29th July 2014 ... Garden Moths latest

Another new macro moth for the garden list ...
Small Rufous

Latest selection ...
28th July
0862 ... Juniper Webber
1690 ... Small Blood-vein
1816 ... Toadflax Pug
1830 ... Wormwood Pug x 4
1749 ... Dark Spinach ... was a garden first the previous evening.
This one is fresher with better defined markings ...

2089 ... Heart and Dart .... thought they had finished
2134 ... Square-spot Rustic ... year first

2193 ... Clay
2289 ... Knot Grass
2299 ... Mouse Moth
2450 ... Spectacle
2469 ... Herald

29th July
0862 Juniper Webber, Dichomeris marginella
1838 Tawny Speckled Pug, year first

almost missed it against the brick wall

1914 Dusky Thorn, year first

2165 Small Ranunculus
2292 Tree-lichen Beauty
2379 Small Rufous, garden first.

What is this Bee ?

on Spear Thistle

27th July 2014 .. New for garden .. Dark Spinach

The first site record of Dark Spinach was found on the dining room curtain near the patio door ....

... still a "garden first" tho.

A selection of catch :-
26th July
0462 ... Ypsolopha scabrella
1113 ... Eudemis profundana
1207 ... Clavigesta purdeyi

1354 ... Cataclysta lemnata
1673 ... Small Emerald
1724 ... Red Twin-spot Carpet
2003 ... Pebble Prominent
2006 ... Lesser Swallow Prominent

2030 ... Yellow-tail
2126 ... Setaceous Hebrew Character
2223 ... Toadflax Brocade

27th July
0303 ... Parornix anglicella, tbc
0455 ... Ypsolopha scabrella
801a ... Gelechia senticetella

1331 ... Acentria ephemerella x 300+
1415 ... Orthopygia glaucinalis
1425 ... Galleria mellonella

1749 ... Dark Spinach
1981 ... Poplar Hawk-moth
2087 ... Turnip Moth
2092 ... Shuttle-shaped Dart x 48
2112 ... Least Yellow Underwing
2343x . Common Rustic agg x 28
2382 ... Rustic

above ... Ledra aurita
an odd looking, large leaf-hopper that is a regular at my traps at this time of year