Tuesday, 25 August 2026

Special moth trap session

Chinese Character 1 (Colic glaucata)

Pebble Hooktip 2 (Drepana falcataria

Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 8 (Noctua janthe/janthina)

Snout 1 (Hypena probiscidalis)

European Corn Borer 1 (Ostrinia nubialis)

Gold Triangle 2 (Hypsopygia costalis)

Rush Veneer 12 (Nomophila noctuella)

Straw Dot 1 (Rivula sericealis)

Rusty Dot Pearl 4 (Udea ferrugalis)

Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1 (Noctua fimbriata)

Brimstone 1 (Opisthograptis luteolata)

Celypha lacunana 1 (Celypha lacunana)

Willow Beauty 2 (Peribatodes rhomboidaria)

Light Brown Apple Moth 2 Epiphyas postvittana)

Pebble Prominent 1 (Notodonta zizac)

Pale Prominent 1 (Pterostoma palpina)

Lime-speck Pug 1 (Eupithecia centaureata)

Poplar Hawkmoth 1 (Laothoe populi)

Square-spot Rustic 3 (Xestia xanthographa)

September Thorn 1 (Ennomos erosaria)

Dusky Thorn 1 (Ennomos fuscantaria)

Canary-shouldered Thorn 1 (Ennomos alniaria)

Centre-barred Sallow 1 (Atethmia centrago)

Bright-line Brown-eye 3 (Laconobia oleracea)

Nutmeg 1 (Anarta trufolii)

Common Wainscot 2 (Mythimna pallens)

Maiden's Blush 3 (Cyclophora punctaria)

Cloaked Minor 1 (Mesoligia furuncula

Six-striped Rustic 2 (Xestia sexstrigata)

White Point 1 (Mythimna albipuncta)

Angle Shades 1 (Phlogophora meticulosa)

Beet Armyworm 2 (Spodoptera exigua)

Pale Mottled Willow 3 (Caradrina clavipalpis)

Lesser Yellow Underwing 1 (Noctua comes)

Riband Wave 1 (Idea aversata)

Sharp-angled Peacock 3 (Macaria alternata)

L-album Wainscot 3 (Mythimna l-album)

Box-tree Moth 1 (Cydalima perspectalis)

Uncertain/Rustic etc 1 (Hoplodrina spp)

Heart and Dart 1 (Agrotis exclamationis)

Common White Wave 1 (Cabera pusaria)

Common Wave 1 (Cabera exanthemata)

Setaceous Hebrew Character 1 (Xestia c-nigrum)

Single-dotted Wave 1 (Idea dimidiata)

Southern Wainscot 1 (Mythimna straminea)

Common Daisy Moth 1 (Dicrorampha acuminatana)

Common Grass-moth 1 (Agriphila tristella)

Chevron Grass-moth 2 (Agriphila geniculea)

Common Masoner 1 (Blastobasis adjustella)

Spindle Knot-horn 1 (Nephopterix angustella)

Large Fruit-tree Tortrix 6 (Archips podana)

Black-fronted Straw 1 (Cochylis atricapitana)

Brassy Y 1 (Argyresthia goedartella)

Common Plume 1 (Emmelina monodactyla)

House Moss-moth 1 (Bryotropha domestica)

















(Above Snout, Southern Oak Bush-cricket, Pebble Hook-tip, Six-stripe Rustic)

The above from a special moth trap run for me by Ed Sunday night into Monday morning. We went through the trap together until a lack of volunteers for hide-opening duties left me on my own for the second half. A fair few moths on surrounding buildings.

No birding of note other than single Spotted Redshank.

New car started to splutter a bit so back to Richmond!! And off home to collect 'old faithful' thanks to KM.