Dark-bordered Pearl moth on board my year list.

Friday 22nd August 2025.

My first Dark-bordered Pearl moth of the year.

Another cool start here in Southsea, but no wind this morning as I got about checking the Moth Box again. Temperatures were hovering around 15 degrees, though it will get warmer as the day progresses. The only bird of note that flew over early this morning was a Greenfinch that headed off northbound high over the houses.

My Moth Box:

Portland Ribbon Wave. This was my 3rd sighting of one this year, with two in my garden and one in Andy Fisher's garden.

Not quite a hundred species of moths this morning, but 91 moths of 38 species is still a good total. There were some interesting moths around this morning, notably my first Dark-bordered Pearl (Evergestis limbata)* of the year and another Portland Ribbon Wave was also special. Other immigrant moths included a Turnip Moth, White-point, 3 Golden Twin-spots and a Langmaid’s Yellow Underwing. Six Rusty-dot Pearls were the only immigrant micro moths today.

The Moths recorded this morning included the following:

MACRO MOTHS	MICRO MOTHS
Small Dusty Wave x3	Dark-bordered Pearl x1 *
Garden Carpet x3	Bird-cherry Ermine x1
Dark Spectacle x1	Rusty-dot Pearl x6
Yellow-barred Brindle x2	Ruddy Streak x4
Garden Tiger x2	Dark Moss-moth x4
Vine’s Rustic x8	House Moss-moth x3
Heart & Dart x1	Box Tree Moth x5
Common Rustic x1	Light Brown Apple Moth x1
Square-spot Rustic x2	Beautiful Plume x1
Pale Mottled Willow x3	Apple Leaf Miner x1
Setaceous Hebrew Character x3	Common Plume x4
L-album Wainscot x4	Chevron Grass-moth x1
Turnip Moth x1	Garden Pebble x1
Bright-line Brown-eye x1	White-shouldered House Moth x1
Double-striped Pug x3
Lime-speck Pug x3
Shuttle-shaped Dart x2
Portland Ribbon Wave x1
White-point x3
Large Yellow Underwing x1
Canary-shouldered Thorn x1
Golden Twin-spot x3
Willow Beauty x3
Langmaid’s Yellow Underwing x1