FlyinginFordham: A couple of year-listers despite the cold night

Nights were still fairly nippy here in my garden at the end of April, despite a warm day of 24 degrees on Wednesday, the temperature fell away to 7 degrees come dawn.

An absolutely mint Sitochroa verticalis, was my earliest ever by two weeks, Buttoned Snout are doing well here, with 3 in the last week, a lover of Hop.

And an Eyed Hawk-moth spied on the fence at bedtime was a bonus, a quick phone picture sufficed.

The night that followed would still be 20 degrees at midnight, yep it went a bit mad!

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 141 species

30/04/25 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Buttoned Snout 2 [NFY]
Eyed Hawk-moth 1 [NFY]
Brimstone Moth 2
Brindled Pug 1
Chinese Character 1
Double-striped Pug 2
Lime Hawk-moth 1
Muslin Moth 2
Nut-tree Tussock 1
Pale Tussock 1
Pebble Prominent 1
Ruby Tiger 1
Shuttle-shaped Dart 2
Spectacle 1
Turnip Moth 1
Waved Umber 1
White Ermine 1

Micro Moths

Dichrorampha acuminatana 1 [NFY]
Sitochroa verticalis 1 [NFY]
Bryotropha basaltinella 1
Emmelina monodactyla 1
Epiphyas postvittana 1
Evergestis forficalis 1