5th May 2014 ... Brocades and Buttons

A nice warm evening for the garden moth traps until light persistent rain moved in at 01.00 and stayed until well after dawn.
Highlight of the Night ...
A brace of Toadflax Brocade
There has been a local colony in or nearby my garden and these are regularly trapped each year during early and later flights.
I can't find any Toadflax in the area and can only assume that they survive on garden Antirhinums or something similar.
I have fed the lavae on antirhinums,and having established that they are happy to feed on them I didn't breed them through but released them on antirhinums that I grew in a large garden pot.
This year I have planted 3 patches of Snap Dragons because I am not sure if I am spelling antirhinums correctly.
Below, Toadflax Brocades, one ready for the off ...

Buttoned Snout
is another regular moth in the garden, recorded annually, and two turned up last night along with a year first Setaceous Hebrew Character ...
Below top... Buttoned Snout
Bottom... Setaceous Hebrew Character

The Catch:-
0647 ... Hofmannophila pseudospretella, 1
0648 ... Endrosis sarcitrella, 5
0697 ... Agonopterix arenella, 1
0808 ... Platyedra subcinerea, 4
0892 ... Mompha subbistrigella, 1
0964 ... Cochylis dubitana, 1
0974 ... Argyrotaenia ljungiana, 2
0998 ... Epiphyas postvittana, 7
1288 ... Alucita hexadactyla, 2
1428 ... Aphomia sociella, 4
1524 ... Emmelina monodactyla, 2
1728 ... Garden Carpet, 2
1858 ... V-pug, 1
1862 ... Double-striped Pug, 4
1883 ... Yellow-barred Brindle, 1
1906 ... Brimstone Moth, 2
2063 ... Muslin Moth, 2
2092 ... Shuttle-shaped Dart, 20
2126 ... Setaceous Hebrew Character, 1, year first
2160 ... Bright-line Brown-eye, 1
2190 ... Hebrew Character, 3
2223 ... Toadflax Brocade, 2, year first
2306 ... Angle Shades, 1
2389 ... Pale Mottled Willow, 1
2480 ... Buttoned Snout, 2, year first