FlyinginFordham: Tuesday Trapping Treats

Another rather remarkable night here in my garden on Tuesday night.

Numners are really picking up, the amount of common species have doubled recently, with numbers of White-point, Vine's Rustics, Underwings and Nutmegs all in their 30's on a nightly basis, even species like Yellow Shell, Turnip Moth, Cabbage Moth and the Prominents, seem to be having a bonkers second brood with multiples of each every night, it really is great to see.

Amongst the usual expected commoner species there seems to be always a smattering of rarer moths, sometimes not rare but either new for the year or new for the garden.

Tuesday night was no exception, featuring two new species for the garden, not one, but 3 Oblique Striped turned up.

Oblique Striped is a local Brecks species so it's obviously blown in on the winds.

The second newbie was a lovely form of Epinotia nisella, backed up by a further 7 new species for the year!

The nights continue to be mild but rather breezy now, need some migrants now!