2 days of mothing

Upon returning home from Madeira I was keen to get the moth trap running. Seemed I had missed a good week locally, so was playing catch up. Both Monday and last night produced reasonable garden numbers with several new for year species, both macro and micro.
Nothing new for the garden record, but on Monday Green pug, Bright line brown eye, and fan foot were new for the year along with micros: Lozotaenia forsterana, small magpie, Eudonia lacustrata, Hedya nubiferana, Scoparia pyralella.

Bright line brown eye

Green pug

Fan foot

This morning was even better, with 27 species represented and a total of 37 moths. New for the year on the macro side were: mottled beauty, large yellow underwing, barred straw, dwarf cream wave, clay, Uncertain and rosy minor.
The large yellow underwing was my 100th macro species for the year whilst a micro, Celypha lacuana was the 600th moth of the year to visit the trap.
New micros were: Ephestia unicolorella, ssp woodiella along with several still awaiting identification. Presently potted and in the fridge.
All this activ ity took the running totals to 105 macro species and 34 micros. Far better than this time last year.

large yellow underwing

clay

rosy minor

mottled beauty