Mid-June moths, Hollesley.

A considerable improvement on the year so far. Also a lot of migrants around, but no Striped Hawk-moth here yet, despite every routine Hawk-moth so far. Have had a few Small Mottled Willows though. 5 on 21st and 4 on 17th, singles on other days. We shall have to see how the rest of the year goes on migrants.

Species totals have generally been 100+ with 17th as the best night with 153. This was a warm humid night with a cold front coming through producing a sprinkling of rain just before dawn. There was also a significant breeze which with the other climatic conditions appears to have brought me species from the heathland to add to my list. The catch included Festoon, Lobster, the first Rosy Footman, Water Ermine, Dark Sword-grass, Bordered White, Maiden’s Blush, Fern, Cochylis molliculana, Carpatolechia proximella, 6 species of Coleophora and 3 species of Bucculatrix. I picked up five species new to my site on 17th. A Grass Wave, Cydia inquinatana, Gypsonoma oppressana, Ancylis mitterbacheriana and a Tineola bisselliella. Pleasingly the T. bisselliella was in the trap and not like the Tinea pellionella (Case-bearing Clothes Moth) that I pick up at low density indoors!

On the 16th there was the first Uncertain of the year along with a Tinagma ocnerostoma and a species new to my site that put my heart rate up when I spotted it: a Goat Moth. One other species new to my site that probably came off the heath was Neofaculta ericetella on 19th along with a first Taleporia tubulosa of the year.

Goat

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