Weekly Round-up 04/07/17 to 11/07/17

It's been that good mothing this year that i'm really struggling to keep up and thus I have lumped my records together again as one big list of weekly moths (apologies to the innacurate data that I may provide at the end of the year). Juggling family life with moths and work is very difficult, particularly when you have less than an hour to go through 200+ moths of between 65 and 90 species every other morning, then photograph them after work and then process that and type up a list.

On top of all that i'm struggling to get up with the dreaded man flu!

So here is my weekly list of all the species and approximate numbers that i've recorded.

Some real crackers all week and several species new for the garden!

A second garden record of the ever-spreading Coronet was great to see as well as Anarsia innoxiella...will this recently seperated distinct species spread like Epiphyas postvittana and Tachystola acroxantha?

The Miller and Barred Hook-tip were back after a 4 year absense and once again they are only my second garden records. Donacaula forficella was a welcome wetland wanderer which last appeared...guess when! in 2013 4 years ago again.

Sitochroa verticalis and Elachista atricomella were new for the garden.

Catch Report - 04/07/17 to 11/07/17 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Barred Hook-tip [NFY] 1x Black Arches [NFY] 1x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing [NFY] 1x Cloaked Minor [NFY] 1x Common Carpet [NFY] 8x Common Rustic [NFY] 1x Dusky Sallow [NFY] 1x Latticed Heath [NFY] 1x Pebble Hook-tip [NFY] 1x Scarce Footman [NFY] 1x September Thorn [NFY] 2x Slender Brindle [NFY] 4x Smoky Wainscot [NFY] 1x Yellow Shell [NFY] 1x Beautiful Golden-Y 4x Bright-line Brown-eye 1x Broad-barred White 2x Buff-tip 4x Buff Arches 1x Clay 2x Clouded Border 2x Common Emerald 10x Common Footman 18x Common Rustic 2x Common Wainscot 1x Coronet 25x Dark Arches 35x Dot Moth 5x Double-striped Pug 2x Double Square-spot 5x Dun-bar 10x Dwarf Cream Wave 1x Early Thorn 2x Elephant Hawk-moth 1x Fern 1x Flame 1x Garden Carpet 1x Grey Dagger 1x Heart & Club 3x Heart & Dart 2x July Highflyer 1x Lackey 6x Large Yellow Underwing 5x Least Carpet 1x Leopard Moth 2x Lesser Yellow Underwing 10x Mottled Beauty 6x Mottled Rustic 5x Nut-tree Tussock 1x Peach Blossom 3x Peppered Moth (inc first f.carbonaria for 3 years) 40x Riband Wave 2x Rustic 3x Scalloped Oak 2x Small Blood-vein 4x Small Emerald 26x Uncertain 8x Willow Beauty

Micro Moths

1x Elachista atricomella [NFG] 1x Sitochroa verticalis [NFG] 5x Acleris forsskaleana [NFY] 1x Acleris variegana [NFY] 1x Acrobasis advenella [NFY] 3x Acrobasis suavella [NFY] 1x Argyresthia albistria [NFY] 1x Blastobasis adustella [NFY] 1x Bucculatrix thoracella [NFY] 1x Carpatolechia fugitivella [NFY] 1x Clavigesta purdeyi [NFY] 1x Donacaula forficella [NFY] 1x Eudemis profundana [NFY] 2x Grapholita janthinana [NFY] 1x Gypsonoma sociana [NFY] 1x Helcystogramma rufescens [NFY] 1x Hypsopygia costalis [NFY] 3x Oegoconia sp [NFY] 1x Pandemis corylana [NFY] 1x Rhopobota naevana [NFY] 1x Tinea semifulvella [NFY] 1x Ypsolopha ustella [NFY] 5x Zeiraphera isertana [NFY] 1x Acleris notana/ferrugana 6x Acleris schalleriana 5x Acentria ephemerella 1x Agonopterix alstromeriana 10x Anania coronata 5x Anania hortulata 2x Archips podana 2x Archips xylosteana 1x Athrips mouffetella 2x Batia lunaris 2x Blastodacna hellerella 1x Bryotropha affinis 1x Emmelina monodactyla 14x Cameraria ohridella 2x Celypha striana 20x Chrysoteuchia culmella 5x Clepsis consimilana 3x Crambus pascuella 2x Cydia pomonella 2x Ditula angustiorana 1x Eana incanana 1x Emmelina monodactyla 25x Endotricha flammealis 2x Epiphyas postvittana 20x Eudonia lacustrata 2x Eudonia mercurella 10x Gypsonoma dealbana 2x Hofmannophila pseudospretella 1x Homoeosoma sinuella 1x Mompha epilobiella 1x Nemapogon sp 1x Pammene fasciana 2x Pammene regiana 1x Pandemis heparana 4x Phycita roborella 5x Pleuroptya ruralis 5x Plutella xylostella 1x Prays fraxinella 1x Pterophorus pentadactyla 5x Scoparia ambigualis 1x Scrobipalpa acuminatella 1x Scythropia crataegella 25x Spilonota ocellana 2x Udea prunalis