Garden first Eyed Hawk meets it's peril :(

A very pleasing night with good night time temperatures and plenty of cloud cover. Unfortunately it did rain during the night, and this morning it was drizzling a little.
Still I was rewarded with a garden first Eyed Hawk-moth, unfortunately a Garden Spider had got to it before me and had already delivered the fatal bite :( 
Puss moth was also new, after rearing 3 Males recently, this one was a female and another garden first, delighted!
Stigmella aurella was certainly the smallest moth in the catch, a moth I recorded earlier on in the year as a tenanted mine within Brambles at the back of the garden.

Also Pseudoswammerdamia combinella was a good new micro for the garden, and despite letting go one from last weeks catch at Roughdown Common, thinking this was initially the same individual....after a photo of the same side it clearly has different markings.


Catch Report - 05/05/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Eyed Hawk-moth [NFG]
1x Puss Moth (F) [NFG]
1x Orange Footman [NFY]
2x Red-green Carpet [NFY]
1x Buff-tip [NFY]
1x Spruce Carpet
1x Garden Carpet  

2x Brindled Pug
1x Flame Shoulder
1x Nut-tree Tussock
2x Brimstone Moth
3x Shuttle-shaped Dart

Micro Moths 

1x Pseudoswammerdamia combinella [NFG]
1x Syndemis musculana [NFY]
1x Argyrotaenia ljungiana [NFY]
1x Stigmella aurella
1x Agonopterix purpurea
1x Endrosis sarcitrella
1x Epiphyas postvittana

Argyrotaenia ljungiana

Buff-tip

Eyed Hawk-moth :(

Orange Footman

Pseudoswammerdamia combinella

Puss Moth Female

Stigmella aurella

Syndemis musculana