FlyinginFordham: Still full steam ahead!

Mothing lately has been nothing short of incredible, with a few weeks now of warm nights (even when its been a clear sky)

Most nights and days have been well above average for this time of year, with nearly every day at 24 degrees plus, a full 3 degrees up on an average daytime temperature in June (Info from the met office)

Nights have also been exclusively in double digits, sometimes mid-teens all night.

Monday night was no different, with partly cloudy skies, completely still and a minimum of 16 degrees, the trap was busy for here and I estimate that around 65 species attended the trap, although no real time to log everything currently.

With 17 new additions for the year and 4 confirmed new for garden species (Although one is pending dissection to seperate between two possibles) it was a very enthralling night full of exquisite variety.

Only new for year species listed below.

Moth garden list for 2023 stands at 329 species

19/06/23 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Barred Straw 1 [NFY]
Common Footman 1 [NFY]
Common White Wave 1 [NFG]
Scarce Footman 1 [NFY]
V-Moth 1 [NFY]

Micro Moths

Carpatolechia fugivitella 1 [NFY]
Coleophora sp 2 (2 different species) TBC
Dioryctria abietella 1 [NFY]
Elachista stabilella 2 [NFY]
Enarmonia formosana 1 [NFG]
Eucosma conterminana 2 [NFY]
Evergestis limbata 1 [NFY]
Grapholita janthinana 1 [NFY]
Oegoconia sp 1 [NFY]
Phycitodes binaevella 1 [NFY]
Phycitodes saxicola/maritima 1 [NFG]
Ptocheuusa paupella 1 [NFG]
Recurvaria leucatella 1 [NFY]