A slight increase but still a bit nippy notes

Still cool last night, even under cloudy skies the temperature dropped to 6 degrees, hardly inspiring.

Just 3 Shuttle-shaped Darts and a Muslin Moth came in after 11pm, all 4 were in the trap.

Spin back to 4pm, and I was just putting some bits back in the shed, when my beady eyes homed in on what looked like a tiny moth, yes indeed it was a moth! So a jog back to my box of pots, then potted up it was to be a garden first Bucculatrix ulmella, my 6th Bucculatrix species to be recorded in my garden.

Trap highlights early evening included a second Seraphim of the year, a different form and talking of different forms, it was good to see a new form of Oak Nycteoline, a steely grey coloured specimen with rows of black dots, very nice.

 

Moth garden list for 2023 stands at 120 species

 

13/05/23 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Oak Nycteoline 1 [NFY]

Muslin Moth 1

Seraphim 1
Shuttle-shaped Dart 3

Yellow-barred Brindle 1

 

Micro Moths

 

Bucculatrix ulmella 1 [NFG]

Evergestis forficalis 1 [NFY]

Alucita hexadactyla 1

Platyedra subcinerea 2

Plutella xylostella 1 

Bucculatrix ulmella

Evergestis forficalis

Oak Nycteoline

Seraphim