8th Aug 2014 . Soaking traps !

I got a lot more rain than the Met had predicted so come the morning they were like swimming pools.
Amazed to find just as many moths as the previous evening and apart from one or two the catch was pretty much the same.
Two additions to the year list was a rather washed out Swallow Prominent and two Agriphila geniculea ...

Agriphila geniculea

Swallow Prominent

Checking out one of my small hawthorn shrubs today I discovered a couple of identical Coleophora cases, which I will try and breed through.