Best night of the year so far

Unbelievable sums up Tuesday night, with a low of around 14 degrees, calm and cloudy and with an essence of humidity, it was a busy night at the trap.

A huge 18 species were added to the year and garden list, and some real corker species to boot.

 

Highlights for me were Dog's Tooth (last seen in 2016), Figure of Eighty,  Bucculatrix cristatella (A new species for me), Caloptilia honoratella (Trapped before at nearby Chippenham Fen, but great to get it on the garden list, I will get it dissected but i'm 99.8% sure it's right) and Elachista poae (Another one that needs full confirmation, again i'm confident it is this species having seen it before).

All in all what a night! And there was plenty more to come after that.

I need a personal assistant currently to keep up with posting, so they will be more brief from now on (And subsequently less boring!).

Moth garden list for 2022 stands at 217 species

17/05/22 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

 

Macro Moths

 

Clouded Silver 1 [NFG]
Coxcomb Prominent 1 [NFG]
Dog's Tooth 1 [NFG]
Figure of Eighty 1 [NFG]
Flame 1 [NFG]
Large Nutmeg 2 [NFG]
Purple Bar 1 [NFG]

Snout 1 [NFY]
Alder Moth 1
Brindled Pug 1
Brimstone Moth 1
Buttoned Snout 1
Chinese Character 3
Chocolate-tip 1
Common Carpet 2
Common Marbled Carpet 3
Common Pug 3
Common Swift 8
Common Wainscot 1
Coronet 5
Flame Shoulder 1
Garden Carpet 1
Green Carpet 3
Grey Dagger sp 1
Grey-pine Carpet 1
Heart & Dart 1
Light Brocade 2
Marbled Minor sp 10
Mottled Pug 2
Muslin Moth 1
Oak-tree Pug 1
Orange Footman 1
Pale Mottled Willow 1
Pale Tussock 4
Peppered Moth 1
Poplar Grey 1
Ruby Tiger 1
Rustic Shoulder-knot 2
Spruce Carpet 1
Treble Lines 3
Turnip Moth 4
Vine's Rustic 2
Willow Beauty 5
White Ermine 1
Yellow-barred Brindle 12

Micro Moths

Anania hortulata 1 [NFG]
Bucculatrix cristatella 1 [NFG]
Caloptilia honoratella 1 [NFG]

Celypha lacunana 1 [NFY]

Dichrorampha plumbagana 1 [NFG]

Elachista poae pos 1 [NFG]
Etainia decentella 2 [NFY]
Hedya nubiferana 1 [NFY]
Scoparia ambigualis 1 [NFG]

Syndemis musculana 1 [NFG]
Alucita hexadactyla 1
Bryotropha affinis 10
Bucculatrix bechensteinella 2
Bucculatrix nigricomella 8

Cydia sp 1 (TBC)
Epiphyas postvittana 10
Evergestis forficalis 1
Platyedra subcinera 15
Plutella xylostella 2
Scrobipalpa ocellatella 1
Tinea trinotella 1

 

Anania hortulata

Bucculatrix cristatella

Caloptilia honoratella

Clouded Silver

Coxcomb Prominent

Dichrorampha plumbagana

Dog's Tooth

Elachista poae pos

Etainia decentella

Large Nutmeg

Snout