Mothing is keeping me busy!

Very busy! With so much to write up, I think the next few posts may be short on text! 

Last Sunday I did very well in the garden again, with some warm condition again it was pretty much perfect for moths.

Best moth was a new for year Tree-lichen Beauty (since then i've added a further two this year which is great to see)

A Lesser Common Rustic was also dissected and added to my garden list, it looked a good candidate from external features but these aren't always reliable alone, luck was with me and it was confirmed a couple of days ago.

Common Rustics are the commonest moth at the moment with 16 examples recorded.

Surprisingly Poplar Grey was a garden first...I'd never expect to see Poplar Lutestring 2 years prior to seeing this species.

Dark Sword-grass was my first decent migrant of the year.

Catch Report - 24/07/16 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

 

Macro Moths

Lesser Common Rustic 1 [NFG]

Poplar Grey [NFG]

Dark Sword-grass [NFY]

Maple Pug 1 [NFY] 

September Thorn [NFY]

Square-spot Rustic 1[NFY]

Tree-lichen Beauty 1 [NFY]

Bright-line Brown-eye 1

Brimstone Moth 1

Buff Footman 1

Clay 1

Clouded Silver 1

Common Carpet 1

Common Footman 3

Common Rustic 16

Common Wainscot 1

Dark Arches 1

Dot Moth 7

Double-striped Pug 2

Double Square-spot 1

Elephant Hawk-moth 1

Fan-foot 1

Garden Carpet 1

Grey Dagger 1

Haworth's Pug 1

July Highflyer 1

Large Yellow Underwing 2

Least Carpet 1

Lesser Yellow Underwing 1

Marbled Beauty 2

Nut-tree Tussock 1

Pale Mottled Willow 1

Poplar Hawk-moth 1

Riband Wave 4

Ruby Tiger 2

Scalloped Oak 1

Shuttle-shaped Dart 1

Silver-Y 6

Slender Brindle 1

Small Blood-vein 1

Small Rivulet 1

Straw Underwing 2

Uncertain 4

Willow Beauty 1

Yellow Shell 1

Yellow-tail 1

Micro Moths

Bryotropha domestica 1 [NFY] 

Recurvaria leucatella 1 [NFY]

Acleris forsskaleana 1

Acrobasis advenella 1

Agriphila tristella 1

Anania hortulata 1

Aphelia paleana 1

Argyresthia brockeella 1

Argyresthia goedartella 1

Blastobasis adustella 1

Bryotropha terrella 1

Chrysoteuchia culmella 7

Clepsis consimilana 1

Coleophora sp 1

Endotricha flammelis 2

Epiphyas postvittana 1

Eusonia lacustrata 2

Eudonia mercurella 1

Hofmannophila pseudospretella 1

Oegoconia sp 1

Pandemis heparana 2

Pleuroptya ruralis 1

Plutella xylostella 3

Pyrausta aurata 1

Spilonota ocellana 4

Tachystola acroxantha 1

Yponomeuta evonymella 1

Dark Sword-grass

Lesser Commn Rustic

Poplar Grey

Tree-lichen Beauty

Ruby Tiger