National Moth Night

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

Purple Thorn - Selenia Tetralunaria

A good night for Thorns coming to the trap last night …

August Thorn - Ennomos quercinaria

One of 3 species of Thorn in the moth trap last night..

Canary-shouldered Thorn - Ennomos alniaria

A beautiful moth - came into the moth trap last night ………..

Privet Hawkmoth and Pine Hawkmoth

As promised caught in the moth trap last night a new garden tick for the Privet and a second record for the Pine.

Privet Hawkmoth

Pine Hawkmoth 

Garden Moths..

Finally a warm night to put the moth light on, here’s a few we managed to identify…

Poplar Hawkmoth

Light Emerald

Figure of Eighty

Small Angle Shades

Mottled Beauty

Grey Arches

Sallow Kitten

Elephant Hawkmoth

Figure of Eighty

Peppered Moth

Poplar Hawkmoth

Spectacle Moth

Dark Arches

Swallow and Pale Prominents & Small Blood Vein

Not so many moths in the trap last night but it was a much cooler night than of late - however we are still turning up new garden ticks.  Over the last few weeks the most common moths by far have been Ruby Tigers and Poplar Hawkmoths - on Wednesday morning we had 26 Ruby Tigers.

Small Blood-vein

Swallow Prominent - compare with Lesser Swallow Prominent in previous post

Pale Prominent

Who knows! insects attracted to the moth light each night but no time to id them.

White Satin Moth, Miller, Lesser Swallow Prominent, Pebble Hook-Tip, Birdswing,

Back after a short break to blogger due to one old laptop driving me to distraction and one new laptop with no software!  Finally managed to install Photoshop so now able to share our recent moth nights - probably the best we have had with numerous Poplar and Elephant Hawk Moths plus a few new garden ticks as shown below.  We have also attended a fantastic one day moth identification course run by Dr David Chesmore - during the day we took the photo below of a Psychidae which we found at Far Ings reserve - I can't even begin to explain what it is so google it!

White Satin Moth

Birdswing

Psychidae

Drinker Caterpillar

Pebble Hook-Tip

Lesser-Swallow Prominent

Miller

Forest Shield Bug attracted to the moth light

White Satin Moth