Only To Be Expected

After a night of heavy rain and where wind speeds reached 50mph, I wasn't expecting to see much in the moth trap this morning. And so it proved to be with just 22 moths of 9 species, and of course not a single micro moth to be seen. 

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

2026 Moth List Here.


Moths recorded:

#1   Marbled Minor agg. Oligia strigilis agg. x3

#2   Common Swift Korscheltellus lupulina x1

#3   Heart & Dart Agrotis exclamationis x11

#4   Common Marbled Carpet Dysstroma truncata x1

#5   Light Brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana x1

#6   Vine's Rustic Hoplodrina ambigua x1

#7   Shuttle-shaped Dart Agrotis puta x1

#8   Treble Lines Charanyca trigrammica x1

#9   White-point Mythimna albipuncta x2

#1 Marbled Minor agg. Oligia strigilis agg.

#1 Another Marbled Minor agg.

#2 Common Swift Korscheltellus lupulina

#3 Heart & Dart Agrotis exclamationis

#3 Another Heart & Dart

#3 And another Heart & Dart

#4 Common Marbled Carpet Dysstroma truncata

#5 Light Brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana

#6 Vine's Rustic Hoplodrina ambigua

#7 Shuttle-shaped Dart Agrotis puta

#8 Treble Lines Charanyca trigrammica

#9 White-point Mythimna albipuncta

(Top left) Treble Lines Charanyca trigrammica, (Bottom right) Shuttle-shaped Dart Agrotis puta, (Top right) two White-points Mythimna albipuncta, a Vine's Rustic Hoplodrina ambigua, and the rest are nine of the eleven Heart & Darts Agrotis exclamationis

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Also in the trap was a hoverfly and a midge.

Vagrant Hoverfly Eupeodes corollae

midge sp.

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Wakeham

Late morning and I came across this Willow Beauty Peribatodes rhomboidaria "flapping" about on the slabs in the courtyard. After encouraging it onto a bit of cardboard I placed it safely in amongst the Ivy on the Old Vic.