19th August 2020

 A belated new moth the garden was a Toadflax Pug, a  species that was annual in my old garden:

Toadflax Pug Eupithecia linariata

Dewick's Plusia was formerly extremely rare but is now turning up much more regularly. This one was just the second for the garden though: 

Dewick's Plusia Macdunnoughia confusa

A handful of other species were new for the year including the migrant Rush Veneer:

Rush Veneer Nomophila noctuella

While Small Square-spot has turned up in the last three years now:

Small Square-spot Diarsia rubi

This Prays ruficeps is just the third record I believe:

Prays ruficeps

[615] Toadflax Pug

23rd June 2016

Another rush of new moths included some dashes of colour from a Green Silver-lines and what is probably the best of the regular hawk-moths - an Eyed. There was also a tidy Small Elephant Hawk-moth which is far from annual here. Sol its just Lime Hawk-moth to go for the garden now for the 'regular' hawkmoths, although this species doesn't appear to be anywhere near as common here in Cottenham than in central Cambridge for example.

Green Silver-lines Pseudoips prasinana

Small Elephant Hawk-moth Deilephila porcellus

Eyed Hawk-moth Smerinthus ocellata

A bit more dowdy was a migrant Rush Veneer and an absolutely minuscule micro appears to be Elachista atricomella.  Beautiful Hooktip continues its general increase locally and the 4th of the year appeared amongst some real mid-summer species.

So new moths were:

[110] Elachista atricomella
[111] Eudonia mercurella
[112] Rush Veneer
[113] Treble Brown-spot
[114] Eyed Hawk-moth
[115] Small Elephant Hawk-moth
[116] Common Footman
[117] Double Square-spot
[118] Common Rustic
[119] Straw Dot
[120] Green Silver-lines
[121] The Snout

Rush Veneer Nomophila noctuella

Straw Dot Rivula sericealis

Beautiful Hooktip Laspeyria flexula

Elachista atricomella

28th August 2015

A few classic August moths appeared including plenty of Orange Swifts which was the moth that first got me interested in such things when two appeared on my bedroom ceiling n central Cambridge some 12 years ago.

Orange Swift

There was also another Old Lady in the trap, this one looked like it might have had a run in with the local Brown long-eared Bats....

Old Lady

I'venot done very well for migrants this year despite plenty evident elsewhere (although my Small Marbled was a bit of a mega). This Rush Veneer (a migrant micro moth) was the first one I've trapped this year..

Rush Veneer