Moths!

 A great selection of new moths and old favourites in the trap this morning:

Vine's Rustic 1

Bright-line Brown-eye 2

Brimstone 2

Silver Y 1

Jersey Tiger 1

Copper Underwing agg. 3

Barred Hook-tip 1

Spectacle 1

Yellow-barred Brindle 1

Box-tree Moth 1

Angle Shades 1

Cabbage Moth 1

Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix 1

Cochylimorpha straminea 1

Tachystola acroxantha 1

Lesser Yellow Underwing 3

Large Yellow Underwing 3

Marbled Beauty 3

White-shouldered House Moth 1

Square-spot Rustic 1

Double-striped Pug 1

Also a Honey Bee and a Common Wasp!

Jersey Tiger

Spectacle

Yellow-barred Brindle

Barred Hook-tip

Moths!

 A few more moths in the trap this morning:

Miller 1

Scarlet Tiger 2

Heart and Dart 7

Box Moth 2

Garden Pebble 1

Bee Moth 1

Riband Wave 3

Flame 2

Marbled Minor agg. 3

Large Yellow Underwing 1

Setaceous Hebrew Character 1

Heart and Club 1

Vine's Rustic/Rustic/Uncertain agg. 1

Silver Y 1

Buff Ermine 2

Yellow-spot Tortrix 1

Codling Moth 1

Willow Beauty 1

Red-barred Tortrix 1

Acleris forsskaleana 1

Chrysoteuchia culmella 2+

Yponomeuta sp. 2

Eudonia sp. (probably E. lacustrata) 1

Pug sp. (very worn) 1

Riband Wave

Scarlet Tiger

Yellow-spot Tortrix

Large Yellow Underwing

Box Moth

The Miller

Silver Y

Moffs, spiders and Goldfinches!

I ran my moth trap again last night. Nothing particularly exciting or new ventured in but never mind.
Heart and Dart 19
Dark Arches 2
Bright Line Brown Eye 1
Silver Y 2
Codling Moth 1
Box Tree Moth (dark form) 1
Willow Beauty 1
Rustic/Uncertain 2
Notocelia trimaculana 1
Possible Spilonota ocellana 1
Tachystola acroxantha 1
Eudonia lacustrata 1
? Bird-cherry Ermine 1

Box Tree Moth

Codling Moth

Dark Arches

I was delighted to see a Running Crab-spider wandering across my laptop last night.

This morning a Goldfinch was singing outside my bathroom window.

Stag Night!

Last night I put the moth trap up and I was delighted to find a Lesser Stag Beetle in it - I've never seen a live one before so very exciting! Moths caught included:

Silver Y
Common Rustic agg.
Knot Grass
Large Yellow Underwing
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
Gold Triangle 
Celypha striana
Mint Moth
Diamondback Moth
Flame
Dark Arches
Shuttle-heaped Dart
Heart and Dart
Ruby Tiger

Ruby Tiger

Silver Y

Several Birch Shieldbugs and Harlequin Ladybirds were also in the trap.

Birch Shieldbug

Moths!

A slightly better collection of moths this morning:
Marbled Beauty 2
Flame Shoulder 1
Small Blood-vein 1 (a 'first'!)
Heart and Dart 1
Shuttle-shaped Dart 1
Silver Y 1
Double-striped Pug 1

plus the Australian micro-moth Tachystola acroxantha.

Double-striped Pug

Flame Shoulder

Heart and Dart

Tachystola acroxantha

Shuttle-shaped Dart

Small Blood-vein

Also a Common Froghopper!

Common Froghopper

Silver Y

Moths!

Woeful results with the trap again last night -
Silver Y 1
Mint Moth 1
Marbled Beauty 2
Light Brown Apple Moth 1
Brimstone Moth 1
Double-striped Pug 1

Harlequin Ladybird 2

Brimstone

Harlequin

Light Brown Apple Moth

Marbled Beauty

Mint Moth

Double-striped Pug

Silver Y

Moths!

Another rather disappointing haul this morning:
Mint Moth 1
Dark Arches 1
Silver Y 2
Rustic/Uncertain 2
Coronet 1
and a couple of micros - one of the Ermines and a Bee Moth which feeds on the comb in wasp and bee nests.

Also a Harlequin Ladybird in the trap.

Harlequin

Silver Y



Bee Moth

Coronet

Dark Arches

Mint Moth

Ermine sp.

Moths!

The trap produced the following:
Swallow-tail 1
Garden Carpet 1
Bright-line Brown-eye 1
Purple Thorn 1 - new species!
Silver Y 1
Coronet 1
Riband Wave 1
Double-striped Pug 1

Cooronet

Garden Carpet

Silver Y

Deraeocoris flavilinea

Bright-line Brown-eye

Swallow-tail

Purple Thorn

Double-striped Pug

Riband Wave

There was also a bug in the trap - turns out it is a plant bug called Deraeocoris flavilinia which only arrived in the UK in 1996 but is now common.

Later I saw a huge queen Tree Bumblebee in the flat.

Tree Bumblebee