22nd July 2014 ... Plain sailing ...

Plain Pug has been around in numbers of late and thanks to the moth'ers who have been posting their pics, it made it easy to recognise my very first garden Plain Pug.

Lots of brown stuff in the traps that I have stopped counting for a while.
Shuttle-shaped Darts, Common Rustic aggs, Dark Arches, Yellow Underwings with Copper and Straw Underwings.
Instead I have just jotted down a selection with the emphasis on newcomers and the uncommon.
Selected Species:-
0294 Aspilapteryx tringipennella
0947 Aethes smeathmanniana
0964 Cochylis dubitana
1212 Rhyacionia pinicolana
1260 Cydia splendana
1348 Parapoynx stratiotata
1371 Sitachroa verticalis
1417 Pyralis farinalis
1637 Oak Eggar
1646 Oak Hook-tip (female)
1690 Small Bloodvein x 3
1702 Small Fan-footed Wave
1726 Large Twin-spot Carpet
1803 Small Rivulet
1816 Toadflax Pug
1830 Wormwood Pug
1842 Plain Pug
1858 V-pug
1862 Double-striped Pug
1894 Latticed Heath
1922 Swallow-tailed Moth
2009 Maple Prominent
2165 Small Ranunculus
2223 Toadflax Brocade
2289 Knot Grass
2292 Tree-lichen Beauty
2352 Dusky Sallow
2377 Fen Wainscot

Top to Bottom:-
Aethes smeathmanniana
Pyralis farinalis
Toadflax Brocade
Latticed Heath
Tree-lichen Beauty
Fen Wainscot

20th July 2013 ... Moth catch highlights

The traps are full of "brown stuff" at the mo.
Lots of Dark Arches, I've stopped counting them, I weigh them, Heart n Clart, Uncertain/Rustic, Common Rustic, Mottled Rustic.
Shuttle-shaped Dart numbers are slowly increasing, Common and Scarce Footman are everywhere as are Bird Cherry Ermine and Endotricha flammealis.
Pick of the crop ....
1637 ... Oak Eggar .................

A new micro for the garden ... Helcystogramma rufescens

868 ... Helcystogramma rufescens
Garden first

2425 ... Nut-tree Tussock

2352 ... Dusky Sallow, Year first

862 ... Dichomeris marginella ... Year first

1380 ... Phlyctaenia perlucidalis ... Year first

2377 ... Fen Wainscot ... Year first

1651 ... Chinese Character

2165 ... Small Ranunculus
2164 ... Broad-barred White
2306 ... Angle Shades
1917 ... Early Thorn
1958 ... Clouded Silver
1887 ... Clouded Border
1921 ... Scalloped Oak
1726 ... Large Twin-spot Carpet
2450 ... Spectacle
1690 ... Small Blood-vein
2110 ... Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
2192 ... Brown-line Bright-eye
2145 ... Nutmeg
2193 ... Clay
2031 ... White Satin Moth
366a ... Cameraria ohridella

Three year first Butterflys (today 21 st )
Common Blue
Small Skipper

Gatekeeper

11th July 2011...

Last nights garden highlights:-
Out of it's normal terrain, reed beds, a FEN WAINSCOT was found on the shed wall. This is a rare resident in VC30 and a new species for the garden.
A rather worn OAK NYCTEOLINE, also on the shed wall
I recorded one in 2009, also one in 2010, so it was a surprise to find TWO WHITE SATIN MOTH in the trap this morning, making 3 caught so far this year.
First showing for LESSER YELLOW UNDERWING this year.
6 x Shuutle-shaped Dart
6 x Riband Wave
1 x Ruby Tiger
14 x Common Footman
4 x Scarce Footman
2 x Cloaked Minor
2 x Small Waved Umber
3 x Least Carpet
2 x Grey Dagger agg.
>15 x Uncertain/Rustic types
1 x Small Blood-vein
1 x Marbled Beauty
1 x Privet Hawk-moth
2 x Willow Beauty
2 x White Satin Moth
2 x Large Yellow Underwing
3 x Lesser Yellow Underwing
1 x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
2 x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
4 x Buff Ermine
8 x Dark Arches
1 x Common Rustic agg.
1 x Clouded Border
1 x Smoky Wainscot
1 x Fen Wainscot
1 x Single-dotted wave
1 x Dwarf Cream Wave
1 x Cabbage Moth
1 x Silver Y
1 x Turnip Moth
1 x Oak Nycteoline
1 x Udea prunalis
30/50 Crambids...culmella, perlella, pascuella,
6 x Eudonia mercurella
8 x Endotricha flammealis
3 x Agapeta hamana
1 x Phlyctaenia coronata
2 x Pyrausta aurata, Gold Triangle
2 x Hofmannophila pseudospretella, 2 x Emmelina monodactyla
2 x Yponomeuta evonymella, Bird-cherry Ermine
1 x Clepsis consimilana
2 x Aphomia sociella, Bee Moth
2 x Pleuroptya ruralis, Mother of Pearl
2 x Aphelia paleana, Timothy Tortrix
1 x Celypha striana
1 x Yponomeuta cagnagella, Spindle Ermine
1 x Gypsonoma dealbana
1 x Argyrotaenia ljungiana
1 x Ditula angustiorana, Red-barred Tortrix
1 x Acentria ephemerella, Water Veneer
1 x Rhopobota naevana, Holly Tortrix
After a periodic thorough re-count and updating my 2011 micro and macro list pages, the totals now stand at :-
318 species...190 macro, 128 micro with 2 micro ID's pending