Please note that micro moths
are not always recorded and when they are, unless there are unusual
numbers, they are not counted.
May 1st
Just 5 moths of 4 species
New additions to this years list:
Powdered Quaker
Hebrew Character
May 3rd
6 moths of 5 species
May 5th
7 moths of 7 species
New additions to this years list:
Chocolate Tip
Vines Rustic
Tawny Shears
May 6th
Numbers increasing
23 moths of 10 species
New additions to this years list:
Latticed Heath
Red Twin-spot Carpet
Waved Umber
May 7th
50 moths of 27 species
New additions to this years list:
Garden Carpet
Small Elephant Hawk-moth
Lime Hawk-moth
Brimstone
Purple Bar
Grey Dagger
Yellow Belle
Turnip
Shears
Pine Carpet
White Ermine
Heart and Dart
Flame Shoulder
Common Quaker
Dark Barred Twin-spot Carpet
May 8th
22 macro moths of 17 species
New additions to this years list:
Treble Lines
Campion
Mottled Rustic
Pale Mottled Willow
3 species micro moths
New micro additions to this years list:
Aethes smeathmanniana
Grapholita funebrana
Garden Pebble
May 9th
41 macro moths of 19 species
New additions to this years list:
Common Pug
Sand Dart
Eyed Hawk-moth
Coxcomb Prominent
Rustic Shoulder Knot
Small Square Spot
Setaceous Hebrew Character
Silver Y
May 10th
66 macro moths of 35 species
New additions to this years list:
White-spotted Pug
Mottled Pug
Limespeck Pug
Grey Pine Carpet
Common Wainscot
Dogs Tooth
Gold Spot
White Point
4 species of micro moths
New micro additions to this years list:
Phtheochroa rugosana
Celypha lacunana
Agonopterix arenella
May 11th
33 macro moths of 20 species
New macro additions to this years list:
Pebble Prominent
Minor Species
2 species of micro moth
New additions to this years list:
Bee moth
Very windy here on the coast, moth trap not used until
May 17th
31 macro moths of 19 species
New macro additions to this years list:
Green Pug
Scalloped Hazel
Light Emerald
3 species of micro moth
New micro additions to this years list:
Ostrinia nubilalis (European Corn Borer
Pseudoswammerdamia combinella
May 19th
21 macro moths of13 species
New macro additions to this years list:
Tawny Marbled Minor
1 species of micro moth
New micro additions to this years list:
Crambus lathionellus
May 20th
80 macro moths of 25 species
New macro additions to this years list:
Tawny Barred Angle
Elephant Hawk-moth
Marbled Minor
Brown Rustic
8 species of micro moth
New micro additions to this years list:
Red Barred Tortrix
White Shouldered House Moth
Epiblema trimaculana
Hedya pruiniana
Eudonia angustea
Oegoconia quadripuncta
May 25th
93 macro moths of 26species
New macro additions to this years list:
Figure of Eighty
Bright Line Brown eye
Marbled Brown
Square Spot Rustic
5 species of micro moth
New micro additions to this years list:
Blastobasis lacticolella
Straw Dot
Diamond Back
May 29th
119 macro moths of 32 species
New macro additions to this years list:
Knot Grass
Burnished Brass
Straw Belle
Bordered White (This is an unusual species for us we have
only had 7 records in 10 years)
Sandy Carpet
Shoulder-striped Wainscot
Treble Brown Spot
Silver Ground Carpet
Willow Beauty
Bordered White
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