in the distribution, range and ecology of Lepidoptera in Northern Ireland. [ 126 more words ]
Some of you might be interested in the Macro-moth Red List which has just been published. http://www.npws.ie/…/RL9%20Moths%20final%20version%20for%20…
A major new report on our UK butterflies is out today. The State of UK Butterflies 2015 is made possible thanks to the many thousands of volunteers who have su...bmitted butterfly records and carried out our transects and wider countryside surveys for over the past 40 years.
After detailed analysis of this data, the news is not good for many species, including some of our most common and widespread butterflies, although there is strong and clear evidence too that targeted conservation work can make a real difference and slow, stop and reverse declines.
About 830 micro-moth maps have been updated. For the first time these include Northern Ireland records to give an all Ireland view of distribution. Click this for the map page or click the map here. This map shows the distribution of Agriphila straminella from the records we have. This species leads the 10km square count, but in reality this moth should have complete coverage but the lack of recording in central Ireland and other areas are the reason for the holes in its distribution. Please let us know of any errors ie. wrong map, missing species, missing records, erroneous records etc.
Out of our 570+ species of macro-moth, only 34 have been recorded from all 40 Irish vice-counties. These are Emperor Moth Flame Carpet Silver-ground Carpet Garden Carpet Shaded Broad-bar Common Carpet Common Marbled Carpet Green Carpet Clouded Border Brimstone Moth Mottled Beauty Common Heath Common Wave Poplar Hawk-moth Buff-tip Garden Tiger White Ermine Buff Ermine Cinnabar Heart and Dart Large Yellow Underwing… [ 659 more words. ]
http://www.mothsireland.com/species-missing-from-vice-coun…/
Related to moths,
A report on decline of UK butterflies
https://peerj.com/articles/1402/
The macro-moth maps have been updated. These include an updated Northern Ireland dataset and the combined datasets make up in excess of 600,000 records. The maps can be access from here There are also some special maps Finally clicking the image here will open an explanation page which gives a brief outline of the numbering or code system and all the other data visible on the maps. [ 26 more words. ]
MothsIreland.com is down
Website is hosted with Blacknight and here is latest info.
Major outage affecting our network
By Tara Kelly on 27th October 2015 @ 12:21 pm in Cloud VM, Control Panel, Email, Hosted Exchange, Linux, Network, Shared Hosting, VPS, Website
We are currently experiencing a network-related outage that is affecting almost all services. It is our highest priority right now and we hope to have it resolved as soon as possible.
We will update this post as soon as we have more information.
Update: 13:15: We’re continuing to work towards a resolution. Unfortunately we do not have an ETA right now.
Update: 13:36: Our network engineers are continuing to battle this attack. We’ll provide an update every 15 minutes from now but again no ETA is available currently.
It is with sadness to note the recent passing of Chris Wilson. Our deepest sympathy to family and friends and while he will be greatly missed, he will forever be fondly remembered. Below are tributes from Ken Bond and Michael O'Donnell. I first got to know Chris Wilson when he was based in Co. Tipperary, and recording the Lepidoptera of Cappamurra Bog. [ 555 more words. ]
There is a new form for submitting records which is hopefully touch screen friendly for most of you. It'll only take one or two records, so trap lists can continue to be entered in form that has been available. What will hopefully work on touch screen is the auto complete for the species. Enter any part of name, English or scientific, or number old or new and the matching options will decrease as you type. [ 71 more words. ]
Two eagle eyed girls spotted a large caterpillar which had fallen out of a Lime tree in Dublin. This was identified as Lime Hawk-moth and photos were forwarded to MothsIreland for confirmation. The blue horn, the warts on the anal flap and the green head with white stripes are diagnostic. This is the 3rd Irish record. The 2 previous records were both adults and both also north Dublin City. [ 132 more words. ]
We are in the season for Goat Moth caterpillar sightings. The caterpillars are unmistakable, pink or dark pink on sides and reddish purple on top, about 100mm or 4 inches long and as thick as a finger. Have you seen one? If so, we'd like to know. The caterpillars spend many years munching away inside trees. Many species of trees can be host. [ 97 more words. ]
16th July Mothsireland.com website has had a lot of downtime during past couple days. This may continue today. Status note from host
"Update Thursday 09:00: We have resolved an issue with the vendor that was delaying our long term resolution which is moving to new hardware, that has commenced now and should be completed by the end of the day, an Engineer is logged in constantly to the server and trying to keeping it stable until we can migrate servers to new hardware.
This issue is our number one priority."
MothsIreland shared a group.
Seasons greeting everyone and best wishes for 2015.
We have set up a MothsIreland Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/mothsireland/
This will be better for posting photos and ID requests as the presentation on the wall is much better.
Also there is a search function which is absent here.
You do need to join to post.
Other MothsIreland related news will continue to be posted here.
Oh and we've just passed 500 likes here 
Horse Chestnut Leaf-miner Cameraria ohridella present in Ireland http://wp.me/p4rG68-dm
Trapping in Camolin Wood last Friday produced a huge catch, the best of which was a Black Arches. There are only two previous records in Ireland. The first one was in 1890 in Co Sligo. The other one was a larva found in Glengarriff in 1914. So 100 years since the last record. Is there a previously unknown population in Camolin? Only one way to find out!
