National Moth Night runs from 8th-10th August and last night proved to be a good night in our garden with some very beautiful moths being attracted to our trap…
Swallow Prominent
White Satin Moth
Pebble Prominent
We think this is a Common or Lesser Rustic
and another Rustic showing how variable some species are
Brown-line Bright-eye
A beautiful moth - came into the moth trap last night ………..
Or so I thought! now not so sure after zooming in and seeing a gorgeous hairy yellow face I’m now thinking Bombus Pratorum (Early Bumblebee) but it doesn’t seem to have a striped yellow thorax so who knows.
The Bees are still frustrating me beyond belief and other then the Tree Bumble I don’t think I have yet to correctly identify one here’s some more I’m not sure of..
These could all be Bombus Terrestris (Buff-tailed Bumblebee) but zoom in and some do not have extensive hairy back tibia which would make them Bombus Bohemicus!
