Mizzle, Muggy and Mothy

Mizzle, muggy and mothy was the only way to describe last night, with the moth trap under cover in the gazebo. And it worked well again, with a total of 62 moths of 26 species, including 2 lifers and 3 firsts for the year.

  *First for year
**New for P&W moth list

2026 Moth List Here.

Moths recorded:

#1       *Heart & Club Agrotis clavis x6

#2       *Regal Piercer Pammene regiana x1

#3        Riband Wave Idaea aversata x1

#4        White-shouldered House-moth Endrosis sarcitrella x1

#5        Garden Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia culmella x2

#6        Silver Y Autographa gamma x1

#7        Common Quaker Orthosia cerasi x1

#8        Heart & Dart Agrotis exclamationis x 26

#9        Small Mottled Willow Spodoptera exigua x1

#10      Mottled Rustic Caradrina morpheus x1

#11      Marbled Minor agg. Oligia strigilis agg. x1

#12   **Scarce Rose Shoot Moth Notocelia incarnatana x1

#13      Haworth's Pug Eupithecia haworthiata x1

#14      Tree-mallow Tortrix Crocidosema plebejana x1

#15      Black-headed Conch Cochylis atricapitana x1

#16      Common Plume Emmelina monodactyla x1

#17      Buff Ermine Spilosoma lutea x2

#18      L-album Wainscot Mythimna l-album x1

#19      The Flame Axylia putris x1

#20      Bright-line Brown-eye Lacanobia oleracea x1

#21      Vine's Rustic Hoplodrina ambigua x1

#22      Dark Arches Apamea monoglypha x2

#23      Small Elephant Hawk-moth Deilephila porcellus x2

#24   **Bordered Sallow Pyrrhia umbra x1

#25      Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba x3

#26     *The Dun-bar Cosmia trapezina x1

#1 *Heart & Club Agrotis clavis

#2 *Regal Piercer Pammene regiana

#3 Riband Wave Idaea aversata

#4 A very worn White-shouldered House-moth Endrosis sarcitrella

#5 Garden Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia culmella

#5 Another Garden Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia culmella

#5 And another Garden Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia culmella

#6 Silver Y Autographa gamma

#7 A very worn Common Quaker Orthosia cerasi

#7 Another Common Quaker

#8 Heart & Dart Agrotis exclamationis

#8 Another Heart & Dart Agrotis exclamationis

#8 And a female Heart & Dart Agrotis exclamationis - light form

#9 Small Mottled Willow Spodoptera exigua aka Beet Armyworm

#10 Mottled Rustic Caradrina morpheus

#11 Marbled Minor agg. Oligia strigilis agg.

#12  **Scarce Rose Shoot Moth Notocelia incarnatana

#13 Haworth's Pug Eupithecia haworthiata

#14 Tree-mallow Tortrix Crocidosema plebejana

#15 Black-headed Conch Cochylis atricapitana

#16 Common Plume Emmelina monodactyla

#17 Buff Ermine Spilosoma lutea 

#18 L-album Wainscot Mythimna l-album

#19 The Flame Axylia putris

#20 Bright-line Brown-eye Lacanobia oleracea

#21 A Vine's Rustic Hoplodrina ambigua with a Silver Y Autographa gamma below.

#22 Dark Arches Apamea monoglypha

#23 Small Elephant Hawk-moths Deilephila porcellus 

#23 Small Elephant Hawk-moth

#23 Small Elephant Hawk-moth

#24 **Bordered Sallow Pyrrhia umbra

#24 **Bordered Sallow 

#25 Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba

#26 *The Dun-bar Cosmia trapezina

More on:

#12  Scarce Rose Shoot Moth Notocelia incarnatana UK Moths here.

#24  Bordered Sallow Pyrrhia umbra UK Moths here and Dorset Moths here.

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Also in the trap was a bee, an ichneumon wasp, a fly and a midge.

Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris

This one of the nocturnal Ichneumon Wasps possibly............

............Orange Ichneumon Wasp Netelia virgata.

A Lesser Housefly Fannia sp.

A non-biting midge sp.