Despite somewhat unpromising conditions (windy and clear), my best night's trapping so far this year, with more than 100 species in or around the trap for the first time. The most numerous species were Rosy Footman, Shuttle-shaped Dart, Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing, and Cydia splendana, but the catch was notable for variety rather than total numbers.
Among the rarer highlights were an extraordinary-looking Scarce Chocolate-tip, at least three gorgeous Tree-lichen Beauties, and a rather underwhelming Olive Crescent.
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| Scarce Chocolate-tip |
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| Tree-lichen Beauty |
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| Olive Crescent |
I also had a number of other new macros for the garden list. It was a relief to get my first Lychnis at long last - I've lost track of how many Pod-Lovers I've tried to turn into this species - while Iron Prominent, Chocolate-tip, and Twin-spotted Wainscot were welcome additions.
Twin-spotted Wainscot - at last, a wainscot I can actually identify! A rather smart looking one, too - presumably attracted to the 2 square metres of reed bed in my garden pond.
Of course, no trapping session is complete without at least one unidentifiable moth, and this came in the form of this rather handsome Ear, probably Saltern Ear.
Moths recorded Rosy Footman |
| Yellow-tailed |
| Privet Hawkmoth |
| Blastobasis adustella |
| Black Arches |
| Willow Beauty |
| Scarce Footman |
| Riband Wave |
| Buff-tip |
| Small Magpie |
| Anania coronata |
| Shuttle-shaped Dart |
| Fan-foot |
| Common Rustic |
| Silver Y |
| Acleris forsskaleana |
| Jersey Tiger |
| Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing |
| Crambus pascella |
| White-line Dart |
| Small Rivulet |
| Oak Nycteolines |
| Drinker |
| Zeiraphera isertana |
| Phycita roborella |
| Small Blood Vein |
| Pine Carpet |
| Least Carpet |
| Uncertain |
| Four-spot Footman |
| Rustic |
| Brussels Lace |
| Iron Prominent |
| Lychnis |
| Flame |
| Nutmeg |
| Flame Shoulder |
| Bud Moth |
| Cloaked Minor |
| Cydia splendana |
| Dark Arches |
| Dun-bar |
| Large Yellow Underwing |
| Grey Dagger agg |
| Knot-grass |
| Mother of Pearl |
| Double Square Spot |
| Buff Footman |
| Strawn Dot |
| Endotricha flammealis |
| Dingy Footman |
| Bright-line Brown-eye |
| Jersey Mocha |
| Lesser Yellow Underwing |
| Carcina quercana |
| Diamond-back Moth |
| Snout |
| Garden Grass Veneer |
| Small Angle Shades |
| Bird Wing |
| Buff Ermine |
| Beautiful Hook-tip |
| Teleiodes luculella |
| Buff Arches |
| Common Footman |
| Small Fan-footed Wave |
| Clouded Border |
| Tree-lichen Beauty |
| Chocolate-tip |
| Scarce Chocolate-tip |
| Twin-spotted Wainscot |
| Double-striped Pug |
| Large Tabby |
| Kent Black Arches |
| Angle Shades |
| Swallow Prominent |
| Single-dotted Wave |
| Maiden's Blush |
| Guernsey Underwing |
| Marbled Green |
| Olive Crescent |
| Grey Pine Carpet |
| Udea ferruginalis |
| Rush Veneer |
| Anania verbascalis |
| Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet |
| Cochylis dubitana |
| Acleris aspersana |
| Catoptria pinella |
| Batia lambdella |
| Agrophila tristella |
| Synaphe punctalis |
| Aethes smeathmanniana |
| Pammene aurita |
| Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix |
| Saltern Ear |
| Evergestis limbata |
| Crassa unitella |
| Acrocercops brongniardella |
| Caloptilia rufipennella |
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