Last Friday was a wet night for trapping moths but I persevered anyhow because of the mild weather and it was indeed well worth it! With 61? species in total and some great garden records, but with a noticeable drop in numbers.

Highlights were year first species of Toadflax Brocade (I still never have trapped the first brood) and Bordered Pug (2nd garden record and last seen in 2014).

Also I had never trapped the often confused pair of species Lychnis and Campion together before until this night.

The weather is pretty changeable now and we are back to the unsettled weather just as the summer holidays start!

Catch Report - 21/07/17 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Bordered Pug [NFY] 1x Lychnis [NFY] 1x Toadflax Brocade [NFY] 1x Bright-line Brown-eye 1x Brimstone Moth 1x Cabbage Moth 1x Campion 10x Common Rustic 2x Dark Arches 2x Dot Moth 1x Double-striped Pug 3x Dun-bar 1x Early Thorn 2x Lackey 1x Large Yellow Underwing 1x Least Carpet 1x Lesser Yellow Underwing 1x Maple Pug 1x Nut-tree Tussock 1x Pale Mottled Willow 1x Poplar Hawk-moth 1x Purple Thorn 1x Riband Wave 2x Ruby Tiger 1x Rustic 1x Scalloped Oak 1x Scarce Footman 1x September Thorn 1x Shuttle-shaped Dart 2x Silver-Y 1x Small Emerald 1x Small Fan-footed Wave 2x Smoky Wainscot 4x Uncertain 1x Willow Beauty 1x Wormwood Pug 1x Yellow-tail

Micro Moths

1x Acleris forsskaleana 1x Agriphila tristella 9x Agriphila straminella 12x Blastobasis adustella 1x Blastobasis lacticolella 3x Chrysoteuchia culmella 2x Cydia splendana 1x Emmelina monodactyla 3x Endotricha flammealis 1x Epiphyas postvittana 14x Eudonia lacustrata 7x Eudonia mercurella 1x Mompha ochraceella 2x Oegoconia sp 5x Pleuroptya ruralis 2x Spilonota ocellana