28th Aug............First Lady

I have been on the lookout for this one for a while, expecting it to turn up on the walls, but this "garden first" was in the skinner trap this morning. Quite a worn example, but none-the-less my first ever OLD LADY others include :- ( 2 x skinner traps )
12 x Large Yellow Underwing
1 x Lesser Yellow Underwing
1 x Straw Underwing
8 x Turnip Moth
8 x Vine's Rustic
5 x Setaceous Hebrew Character
3 x Willow Beauty
1 x Yellow Shell
2 x Pale Mottled Willow
2 x Square-spot Rustic
4 x Common Wainscot
7 x Orange Swift
1 x Silver Y
6 x Flounced Rustic
1 x Rosy Rustic
1 x Nutmeg
3 x Double-striped Pug
5 x Cabbage Moth
2 x Shuttle-shaped Dart

25th Aug.....wet,wet,wet

All night rain put a damper on the trapping, but amazingly there were 51 moths of 20 species caught.
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COMMON WAINSCOT

LIGHT EMERALD

MOUSE MOTH The nights haul :-

9 x Large Yellow Underwing
6 x Turnip Moth

5 x Vine's Rustic

4 x Flounced Rustic

3 x Shuttle-shaped Dart

3 x Setaceous Hebrew Character

3 x Common Wainscot

3 x Rustic

2 x Square-spot Rustic

2 x Nutmeg

2 x Pale Mottled Willow

1 x Lesser Yellow Underwing

1 x Yellow Shell

1 x Orange Swift (female)

1 x Common Rustic (agg)

1 x Uncertain

1 x Marbled Beauty

1 x Light Emerald

1 x Mouse Moth

1 x Agriphila geniculea

24th Aug..........A Turnip for the books !

A garden first (or previously overlooked) for this DARK SWORD-GRASS which was at first written off as a TURNIP MOTH
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DARK SWORD-GRASS

2nd BULRUSH WAINSCOT for the year

a first for year............. ROSY RUSTIC

one of 4 FLOUNCED RUSTICS in last nights trap

19th Aug.......Canary

Still lots of Turnip Moths and Shuttle-shaped Darts so it was a nice change to see a new species for the Dells garden list.................
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CANARY-SHOULDERED THORN

Regular visitors to the traps this time of year.........ORANGE SWIFT Been away for a few days so hopefully there are some early autumn species turning up soon, although the August weather so far has been disappointing.

16th Aug....Flight of the Phoenix

Warming up slowly and it shows. 20 species of macro with another new garden tick.
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SMALL PHOENIX

YELLOW-BARRED BRINDLE

COPPER UNDERWING

AGAPETA HAMANA