Cooler snap = slow

Currently the weather is a bit chilly and windy and I haven't bothered running my trap for a few nights now, maybe Thursday might be the next outing.

On Saturday night I got one of my earliest Poplar Hawk-moths, a rather small proportioned male, and during the day I spotted a Carnation Tortrix flying around the garden, they are quite distinct as nothing else flies during the day with bright orange hindwings.

But there wasn't much else to write home about, the Quaker's are dropping in numbers and getting tatty now, particularly the Common Quakers.

On Sunday night it was more of the same, but a few differnces with a few more spring species returning for the second time this year.

A flighty noctuid moth was netted early doors and initially I thought it was Poplar Grey, but it turns out it was a Knot Grass, certainly more expected this early on.

In the daytime my wife said that there was a moth or fly or thingie in the bedroom, thinking it maybe a year first house moth, it wasn't to be.

I turned out to be a year first of the very common Mallow feeder, Platyedra subcinerea.

It must have blown in through the open windows earlier on in the day.

When will this wind end?

 

Moth garden list for 2024 stands at 89 species

 

13/04/24 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

 

Poplar Hawk-moth 1 [NFY]

Clouded Drab 1

Common Quaker 1

Early Grey 1

Muslin Moth 2

Nut-tree Tussock 2

Oak-tree Pug 2

 

Micro Moths 

 

Cacoecimorpha pronubana 1 [NFY]

Agonopterix alstromeriana 1

Emmelina monodactyla 1

14/04/24 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

 

Knot Grass 1 [NFY]

Chinese Character 1

Clouded Drab 1

Common Quaker 1

Muslin Moth 2

Pebble Prominent 1

Powdered Quaker 1

Scorched Carpet 1

 

Micro Moths 

 

Platyedra subcinerea 1 [NFY]

Alucita hexadactyla 1

Cacoecimorpha pronubana

Poplar Hawk-moth

Knot Grass

Platyedra subcinerea