Another excellent night

With temperatures remaining in the high teens, I remained at the moth trap until 1.30 and returned soon after 5. My original target of 100 moths was not reached, but the moths that were trapped included some superb county records. Strangely, the majority of the creatures were micro moths, so these were potted to identify this morning, whilst most macros were identified immediately. New for the year moths were fern, yellowshell and treble bar, whilst one of the first to visit the trap was a new record for my parish list, a blue bordered carpet.
Ploughing through endless pots of micros took many hours this morning and, such was the rarity value of of several that a trip to the county recorder was required to guarantee my original identifications. Pleasingly, these were correct. Another good night tonight so plan to take the trap and generator out to Millennium Wood and also, spend time with net and head torch at Westland Green, so a real chance of topping 100 moths in a single night.

Last night's macros:

Barred straw
2 treble brown spot
Blue bordered carpet (NFM 292nd macro for parish records)
heart and dart
yellowshell (NFY)
small yellow wave
common footman
bright line brown eye
barred yellow
treble bar (NFY)
2 riband wave
tawny marbled minor
rustic
privet hawkmoth
straw dot
marbled minor
double square spot
heart and club
fern (NFY)

21 macros of 19 species

Barred yellow

Barred yellow

Blue bordered carpet

Blue bordered carpet

Last night's micros:

4 Celypha lacunana
6 Aphomia sociella
Phtheochroa rugosana
18 Chrysoteuchia culmella
3 Cydia pomonella
3 Crassa unitella
Hoffmannophila pseudospratella
5 Archips podana
2 Hedya pruniana
Yponomeuta evonymella
2 Scoparia ambigualis
2 Eudonia mercurella
3 Agapeta hamana
2 Pterophorus pentadactyla
Celypha striana
Celypha rosaceana
Eudonia lacustrata
Colephora trifolii (NFM)
Eucosma cana (NFY)
Pandemis cerasana
Elasticha rufocinera (NFM)
Archips crataegana (NFM)
Nephopterix angustella (NFM)
Argyresthia cupressella (3rd county record NFM)
Coleophora peribenanderi (NFM)
Cochylis hybridella (NFM)
Swammerdamia caesiella (NFM)
Lyonetia clerkella
Anania coronata (NFY)
Epinotia bilunana (NFM)
Ancylis comptana (NFM and 4th county record)

70 micros of 31 species.

Notocelia roborana

Galleria mellonella

Aliemma loeflingana

Phtheochroa rugosana

Phtheochroa rugosana

Eucosma cana

Epiblema bilunana

Swammerdamia caesiella

Cochylis hybridella

Argyresthia cupressella (3rd county record)

Nethopterix angustella

Elasticha rufocinera

Quick addition shows: 91 moths of 50 species with 11 new moths for my parish records. Therefore over the last two nights 185 moths. Excellent records.
The Coleophora peribenanderi also constituted the 200th moth species in the parish for 2015. In total this year, I have trapped 975 moths. About on par with last year, but the end of July will give a better comparison to which has been the better year, as high numbers could be taken every evening now for 4 weeks.