Border invasion.

2015 will go down as one of the best years for the migrant moth Bordered Straw.
The Dells has now joined the USB triangle.
That's Upper Caldecot, Stevenage and Biggleswade, the 3 Mothketeers who compete in the annual Wine Race, each now with Bordered Straw on their year lists.

14/06/2015 BF 2403. Bordered Straw

This is a first record for The Dells, nice to add another species to the garden list which now stands at 666 species.
The rest of last nights catch feels like an anticlimax...
0874 Blastobasis lacticolella 1, year first

A very worn Blastobasis lacticolella

0994 Clepsis consimilana, 1
0998 Epiphyas postvittana, 1
1301 Crambus lathoniellus, 1
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata, 1
1524 Emmelina monodactyla, 1
1707 Small Dusty Wave, 1
1713 Riband Wave, 1
1728 Garden Carpet, 2
1825 Lime-speck Pug, 1, year first

Lime-speck Pug

1834 Common Pug, 1
1920 Scalloped Hazel, 1
1937 Willow Beauty, 1
2011 Pale Prominent, 1

Pale Prominent

2050 Common Footman, 1, year first

Common Footman

2069 Cinnabar, 2
2087 Turnip Moth, 3
2089 Heart and Dart, 23
2092 Shuttle-shaped Dart, 4
2102 Flame Shoulder, 1
2107 Large Yellow Underwing, 1
2126 Setaceous Hebrew Character, 1
2337x Marbled Minor agg. 3
2381 Uncertain, 2

2384 Vine's Rustic, 5
2389 Pale Mottled Willow, 2
2403 Bordered Straw, 1, garden first