FlyinginFordham: A new for garden Macro Moth

Tuesday night wasn't particularly warm, hovering at around 12c at the coolest part of the night, but it was calm and dry, and so the trap was switched on at 9:30pm and run all night.

There weren't many moths come the morning of a pretty paltry 32 species, but it did include my first garden record of the Herald, 3 years in the making! A little tatty but very welcome all the same.

Other highlights included the pretty peachy Rosy Footman, two species of Pug (Again a bit worn and probably bedraggled by the sharp showers we've had recently).

The only new macro moth for the year, were a pair of Aroga velocella. An infrequent visitor here in my garden and right little tinkers to photograph with their darting-like movements.

The temperature in the day and the night continued to build as the week went on.