FlyinginFordham: June comes to an end with a bang with two garden firsts!

Well what a month June was for moths! Warm days and warm night were virtually constant, with few blips or dips.

The much needed rain never really materialised sadly, with a couple of days with a few light showers, this following on from one of the driest springs on record, is rather catastrophic for the long term.

The 29th yielded a healthy 86 species with 11 new for the year, two of which were new for the garden, one a wanderer from a nearby population (Kent Black Arches) & a migrant (Small Mottled Willow).

Another good migrant was a smart Acrobasis tumidana, the second for the garden of this scarce visitor.

Another good micro was the pine feeder Dioryctria schuetzeella, the least common of the group represented in my garden.

A really snazzy dark Dichrorampha species was retained, speckled with gold scales, it was most unusual.

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 514 species

29/06/25 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Copper Underwing 1 [NFY]
Kent Black Arches 1 [NFG]
Small Mottled Willow 1 [NFG]
Southern Wainscot 1 [NFY]

Micro Moths

Acrobasis tumidana 1 [NFY]
Agapeta zoegana 1 [NFY]
Agonopterix subpropinquella 1 [NFY]
Calamotropha paludella 1 [NFY]
Dichrorampha sp 1 (TBC)
Dioryctria schuetzeella 1 [NFY]
Elophila nymphaeata 1 [NFY]
Scoparia subfusca 1 [NFY]