Moths 2026

2026

New moths for my Port & Wey list are in red, plus dates for firsts for year

April

16/04/26 - 28/0526

#1      19/04/26      28.009 BF648        White-shouldered House-moth Endrosis sarcitrella

#2      28/04/26      28.010 BF647        Brown House-moth Hofmannophila pseudospretella

#3      27/04/26      28.024 BF656        Ruddy Streak Tachystola acroxantha

#4      25/04/26      35.033 BF808        Mallow Seed Moth Platyedra subcinerea

#5      17/04/26      35.123 BF819        Bittersweet Moth Scrobipalpa costella

#6      16/04/26      45.044 BF1524      Common Plume Emmelina monodactyla

#7      17/04/26      49.039 BF998        Light Brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana

#8      16/04/26      63.031 BF1395      Rusty Dot Pearl Udea ferrugalis

#9      25/04/26      63.069 BF1342      Narrow-winged Grey Eudonia angustea

#10    28/04/26      65.007 BF1651      Chinese Character Cilix glaucata

#11    27/04/26      70.036 BF1680      Maiden's Blush Cyclophora punctaria

#12    28/04/26      70.049 BF1728      Garden Carpet Xanthorhoe fluctuata

#13    25/04/26      70.141 BF1862      Double-striped Pug Gymnoscelis rufifasciata

#14    19/04/26      70.142 BF1858      V-Pug Chloroclystis v-ata

#15    16/04/26      70.226 BF1906      Brimstone Moth Opisthograptis luteolata

#16    17/04/26      72.022 BF2063      Muslin Moth Diaphora mendica

#17    26/04/26      70.294 BF1968      Yellow Belle Aspitates ochrearia

#18    19/04/26      73.015 BF2441      Silver Y Autographa gamma

#19    17/04/26      73.069 BF2243      Early Grey Xylocampa areola

#20    17/04/26      73.087 BF2385      Small Mottled Willow Spodoptera exigua

#21    16/04/26      73.244 BF2187      Common Quaker Orthosia cerasi

#22    17/04/26      73.247 BF2186      Powdered Quaker Orthosia gracilis

#23    27/04/26      73.286 BF2167      Tawny Shears Hadena perplexa

#24    28/04/26      73.325 BF2092      Shuttle-shaped Dart Agrotis puta

#25    28/04/26      73.329 BF2102      Flame Shoulder Ochropleura plecta

#26    19/04/26      73.336 BF2139      Red Chestnut Cerastis rubricosa

#27    17/04/26      73.359 BF2126      Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum

Species in April - 27

Lifers this year  -   5

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May

01/05/26 - 31/05/26

#28    01/05/26      03.002 BF17          Common Swift Korscheltellus lupulina

#29    23/05/26      14.002 BF266        Daisy Tuft Bucculatrix nigricomella

#30    20/05/26      15.014 BF293        Common Slender Gracillaria syringella (Wakeham Meadow)

#31    01/05/26      18.001 BF464        Diamond-back Moth Plutella xylostella

#32    06/05/26      19.007 BF391        Cocksfoot Moth Glyphipterix simpliciella (Sweethill Farm)

#33    04/05/26      20.007 BF409b      Cypress Tip Argyresthia cupressella

#34    04/05/26      38.025 BF597        Cock's-foot Miner  Elachista atricomella

#35    01/05/26      44.001 BF1288      Twenty-plume Moth Alucita hexadactyla

#36    23/05/26      49.028 BF986        Dark-barred Tortrix Syndemis musculana

#37    23/05/26      49.138 BF964a      Ox-tongue Conch Neocochylis molliculana

#38    18/05/26      49.139 BF966        Black-headed Conch Cochylis atricapitana

#39    26/05/26      49.185 BF1109      Shore Marble Lobesia littoralis

#40    04/05/26      49.240 BF1136      Birch Tortrix Epinotia immundana

#41    01/05/26      49.292 BF1174      Yellow-faced Bell Notocelia cynosbatella

#42    23/05/26      49.313 BF1279      Common Daisy Moth Dichrorampha acuminatana

#43    23/05/26      62.029 BF1452      Oak Knot-horn Phycita roborella

#44    21/05/26      63.057 BF1356      Garden Pebble Evergestis forficalis

#45    23/05/26      63.075 BF1336      Pallid Grey Eudonia pallida

#46    23/05/26      66.008 BF1638      Fox Moth Macrothylacia rubi

#47    23/05/26      69.015 BF1990      Striped Hawk-moth Hyles livornica 

#48    26/05/26      69.017 BF1992      Small Elephant Hawk-moth Deilephila porcellus

#49    26/05/26      70.008 BF1707      Small Dusty Wave Idaea seriata

#50    26/05/26      70.009 BF1709      Satin Wave Idaea subsericeata

#51    23/05/26      70.017 BF1714      Portland Ribbon Wave Idaea degeneraria

#52    21/05/26      70.023 BF1689      Mullein Wave Scopula marginepunctata

#53    16/05/26      70.097 BF1764      Common Marbled Carpet Dysstroma truncata

#54    26/05/26      70.144 BF1860      Green Pug Pasiphila rectangulata

#55    08/05/26      70.183 BF1834      Common Pug Eupithecia vulgata

#56    01/05/26      70.257 BF1936      Waved Umber Menophra abruptaria

#57    01/05/26      70.258 BF1937      Willow Beauty Peribatodes rhomboidaria

#58    04/05/26      70.280 BF1958      Clouded Silver Lomographa temerata

#59    12/05/26      70.283 BF1961      Light Emerald Campaea margaritaria

#60    21/05/26      71.020 BF2011      Pale Prominent Pterostoma palpina

#61    05/05/26      72.015 BF2028      Pale Tussock Calliteara pudibunda

#62    21/05/26      72.019 BF2061      Buff Ermine Spilosoma lutea

#63    26/05/26      72.027 BF2058      Cream-spot Tiger Arctia villica

#64    11/05/26      73.099 BF2384      Vine's Rustic Hoplodrina ambigua

#65    01/05/26      73.101 BF2380      Treble Lines Charanyca trigrammica

#66    23/05/26      73.102 BF2302      Brown Rustic Rusina ferruginea

#67    09/05/26      73.158 BF2334      Rustic Shoulder-knot Apamea sordens

#68    21/05/26      73.162 BF2321      Dark Arches Apamea monoglypha

#69    05/05/26      73.173 BF2337      Marbled Minor agg. Oligia strigilis agg.

#70    04/05/26      73.267 BF2160      Bright-line Brown-eye Lacanobia oleracea

#71    16/05/26      73.274 BF2154      Cabbage Moth Mamestra brassicae

#72    09/05/26      73.297 BF2194      White-point Mythimna albipuncta

#73    15/05/26      73.317 BF2089      Heart & Dart Agrotis exclamationis

#74    18/05/26      73.319 BF2087      Turnip Moth Agrotis segetum

#75    01/05/26      73.327 BF2091      Dark Sword-grass Agrotis ipsilon

#76    23/05/26      73.342 BF2107      Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba

#77    01/05/26      74.004 BF2078      Least Black Arches Nola confusalis

#78    26/05/26                                     Paraswammerdamia/Swammerdamia sp.

New Species in May - 51

Lifers this year         -  20

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June

01/05/26 - present

#79      08/06/26      40.008 BF892        Garden Mompha Mompha subbistrigella

#80      02/06/26      49.123 BF951        Hemlock Yellow Conch Aethes beatricella

#81      01/06/26      49.161 BF1063      Barred Marble Celypha striana

#82      11/06/26      49.166 BF1076      Common Marble Celypha lacunana  (Maiden Castle)

#83      02/06/26      49.261 BF1157      Tree-mallow Tortrix Crocidosema plebejana

#84      08/06/26      62.065 BF1474      Blushed Knot-horn Ephestia woodiella

#85      14/06/26      49.338 BF1261      Codling Moth Cydia pomonella

#86      14/06/26      49.357 BF1247      Plum Fruit Moth Grapholita funebrana

#87      14/06/26      62.001 BF1428      Bee Moth Aphomia sociella

#88      08/06/26      63.025 BF1376      Small Magpie Anania hortulata

#89      14/06/26      63.040 BF1397      Madder Pearl Mecyna asinalis

#90      14/06/26      63.074 BF1344      Small Grey Eudonia mercurella

#91      14/06/26      63.080 BF1293      Garden Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia culmella

#92      14/06/26      66.003 BF1634      The Lackey Malacosoma neustria

#93      08/06/26      70.016 BF1713      Riband Wave Idaea aversata

#94      14/06/26      70.024 BF1690      Small Blood-vein Scopula imitaria

#95      01/06/26      70.025 BF1692      Lesser Cream Wave Scopula immutata

#96      10/06/26      70.146 BF1813      Haworth's Pug Eupithecia haworthiata

#97      08/06/26      70.205 BF1884      The Magpie Abraxas grossulariata

#98      01/06/26      72.049 BF2043      Orange Footman Eilema sororcula

#99      14/06/26      73.001 BF2450      The Spectacle Abrostola tripartita 

#100    08/06/26      73.003 BF2432      Ni Moth Trichoplusia ni

#101    10/06/26      73.092 BF2387      Mottled Rustic Caradrina morpheus

#102    10/06/26      73.163 BF2322      Light Arches Apamea lithoxylaea

#103    10/06/26      73.291 BF2199      Common Wainscot Mythimna pallens

#104    14/06/26      73.293 BF2198      Smoky Wainscot Mythimna impura

#105    02/06/26      73.295 BF2195      The Delicate Mythimna vitellina

#106    01/06/26      73.300 BF2202      L-album Wainscot Mythimna l-album

#107    02/05/26      73.328 BF2098      The Flame Axylia putris

New Species in June - 29

Lifers this year         -    8

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Garden firsts this year  - 104

All firsts for this year   - 107

New Port & Wey moths this year   -   32

Port & Wey moths as of 10 Jun 26 - 282

Lifers this year  -   33
As of 11 Jun 26 - 292

Note:

All moths listed above were trapped in my Wakeham garden. Those recorded elsewhere will have the location attached.