First moth trap of 2020 and the first for a couple of years. Sadly I seem to have lost my former records, swallowed up in the ethernet somewhere. The last one recorded on this website was in 2018 also in July.
It was a warm night somewhere between 17 and 20° C on the 18th/19th July. The morning was drizzly and extended to heavier misty rain as it progressed.
Three very lively Box Tree (Cydalima perspectalis) moths were going in and out of the trap even when I had visited in the early hours as I couldn’t get back to sleep. These moths are I believe not native to these shores and have come in on plants bought at garden centres from overseas.
- Rosy footman (Miltochrista miniata) 1
- Coronet (Craniophora ligustra)
- Riband wave (Idadea aversata) 3
- Oak hook tip (Watsonalla binaria) 2
- Oak beauty (Hypomesis sp)? 1
- Black arches (Lymantra monacha) 1
- Yellow shell (Camptogramma bilineata so)? 1
- Ruby tiger (Phragmatobia fuliginosa) 1
- Least carpet (Idea rusticata) 1
- Small elephant hawkmoth (Deilephila porcellus) 1
- Lesser broad bordered yellow underwing (Noctua janthe) 1
- Rustic (Hoplodrina blandra) 1
- Large yellow underwing (Noctua pronuba) 1
- Heart and dart (Agrotis exclamationis) 1
- Dusky thorn (Ennomos fuscantaria) 1
- Common footman (Dilemma luridiola) 1
- True lovers knot (Lycophotia porphyrea) 3
- Apple ermine (Yponomeuta malinellus) 1
- Endotricha flammealis (bottom of picture. Top unidentified) 1
- Twenty plume moth (Alucita hexadactyla) 1
- Peppered moth (Biston betularia) 1
- Common rustic (Mesapamea secalis) 1
- Eudonia mercurella 1
- Pug species I didn’t identify 2 as they are rather tricky. Also a couple of the micro moths.
All of them were released back into the garden. Some were reluctant to go as it was raining and we found them a few days later in the summerhouse where the moth trap lives!
If any of the photos are incorrectly identified let me know.