Moth Trap 22nd – 23rd May 2026

I ran my 20W Actinic Moth Trap overnight on 22nd May in my Melbourne garden – Results were in no particular order – Brimstone Moth (2); Epiphyas postvittana (Light Brown Apple Moth) (7), Common Pug (3), Lime-speck Pug (2), Plutella xylostella (Diamond-back Moth( (3), Shuttle-shaped Dart (6), Flame Shoulder (2); Heart and Dart (3), Vine’s Rustic (2), Elephant Hawk-moth (1); Marbled Minor agg (6), Turnip Moth (2), Waved Umber (2), Least Black Arches (1), Small Magpie, Small Mottled Willow, Silver Y, Pine Hawk-moth, Large Yellow Underwing, Poplar Hawk-moth, Willow Beauty, Tachystola acroxantha (Australian Orange-tip (3), Bryotropha affinis (4), Green Pug, Garden Carpet, Rustic Shoulder-knot (2), Crambus lathionellus, Notocelia cynosbatella (3), Notocelia trimaculana, Scoparia ambigualis, Grey Pine Carpet (2), Yellow-barred Brindle, Brown Silver-line, Middle-barred Minor.

Small Mottled Willow – Tony Davison
Rustic Shoulder-knot – Tony Davison
Crambus lithonellus – Tony Davison
Elephant Hawk-moth – Tony Davison
Green Pug – Tony Davison
Grey Pine Carpet – Tony Davison
Least Black Arches – Tony Davison
Lime-speck Pug – Tony Davison
Middle-barred Minor – Tony Davison
Notocelia cynosbatella – Tony Davison
Notocelia trimaculana – Tony Davison
Pine Hawk-moth – Tony Davison
Plutella xylostella – Tony Davison
Poplar Hawk-moth – Tony Davison
Silver Y – a partcularly pale sandy coloured individual – Tony Davison
Tachystola acroxantha – Tony Davison
Vine’s Rustic – Tony Davison

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