Another micro 'lifer'.

Sunday 14th August 2022.

My first ever Oak Carl moth, Tischeria ekebladella.  A very small moth woodland moth.

After a very balmy night, this morning was very still and calm as I went about checking the moth box. I awoke well before my 5.30am alarm went off and so got up and made a coffee before venturing outside in the dark! I could already see at least one Bright-line Brown-eye and Box Tree Moth on the sheet behind the box and a good number of micros buzzing around the moth box. Once it got a bit lighter, I then went out to check what I had caught overnight.

My first Agriphila geniculea of the year. This is a regular moth that I get in good numbers over the coming months.

There were 80 moths of 35 species this morning, which included my first ever Oak Carl moth, a very small beige coloured micro and also my first Agriphila geniculea of the year. The Currant Pug was present again, but not a great deal of excitement among the macro moths this time.

The following moths were present this morning:

• 6 Garden Tiger
• 2 Bright-line Brown-eye
• 2 Brimstone Moth
• 1 Straw Dot
• 4 Lime-speck Pug
• 9 Double-striped Pug
• 1 Currant Pug
• 2 Marbled Beauty
• 3 Vines Rustic
• 6 Small Dusty Wave 
• 4 Setaceous Hebrew Character
• 1 Pale Mottled Willow
• 1 Willow Beauty
• 1 Buff Ermine
• 1 Box Tree Moth
• 10 Common Plume
• 2 Beautiful Plume
• 1 Broom Shoot Moth
• 1 Coleophora salicorniae
• 1 White-shouldered House Moth
• 1 Mompha crocicapitella
• 1 Agriphila geniculea (NFY)
• 3 Diamond-back Moth
• 4 Tachystola acroxantha
• 1 Yponomeuta sp.
• 1 Acleris laterana/comariana
• 2 Light Brown Apple Moth
• 2 Pyrausta aurata
• 1 Ephestia woodiella
• 1 Blastobasis adustella
• 1 Clepsis consimilana
• 1 Bryotropha affinis
• 1 Oak Carl moth (NFY + LIFER)
• 1 Celypha striana
• 1 Rusty-dot Pearl