Busy times! Anyone tired like me?

It's been a brilliant week for moths here in my garden, so much so that it has been hard to remember what i've already had! 

I write with bleary eyes and sleep depravation, i've been out in the field two nights on a trot, this rarely happens for me!

Late nights and early mornings hurt the brain, and my body was telling me this morning that I needed sleep, as I got up late at 6am to go through my trap, unfortunately the birds had beat me to it, and there was less than expected on the wall of the house. 

Upto Thursday, I was jotting down every moth species, including numbers. But now due to time constraints I have since started to list just the newbies for the year.

On Wednesday night and after a hot day of 25 degrees, and with temperatures not falling below 13c the trap was busy.

 

Some real standout species were present, which included...

 

Marbled Coronet was the smartest individual I have ever caught, a great addition to the garden list.

Barred Yellow, not much else to say really, what a pretty moth!

Brown-tail, they always act dead as a curl up into a ball, nice and fresh.

Pretty Chalk Carpet, unfortunately a bit worn

Best of the smaller moths (but by no means inferior), were Dichrorampha petiverella, Scoparia basistrigalis & Tinea pellionella.

A couple of Coleophora species have been retained.

The weather has now cooled down after the rather absurd 33 degree heat we experienced yesterday.

Moth garden list for 2022 stands at 351 species

15/06/22 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

 

Macro Moths

Barred Yellow 1 [NFG]
Blue-bordered Carpet 1 [NFG]
Brown-tail 1 [NFG] 

Marbled Coronet 1 [NFG]
Pretty Chalk Carpet 1 [NFG]
Smoky Wainscot 1 [NFY]
Barred Straw 1
Beautiful Hook-tip 1
Brimstone Moth 2
Buff Ermine 2
Buff-tip 2
Cinnabar 4
Common Pug 1
Common Wainscot 2
Dark Arches 1
Double-striped Pug 2
Elephant Hawk-moth 3
Figure of Eighty 1
Flame 1
Freyer's Pug 1
Green Carpet 1
Heart & Club 1
Heart & Dart 1
Large Nutmeg 1
Large Yellow Underwing 2
Mottled Rustic 2
Scorched Carpet 1
Setaceous Hebrew Character 1
Shears 1
Small Dusty Wave 4
Small Elephant Hawk-moth 5
Straw Dot 2
Swallow-tailed Moth 1
Turnip Moth 1
Uncertain 2

Micro Moths

Aleimma loeflingiana 1 [NFG]

Dichrorampha petiverella 2 [NFG]
Ditula angustiorana 1 [NFG]
Epinotia bilunana 1 [NFG]
Scoparia basistrigalis 1 [NFG]
Tinea pellionella 2 [NFG]
Anania hortulata 1
Aphomia sociella 3
Archips xylosteana 1
Cochylis atricapitana 1

Coleophora sp 2

Elachista freyerella 1
Emmelina monodactyla 2
Endrosis sarcitrella 1
Ephestia sp 2
Eudonia lacustrata 1
Eudonia mercurella 1
Hofmannophila pseudospretella 2
Homoeosoma sinuella 3
Ringed China-mark 1
Scoparia ambigualis 2
Sitochroa verticalis 1

 

Barred Yellow

Blue-bordered Carpet

Brown-tail

Coleophoa sp

Dichrorampha petiverella

Ditula angustiorana

Epinotia bilunana

Marbled Coronet

Pretty Chalk Carpet

Scoparia basistrigalis

Sitochroa verticalis

Smoky Wainscot

Tinea pellionella