I put the moth trap out in a different place last night and had more variety than usual and the following totals. 4 Common Swift (NFY) 4 Rustic Shoulder-Knot 1 Small Elephant Hawkmoth (NFY) 1 Common Marbled Carpet (NFY) 1 Heart and Dart (NFG) 1 Grey Pug (NFG) 1 Clouded-Bordered Brindle (NFG) 1 Grass Rivulet (NFY) 1 Dusky Brocade (NFG) Total 15 of 9 species. 4 NFG and 4 NFY

We recently found quite an interesting micro moth one night in the house which was a Twenty-Plume.  Fortunately we managed to catch it and we got some reasonable pictures.  We found out that the larva feed on honeysuckle and the adults mine the leaves so they should be right at home! It’s surprising how few micros we are trapping considering how many we are finding around the house.

We didn’t get a huge number of moths in the trap last night but it was quite a varied catch. 5 Hebrew Character 3 Clouded Drab 1 Common Quaker 1 Powdered Quaker Total 9 moths of 4 species

We had our largest and most interesting catch last night with the following totals: 14 Hebrew Character 6 Clouded Drab 6 Common Quaker 1 Powdered Quaker 2 Early Grey 2 Brindled Pug (NFG) 1 Red Chestnut 1 Chestnut (NFG) 1 Streamer (NFG) Total 34 moths of 9 species. 3 NFG

On Monday night we put the moth trap out and we had our second best catch so far. 13 Hebrew Character 6 Clouded Drab 1 Common Quaker 1 Small Quaker (NFG) Total 21 moths of 4 species. 1 NFG

Still not getting very high numbers and hopefully we’ll see more variety soon. Here’s the totals 14 Hebrew Character 2 Clouded Drab 2 Common Quaker Total 18 moths of 3 species

We put the moth trap out on Friday night and we had a reasonable catch with the following results: 9 Hebrew Character 6 Common Quaker 1 Clouded Drab 1 Early Grey Total 17 moths of 4 species Also we had a nice surprise when we found a Powdered Quaker in the kitchen last night which was a new species.

We set the moth trap up last night with the following results: 8 Hebrew Character 4 Common Quaker 2 Clouded Drab 2 Early Grey (NFG) Total 16 moths of 4 species. 1 NFG

Last night I set the moth trap up again. Numbers had more than doubled from last time, with the following totals: 19 Hebrew Character 7 Common Quaker 4 Clouded Drab 1 Red Chestnut (NFG) Total 31 moths of 4 species. 1 NFG

20th March was the first opportunity I had to set up my portable Skinner moth trap in the garden. We caught 14 moths of 5 species, all of which were new to the garden: Macros: 5 Hebrew Character (NFG) 4 Common Quaker (NFG) 1 Clouded Drab (NFG) 1 Mottled Grey (NFG) Micros: 3 Agonopterix heracliana (NFG) Total 11 macros of 4 species, 3 micros of 1 species making 14 moths of 5 species. 5 NFG NFG = new for garden and NFY = new for the year