New moths from the weekend

It was a fairly windy weekend here and with rain overnight on Saturday, I didn’t put the moth trap out, but by Sunday evening the wind had dropped off so it looked good for a moth-trapping attempt.

In the end it was fairly breezy but the temperature only dropped to 14.4ºC so it wasn’t a bad night. This morning the trap had 126 moths in it from 30 different species, 6 of which were new garden records.

  • 9x    Lackey
  • 9x    Large Yellow Underwing
  • 40x   Dark Arches
  • 22x   Heart and Dart
  • 3x    Flame Shoulder
  • 8x    Flame
  • 3x    Elephant Hawkmoth
  • 1x    Garden Tiger
  • 1x    Buff Tip
  • 2x    Bright-line Brown-eye
  • 1x     White Ermine
  • 1x    Rustic
  • 4x    Smoky Wainscot
  • 1x    Small Seraphim
  • 4x    Scarce Footman
  • 2x    Oligia sp.
  • 1x    Archer’s Dart
  • 1x    Clouded-bordered Brindle
  • 1x    Middle-barred Minor
  • 1x    Buff Ermine
  • 1x    Setaceous Hebrew Character
  • 1x    Willow Beauty
  • 2x    White-line Dart
  • 1x    Common Rustic
  • 1x    Uncertain
  • 1x    Single-dotted Wave
  • 1x    Galium Carpet
  • 1x    Small Square Spot
  • 1x    Cloaked minor
  • 1x    Ruby Tiger

Here are the new ones.

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  1. Avatar forComment Author Trudie says:

    The Ruby Tiger is a particularly nice one!

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Alan Cole

Alan is a Freelance Website Designer, Sports & Exercise Science Lab Technician and full time Dad & husband with far too many hobbies: Triathlete, Swimming, Cycling, Running, MTBing, Surfing, Windsurfing, SUPing, Gardening, Photography.... The list goes on.