On the up!

60 moths of 33 was quite surprising last night during quite breezy conditions, but it was fairly mild at a minimum of 9 degrees.

The sky was clear up until around midnight, as the burnt orange crescent moon faded in the west.

 

I was up quite late this morning at 6:30, about 2 hours too late, but luckily there were still plenty of moths around the trap (I fully expected to find wings everywhere, luckily this wasn't the case).

 

Shark & Small Waved Umber were the pick of the larger moths in the trap, and 3 bright green Tortrix viridana were the first this year, and echoed the mass emergence nearby in the Oaks that is happening right now.

I checked my lures also, as part of the morning routine, and found a Pea Moth in it's own lure trap (nigricana), this must have appeared over night or extremely early as it was empty at dusk.

 

This afternoon I checked all of the traps again, and was really pleased that another moth had entered the same lure (NIG) that the Cydia nigricana was in this morning. A Phyllonorycter this time, and i'm hoping it is hostis, based on it's clean bright apperance and larger white markings. If correct (and i've retained it to be sure) will be the full set of Phyllonorycter that are seemingly attracted to the NIG lure, the other two being blancardella and oxyacanthae which have both been recorded in the garden this year.

More wind today, in fact it was blowing a gale, tonight we are expecting rain? possibly thunderstorms? if the wind drops (Which it won't) it could be another good night.

Moth garden list for 2022 stands at 272 species

03/06/22 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

 

Macro Moths

Shark 1 [NFG]
Small Waved Umber 1 [NFG]
Bright-line Brown-eye 1
Buff-tip 2
Common Pug 1
Common Wainscot 4
Flame Shoulder 2
Garden Carpet 3
Heart & Dart 2
Large Nutmeg 5
Large Yellow Underwing 1
Mottled Pug 1
Nutmeg 1
Rustic Shoulder-knot 2
Setaceous Hebrew Character 2
Shears 1
Shuttle-shaped Dart 1
Silver Y 1
Snout 1
Straw Dot 1
Treble Lines 1
Vine's Rustic 2
Willow Beauty 8

 

Micro Moths

Cydia nigricana 1 [NFG] (to NIG lure)
Eudonia lacustrata 1 [NFG]

Phyllonorycter hostis 1 [NFG] (to NIG lure TBC)
Tortrix viridana 3 [NFG]
Aphomia sociella 3
Anania hortulata 1
Argyresthia cuppresella 1
Cochylis atricapitana 1
Depressaria radiella 1
Lyonetia clerkella 1
Platyedra subcinera 1

Cydia nigricana

Eudonia lacustrata

Phyllonorycter hostis pos

Shark

Small Waved Umber

Tortrix viridana