Day 6 of Summer is here and after collecting strawberries from the garden it was time to inspect the moth trap that I’d put out last night.
Fresh Strawberries from the Garden
It’s been a while since we did any moth-trapping but there was quite a haul. Conditions were perfect for the moths, temperatures only dropped to 14°C and winds were light. Trouble is I think I’d forgotten the names of many of them so the identification process took a while. Morgan helped out a bit and I tried to photograph as many of them as I could. I forgot to take photos of some of the more common ones and one or two got away before I could get a decent photo of them, but here’s the full list and photos of those I did get.
- 6x Oligia sp.
- 1x V-Pug
- 23x Flame
- 1x Small Elephant Hawkmoth
- 2x Shuttle-shaped Dart
- 10x Heart and Dart
- 11x Dark Arches
- 1x Elephant Hawkmoth
- 1x Archer’s Dart
- 4x Bright-line Brown-eye
- 1x White-line Dart
- 8x Flame Shoulder
- 1x White Ermine
- 1x Lesser Cream Wave
- 4x Large Yellow Underwing
- 1x Common Rustic / Lesser Common Rustic agg.
- 1x Smoky Wainscot
- 1x Striped Wainscot
- 1x Pug
- 1x Brown Rustic
- 2x Double Square-spot
- 1x Clay
- 1x Knot Grass
- 1x Mottled Rustic
- 1x Ebulea crocealis
The Hawkmoths are spectacular as ever, but the Archer’s Dart is still one of my favourites. The Lesser Cream Wave and V-Pug are nice too and the Ebulea crocealis is a new garden record and a micro so I don’t normally record them but it looked nice.