A good micro moth added to my year total.

Friday 23rd September 2022.

The micro moth, Crocidosema plebejana, which was only my second ever sighting of one.

A wet start to the day and the rain looks to be around for at least most of the morning. I did manage to get a brief respite in the rain to check the moth box and again, the moth numbers were quite impressive for this time of year, however, it was pretty much the same as the past few days, but I did have a new micro moth for the year that was gratefully identified by Mike Wall, the Hants Moths Facebook author, Mike Wall as a Crocidosema plebejana, which was only my second one ever.

Flounced Rustic and Feathered Ranunculus.

Two Feathered Ranunculus and 2 Lunar Underwings were typical for this time of year, but most welcome and a single Flounced Rustic and Clancy’s Rustic made things interesting as did the long staying Blair’s Mocha. Among the micros, a Gypsonoma dealbana and Rusty-dot Pearl were the pick of the bunch, apart from the aforementioned. A total of 61 moths of 20 species recorded today.

Clancy's Rustic. As mentioned before, a very good year for this species for my garden.

Moths present this morning included the following:

• 2 Feathered Ranunculus
• 1 Flounced Rustic
• 11 Lesser Yellow Underwing
• 11 Large Yellow Underwing
• 2 Lunar Underwing
• 1 L-album Wainscot
• 7 Square-spot Rustic
• 7 Willow Beauty
• 2 Pale Mottled Willow
• 2 Brimstone Moth
• 1 Clancy’s Rustic
• 1 Blair’s Mocha
• 2 Double-striped Pug
• 1 Garden Carpet
• 2 Eudonia angustea
• 2 Agriphila geniculea
• 1 Gypsonoma dealbana
• 1 Clepsis consimilana
• 2 Box Tree Moth
• 2 Beautiful Plume
• 1 Common Plume
• 1 Crocidosema plebejana
• 1 Rusty-dot Pearl

A wet start to the day for my moth box. The dog ornament is quite heavy and therefore keeps the rain-guard from blowing off.