Migrants!

A rather uneventful night weather-wise turned out to be stonking for migrants, the weather wasn't particularly warm, wasn't particularly calm, wasn't particularly cloudy, average at best, but it did start well as I decided to do some dusk netting.

The usual fare, with 4 common species in the back of the net (and a few more I missed because i'm not 6ft 2in tall).

The best moth was a garden first Mompha epilobiella, a species I would have thought I would have seen by now.

The trap was pretty quiet with no more than 20 species noted.

Just before bed at 12am I noticed a terribly worn Hawk-moth sitting behind my rainguard, it wasn't big and I thought it must be a worn 2nd brood Pine, but no it was a smallish male Convolvulus that had flown all the way from the Gambia (Well in the state that it was in, probably!)

A year first and my second, after taking a nicer example last year exactly a month later than this tatty one on the 28th of September.

Not content with that, my garden threw up another migrant, going through the egg trays at 5am.

Another tatty moth, a Pearly Underwing and a welcome new addition to the garden list.

This is odd, as I got some transference from that late September date last year, as not only did I get my first Convolvulus Hawk-moth for the garden, but it was accompanied by a second good migrant (much like the Pearly last night) a Clancy's Rustic.

Other migrants probably? were 5x Nomophila noctuella and 2x Plutella xylostella.

 

Moth garden list for 2022 stands at 620 species

28/08/22 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap 

 

Convolvulus Hawk-moth 1 [NFY]

Pearly Underwing 1 [NFG]

Mompha epilobiella 1 [NFG] 

The battered pair

Convolvulus Hawk-moth

Mompha epilobiella

Pearly Underwing