FlyinginFordham: Fantastic Friday

Friday night was an excellent night for the end of May in my garden, it was a warm one too with highs of 24 degrees and lows of 16 degrees, it couldn't get much better.

And indeed it didn't, with a record May tally of 80 species! Including 18 new species and two brand new species for the garden list, one of which was new for me.

The two new species were the gloriously marked Alder Kitten (completing the Kitten species now for the UK) and a rather smart Thistle Ermine (Myelois circumvoluta), a widespread and common species, just not in my garden it would appear.

These two crackers were backed up by local specialities such as Eucosma metzneriana, Crombrugghia distans and Silky Wainscot.

There is one Coleophora species that awaits dissection.

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 278 species

30/05/25 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Alder Kitten 1 [NFG]
May Highflyer 2 [NFY]
Middle-barred Minor 1 [NFY]
Pretty Chalk Carpet 1 [NFY]
Silky Wainscot 1 [NFY]
Straw Dot 1 [NFY]
Brimstone Moth 2
Buff Ermine 1
Burnished Brass 1
Cinnabar 1
Clouded Silver 1
Common Carpet 1
Common Marbled Carpet 1
Common Pug 1
Common Swift 5
Common Wainscot 2
Coronet 1
Dark Arches 1
Elephant Hawk-moth 6
Figure of Eighty 1
Flame Shoulder 1
Garden Carpet 1
Green Pug 1
Heart & Club 1
Heart & Dart 5
Large Nutmeg 1
Large Yellow Underwing 2
Light Brocade 1
Light Emerald 1
Marbled Minor 12
Mottled Pug 2
Orange Footman 1
Riband Wave 1
Setaceous Hebrew Character 1
Small Dusty Wave 1
Small Elephant Hawk-moth 1
Small Square-spot 2
Spectacle 1
Toadflax Brocade 1
Treble Lines 3
Turnip Moth 1
Vine's Rustic 1
White-spotted Pug 1
White-point 1
Willow Beauty 4

Micro Moths

Achroia grisella 1 [NFY]
Blastobasis lacticolella 1 [NFY]
Borkhausenia fuscescens 1 [NFY]
Celypha rosaceana 1 [NFY]
Crombrugghia distans 1 [NFY]
Ditula angustiorana 1 [NFY]
Epinotia bilunana 1 [NFY]
Eucosma metzneriana 2 [NFY]
Euzophera pinguis 1 [NFY]
Evergestis limbata 1 [NFY]
Myelois circumvoluta 1 [NFG]
Pyralis farinalis 1 [NFY]
Agapeta hamana 1
Anania hortulata 1
Argyresthia cupressella 3
Bryotropha terrella 1
Celypha striana 1
Cochylis molliculana 1
Cochylis nana 1
Coleophora sp 1 TBC
Crambus lathoniellus 1
Emmelina monodactyla 1
Ephestia sp 2
Epiphyas postvittana 4
Eudonia angustea 1
Hedya pruniana 1
Homoeosoma sinuella 2
Lyonetia clerkella 1
Mompha subbistrigella 2
Monopis crocicapitella 1
Neocochylis molliculana 1
Notocelia trimaculana 1
Platyedra subcinerea 2
Plutella xylostella 1
Thyraylia nana 1