Another micro moth added to the year list.

Tuesday 16th August 2022.

This Agriphila inquinatella was my first for the year.

There was no rain last night, despite covering the garden furniture over, so are the thunderstorms due today? It was still really mild this morning, but dark because of the overhead cloud, but did it bring in the moths overnight. There were 78 moths this morning of 27 species and the only new moth for the year was one of the Grass moths, Agriphila inquinatella; a species I normally get annually within my moth box. This individual was sitting on the outside of the box. A few migrant moth species included 3 Rush Veneer and 3 Diamond-back Moth and a worn Lychnis was unexpected.

This Lychnis was my third for the year.

There was no visible migration going on overhead this morning, though a Robin, first heard ‘ticking’, started singing in the back of my garden.    

At least three Rush Veneer were in the box. This is a relatively common immigrant moth to my garden, though numbers of this species do fluctuate year on year. However, with the southerly airflow, it has been a good year so far.

The following moths were present this morning:

• 1 Lychnis
• 4 Willow Beauty
• 13 Lime-speck Pug
• 6 Double-striped Pug
• 2 Garden Tiger
• 1 Straw Dot
• 6 Marbled Beauty
• 4 Shuttle-shaped Dart
• 7 Pale Mottled Willow
• 1 Setaceous Hebrew Character
• 1 White Ermine
• 1 Vines Rustic
• 1 Bright-line Brown-eye
• 2 L-album Wainscot
• 3 Garden Carpet
• 1 Brimstone Moth
• 1 Small Dusty Wave
• 1 Common Rustic
• 3 Rush Veneer
• 6 Common Plume
• 3 Apple Leaf Miner
• 3 Diamond-back Moth
• 2 Bryotropha affinis
• 2 Mother of Pearl
• 1 Agriphila inquinatella (NFY)
• 1 Tachystola acroxantha
• 1 Blastobasis rebeli