White-point moth the highlight this morning.

Sunday 29th May 2022.

My first White-point moth of the year.

A really cold start to the morning at 4.45am and with not a cloud in the sky, no wonder overnight the overnight temperature dropped considerably. The forecast today is supposed to be sunny and a slight breeze, but it probably will not be as warm as yesterday. There was only one new moth species for the year this morning and that was a White-point, another regular immigrant moth while easily the most numerous moth was the Willow Beauties and the Pale Mottled Willows. Slightly down in numbers from yesterday with 55 moths of 20 species recorded:

Not the usual guise of a Garden Pebble moth, but a welcome one.

• 1 Double-striped Pug
• 5 Lime-speck Pug
• 1 Common Pug
• 2 Bright-line Brown-eye
• 3 White Ermine
• 1 Buff Ermine
• 12 Willow Beauty
• 3 Heart & Dart
• 4 Vines Rustic
• 1 Shuttle-shaped Dart
• 1 Small Dusty Wave
• 1 Yellow-barred Brindle
• 8 Pale Mottled Willow
• 1 Garden Carpet 
• 1 White-point (NFY)
• 1 Garden Pebble
• 3 Mompha subbistrigella
• 2 Tachystola acroxantha
• 3 Light Brown Apple Moth
• 1 Celypha striana