Tuesday night in the garden Another trapping session last Tuesday was well worth it again after a sultry and muggy day, the sky did clear a little but with a minimum temperature of 14 degrees. The only problem was that damn wind and with the threat of the odd downpour but still come the morning there was a lovely selection of moths in and around the trap. Another Acleris schalleriana explosion probably from the masses of pupa found a few weeks ago in the Viburnum bush outside our front window. Two moths were completely new for my garden, both Yponomeuta rorrella and Phtheochroa rugosana. rorrella I may have over-looked in the past, but it is one of the doable Yponomeuta species with its slight two-tone grey appearance.

Catch Report - 12/07/16 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

Buff Footman 1 [NFY] Common Emerald 1 [NFY] Poplar Lutestring 1 [NFY] Scarce Footman 1 [NFY] Short-cloaked Minor 1 [NFY] Small Blood-vein [NFY] Small Emerald 1 [NFY] Beautiful Golden-Y 1 Beautiful Hook-tip 1 Bright-line Brown-eye 2 Buff Arches 1 Burnished Brass Clay 3 Clouded Brindle 1 Common Footman 5 Common Rustic 4 Dark Arches 2 Dot Moth 8 Double-striped Pug 1 Flame 1 Heart & Club 3 Heart & Dart 3 Large Yellow Underwing 2 Light Emerald 1 Marbled Minor 1 Mottled Beauty 2 Mottled Rustic 3 Riband Wave 1 Rustic 2 Silver-Y 2 Small Fan-footed Wave 2 Smoky Wainscot 2 Snout 2 Swallow-tailed Moth 3 Uncertain 5 V-Pug 1 Willow Beauty 2

Micro Moths

Phtheochroa rugosana 1 [NFG] Yponomeuta rorrella 1 [NFG] Acleris forsskaleana 1 [NFY] Epinotia abbreviana 2 [NFY] Eucosma obumbratana 1 [NFY] Notocelia cynosbatella 2 [NFY] Paraswammerdamia nebulella 1 [NFY] Scoparia pyralella 1 [NFY] Acleris schalleriana 6 Aphomia sociella 1 Anania coronata 1 Anania hortulata 2 Blastobasis lacticolella 2 Celypha lacunana 1 Clepsis consimilana 1 Crambus lathoniellus 1 Emmelina monodactyla 2 Eudonia lacustrata 2 Eudonia mercurella 3 Gypsonoma dealbana 2 Plutella xylostella 2 Spilonota ocellana 1 Udea prunalis 2