Just ran the one 125w trap in the garden last night, and was pleased to find it covered in moths in the morning. Lots of micros to sort through, so took quite some time to work through (c.15minutes first thing closing the trap, all of my hour lunch break plus 30minutes after work too!). 142sp identified, a pretty good number for just one trap I thought. No new species but did see second site records of Strophedra weirana and Goniodoma limoniella after the first records only in recent days. Almost certainly not the same moths as the others were released at other locations on the site. Other notables: Vitula biviella (3), Zeiraphera ratzeburgiana (2), Juniper webber (2), Eudonia truncicolella, Morophaga choragella and Tineola bisselliella (Common clothes moth – second site record, safely secured in a tube so it doesn’t escape in the house!). Macros of note were few: Fen wainscot, Shaded fan foot singles of each. A few migrants – 1 Diamondback and small numbers of both Willow and Bird cherry ermines. No underwings at all and only 2 Dark arches.
Neil
I’ve been getting a lot of G limoniella. Considering I have never seen it here before and the presence of large number of migrants here I consider this is too. Rather like Matthew at present I am a bit overwhelmed by the number of moths and so many new, scarce and migrants. I gather it is rather like 2006. We have more migrant weather to come too.