May the 1st be with moths

What an incredible evening and night the first day of the month was! with a record high of close to 29 degrees, the evening was balmy and felt mildly humid, a first for this year. 

Strangely dusk netting wasn't that profitable, with only a smattering of regular species and no new ones, but as soon as it was lights on, micros started showing up, so working the trap every 10 or 15 minutes up until midnight was the order of the night.

Everytime I went out, another species was noted and potted up, it certainly was a moth fest of blinding diversity, who needs numbers when the species rack up!

All in all I make it 69 species jotted down, an early May record and numbers that don't usually become surpassed until early June.

When I turned in at midnight, the temperature guage was still reading 20 degrees! Insane for start of May, and with lows of 14 degrees overall, it made it the warmest day and night of the year.

Highlights included Cinnabar, Marbled Clover, Scalloped Hook-tip, Etainia louisella/sericopeza & 3 species of Bucculatrix.

And then it went much quieter, that's mothing for you.

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 164 species

01/05/25 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

 

Macro Moths 

Cinnabar 1 [NFY]
Common Carpet 1 [NFY]
Common Pug 2 [NFY]
Common Swift 1 [NFY]
Figure of Eighty 2 [NFY]
Flame Carpet 1 [NFY]
Green Carpet 1 [NFY]
Marbled Clover 1 [NFY]
Pale Mottled Willow 1 [NFY]
Scalloped Hook-tip 1 [NFG]
Scorched Carpet 1 [NFY]
Bright-line Brown-eye 1
Brimstone Moth 2
Buttoned Snout 1
Chinese Character 1
Chocolate-tip 1
Coronet 7
Double-striped Pug 2
Garden Carpet 2
Grey Dagger 2
Hebrew Character 1
Light Brocade 1
Muslin Moth 3
Oak-tree Pug 1
Ochreous Pug 1
Pale Prominent 1
Pale Tussock 1
Pebble Prominent 1
Poplar Grey 2
Red Twin-spot Carpet 1
Shuttle-shaped Dart 12
Swallow Prominent 1
Turnip Moth 2
Waved Umber 3
Yellow-barred Brindle 3

Micro Moths

Aphomia sociella 3 [NFY]
Bucculatrix bechsteinella 1 [NFY]
Bucculatrix ulmella 1 [NFY]
Bucculatrix nigricomella 3 [NFY]
Elachista argentella 2 [NFY]
Elachista maculicerusella 1 [NFY]
Etainia louisella/sericopeza 1 [NFY]
Hedya pruniana 1 [NFY]
Neocochylis dubitana 1 [NFY]
Notocelia cynosbatella 1 [NFY]
Phyllonorycter leucographella 1 [NFY]
Swammerdamia pyrella 1 [NFY]
Agonopterix purpurea 1 (netted)
Alucita hexadactyla 1
Anthophila fabriciana 3 (netted)
Caloptilia elongella 1
Caloptilia honoratella 1
Caloptilia rufipennella 1
Caloptilia semifascia 1
Cameraria ohridella 3 (netted)
Emmelina monodactyla 1
Emmetia marginea 1
Epiphyas postvittana 3
Epinotia immundana 2
Esperia sulphurella 1 (netted)
Evergestis forficalis 1
Mompha epilobiella 1 (netted)
Mompha jurassicella 1
Mompha subbistrigella 1 (netted)
Nemapogon granella 10 (netted)
Phyllonorycter blancardella 1
Platyedra subcinerea 1
Pyrausta aurata 1 (netted)
Tinea trinotella 1

Etainia louisella/sericopeza

Figure of Eighty

Puss Moth

Scalloped Hook-tip

Aphomia sociella

Cinnabar

Common Carpet

Common Pug

Common Swift