23rd July 2016

After missing the mini heatwave whilst in Devon, I was glad it was still pretty warm when I arrived back. The return of 83 species was by far the best trap in the garden so far, even if numbers of the usually abundant species haven't happened this year at all. 

Highlights for me were my first Mere Wainscot - identified belatedly after recording it initially as Small Wainscot. This species is listed as Nationally Scarce B and has a fairly restricted distribution in fens / woods in south-east England.

Mere Wainscot Photedes fluxa

Other new moths for my Cottenham moth recording were Small China-mark, Schnoebius gigantella, Cork Moth and what appears to be Caloptillia alchimiella but recorded as the aggregate with C.robustella. 

Schoenobius gigantella

Small China-mark Cataclysta lemnata

Caloptillia alchimiella / robustella

Cork Moth Nemapogon cloacella

In total, an amazing 29 were new for the garden taking the list to well over 200. Quality was provided by Silky Wainscot, Tree-lichen Beauty, White Satin and 3 Dusky Sallow:

[191] Cork Moth
[192] Tinea trinotella
[193] Case-bearing Clothes Moth
[194] Caloptillia alchimiella / robustella
[195] Horse Chestnut Leaf-miner
[196] Bryotropha affinis
[197] Bird Cherry Ermine
[198] Limnaecia phragmitella
[199] Carcina quercana
[200] Agonopterix alstromeriana
[201] Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix
[202] Euzophera pinguis
[203] Twenty Plume Moth
[204] Small China Mark
[205] Mother of Pearl
[206] Hypsopygia glaucinalis
[207] Schoenobius gigantella
[208] Dwarf Cream Wave
[209] Single-dotted Wave
[210] Slender Pug
[211] Small Blood Vein
[212] White Satin
[213] Ruby Tiger
[214] Dingy Footman
[215] Least Yellow Underwing
[216] Dusky Sallow
[217] Mere Wainscot
[218] Silky Wainscot
[219] Tree-lichen Beauty

White Satin Moth Leucoma salicis

Tree-lichen Beauty Cryphia algae

Dusky Sallow Eremobia ochroleuca

Ruby Tiger Phragmatobia fuliginosa

Pebble Hook-tip Drepana falcataria