Calm after the Storm

Very much an 'after the lord mayors show' feel about mothing at the moment, with the hot weather and peak mothing time seemingly over.  I thought it might be worth trapping in the garden last night in complete cloud cover, but nothing unusual was caught.  Still, a total of 84 moths of 38 macro species ain't bad, particularly for this year.  Just five expected year ticks.

30th July:
Macros:
16 Riband Wave
7 Uncertain
4 Peppered Moth (including a carbonaria)
4 Scalloped Oak
3 Large Yellow Underwing
3 Buff Ermine
3 Rustic
3 Dark Arches
3 Common Rustic sp.
2 Willow Beauty
2 Scalloped Hook-tip
2 Rosy Footman
2 LBBYU NFY
2 Silver Y
2 Slender Brindle NFY
2 Common Footman
2 Dunbar
2 True Lover's Knot
2 Smoky Wainscot
1 Small Rivulet
1 Small Phoenix
1 Rosy Minor
1 September Thorn
1 Engrailed NFY
1 Red Twin-spot Carpet
1 Pine Carpet NFY
1 Double-striped Pug
1 Clay
1 Bird's Wing
1 Poplar Grey
1 Nut-tree Tussock
1 Heart and Dart
1 Scarce Footman
1 Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
1 Bright-line Brown-eye
1 Single-dotted Wave
1 Small Fan-footed Wave
1 Ear Moth NFY

Micros:
9 Dipleurina lacustrata
5 Eudonia mercurella
5 Agriphila straminella
5 Brown House-moth (I think these are trying to breed in the moth trap [feeding on the egg boxes], so some of these may be 'stowaways'!)
4 Cydia splendana
3 Crambus pascuella
3 Bryotropha terrella
2 Catoptria pinella
2 Hypsospygia glaucinalis
2 Bryotropha affinis
1 Bird-cherry Ermine
1 Tinea trinotella
1 Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix
1 Blastobasis adustella
1 Beautiful Plume
1 Phlyctaenia coronata
1 Acleris aspersana*
1 Carcina quercana
1 Catoptria falsella
1 Celypha lacunana 

Ear Moth

Slender Brindle

Single-dotted Wave

Pine Carpet

Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing

Rosy Minor

Acleris aspersana

Beautiful Plume

Tinea trinotella

Plenty to Drink at Broadstreet / Slender quality in the garden

A couple of nights ago we had a go at mothing at Broadstreet Common near Guildford, but a little rained hindered us. We did manage macro highlights of Kent Black Arches, Small Scallop, and Cream Wave. We also got loads of Drinker including a large female. Among the micros were the grassland specialist Isophrictis striatella, and the boldly marked Pammene aurana.

Shaded Broad-bar

female Drinker

Last night in the garden, it was cloudy, but not really warm. Surprisingly, numbers were my best for three weeks, with 23 species. The only notable was a Slender Brindle.

21st July:
16 Dark Arches
9 Uncertain
6 Dunbar
5 Riband Wave
4 Rustic
4 Double Square-spot
3 Willow Beauty
2 Copper Underwing
2 Heart and Dart
2 Mottled Beauty
2 Dot Moth
2 Common Rustic sp. NFY
1 Yellow Shell
1 Snout
1 Poplar Hawk
1 Clay
1 Shuttle-shaped Dart
1 Slender Brindle NFY
1 Beautiful Hook-tip
1 Bird's Wing
1 July Highflyer
1 Flame

1 Buff Arches

Snout

Common Rustic

Slender Brindle

An Ear against the wall brings more than a Dingy Turnip!

Sorry for the surreal title, but I'm running out of clever puns (were they ever clever?)! What I'm really trying to do is keep it interesting, but in truth, there is no need to as the moths continue to speak for themselves.

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Last night was brilliant, with 80 moths of 36 species including amongst them four new for the year, one new for the garden, and two brand new species to me. Two Suspected were new for the garden, although both were worn, the photographed individual being the fresher! The two brand new species were a Gothic, and a Dingy Shell, although these also had seen better days. Interestingly, both these species are moths of wet woodland (nearest to me about a half mile away).

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23th July:

16 Dunbar

9 Riband Wave

4 July Highflyer

4 Large Yellow Underwing

4 Common Rustic sp.

3 Scalloped Oak NFY

3 Dark Arches

3 Willow Beauty

3 Rustic

3 Double Square-spot

2 Uncertain

2 Suspected NFG

2 Heart and Dart

2 Slender Brindle NFY

1 Common Wave

1 Common Footman

1 Ruby Tiger

1 Small Rivulet

1 Bird's Wing

1 Poplar Grey

1 Ear Moth NFY

1 Gothic NFG

1 Svensson's Copper Underwing

1 Buff Ermine

1 Single-dotted Wave

1 Small Fan-footed Wave

1 Bright-line Brown-eye

1 Copper Underwing

1 V Pug

1 Flame

1 Common White Wave

1 Marbled Beauty

1 Dusky Sallow NFY

1 Dingy Shell NFG

1 Turnip

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Garden Macro Year List: 170

Garden Macro List: 221

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Below is a Silver Y I caught in the garden a day or so ago. I left it in the pot a little too long, and it laid eggs!

Turnip

Suspected

Slender Brindle

Scalloped Oak

Riband Wave

Gothic

Ear Moth

Dusky Sallow

Bright-line Brown-eye (a fresher individual than last time)

Dingy Shell