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.

10/11/12th Aug 2013 ... A select few

 Above: A very washed out Large Twin-spot carpet, 10th Aug

Below: Mompha propinquella by the look of it ... to be dermined
Wrong ! (again) 

0266 ... Bucculatrix nigricomella

 Above: A "year first" Rosy Rustic

Below: First appearance of Agriphila geniculea, followed by several others

 Above: Orange Swift new for 2013

Below: 2nd record of Twin-spotted Wainscot

Below:  2 x  pristine Vine's Rustic in the trap 11th Aug

A garden first record of Willow Ermine although this has probably been disregarded in the past in amongst the numerous Bird-cherry, Apple and Spindle Ermines.

428 ... Yponomeuta rorrella

12th Aug, a year first Square-spot Rustic,
first of many .......

2134 ... Square-spot Rustic ... Xestia xanthographa