The garden keeps on surprising me Last Friday I ran the trap again after doing very well on Wednesday night. The day had been warm and muggy and very little change as we continue to experience settled warm weather touching the low 30's. Well upon looking out of the window at 5am on Saturday morning, things looked rather promising indeed. There were moths absolutely everywhere! And I recorded the most moths that i've recorded so far this year with 91 species in total.

Only my second garden record of Prays fraxinella (last seen in 2013!) despite a small Ash tree in the garden and some mature specimens in the surrounding area....mothing again never fails to surprise me. Red-necked Footman is now an annual moth for me which is pleasing.

Marbled White Spot was a new moth for my garden, a relatively common moth in Hertfordshire but i've struggled to add it to the garden list taking 5 whole years! The 2nd new for the garden moth was a micro, Anania perlucidalis...a moth that I use to record regularly in damp habitats typically.

A beautiful Pammene aurana was only my second garden record with my last one being in 2013.

And finally a Leopard Moth returned again after a 4 year gap.

Catch Report - 16/06/17 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Marbled White Spot [NFG] 1x July Highflyer [NFY] 1x Lackey [NFY] 1x Leopard Moth [NFY] 1x Light Arches [NFY] 1x Poplar Grey [NFY] 1x Red-necked Footman [NFY] 1x Scorched Carpet [NFY] 3x Barred Yellow 1x Bright-line Brown-eye 1x Brimstone Moth 1x Buff Arches 2x Buff-tip 1x Clouded Brindle 1x Common Footman 1x Common Marbled Carpet 1x Common Pug 2x Common Wainscot 1x Common White Wave 2x Dark Arches 1x Dot Moth 1x Double-striped Pug 2x Double Square-spot 3x Dwarf Cream Wave 1x Elephant Hawk-moth 2x Fan-foot 1x Flame Shoulder 1x Green Pug 1x Grey Dagger 1x Green Silver-lines 1x Heart & Club 20x Heart & Dart 2x Ingrailed Clay 1x Large Yellow Underwing 4x Marbled Minor 2x Mottled Rustic 1x Privet Hawk-moth 1x Riband Wave 1x Setaceous Hebrew Character 1x Shuttle-shaped Dart 1x Small Square-spot 1x Snout 2x Straw Dot 1x Swallow-tailed Moth 3x Treble Brown Spot 1x Uncertain 1x V-Pug 6x Willow Beauty

Micro Moths

1x Anania perlucidalis [NFG] 1x Archips xylosteana [NFY] 1x Blastodacna hellerella [NFY] 1x Emmetia marginea [NFY] 1x Eudonia mercurella [NFY] 1x Gypsonoma dealbana [NFY] 1x Homoeosoma sinuella [NFY] 1x Pammene aurana [NFY] 1x Paraswammerdamia albicapitella [NFY] 1x Prays fraxinella [NFY] 1x Pterophorus pentadactyla [NFY] 1x Scythropia crataegella [NFY] 1x Spilonota ocellana [NFY] 1x Teleiodes vulgella [NFY] 1x Acleris schalleriana 1x Aphomia sociella 4x Aleimma loeflingiana 1x Amblyptilia acanthdactyla 1x Anania hortulata 1x Argyresthia curvella 1x Argyresthia spinosella 2x Blastobasis laticolella 1x Caloptilia alchimiella/robustella 1x Celypha lacunana 1x Celypha striana 1x Chrysoteuchia culmella 1x Clepsis consimilana 1x Crassa unitella 2x Ditula angustiorana 1x Enarmonia formosana 3x Ephestia sp 2x Epiphyas postvittana 1x Epinotia bilunana 2x Eudonia lacustrata 1x Hedya nubiferana 2x Mompha subbistrigella 1x Pammene regiana 13x Scoparia ambigualis 5x Teleiodes luculella 5x Tortrix viridana