FlyinginFordham: Warming up with more new moths

With a larger catch on the 25th of innumerable species, things were really ramping up.

An extremely warm night holiding above 20 degrees when I got home at 2am from a field trip.

I decided to pack my trap up, as it would be impossible to get up again at 4am to go through it, then up at 6.30 for work!

It was busy and moths all over the place, I quickly potted up anything new and retired to my bed.

11 new species were potted up, best was a garden first Shoulder-striped Wainscot, a pretty widespread and common moth that avoids my garden like the plague!

Other highlights included a cracking Acleris holmiana, the smart and uncommon here Buff Arches.

3 other scarce micros were present, they were Recurvaria nanella, Sciota adelphella & Vitula biviella.

There were also two tinies that I potted up. Through bleary eyes they looked the same, most probably Bucculatrix albedinella, but when I got them both under a hand lens the next morning, I discovered that the other one was in fact a Phyllonorycter comparella.

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 481 species

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

Macro Moths

Buff Arches 1 [NFY]
Foxglove Pug 1 [NFY]
Shaded Pug 1 [NFY]
Shoulder-striped Wainscot 1 [NFY]

Micro Moths

Acleris holmiana 1 [NFY]
Acrobasis suavella 1 [NFY]
Bucculatrix albedinella 1 [NFY]
Catoptria pinella 1 [NFY]
Phyllonorycter comparella 1 [NFY]
Recurvaria nanella 1 [NFY]
Sciota adelphella 1 [NFY]