Some fantastic moths in the garden

16 new for years was blooming good for late July in my garden as we just creep past peak moth season, it is a sad time as numbers will probably fall away now but only slowly. If only we got a settled month of weather for Summer then we would probably see more moths.

Notable species for my garden included Pebble Hook-tip (went missing for 3 years), Shaded Broad-bar (not a common moth here) and two garden first micro moths, Eucosma conterminana and Achroia grisella.

Other bits of interest was a dark Dart moth of  somekind, it isn't Turnip Moth as the hindwings are dark grey, which leaves either Heart & Club and Garden Dart. It would be great if it is the latter as that would be a garden first.

EDIT: Confirmed as Heart & Club by Graeme Smith, thanks Graeme.

Another pretty moth and quite common this year in the garden, a stunning form of July Highflyer.

Weather-wise now we stick with the changeable conditions, if it's sunny then it is warm, but with plenty of cloud and rain the temperatures look set to struggle in the low 20's. 

Catch Report - 22/07/16 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

Dingy Footman 2 [NFY]

Marbled Beauty 2 [NFY]

Pebble Hook-tip 1 [NFY]

Rustic 1 [NFY]

Shaded Broad-bar 1 [NFY]

Slender Brindle 1 [NFY]

Bright-line Brown-eye 2

Brimstone Moth 2

Clouded Border 1

Common Emerald 1

Common Footman 4

Common Rustic 17

Dark Arches 1

Dot Moth 24

Double Square-spot 2

Dun-bar 3

Fan-foot 1

Fern 1

Haworth's Pug 3

Heart & Club 1

July Highflyer 3

Lackey 1

Least Carpet 3

Mottled Rustic 1

Nut-tree Tussock 3

Poplar Hawk-moth 2

Riband Wave 3

Scalloped Oak 4

Single-dotted Wave 2

Small Blood-vein 1

Small Emerald 2

Small Fan-foot 1

Small Fan-footed Wave 4

Small Rivulet 1

Straw Underwing 2

Swallow-tailed Moth 1

V-pug 2

Willow Beauty 1

Micro Moths

Achroia grisella 1 [NFG]

Eucosma conterminana 1 [NFG]

Agriphilsa straminella 4 [NFY]

Agriphila tristella 2 [NFY]

Eudemis profundana 2 [NFY]

Phyllonorycter messaniella 1 [NFY]

Pyrausta aurata 1 [NFY]

Scythropia crataegella 1 [NFY]

Tinea trinotella 1 [NFY]

Ypsolopha dentella 1 [NFY]

Acrobasis suavella 1

Anania coronata 2

Aphomia sociella 1

Argyresthia goedartella 2

Argyrotaenia ljungiana 1

Blastobasis adustella 1

Blastobasis lacticolella 1

Bryotropha terrella 2

Carcina quercana 3

Celypha striana 2

Coleophora sp 1

Cydia splendana 1

Emmelina monodactyla 1

Endotricha flammelis 5

Endrosis sarcitrella 1

Eudonia mercurella 2

Eurrhypara hortulata 1

Gypsonoma dealbana 1

Helcystogramma rufescens 2

Hofmannophila pseudospretella 2

Hypsopygia costalis 1

Orthopygia glaucinalis 2

Pandemis heparana 1

Phyllonorycter coryli 1

Plutella xylostella 12

Scoparia ambigualis 1

Spilonota ocellana 5

Yponomeuta evonymella 3

Zeiraphera isertana 1

Phyllonorycter messaniella

Slender Brindle

Small Rivulet

Marbled Beauty

July Highflyer

Pebble Hook-tip

Achroia grisella

Eucosma conterminana

Heart & Club