26th August 2020

For a supposedly common moth, the stunning Bordered Beauty doesn't turn up here very often. In fact this is the first for the garden and only the second I've seen in the village; the previous being in 2013.

Bordered Beauty Epione repandaria

Signs of autumn continue with the years first Barred and Centre-barred Sallows. Here's the latter:

Centre-barred Sallow Atethmia centrago

While Dioryctria abietella was new for the year:

Dioryctria abietella

Box-tree Moths are becoming more regular now and my first melanic version turned up:

Box-tree Moth Cydalima perspectalis 

A fairly late Lobesia abscisana was of some interest as was a smart Vapourer:

Lobesia abscisana

Vapourer Orgyia antiqua

[616] Bordered Beauty

24th June 2017

A really superb night with 93 species identified - a record for the High Street garden (I only reached the 100 species mark once or twice at Corbett Street). Although few were new for me in Cottenham, ten were new for the garden:

[320] Teleioides vulgella
[321] Juniper Webber
[322] Mompha ochraceella
[323] Coloeophora deuratella
[324] Acleris forsskaleana
[325] Acleris schalleriana
[326] Lobesia abscisana
[327] Old Lady
[328] Round-winged Muslin
[329] Short-cloaked moth


Acleris schalleriana is still rather rare in the County and I seemingly had the first (in 2014):

Acleris schalleriana

Acleris forsskaleana is more regular but was just missing last year:

Acleris forsskaleana

I've studiously avoided any moth from the genus Coleophora - they are mostly impossible to identify without dissection. This striking individual looks good for C. deauratella though - so I'll claim it..

Coleophora deauratella

Juniper Webber is a distinctive gelechid I've recorded only once before (in 2014):

Juniper Webber Dichomeris marginella

Teleiodes vulgella is less striking and also much more common  - but was just one of those that didn't turn up last year:

Teleiodes vulgella 

Mompha ochraceella

Lobesia abscisana

For some reason I've never been that fond of Old Lady moths - this one though is quite fresh so not that bad at all:

Old Lady Mormo maura

This is the second Round-winged Muslin I've caught in Cottenham:

Round-winged Muslin Thumatha senex

And two Short-cloaked moths were rather notable - I've only again recorded a single before in the village:

Short-cloaked Moth Nola cucullatella