Overnight temperature low: 14.7c.
Conditions: Mild, overcast with mist formation into the morning hours.
Ran the actinic trap in a slightly different area of the garden with an additional sheet and enticed 63 moths of 22 species with 2 pending confirmation.
Moths recorded were:
Light Brown Apple Moth (9) Common Plume (3) Brimstone Moth (4)
Light Emerald (6) Silver Y, Snout, Pale Mottled Willow (2) Treble-bar, Common Marbled Carpet (7) Angle Shades, Square-spot Rustic,
Copper Underwing, Common Marble, Narrow-winged Grey (4)
Setaceous Hebrew Character (2) Large Yellow Underwing (10)
Lesser Yellow Underwing (4) Small Blood-vein, Green Carpet,
Lunar Underwing and Dark Sword-grass.
Pending: 1 unknown and possible Cherry Bark Tortrix.
There was a second recording of the immigrant Dark Sword-grass moth on site this year with a previous sighting on the 29th July.
The moth tends to be more frequently recorded between the months of July to October across the British Isles.
Dark Sword-grass (Agrotis ipsilon)
Pale Mottled Willow (Paradrina clavipalpis)
Lunar Underwing (Omphaloscelis lunosa)
I'm wondering whether we need to look more closely at that Pale Mottled Willow. The reddish stigma and overall patterning suggest it could be Clancy's Rustic. I'll ponder further...
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