18 June, 2020

Moths.. At Last


I'd been getting even more worried about the utter lack of moffs coming to the assorted lights here this year. With the very warm weather we were having, and people with proper moth traps getting plenty, I wondered why. Moth numbers in the last few years have crashed here [as I've said before, you used to get several a floor and usually eight plus species without looking hard and now eight total is a good result]

But, with the break in the weather, with wind and cooler nights, the moths have started appearing! And I've even seen some new ones! :)

So, let us get on with it!


Light Emerald

Green enough to be a very fresh one.

Great Oak Beauty

And what a beauty. :)

Olive-brown one

Previous years' Satin and Willow Beauties looked more like this one, [I thought it wasn't GOB, either until I checked], the books show Great Oak being grey, like the top one.

Orange Footman

Buff Ermine


Crambus lathoniellus

Small Magpie

Pale Tussock

Treble Brown Spot

Small Dusty Wave

July Highflyer

Phoenix

Dwarf Cream Wave

Treble Brown Spot [variation]


Treble Brown Spot
[more variation]

Common Marbled Carpet

Dark Marbled Carpet

Garden Carpet

Variation Common Marbled Carpet

Mottled Pug

Small Dusty Wave
[variation]

Green Pug

Dwarf Cream Wave

Worn Brindled Pug?

Chrysoteuchia culmella

Agnopterix heracliana

Not sure...



Phew, that's a few moffs.


Be Seeing You...


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