25th May 2009 - part two

I wasn't convinced that this was Argyresthia trifasciata so put a photo online for confirmation which duly arrived - number 634 for the garden!

25th May 2009

The highlight of a very busy night (94 moths of 42 species with two micros to be ID'd) was the second ever Puss Moth for the garden but there were six other new for the year. Two micros remain and can be seen by clicking the 'Unidentified Moths' link.


Elephant Hawkmoth:

Dark Arches:

Clouded Silver:
Tinea semifulvella:
Endothenia marginana:

Epinotia bilunana:

Myelois circumvoluta (Thistle Ermine):

25th May 2009

One of my favourite moths and a regular in the garden is the longhorn Nemophora degeerella which turns up in late spring. A week or so early I netted this one this morning as it flew around a big clump of ivy.


Disturbed whilst gardening in the afternoon was the rather less attractive and rather more common Bryotropha affinis:

In the early evening another favourite appeared fluttering over the garden pond - a male Small China-mark:

A final trip around the garden before putting the trap out yielded a single Amblyptilia acanthadactyla and this Pseudargyrotoza conwagana:

24th May 2009

With a huge migration of Painted Ladys and Clouded Yellows in progress I'd rather hoped there might be a few migrant moths might turn up overnight. So some disappointment when everything in the trap proved to be home-grown, still 5 new for the year though.

The Miller:

Light Emerald:

Sandy Carpet:

Sitochroa verticalis:
Chrysoteuchia culmella (Garden Grass Veneer):

23rd May 2009 - part three (macros)

Another good night with both traps attracting a similar number of moths. A total of 36 species were recorded with 9 new for the year. Here are some photos of the macros, for micros see the previous post.

Blood-vein:

Coxcomb Prominent:

Angle Shades:

Treble Brown Spot:

23rd May 2009 - part two (micros)

As their is a limit to the number of labels that can be assigned to each post I've had to split last night's catch in two - first the micros.

Phtheochroa rugosana:

Udea olivalis:

Hedya pruniana (Plum Tortrix):

Clepsis consimilana:

Hofmannophila pseudospretella (Brown House Moth):

Aphomia sociella (Bee Moth) - the second record of the year but this time a fine male, quite different from the female:

23rd May 2009 - part one

A tiny moth netted early evening proved to be another Phyllonorycter leucographella (Firethorn Leaf Miner) but of the more usual form: