Black Rustic, that's the summer gone.

The first Black Rustic appeared in the traps this morning which is the official start to autumn, you don't need a calendar ...

Black Rustic

Around 50 Cameraria ohridella were relishing the warm, humid conditions and finding a Lyonetia clerkella amongst them was no mean feat.
A new for year micro, Catoptria falsella, stood out in the crowd of Agriphila geniculea ...

Catoptria falsella

Little else to get excited about.
150 - 200 Large Yellow Underwing has become the norm lately and I won' be sorry to see the back of them

My least liked moth ..Large Yellow Underwing

Pick of the rest ...
2 x Rosy Rustic
1 x Common Marbled Carpet
3 x Light Emerald
1 x Small Blood-vein
1 x Angle Shades
2 x Old Lady
1 x Snout
1 x Silver Y
1 x Mouse Moth
1 x Lime-speck Pug
1 x Pyrausta aurata
1 x Nephopterix angustella

Small Blood-vein

Lime-speck Pug

Nephopterix angustella

20th Aug 2013 ... Rush around before holiday

Off to Italy for a week so just tonight (21st) left for the traps to pull in something exotic.
Last night was quite productive though, Rusty Dot Pearl and Rush Veneer showed up from wherever, and I found Catoptria falsella amongst a myriad of A. geniculea, quite a feat after necking a couple of bottles of good Aussie Red-eye with Captain Trappings earlier. This was only the second garden record of this quite common species.
0015 ... Orange Swift
0483 ... Epermenia chaerophyllella ... Golden Lance-wing

0483 ... Epermenia chaerophyllella

0647 ... Hofmannophila pseudospretella ... Brown House-moth
0648 ... Endrosis sarcitrella ... White-shouldered House-moth
801a ... Gelechia senticetella ... Cypress Groundling
0870 ... Oegoconia quadripuncta ... Four-spotted Obscure  (maybe) ... to be determined

Oegoconia spp

0964 ... Cochylis dubitana ... Little Conch
0970 ... Pandemis cerasana ... Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix
0985 ... Cacoecimorpha pronubana ... Carnation Tortrix
0998 ... Epiphyas postvittana ... Light Brown Apple Moth
1048 ... Acleris variegana ... Garden Rose Tortrix
1305 ... Agriphila tristella ... Common Grass-veneer
1309 ... Agriphila geniculea ... Elbow-stripe Grass-veneer
1316 ... Catoptria falsella ... Chequered Grass-veneer ... year first

1316 ... Chequered Grass-veneer ... Catoptria falsella

1331 ... Acentria ephemerella ... Water Veneer
1361 ... Pyrausta aurata ... Mint Moth
1395 ... Udea ferrugalis ... Rusty Dot Pearl

1395 ... Rusty Dot Pearl ... Udea ferrugalis

1398 ... Nomophila noctuella ... Rush Veneer ... year first

1398 ... Rush Veneer ... Nomophila noctuella

1405 ... Pleuroptya ruralis ... Mother of Pearl
1428 ... Aphomia sociella ... Bee Moth
1524 ... Emmelina monodactyla ... Common Plume
1713 ... Riband Wave
1728 ... Garden Carpet
1738 ... Common Carpet
1742 ... Yellow Shell
1825 ... Lime-speck Pug
1838 ... Tawny Speckled Pug ... year first

1838 ... Tawny Speckled Pug

1862 ... Double-striped Pug
1883 ... Yellow-barred Brindle
1906 ... Brimstone Moth
1914 ... Dusky Thorn ... year first

1914 ... Dusky Thorn

1921 ... Scalloped Oak
1937 ... Willow Beauty
2047 ... Scarce Footman
2061 ... Buff Ermine
2087 ... Turnip Moth
2092 ... Shuttle-shaped Dart
2102 ... Flame Shoulder
2107 ... Large Yellow U'wing
2109 ... Lesser Yellow U'wing
2110 ... Broad-bordered Yellow U'wing
2111 ... Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow U'wing
2126 ... Setaceous Hebrew Character
2134 ... Square-spot Rustic
2154 ... Cabbage Moth
2199 ... Common Wainscot
2297x . Copper Underwing agg.
2303 ... Straw Underwing
2341 ... Cloaked Minor
2243x . Common Rustic agg.
2353 ... Flounced Rustic
2389 ... Pale Mottled Willow
2441 ... Silver Y
2450 ... Spectacle

18th Aug '12 .. New garden macro and micro

A very warm and stifling evening.
The two traps were full of Large Yellow Underwing, Shuttle-shaped Dart, Water Veneer and Whirligig Beetles.
A closer look at a grass moth on the trap glass this morning revealed a site first micro.....

Catoptria falsella 

...followed by a site first macro hiding in the wall air brick........

The Vestal