A better night indeed despite the breeze

A warm and breezy night here in my garden on the 25th of August, yielded a good catch of 44 species of moths.

There were a few good highlights that are listed below.

 

A late and worn Etainia decentella was good to get, I could barely see it against the white house wall.

 

Both Mottled Rustic and Small Square-spot livened the variety up a bit, from what had been mainly Vine's Rustic & Flounced Rustics!

 

A stunning and extremely fresh Palpita vitrealis was my 5th this year, after my first and only record previously on the 6th of September last year.

 

And both Phyllonorycter geniculella & Ypsolopha horridella were new for the year, the former absent last year and the latter missing for 3 years.

 

A super night so late on in the year. 

 

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 625 species

25/08/25 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Micro Moths

Etainia decentella 1 [NFY] 
Phyllonorycter geniculella 1 [NFY]
Ypsolopha horridella 1 [NFY]

 

Zeiraphera isertana

Bucculatrix bechsteinella

Mottled Rustic

Palpita vitrealis

Phyllonorycter geniculella

Small Square-spot

Ypsolopha horridella