Another cracking haul of moths.

Saturday 18th June 2022.

Swallow-tailed Moth.

A very warm night where it was a tad uncomfortable to sleep. I was awake around 4am, with some idiot and disrespectful neighbours nearby yapping drunkenly away to themselves at silly o’clock and so, once I heard the first Blackbird start singing and a couple of Herring Gulls making a racket overhead, I decided to get up and make my way down to the moth box where I knew there were going to be a big haul of moths due to the balmy overnight temperature.

Gold Triangle.

Eudonia mercurella.

Yesterday, when I got home from work and poured myself a very cold drink, I sat in the back garden to cool off and enjoyed watching a Hummingbird Hawk-moth feeding briefly on our Buddleia plant, my third of the year. However, it didn't stay that long but there were plenty of Holly Blue butterflies and even a Small White butterfly for entertainment. It looks as though the Starling that was caught by a cat in my garden recently has made a full recovery and enjoyed being with another juvenile bird, the remains of the food left out for them.

Small Magpie moth.

Blastobasis lacticollela.

This morning, I recorded at least 110+ moths of at least 36 species including Snout, Swallow-tailed Moth, Short-cloaked Moth, Blastobasis lacticollella, Small Magpie, Meal Moth, Eudonia mercurella and a  Gold Triangle which, were all new for the year.

Meal Moth.

Snout.

The following moths were present this morning:

• 13 Willow Beauty
• 3 Heart & Dart
• 2 Common Emerald
• 1 Snout (NFY)
• 10 Riband Wave
• 9 Lime-speck Pug
• 2 Box-tree Moth
• 8 Garden Carpet
• 1 Swallow-tailed Moth (NFY)
• 3 Double-striped Pug
• 1 Brimstone Moth
• 2 Straw Dot
• 5 White Ermine
• 1 Pale Mottled Willow
• 3 Marbled Minor
• 1 Vines Rustic
• 2 Common Pug
• 1 Treble Brown Spot
• 1 Short-cloaked Moth (NFY)
• 1 Bright-line Brown-eye
• 1 Large Yellow Underwing
• 6 Common Plume
• 8 Ephestia woodiella
• 1 Blastobasis lacticollela (NFY)
• 1 Small Magpie (NFY)
• 3 Light Brown Apple Moth
• 9 Tachystola acroxantha
• 1 Meal Moth (NFY)
• 1 Celypha striana
• 1 Brown House Moth
• 2 Chrysoteuchia culmella
• 1 Green Oak Tortrix
• 1 Diamond-back Moth
• 2 Bee Moth
• 1 Eudonia mercurella (NFY)
• 1 Gold Triangle (NFY)

Short-cloaked Moth.