7th July 2011...Global cooling

Hope you all enjoyed our Summer this april !
The garden species are trickling in but it's too fresh and cold for a bumper night at the moment and not much improvement expected for the next few days at least...........................
FIGURE of EIGHTY 1654 attracted to my patio door blacklight

SWALLOW-TAILED MOTH 1922

THE SPECTACLE 2450 The most photographed front end in the mothing world.

UNCERTAIN 2381

THE RUSTIC 2382 7th June :-

4 x Willow Beauty

2 x Shuttle-shaped Dart

15 x Heart & Dart

1 x Buff Ermine

1 x Brimstone Moth

3 x Common Footman

8 x Dark Arches

2 x Large Nutmeg

1 x Flame Shoulder

1 x Swallow-tailed Moth * year first

1 x Figure of Eighty * year first

1 x Setaceous Hebrew Character

1 x The Spectacle * year first

1 x The Rustic * year first

4 x Uncertain

1 x Vine's Rustic

2 x Turnip Moth

1 x Marbled Minor agg.

1 x Small Dusty Wave

6 x Large Pugs Common/Grey ?

2 x Aphomia sociella

3 x Hofmannophila pseudospretella

1 x Pempeliella dilutella

3 x Emmelina monodactyla

2 x Ephestia parasitella

1 x Ditula angustiorana

1 x Eurrhypara hortulata

2 x Celypha striana

1 x Eudonia angustea

1 x Eudonia mercurella

1 x Cnephasia agg.

Garden running total :-

226 species.....135 macro, 91 micro