Monday, 5 November 2018

Tieing up loose ends and new for year species for the beginning of August

With the new for year species dropping dramatically after the long, almost never-ending Summer that we've had this year, it felt fitting to limit my posts and include the new for year species from multiple evenings.
So here are the latest batch of new additions to the year list from the end of July to the first week of August.

Some really good moths in this time period, that i'm normally away on holiday.

4 new for garden species were the highlight, and all micro's. Two were even completely new moths for me, the pine feeding Ocnerostoma sp, which needs dissection to take it to species level and
Bucculatrix albedinella, a really cruddy shot of it in a pot was the best I  managed before squashing it by accident getting it out of the pot :/

Garden species count for 2018 now upto 463.

Here are the new for year species.


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

Common Rustic - 03/07/18 (Missed from my reports)

Phyllonorycter corylifoliella - 23/07/18 [NFG]

Ptycholomoides aeriferana - 27/07/18 [NFG]

Bucculatrix albedinella - 28/07/18 (Confirmed now by dissection) [NEW!]

Enarmonia formosana - 28/07/18

Eucosma cana - 28/07/18

Ocnerostoma piniariella/friesei - 28/07/18 [NEW!] (To be dissected)

Pandemis corylana - 28/07/18

Tinea semifulvella - 29/07/18

Dark Sword-grass - 03/08/18

Small Square-spot - 05/08/18

Epinotia nisella - 05/08/18

Mompha propinquella - 05/08/18

Catoptria falsella - 07/08/18

Toadflax Pug - 07/08/18

Ocnerostoma piniariella/friesei

Pandemis corylana

Ptycholomoides aeriferana

Small Square-spot

Enarmonia formosana

Dark Sword-grass - really dark!

Common Rustic

Mompha propinquella

Catoptria falsella

Bucculatrix albedinella

Epinotia nisella

Toadflax Pug

Phyllonorycter corylifoliella

Tinea semifulvella - knackered