4th August 2013

A big reduction in numbers with a decrease in overnight temperatures but still some very good moths:

                    Tawny-barred Angle(2nd garden record, first in 2006)

  

Mompha propinquella (2nd garden record, first in 2010)

 

The Drinker (4th garden record, last caught in 2010)

 

Scoparia subfusca (last recorded in 2011)

5th August 2009

A warm and humid night was spoilt by huge numbers of tiny beetles in the trap, I suspect they prevented the moths from settling and there were a far higher number of escapes than usual. Final total was 141 moths of 55 species two of which were new for the year.

I've posted pics of an interesting looking Coleophora on the 'Unidentified' blog.

Scoparia subfusca:
Yponomeuta cagnagella:

Edit: Colin Welch, beetle recorder for VC31 has identified the tiny beetles as Bradycellus verbasci: