13th June 2018

Another good catch with four new for the garden:

[412] Piniphila bifasciana
[413] Dioryctria abietella
[414] Mottled Beauty
[415] Clouded Brindle

I nearly overlooked this tortrix thinking it was an earlyish Lobesia abcisana but a double check on the photo below revealed its true identity. A fairly local species of Scots Pine, so not an expected addition to the list.

Piniphila bifasciana

Dioryctria abietella is a moth that I had recorded just once before in Cottenham (Aug 2013) and is also a Scot's Pine species (coincidence?!):

Dioryctria abietella

Mottled Beauty used to be annual in small numbers, but this is the first one I've had in a few years:

Mottled Beauty Alcis repandata

Clouded Brindle has always been scarce however, this is just my third record (others being in 2012 and 2014):

Clouded Brindle Apamea epomidion

There was also the gardens second Cochylis molliculana:

Cochylis molliculana

And finally a couple of other species - a few Small Fan-foot have appeared this year

Small Fan-foot Herminia grisealis

 While Smoky Wainscots are also on the wing:

Smoky Wainscot Mythimna impura

As are Poplar Grey:

Poplar Grey Subacronicta megacephala