This week hasn't been too bad at all in my garden, with warmer nights and extremely mild days (19c at the top end is silly for October).
I ran my trap on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday here, but won't run it for the next couple of nights as its set to drop to low single figures.
The best night of the week was Monday night with 35 species jotted down, probably an October species record for here (without checking for sure).
Just the 2 new species for the year, with a superb glinting Green-brindled Crescent and a rather plainer (but scarcer) Brick, in fact it's a new species for the garden!
Last night, the only moth of note was a mint Satellite, the first of the season.
Common migrants are still in great supply, with regular Scarce Bordered Straw, Palpita vitrealis, Clancy's Rustic, L-album Wainscot & Delicate. The latter 3 species are probably resident here now.
Wrap up, it's getting cold now until Sunday night at the earliest.
Moth garden list for 2024 stands at 616 species
07/10/24 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap
Macro Moths
Green-brindled Crescent 1 [NFY]
Angle Shades 1
Beaded Chestnut 1
Black Rustic 2
Blair's Shoulder-knot 1
Brimstone Moth 1
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 2
Burnished Brass 1
Clancy's Rustic 3
Dark Spectacle 2
Delicate 1
Grey-pine Carpet 1
L-album Wainscot 3
Large Yellow Underwing 10
Lesser Yellow Underwing 3
Light Emerald 1
Lunar Underwing 2
Pale Mottled Willow 1
Pink-barred Sallow 1
Setaceous Hebrew Character 4
Silver Y 1
Vine's Rustic 1
Willow Beauty 4
Micro Moths
Acleris rhombana 1
Acleris sparsana 1
Aproaerema anthyllidella 1
Carcina quercana 1
Emmelina monodactyla 2
Eudonia angustea 1
Musotima nitidalis 3
Nomophila noctuella 2
Palpita vitrealis 1
Plutella xylostella 1
Scrobipalpa ocellatella 1
Udea ferrugalis 1
08/10/24 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap
Brick 1 [NFG]
09/10/24 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap
Satellite 1 [Season First]
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Palpita vitrealis
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Carcina quercana
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Green-brindled Crescent
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Musotima nitidalis
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