An improvement in species, but not in numbers

The temperature must not be quite good enough for the moths yet, in fact I saw my first Butterfly for nearly a week this afternoon, just the one Small Tortoiseshell.

 

Generally in June, a good catch is between 100 and 150 moths of 50 to 70 species here in my garden. So far a 'good' catch has been 60 moths of 40 species.

Time and data analysis will tell if this is an anomaly or a worrying trend. 

Last night did include some quality though, I mean what's better than one Broad-barred White, two of them! An event that has never happened anywhere for me. 

Other highlights included a beauty of a Marbled Coronet, the first Cloaked Minor of the season, and a really odd Dark Arches, two-tone in appearance.

 

A Coleophora species was retained, quite a large one.

Long range weather models suggest it might finally get warmer... I won't hold them to it just yet though.

 

Moth garden list for 2024 stands at 301 species

 

15/06/24 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

 

Broad-barred White 2 [NFY]
Cloaked Minor 1 [NFY]
Marbled Coronet 1 [NFY]
Barred Straw 1
Beautiful Hook-tip 1
Brimstone Moth 1
Buff-tip 2
Common Footman 1
Elephant Hawk-moth 1
Figure of Eighty 1
Garden Carpet 1
Heart & Club 1
Heart & Dart 3
Large Nutmeg 1
Large Yellow Underwing 1
Light Emerald 1
Marbled Minor 3
Nutmeg 2
Orange Footman 1
Pale Oak Beauty 1
Peppered Moth 1
Setaceous Hebrew Character 1
Shears 1
Small Elephant Hawk-moth 2
Swallow Prominent 4
Vine's Rustic 1
White-point 1
Willow Beauty 2

Micro Moths 

Anania hortulata 1
Aphomia sociella 1
Celypha lacunana 1
Celypha striana 1
Cochylis atricapitana 1
Coleophora sp 1 tbc
Chrysoteuchia culmella 4
Cnephasia sp 3
Crambus lathoniellus 2
Evergestis limbata 1
Phtheochroa Rugosana 1
Scoparia ambigualis 1

Broad-barred White

Cloaked Minor

Coleophora sp

Dark Arches

Marbled Coronet