Another three new moths for the year.

Wednesday 20th July 2022.

Blair's Mocha is an annual moth to my garden, though in very small numbers.

The UK witnessed its hottest day ever recorded with temperatures around 40 degrees Centigrade (104 degrees Fahrenheit) and we can be in no doubt (unless your Trump of course!) that Global Warming is really taking hold. Yes, it is freakish weather but it is now getting more common as the years go on. As I said to my wife, I really worry what my granddaughter will have to put up with when she is our age?

Turnip Moth finally turned up. I am expecting quite a few more of these later in the year.

However, despite the intense heat yesterday, this morning's moth numbers (yes, one extreme to another) was somewhat disappointing although there was quite a variety again. There were 132 moths of 52 species, which wasn't too bad with three new moths for the year; Blair’s Mocha, Turnip Moth and a Langmaid’s Yellow Underwing. 17 Common Plume and 11 Apple Leaf Miner were the most numerous by far.

My first Langmaid's Yellow Underwing of the year. I checked the hindwing etc and there was no doubt about its identity. 

Temperatures are set to drop a little today as Becky and I will be getting ready for our holiday to Turkey tomorrow. I cannot wait!

This mornings moths including the following:

• 1 Blair’s Mocha (NFY)
• 5 Willow Beauty
• 3 Lime-speck Pug
• 8 Double-striped Pug
• 3 Cloaked Minor
• 4 Buff Ermine
• 1 White Ermine
• 5 Riband Wave
• 4 Pale Mottled Willow
• 2 Common Footman
• 1 Dark Spectacle
• 1 Uncertain
• 7 Brimstone Moth
• 1 Bright-line Brown-eye
• 1 L-album Wainscott
• 1 Common Wainscot
• 1 Brown-veined Wainscot
• 1 Common Carpet
• 1 Garden Carpet
• 1 Common Rustic
• 1 Langmaids Yellow Underwing (NFY)
• 1 Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 
• 3 Grey Dagger
• 1 Shuttle-shaped Dart
• 1 Blood-vein
• 1 Knot Grass
• 1 Turnip Moth (NFY)
• 2 Common Rustic
• 3 Cabbage Moth
• 1 Dark Arches
• 17 Common Plume
• 1 Beautiful Plume 
• 7 Blastobasis adustella
• 1 Blastobasis vittata
• 1 Blastobasis rebeli
• 1 Blastobasis lacticolella
• 2 Borkhausenia fuscescens
• 1 Rusty-dot Pearl
• 11 Apple Leaf Miner
• 3 Bird-cherry Ermine
• 3 Oegoconia quadripuncta
• 8 Light Brown Apple Moth
• 1 Clepsis consimilana
• 1 Brown House Moth
• 2 Tachystola acroxantha
• 2 Bud Moth
• 1 Garden Pebble
• 1 Euzophera pinguis
• 1 Monopsis crocicapitella
• 1 Caloptilia betulicola
• 1 Diamond-back Moth
• 1 Eudonia mercurella