Five new moths for the year.

Saturday 28th May 2022.

Maiden's Blush.

I was up around 4.45am this morning and although it was a cold night with temperatures dropping to around 8 degrees, I was ever hopeful in getting something special in the moth box first thing. In fact, though there were 5 new moth species for my year list, that something quite special did not materialise, but there were at least 66 moths of 29 species for me to check out. A bright and clear morning, with a near cloudless sky overhead bodes well for today.  The following moths were present this morning:

• 7 Lime-speck Pug
• 3 Double-striped Pug
• 1 Green Pug (NFY)
• 3 Bright-line Brown-eye
• 4 Garden Carpet
• 7 White Ermine
• 3 Willow Beauty
• 1 Pepper Moth
• 3 Shuttle-shaped Dart
• 2 Yellow-barred Brindle
• 3 Vines Rustic
• 1 Maiden’s Blush (NFY)
• 3 Common Marbled Carpet
• 1 Buff Ermine
• 1 Freyer’s Pug
• 1 L-album Wainscot (NFY)
• 1 Heart & Dart
• 1 Brimstone Moth
• 1 Common Wainscot (NFY)
• 2 Common Pug
• 1 Pale Mottled Willow
• 1 Marbled Minor (NFY)
• 2 Common Plume
• 1 White-shouldered House Moth
• 6 Tachystola acroxantha
• 3 Light Brown Apple Moth
• 1 Celypha striana
• 1 Platyedra subcinerea
• 1 Diamond-back Moth

Common Wainscot.

L-album Wainscot.

Celypha striana.

Marbled Minor.

Freyer's Pug.

Green Pug.