Changeable

The weather has been very mixed recently, and some nights numbers have been lower, that i've switched off at bedtime. Other nights there have been plenty of common species and the usual breckland specialities blowing in, but there has been no new for year species since Wednesday night now, a whole week!

This is fairly typical as we say goodbye to summer and start to enter into Autumn, but a week without a newbie is still on the slow side.

Still there were lots of different species that featured on Friday that did not come to the light 2 days previous.

The VES lure scored a Yellow-legged Clearwing, the second for the garden after losing the last before taking a photo!

And the NI lure bagged a mint Dewick's Plusia.

 

Caloptilia honoratella showed up once again. I've recorded it most months this year in my garden, and several per month.

A Coleophora has been retained for dissection.

 

Below is a selection of species that I recorded.

 

Moth garden list for 2023 stands at 587 species

Caloptilia honoratella

Coleophora sp

Dewick's Plusia

Ptocheuusa paupella

Turnip Moth

Webb's Wainscot

White-line Dart

Yellow-legged Clearwing