A cooler night with a reduced catch still produced some good moths. The highlight for me was a Small Scallop, a fairly widespread species that I hadn't come across before not even at Chippenham Fen.
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| Small Scallop Idaea emarginata |
The small but distinctive gelechiid, Brachmia blandella was also new:
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| Brachmia blandella |
Another gelechiid was also new and quite striking - a species of Syncopacma that is almost certainly S.larseniella. Unfortunately it is inseparable from cinctella without dissection.
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| Syncopacma larseniella / cinctella |
Just about annual now in the garden is Lunar-spotted Pinion. I'm still waiting for a certain other Cosmia species though......
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| Lunar-spotted Pinion Cosmia pyralina |
[523] Syncopacma larseniella / cinctella
[523] Brachmia blandella
[524] Small Scallop
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