12th Aug...Wine bet taken to new (low) level !

overnight min temp:- 14.4 deg
calm...humid...early morning rain...soaking traps
Captain Trappings has resorted to sneaky tactics.....after falling behind in the Great Wine Bet for the most garden species in a year, he has managed to entice/kidnap/lure/sweet-talk County Micro Recorder David Manning to check every leaf on every plant/shrub/tree in his garden and took great delight in telling me that another 20 or so micro moths will be added to his list as a result of the leaf mines found.
This bar-raising dastardly tactic will put me in third place, with Daylight second, so a stepping up of night patrols will be the order of the day, at least until my begging letter arrives on Mr M's doormat !
60 species recorded last night with only one year first entry, Cacoecimorpha pronubana, Carnation Tortrix, a common micro at The Dells.
My garden list for the year has now reached 380 and my early season target of 400 now looks very modest.

CARCINA QUERCANA

87 x Turnip Moth
52 x Shuttle-shaped Dart
12 x Large Yellow U'wing
2 x Lesser Yellow U'wing
1 x Tawny-speckled Pug
1 x Ruby Tiger
5 x Copper Underwing agg
2 x Brimstone Moth
4 x Yellow Shell

ORANGE SWIFT Female, 42mm wingspan

5 x Orange Swift
3 x Riband Wave
3 x Cloaked Minor
3 x Uncertain
6 x Setaceous Hebrew Character
1 x Flame Shoulder
1 x Marbled Beauty
5 x Common Wainscot
2 x Least Carpet
3 x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow U'wing
2 x Garden Carpet
2 x Toadflax Pug
6 x Double-striped Pug

1 x Currant Pug (above)
3 x Common Rustic agg
2 x Small Dusty Wave
3 x Buff Ermine
1 x Common Carpet
1 x Poplar Hawkmoth
3 x Vine's Rustic
4 x Willow Beauty
1 x Flounced Rustic
1 x Small Waved Umber
2 x Pale Mottled Willow
1 x Mouse Moth
2 x Limnaecia Phragmitella
3 x Blastobasis adustella
3 x Argyrotaenia ljungiana
1 x Acentria ephemerella
1 x Pyrausta aurata
1 x Trachycera advenella
4 x Epiphyas postvittana
1 x Emmelina monodactyla
1 x Hofmannophila pseudospretella
2 x Endotricha flammealis
1 x Alucita hexadactyla, (Twenty-plume Moth)
2 x Crambus pascuella
1 x Monopis obviella
1 x Lyonetia clerkella
1 x Cydia pomonella
2 x Dichrorampha sp
1 x Cacoecimorpha pronubana, year first
1 x Mompha sp
2 x Cochylis dubitana
1 x Ypsolopha scabrella
1 x Agriphila straminella
1 x Agriphila tristella
1 x Chrysoteuchia culmella
2 x Yponomeuta cagnagella
1 x Acleris variegana
1 x Agonopterix alstromeriana