Shears for the great eight

I put a large parasol over the trap last night, because I thought we may get prolonged rain. In the event it was probably just a brief shower or two, which may well have helped keep moth numbers up. One of the better nights in terms of numbers, with 80 moths of 39 species.
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These included a fantastic eight new for the year (including only my second ever Scarce Footman), and one new for the garden in the shape of a worn Dingy Shears. Some nice micros too, including two pretty Honeysuckle feeders (I have a Honeysuckle at the bottom of my small garden), Twenty-plume Moth and Honeysuckle Moth (Ypsolopha dentella).
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20th July:
10 Riband Wave
10 Flame
6 Dunbar
6 Dark Arches
4 Large Yellow Underwing
3 Uncertain
3 Pale Mottled Willow
2 Shuttle-shaped Dart
2 Marbled Beauty NFY
2 Ruby Tiger NFY
2 Heart and Dart
2 Rustic
2 Common White Wave
1 Miller
1 Green Pug
1 Scarce Footman NFY
1 V-pug
1 Svennson's Copper Underwing
1 Light Emerald
1 Dagger sp.
1 Copper Underwing NFY
1 Small Fan-footed Wave NFY
1 Coronet
1 Turnip
1 Poplar Hawk-moth
1 Bright-line Brown-eye NFY
1 Small Rivulet NFY
1 Peppered Moth
1 Buff Arches
1 Dot Moth
1 Barred Red
1 Common Rustic sp.
1 Double Square-spot
1 Fan-foot
1 July Highflyer
1 Engrailed
1 Lesser Yellow Underwing NFY
1 Dingy Shears NFG
1 Buff Ermine
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Macro Garden List: 218
Macro Garden Year List: 162
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Unlike with recent efforts, I am really happy with this set of photos, even if not all are in 'natural' settings.
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Bright-line Brown-eye




Dingy Shears

Lesser Yellow Underwing

Marbled Beauty

Honeysuckle Moth

Ruby Tiger

Scarce Footman

Small Fan-footed Wave

Small Rivulet

Twenty-plume Moth

Quiet night

A short session last night produced a couple of year ticks:
ruby tiger

dingy footman

I cannot decide whether this is a lesser-spotted pinion with a faded hind-wing or a lunar-spotted with a pale hind-wing:

bright-line brown-eye

Pachyderms make it Haworth it at the Corner

I had a fascinating nights trapping at Newlands Corner last night. Paul Wheeler, the moth officer for the Surrey branch of Butterfly Conservation, was there to look for a group of micros that are currently unrecorded in Surrey, that feed on Knapweeds. No luck on that score, but I did get the opportunity to see what macros are at this lovely site. It didn't start well, as David Gardner got his car stuck! This meant he could not run his trap, so we had to make do with Paul's.
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The conditions were good with thick cloud cover, although it was a little cold. In the end the macro total of 71 is one of the best yet, and that was with only the one trap. I managed to spot five lifers, that included Bordered Sallow and Haworth's Pug. Nice to see only my second Small Elephant Hawks (2), alongside thier larger cousins (4).
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4th July, Newlands Corner (lifer = *):
Brown Scallop
Buff Ermine
Yellow Shell
Ghost Swift
Barred Yellow
Flame
Peach Blossom
Beautiful Hook-tip
Shoulder-striped Wainscot
Snout
V-Pug
Dunbar
Swallow-tail Moth
Brimstone
Light Arches
Small Fan-foot
Dark Umber*
Short-cloaked Moth
Dusky Brocade
Double-striped Pug
Haworth's Pug*
Buff Arches
Uncertain
Small Angle Shades
Reddish Light Arches
July Highflyer
Clouded Silver
Angle Shades
Rosy Footman
Blue-bordered Carpet*
Dark Arches
Clay
Pale Prominent
Smoky Wainscot
Flame Shoulder
Marbled Minor
Heart and Club
Light Emerald
Satin Beauty*
Bordered Sallow*
Elephant Hawk-moth
Small Elephant Hawk-moth
Yellow-tail
Treble Brown Spot
Mottled Beauty
Willow Beauty
Rosy Minor
Ruby Tiger
Burnished Brass
Green Pug
Dingy Footman
Straw Dot
Large Yellow Underwing
Marbled White Spot
Common Marbled Carpet
Common Footman
Scrace Footman
Small Fan-tooted Wave
Riband Wave
Beautiful Golden Y
Small Phoenix
Peppered Moth
Dagger sp.
Dot Moth
Engrailed
Sharp-angled Carpet
Heart and Dart
Lunar-spotted Pinion
Setaceous Hebrew Character
White Ermine
Clouded Brindle
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Agapate zoegana and Ruby Tiger


Blue-bordered Carpet

Small Elephant Hawk-moth

Elephant Hawk-moth (and Setaceous Hebrew Character!)

Dark Umber

Bordered Sallow