Over 100+ moths this morning.

Friday 3rd June 2022.

Varied Coronet was new for the year and virtually near annual in my garden.

A reasonably mild morning to start off with, around 11 degrees to be exact and it was a little cloudy overhead, but at least it was bright and not raining! I have started putting egg trays by the side of the box now and it is most certainly paying off, with a good haul of moths this morning. Swifts were once again circling overhead and a Blackbird was in full song on top of my roof. The House Sparrows eventually came down to try their luck in pinching a moth or two, but all the time I was there, they had no chance! 

Apple Leaf-miner. 

The dark form of Box-tree Moth.

Common Carpet.

A very large haul of moths this morning, easily my highest number to date this year so far with 103 moths of 35 species recorded. This included seven new species for the year including a very smart Variable Coronet, Common Carpet and my first Box-tree Moth of the dark phase type. Am I going to be inundated with this species again like last year? The following moths were present this morning:

• 19 Lime-speck Pug
• 4 Common Pug
• 3 Double-striped Pug
• 8 Willow Beauty
• 1 Varied Coronet (NFY)
• 4 White Ermine
• 1 Silver Y
• 8 Pale Mottled Willow
• 5 Bright-line Brown-eye
• 1 Marbled Minor
• 1 Large Yellow Underwing (NFY)
• 1 Straw Dot (NFY)
• 1 Early Grey
• 4 Common Marbled Carpet  
• 2 Vines Rustic
• 8 Garden Carpet
• 5 Heart & Dart
• 1 Common Carpet (NFY)
• 1 Yellow-barred Brindle
• 1 Angle Shades
• 3 Shuttle-shaped Dart
• 1 Box-tree Moth (NFY)
• 2 Tachystola acroxantha
• 1 Celypha striana
• 2 Common Plume
• 4 Ephestia woodiella
• 2 Light Brown Apple Moth
• 1 Eudonia lacustrata (NFY)
• 1 White-shouldered House Moth
• 1 Brown House Moth
• 1 Bryotropha affinis
• 1 Apple Leaf-miner (NFY)
• 2 Mompha subbistrigella
• 1 Swammerdarmia pyrella
• 1 Agonopterix arienella

Eudonia lacustrata.

Large Yellow Underwing.

Straw Dot.