That's better!

With a slightly warmer night and minimums of 12 degrees, Friday night looked rather good for a spot of mothy action.

With 13 moths of eight different species, that is about as good as it gets in my garden this time of year, very pleasing indeed.

Highlight was a nice fat female Black-spotted Chestnut, a regular but sporadic moth here appearing usually in late October to mid-November, and then again mid-February to late March.

Two Tortricodes alternella were noteworthy, I usually struggle with these and I might get 1 or 2 a year, so 2 in a night was rather good going, a predominantly woodland moth from my experience.

The macros and micros stand at 7 species a piece for the year.

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 14 species

21/02/25 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Black-spotted Chestnut 1 [NFY]

Common Quaker 1 [NFY]

Dotted Border 1 [NFY]

Hebrew Character 2 [NFY]

Micro Moths 

Tortricodes alternella 2 [NFY]
Agonopterix alstromeriana 1
Agonopterix heracliana 4
Epiphyas postvittana 1 

Tortricodes alternella

Black-spotted Chestnut

Common Quaker

Dotted Border

Hebrew Character

Hebrew Character