Starting to fall behind now with my moth reports, the trap is starting to get busier now in my garden, a few weeks earlier than normal, but with these warm days, even when the nights haven't been particularly stellar, the variety is still very pleasing here in my garden.
I just never seem to get numbers of anything here but the plethora of lepidoptera more than makes up for it!
Monday was a warm day, with highs of 22 degrees, but still a massivbe lack of cloud cover. The only plus was that it was a new moon.
The night dropped to 7 degrees, far from ideal but there was still a pleasing amount to pot up and inspect.
The best moth was a new moth for me, netted at dusk (the deadly method strikes again) a spankingly fresh Cydia servillana. I do have the lure for this particular species hanging in my garden currently, maybe just maybe it was mildly attracted to the scent? who knows, but it is the first time i've used the lure in the garden.
Other highlights included the rarely recorded here, Monopis obviella (size, and hindwing checked) a male that came to the Lunar Hornet Clearwing Lure & a new for garden but very faded Cochylis nana, a tiny but well overdue micro, smaller than some of the similar species in the genus.
Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 132 species
Buff-tip 1 [NFY]
Flame Shoulder 2 [NFY]
Iron Prominent 2 [NFY]
Ochreous Pug 1 [NFY]
Orange Footman 1 [NFY]
Waved Umber 1 [NFY]
Yellow-barred Brindle 1 [NFY]
Brimstone Moth 2
Brindled Beauty 1
Brindled Pug 2
Chinese Character 1
Clouded Drab 1
Common Quaker 1
Garden Carpet 1
Hebrew Character 1
Latticed Heath 1
Light Brocade 1
Muslin Moth 1
Pale Prominent 1
Shuttle-shaped Dart 2
Spectacle 1
Micro Moths
Cochylis nana 1 [NFG]
Cydia servillana 1 [NEW]
Grapholita funebrana 3 (to FUN lure)
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| Yellow-barred Brindle |
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| Buff-tip |
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| Cochylis nana |
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| Cydia servillana |
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| Iron Prominent |
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| Monopis obviella |
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| Ochreous Pug |
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| Orange Footman |
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| Waved Umber |
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