Another new for garden! Don't laugh....

Honestly, a common moth and it's taken nigh on 3 years to record one in my garden.

 

I'm talking about the Silver-ground Carpet, a common moth locally in good habitat. I'm not sure why it's taken so long to add it to the list, nevertheless it was a bit of a faded specimen sadly.

 

It was another similar sized catch to the previous night (Sunday) but which more variety with 5 new moths, sadly, not many micros on these cool, clear and damp evenings.

 

Highlights for me aside from the new record were the vibrant Cinnabar, and a very smart and fresh Cabbage Moth with the red highlights still present behind the head.

And then the rain came, all 31 days worth? probably...

 

Moth garden list for 2024 stands at 218 species

 

20/05/24 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Cinnabar 1 [NFY]
Freyer's Pug 1 [NFY]
Silver-ground Carpet 1 [NFY]
Small Square-spot 1 [NFY]
Buff-tip 3
Cabbage Moth 1
Common Pug 1
Common Swift 7
Coronet 1
Flame Shoulder 1
Garden Carpet
Green Carpet 1
Heart & Dart 1
Light Brocade 5
Marbled Minor 5
Mottled Pug 1
Peppered Moth 1
Poplar Hawk-moth 1
Rustic Shoulder-knot 1
Shuttle-shaped Dart 4
Spruce Carpet 1
Treble Lines 5
Turnip Moth 3
White Ermine 1
Willow Beauty 4

Micro Moths

Ditula angustiorana 1 [NFY]
Epiphyas postvittana 2
Hedya pruniana 1

Cabbage Moth

Cinnabar

Ditula angustiorana

Freyer's Pug

Silver-ground Carpet

Small Square-spot