Canary-shouldered Thorn the highlights this morning.

Friday 12th August 2022.

This Canary-shouldered Thorn was my second of the year.

It was a breezy start to the morning and I wasn't surprised that there were not many moths on the white sheet or on top of the moth box, but yesterday’s Langmaids Yellow Underwing was. For a change, there were no new moths for my life list and the best the macro moths could offer was my second Canary-shouldered Thorn of the year, a beautiful little individual that was on the back of the white sheet.

Above, a Grey/Dark Dagger is always welcome in my moth box. Below, this micro moth Cochylis atricapitana was present last night, but disappeared by the morning.  

Last nights Cochylis atricapitana.

My first Setaceous Hebrew Character for a while was present as was a Grey/Dark Dagger (this species has to be dissected to be totally sure on the correct ID) and 3 Marbled Beauty was more than usual. A good spread of micro moths again, with two Diamond-back Moths probably the pick of the bunch. There were 76 moths of 31 species present today.

Hawthorn Moth.

The following moths were present this morning:

• 1 Canary-shouldered Thorn
• 10 Garden Tiger
• 1 Willow Beauty
• 1 Pale Mottled Willow
• 1 Setaceous Hebrew Character
• 1 Grey/Dark Dagger
• 1 Langmaids Yellow Underwing
• 4 Double-striped Pug
• 4 Lime-speck Pug
• 1 Riband Wave
• 2 Brimstone Moth
• 1 Small Dusty wave
• 1 Shuttle-shaped Dart
• 3 Marbled Beauty
• 1 Bright-line Brown-eye
• 11 Common Plume
• 5 Light Brown Apple Moth
• 1 Yponomeuta sp.
• 2 Clepsis consimilana
• 3 Apple Leaf Miner
• 2 Blastobasis adustella
• 2 Diamond-back Moth
• 6 Acleris laterana/comariana
• 1 Blastobasis rebeli
• 4 Brown House Moth
• 1 Monopsis crocicapitella
• 1 Mother of Pearl
• 1 Tachystola acroxantha
• 1 Celypha striana
• 1 Hawthorn Moth
• 1 Pyrausta aurata