This was a change of venue as the Great Yarmouth meeting was moved to the previous week. 6 moth-ers attended, running 5 traps (1 actinic) in the shelter of the scrub on the edge of the open common due to the breeze. It was still warm at dusk and moths were starting to fly and in fact moths kept flying all night.
Even though this site has been trapped many times in the past by the group it still produces moths of interest and this was the case again.
164sp in my notebook from the night. Moths of interest in no particular order included the following. Reddish light arches (common), Brown scallop (common), Festoon (a few), Bordered sallow, Royal mantle (a few), Beautiful carpet (1), Purple clay, Grey arches (a few, doing well this year I think), Cnaemidophorus rhododactyla, Sophronia semicostella, Epiblema costipunctana, Beautiful hook-tip (seemingly everywhere this year in numbers, can still remember when this was a great rarity not too long ago), Barred yellow, Agonopterix kaekeritziana, Plain wave, Blackneck, Thisanotia chrysonuchella, Mere wainscot, Dark umber, Oblique striped, Wood carpet, Grass emerald, Epinotia tedella, Celypha cespitana.
The most interesting sightings were Evergestis limbata that could be new to the vice county, Syncopacma taeniolella (with its obvious curved lines and white fascia on the underside of the forewing) and a probable Coleophora tricolor that will need dissection for final confirmation.
So yet again another very interesting and successful moth event.
Neil
Evergestis limbata
Oblique striped
Agonopterix kaekeritziana
Beautiful carpet
Syncopacma taeniolella