Another double catch

A brief post on two catches I made on Tuesday & Wednesday night.

Tuesday was the better night despite being cooler, but Wednesday was warmer with a keen breeze, so that probably had a lot to do with it.

Best moth was a Shoulder-stripe, only the third garden record and one I dipped on last year.

Clouded Drab was new also and several forms were observed.

4 new ones for the year on Tuesday, but only 1 on Wednesday, a pair of dainty little Twenty-plume moths. 

Moth garden list for 2026 stands at 25 species

 

24/02/26 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

 

Macro Moths 

  

Clouded Drab 1 [NFY]

Dotted Border 1 [NFY]

Shoulder-stripe 1 [NFY] 

Common Quaker 6

Hebrew Character 10

March Moth 6

Oak Beauty 4 

Micro Moths 

 

Emmelina monodactyla 1 [NFY]

Agonopterix alstromeriana 1  

Agonopterix heracliana 2 

 

 

25/02/26 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

 

Macro Moths 

  

Clouded Drab 3

Common Quaker 10

Dotted Border 1 

Hebrew Character 3

March Moth 9

Oak Beauty 3

Small Quaker 3 

Micro Moths 

 

Alucita hexadactyla 2 [NFY]

Agonopterix alstromeriana 1  

 

Emmelina monodactyla

Shoulder-stripe

Alucita hexadactyla

Clouded Drab

Clouded Drab