Cool start to flaming June

Flaming June is the old fashioned traditional saying for the first usually hot and dry month of the year, this doesn't apply to the start of June '26, but it's massively early days yet... it'll come good, it always does.

Moths took a huge nosedive and some nights there were less than 30 species.

But on the flip side, and being June, there is always some interest to be admired.

On the 2nd day of the month, the moth gods delivered just 2 new species for the year, both lovely macro moths though.

They were..

Common Emerald, well it's green, what more is there to like? and a particularly fresh example too.

Lobster Moth, never common here but usually annual, this one however was a lovely melanic variety which was a first for me.

Two nights off followed (Cold, windy and wet) and lights were back on come Friday night.

 

 

Moth garden list for 2026 stands at 358 species 

 

02/06/26 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

 

Macro Moths

Common Emerald 1 [NFY]

Lobster Moth 1 [NFY]

Micro Moths

 

No new species recorded

 

Parapoynx stratiotata

Broad-barred White

Common Emerald

Coxcomb Prominent

Epinotia bilunana

Lobster Moth