FlyinginFordham: More great moths from Monday night but a little cold and chilly now

It's been a quiet week here in my garden.

With night-time temperatures dipping to 5 degrees and clear misty and damp nights there's only been around 10 moths per trapping session.

On Monday however, it was fairly mild and calm and there were plenty of moths!

58 moths of another mind-blowing 27 species, with two new macro moths for the year, a tricky Acleris that turned out to be the plainest forms of schalleriana i've ever seen.

The two new macros were a super Juniper Carpet and finally a male Autumnal Moth that was checked (After recording possibles over the last two years, but all being females and impossible to dissect).

I also found a Cypress Carpet on the wall, great to get both this and Juniper together.

It was a carpet themed night with a further 7 Red-green Carpets of various forms including a dazzling green coloured one.

Large Wainscot are still going, although numbers have tailed off now

Blood-vein was my latest ever record.

Trapping may pick up a bit as the night's get milder but as expected, wetter.

Moth garden list for 2023 stands at 637 species

23/10/23 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Autumnal Moth 1 [NFY]
Juniper Carpet 1 [NFY]
Angle Shades 1
Beaded Chestnut 2
Black Rustic 1
Blair's Shoulder-knot 1
Blood-vein 1
Chestnut 1
Cypress Carpet 1
Double-striped Pug 3
Feathered Thorn 2
Green-brindled Crescent 2
Large Wainscot 4
Lesser Yellow Underwing 1
Merveille du Jour 1
November Moth 6
Red-green Carpet 7
Satellite 1
Willow Beauty 1

Micro Moths

Acleris schalleriana 1
Agonopterix alstromeriana 1
Blastobasis lacticolella 1
Cydalima perspectalis 2
Emmelina monodactyla 3
Epiphyas postvittana 3
Eudonia angustea 1
Udea ferrugalis 8