FlyinginFordham: Waaaarrrrmmm! Busy Trap!

After having a night off on the 9th, it was time to fire up the trap once more.

With highs of 30 degrees and lows of around 21 degrees, the trap, house wall and fences were covered in moths, far too many to list down, so again the focus was on new species or different forms.

Excitement during the day was finding two tiny white moths flying around inside my newly deployed Phyllocnistis citrella lure, I ran inside and potted them both up.

After taking photographs of them, it became apparent that they weren't citrella at all, but most probably saligna (Although there are 3 other species they could be, including the newly discovered asiatica).

So the citrella lure will attract other Phyllocnistis species in the genus I guess.

Overnight there were two new species of micro moth for the garden, Gynnidomorpha vectisana/minimana (A completely new moth for me and one that needs dissecting to separate) & Mompha sturnipennella (A species I am familiar with from trapping on chalk grassland in Hertfordshire.

Those two species make it to the 900 species for the garden milestone.

There were also some other scarce micros in attendance, such as Gypsonoma minutana and Oxypteryx wilkella, the latter not seen since 2022.

The first of probably many Jersey Tigers also came to the light overnight.

A very good night with a lot of sleep lost!

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 551 species

10/07/25 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Canary-shouldered Thorn 1 [NFY]
Jersey Tiger 1 [NFY]
Vapourer Moth 1 [NFY]

Micro Moths

Bactra furfurana 1 [NFY]
Gynnidomorpha vectisana minimana 1 [NFG]
Gypsonoma minutana 1 [NFY]
Limnaecia phragmitella 1 [NFY]
Mompha sturnipennella 1 [NFG]
Oncocera semirubella 1 [NFY]
Oxypteryx wilkella 1 [NFY]
Phyllocnistis sp 2 (TBC)
Ypsolopha scabrella 1 [NFY]