100+ Moths again!

Thursday 22nd August 2025.

Dusky Thorn.

To be honest, it was arguably the coldest morning of the week for at the end of checking the Moths by the Moth Box, my hands were freezing! My mobile phone said it was only 12 degrees as a cold northerly wind blew around the garden and with a bit of hazy cloud overhead, hopefully it will get warmer.

Unfortunately, no visible migration going on overhead again this morning while checking the Moth Box, just the continuous begging calls of a juvenile Herring Gull by its parent on a nearby rooftop!

My Moth Box:

One of four Langmaid's Yellow Underwings today.

Another hundred plus moths present this morning, of which I was honestly surprised about seeing that the cold wind and hardly anything on the white sheet was to go by. In fact, a total of 115 moths of 35 species were recorded much to my surprise. Sadly, not a single new moth for the year, but plenty of immigrant moths to look at including Pale Mottled Willow, Langmaid’s Yellow Underwing, White-point, Turnip Moth, Rush Veneer, Rusty-dot Pearls and a single Jasmine Moth. 

Above, a Setaceous Hebrew Character and below, a White-point.

A Dusky Thorn is always a lovely moth to see and four Gold Triangle moths added a splash of colour. I thought one of my Garden Tiger moths had succumbed to a spider, but I double-checked it later in the morning and found it had been trapped by a load of spider web attached to it. So, ‘for my good deed for the day’, I carefully picked it up and removed a big ball of web stuck to the poor moth and then released it onto some nearby plants.

Gold Triangle. One of four today.

The Moths recorded this morning included the following:

MACRO MOTHS	MICRO MOTHS
Yellow-barred Brindle x4	Rush Veneer x1
Pale Mottled Willow x8	Light Brown Apple Moth x1
Riband Wave x1	Gold Triangle x4
Double-striped Pug x11	Common Plume x4
Lime-speck Pug x2	Rusty-dot Pearl x8
Vine’s Rustic x6	White-shouldered House Moth x2
Bright-line Brown-eye x3	Common Masoner x1
Shuttle-shaped Dart x11	Garden Pebble x1
Heart & Dart x1	Box Tree Moth x9
Large Yellow Underwing x1	Ruddy Streak x1
Langmaid’s Yellow Underwing x4	House Moss-moth x2
Setaceous Hebrew Character x2	Jasmine Moth x1
White-point x4
L-album Wainscot x5
Garden Carpet x5
Small Dusty Wave x2
Dusky Thorn x1
Cabbage Moth x1
Turnip Moth x1
Buff Ermine x1
White Ermine x2
Garden Tiger x3
Willow Beauty x2

Matt & Emma’s Moth Box, Fareham:

Another Poplar Hawk-moth was in their trap this morning.

Again, rather quiet with no new moths reported there this morning, but they did have another Poplar Hawk-moth to their trap today. I have not had one here this year so far!