Currant Pug added to year list.

Saturday 13th August 2022.

My first Currant Pug of the year finally made it to my year list.

A sticky, balmy night produced a few moths of note which included my first Currant Pug of the year, which was perched on my washing line cover. A Flounced Rustic and 2 Langmaids Yellow Underwing were noteworthy as well as the Canary-shouldered Thorn (probably yesterday's individual) and up to 5 Marbled Beauty’s today.

A solitary Flounced Rustic was in the moth box. 

Fairly quiet among the micro moths though a Cherrybark Tortrix and a Codling Moth were probably the pick of the bunch. A reasonable total of 88 moths of 30 species today. You can tell Autumn is just around the corner as a Robin was ‘ticking’ in my back garden and soon launched into a bit of ‘sub-song’. It is supposed to be one of the hottest days of the year today and so birding is probably going to be just in the morning before it gets too hot. Thunderstorms are predicted for Monday and Tuesday next week, rain of which we are all so desperately needing at the moment as the UK has imposed a Hosepipe ban!    

The following moths were present this morning:

• 3 Bright-line Brown-eye
• 1 Flounced Rustic
• 6 Garden Tiger
• 1 Riband Wave
• 2 Langmaids Yellow Underwing
• 2 Lime-speck Pug
• 5 Double-striped Pug
• 1 Currant Pug (NFY)
• 8 Small Dusty Wave
• 1 White Ermine
• 5 Marbled Beauty 
• 1 Square-spot Rustic
• 4 Brimstone Moth
• 1 Vines Rustic
• 2 Willow Beauty
• 1 Canary-shouldered Thorn
• 2 Yponomeuta sp.
• 15 Common Plume
• 1 Beautiful Plume
• 2 Tachystola acroxantha
• 4 Light Brown Apple Moth
• 1 Pyrausta aurata
• 5 Blastobasis adustella
• 2 Brown House Moth
• 3 Acleris laterana/comariana
• 3 Apple Leaf Miner
• 1 Cherrybark Tortrix
• 2 Monopsis crocicapitella
• 2 Bryotropha affinis
• 1 Codling Moth