A new Plume! - Garden Trapping - Fordham - Cambridgeshire - 09/09/21

Last Thursday, with a high of 21 degrees and fair, it was all about the overnight conditions with temperatures holding in mid-double digits.

By 6am it was still 15.5c degrees on the car as I left for work.

Another collection of new garden species despite the late date.

Notables were second garden records of Blue Underwing, Evergestis limbata and Cochylidia implicitana!

Pick of the Macro Moths was a Lunar Yellow Underwing, a few more in-between then and now also.

But the best moth of the night was a Plume, and one of the Oxyptilus species which turned out to be distans (Thanks go to Graeme Smith for taking the time to check the texts that I don't have and doing a nifty drawing).

I know it's in the area, as Leslie Gardiner trapped one a few days up the road from me. 

The common name is Breckland Plume.

 

Below are the new species for the year.

Moth garden list stands at 157 species.

09/09/21 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

 

Macro Moths

 

Engrailed 1 [NFG]

Lunar Yellow Underwing 2 [NFG]

Small Blood-vein 1 [NFG]

Small Square-spot 1 [NFG]

 

Micro Moths

 

Agapeta hamana 1 [NFG]

Oxypteryx atrella 1 [NFG]

Oxyptilus distans 1 [NEW]

 

Blue Underwing

Oxyptilus distans (top) laetus (bottom)

Graeme's Drawing

Lunar Yellow Underwing

Oxypteryx atrella

Small Square-spot

Oxyptilus distans