Catch Report - 02/06/22 - Back Garden

A lovely warm day yesterday, and mostly cloudy as well with a real muggy feeling, and with highs of 22 degrees, it looked good for some moths come darkness.

Unfortunately (And here we go again) the sky cleared completely at around 6pm and the temperatures once again slid away to mid to high single figures (7.5c to be precise). So with the temperature not being stellar, the moth trap wasn't heaving just yet.

 

Some more new furry faces turned up for 2022, a worn Grey Pug was just about identifiable, a dead spider web find, Small Square-spot was also new for the year.

A 2nd Netted Pug for the garden was also great.

On the smaller moth front, 3 species were added, all common moths, Bryotropha terrella, Celypha striana & Nemapogon cloacella. The cloacella was notable, as it's my first this year after over 30 granella!

Another Grapholita lobarzewskii was netted at dusk and good to see (I still await the similar janthinana).

Moth garden list for 2022 stands at 266 species

02/06/22 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

 

Macro Moths

Grey Pug 1 [NFG]
Small Square-spot 1 [NFY]
Brimstone Moth 1
Buff-tip 1
Common Pug 1
Common Wainscot 4
Garden Carpet 2
Elephant Hawk-moth 1
Heart & Dart 1
Large Nutmeg 6
Lychnis 1
Mottled Pug 1
Netted Pug 1
Purple-bar 2
Rustic Shoulder-knot 3
Small Elephant Hawk-moth 2
Small Dusty Wave 2
Treble Lines 1
Vine's Rustic 2
Willow Beauty 5

 

Micro Moths

Bryotropha terrella 1 [NFG]
Celypha striana 1 [NFY]
Nemapogon cloacella 1 [NFY]
Ephestia sp 1
Epiphyas postvittana 2
Grapholita lobarzewskii 1

 

Bryotropha terrella

Celypha striana

Grapholita lobarzewskii

Grey Pug

Nemapogon cloacella

Netted Pug

Purple Bar

Small Square-spot