Looking for the summer...

As the popular Chris Rea song goes, we certainly are 'looking for the summer' currently.

 

What on earth is happening! A mildish night last night, but it must have rained for half of it, and made the trapping area rather soggy indeed. 

The rain doesn't deter the moths though, and a good number of species (by recent standards) turned up, albeit in pitiful numbers for the 2nd week of June.

 

At least there were 4 new ones to add to the year list (possibly 5 with 1 of 2 similar Cnephasia species retained, which are probably asseclana). 

Best moths of the night was a rather nicely coloured Rhodophaea formosa, and one of my earliest Least Carpets.

Still not good enough for a field trip yet..

Moth garden list for 2024 stands at 286 species

 

09/06/24 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Least Carpet 1 [NFY]
Buff Ermine 1
Common Swift 1
Dark Arches 2
Flame Shoulder 1
Heart & Club 1
Heart & Dart 1
Knot Grass 1
Large Nutmeg 2
Large Yellow Underwing 1
Marbled Minor 1
Nutmeg 1
Shark 2
Shears 2
Shuttle-shaped Dart 2
Snout 1
Swallow Prominent 2
Turnip Moth 2
White-point 1
Willow Beauty 2

Micro Moths

Eudonia mercurella 1 [NFY]
Rhodophaea formosa 1 [NFY]
Scoparia ambigualis 1 [NFY]
Aphomia sociella 1
Celypha striana 1
Cnephasia sp 2
Crambus lathoniellus 1
Hofmannophila pseudospretella 1

Cnephasia sp pos asseclana

Cnephasia sp pos asseclana

Eudonia mercurella

Knot Grass

Least Carpet

Rhodophaea formosa

Scoparia ambigualis