12th June........Ticking along nicely

Last nights better weather saw 100 moths of 40 species in and around the traps. While Shuttle-shaped Darts have tailed off, Heart & Dart are now my most numerous visitor by a long chalk, and the "Kamikaze" Large Yellow Underwings are starting to dive-bomb both me and my traps.
HEART and DART very familiar yet striking moth

IRON PROMINENT

GARDEN PEBBLE. a garden first for this micro

DARK ARCHES first for year

VARIED CORONET first for year

PURPLE BAR a garden first

LARGE TABBY 1st record for this large micro

SYCAMORE another garden first

One of two PRIVET HAWKMOTH in the funnel trap

Results :-

20 x Heart & Dart

6 x Willow Beauty

6 x Marbled Minor agg

5 x Large Yellow Underwing

4 x Common Pug

4 x Vine's Rustic

2 x Light Emerald

2 x Rustic Shoulder-knot

2 x Green Pug

2 x Treble Brown-spot

2 x Pale Mottled Willow

2 x Common Wainscot

2 x Privet Hawkmoth

2 x Garden Carpet

2 x Common Swift

2 x Shuttle-shaped Dart

2 x Dark Arches

Wormwood Pug

Setaceous Hebrew Character

Lime Hawkmoth

Buff Ermine

Varied Coronet

Purple Bar

Brimstone Moth

Common Marbled Carpet

Peppered Moth

Iron Prominent

Large Nutmeg

Silver Y

Flame Shoulder

Sycamore

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5 x Bee Moth

4 x L.B.Apple moth

3 x Crambus lathoniellus

3 x Emmelina monodactyla

2 x Brown House-moth

1 x Small Magpie

1 x Large Tabby

1 x Garden Pebble