Not been moth trapping as much as I would have liked this year, this was only my fourth garden trap of the year. A very warm and still night, so conditions were about perfect. What I didn’t expect was literally a trap full of Large Yellow Underwings, over 100 in all. My largest ever count in over 10 years of garden trapping. I think the quantity may well have spoilt what could have been an otherwise good catch. At around 11pm there was a single Old Lady in the trap, but not present at 5:30am when I was processing the results. I did get a new species, Anacampis popullela, quite an attractive little micro.
Result in no particular order – Old Lady 1; Marbled Beauty 14; Flame Shoulder 5; Large Yellow Underwing 115; Brimstone Moth 1; Iron Prominent 2; Lesser Yellow Underwing 10; Dark Arches 5; Common Rustic 8; Garden Carpet 2; Setaceous Hebrew Character 3; Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 2; Riband Wave 1; Flounced Rustic 1; Square Spot Rustic 1; Shuttle-shaped Dart 1; Mouse Moth 2; Mottled Beauty 2; Common Swift 1; Six-striped Rustic 2; Small Phoenix 1; Dusky Thorn 1; Copper Underwing 1; Pyrausta aurata (Mint Moth) 10; Agriphila tristella 15; Agriphila straminella 2; Agriphila inquinatella 5; Anacampis popullela 1; Carcinia quercana 1; Hofmannophila pseudospretella (Brown House Moth) 1; Pandemis corylana (Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix) 2: Eudonia mercurella 4: 32 species
Anacampis populella – New species for the garden and a lifer – Tony Davison©
Agriphila inquinatella – Tony Davison©
Agriphila straminella – Tony Davison©
Agriphila tristella – Tony Davison©
Dusky Thorn – Tony Davison©
Small Phoenix – Tony Davison©
Six-striped Rustic – Tony Davison©
Setaceous Hebrew Character – Tony Davison©
Pyrausta aurata – Tony Davison©
Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix – Tony Davison©
Carcinia quercana – Tony Davison©
