Wednesday 24th August 2022.
A large haul of moths this morning in and around the moth box with an estimated total of 135 moths of 40 species. Only one species of which was new for the year, the micro moth Epinotia immundana. Nearly a third of these moths were of two species: Pale Mottled Willow and Vines Rustic which were about the third of the total this morning. Garden Tigers are still showing and immigrant moths this morning included 2 White-points, Silver Y, 2 Rush Veneer and 3 Rusty-dot Pearl.
Vines Rustic (right) and Shuttle-shaped Dart.
It was overcast at first thing this morning and at 6am, still quite dark, but it eventually got lighter and it was again, very mild with the temperature around 19 degrees already. Thankfully, no rain overnight or forecast this morning and it's getting a lot warmer today. Hopefully, will bring a lot more unusual moths into the garden tonight.
This mornings moths were as follows:
- 1 Setaceous Hebrew Character
- 5 Double-striped Pug
- 7 Lime-speck Pug
- 29 Vines Rustic
- 1 Yellow-barred Brindle
- 19 Pale Mottled Willow
- 3 Garden Tiger
- 3 L-album Wainscot
- 4 Willow Beauty
- 4 Shuttle-shaped Dart
- 1 Silver Y
- 2 White-point
- 4 Brimstone Moth
- 1 Square-spot Rustic
- 1 Bright-line Brown-eye
- 2 Garden Carpet
- 1 Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
- 1 Cabbage Moth
- 1 Marbled Beauty
- 5 Small Dusty Wave
- 1 Riband Wave
- 2 Beautiful Plume
- 2 Common Plume
- 3 Broom Shoot Moth
- 2 Rush Veneer
- 1 Mompha crocicapitella
- 4 Box Tree Moth
- 1 Epinotia immundana (NFY)
- 1 Gypsonoma dealbana
- 3 Agriphila geniculea
- 5 Apple Leaf Miner
- 1 Acleris consimilana
- 3 Rusty-dot Pearl
- 1 Brown House Moth
- 1 Light Brown Apple Moth
- 2 Garden Pebble
- 5 Tachystola acroxantha
- 1 Ephestia woodiella
- 1 Horse Chestnut Leaf Miner
- 2 Acleris laterana/comariana
- 1 Psychoides filicivora
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