A warm end to June '25

It was an incredible warm spell that we experienced towards the end of the month, with countless days above 25 degrees and warm nights, and not always cloudy either.

On the 25th it was rinse and repeat, with a healthy catch once more, too many to list because of commitments, so only new species potted up, photographed and recorded.

A battered Clancy's Rustic turned up, a year first but probably not a primary migrant despite the southerly airflow. Another tatty moth and barely alive sadly, was a garden first Grass Rivulet. Certainly a bit of a wanderer.

Early moths continued to surprise, with my earliest garden record of Mouse Moth, subsequent days revealed this wasn't an anomaly as I recorded several more. This is 7 days earlier than my previous earliest record (And even that was an early reccord, and my only June record at the time). 

Just a duo of new micros were noted, the common Coleophora vestianella, which feeds on Orache and what grows like weeds along the verges here, i've recorded the mines along the next road and paths in previous years.

The other was the distinct Cnephasia longana, elongated and rather plain looking.

 

The nights ahead were still very busy for moth activity.

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 487 species

26/06/25 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Clancy's Rustic 1 [NFY]
Common Rustic 1 [NFY]
Grass Rivulet 1 [NFG]
Mouse Moth 1 [NFY]

Micro Moths

Cnephasia longana 1 [NFY]
Coleophora vestianella 1 [NFY]

Mouse Moth

Clancy's Rustic

Cnephasia longana

Coleophora vestianella

Common Rustic

Grass Rivulet