A warm day of 28 degrees yesterday and the night held up nicely until after midnight where it went a little damp and cool.
Arriving home at 2.30am from Wicken Fen, I decided to go through the trap and turn it off so I could have a bit of extra sleep.
The temperature dropped to 14 degrees, still very good for the time of year.
As a result there were probably still around 50 species in and around the trap, but I didn't count them all this time as I was too pooped, instead just potting up all the new ones.
I managed to find 11, but probably missed a few more through tired eyes.
Brown Silver-line was the best moth and only my 2nd garden record after the first last year.
Dog's Tooth was nice to see and in fantastic condition too.
Micros dazzled with a large metallic green Coleophora. Expecting amethystinella, upon checking for the orange eyes, I was pleased to identify it as trifoli (On size and no range eyes). This isn't a common moth here, opposed to the regular alcyonipennella/frishella.
The first migrant Udea ferrugalis also turned up, alongside 3 Ostrinia nubilalis. No massively rare migrant moths but could there be one tonight? Who knows... only the moth gods.
Moth garden list for 2026 stands at 254 species
23/05/26 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap
Brown Silver-line 1 [NFY]
Cabbage Moth 1 [NFY]
Dog's Tooth 1 [NFY]
Miller 1 [NFY]
Micro Moths
Bucculatrix cristatella [NFY]
Coleophora laricella 1 [NFY]
Coleophora trifoli 1 [NFY]
Cydia fagiglandana 1 [NFY]
Hypsopygia costalis 1 [NFY]
Ostrinia nubilalis 3 [NFY]
Udea ferrugalis 1 [NFY]
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| Udea ferrugalis |
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| Brown Silver-line |
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| Bucculatrix cristatella |
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| Coleophora laricella |
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| Coleophora trifolii |
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| Dog's Tooth |
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| Ostrinia nubilalis |