Tuesday 5 July 2016

30th June 2016

A total of fourteen new moths for the year / garden included a fairly dowdy Coronet, a species I didn't record at all for the first 4 years of trapping in the village but has been annual since:


Coronet Craniophora ligustri


Lozotaeniodes formosana is a very smart micro:


Lozotaeniodes formosana 

While Burnished Brass is always welcome:


Burnished Brass Diachrysia chrysitis


There were some numbers of common macros for really the first time this year (for example 45 Large Yellow Underwing and 25 Heart & Dart) while the list of new moths were:

[132] Celypha lacunana
[133] Lozotaeniodes formosana
[134] Phycita roborella
[135] Barred Yellow
[136] Buff-tip
[137] Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
[138] Light Arches
[139] Bright-line Brown-eye
[140] Sycamore
[141] Clay
[142] Coronet
[143] Uncertain
[144] Burnished Brass
[145] The Spectacle


Light Arches Apamea lithoxylaea

Phycita roborella

Heart & Club Agrotis clavis

Sycamore Acronicta aceris

Barred Yellow Cidaria fulvata

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