Hello
It has been a while since i ran the moth trap so i was slightly overwhelmed this morning when i came to empty the trap and mother of pearl and riband wave came flying out in the dozens. However i was rewarded with a nice full trap and some nice specimens including a couple of hawk moths 1 poplar and a small elephant, trap total came to just over 60 species, so pretty good.
poplar hawk moth
Other macros include marbled beauty, clouded border, lesser yellow underwing, pale prominent, scalloped oak, light and dark arches, nut tree tussock, olive, drinker, the flame, dingy footman, red twin-spot carpet and shaded broad bar.
poplar grey
scalloped oak
yellow shell
Micros also added to the list with endotricha flammealis, agonopterix alstromeriana, small china mark (likes ponds, ditches and other wet areas), barred fruit tree tortrix and cyclamen tortrix, catoptria pinella (shame i did not get a photo of this one, just too fidgety, very smart!), anania coronata, crassa unitella and limnaecia phragmitella. All though micro moths can be quite tiny and mostly have latin names it is well worth looking at some of these moths they have beautiful markings and tiny detail.
ypsolopha scabrella
thanks very much
vicky