Good Moth Night

The temperatures held last night due to heavy cloud and only a slight breeze,so I was hopeful of a good catch.
Set the Heath Actinic 15W in Alder Wood.This is a mixed pine,beech,oak and holly woodland near Pigs Green.Lights on at 8.15 and I returned at 11.15.The sheet was covered with assorted cranefly and 2 cockchafers along with a green carpet and a new moth for parish records,a sandy carpet. Inside the trap were a smattering of regular moths,including a pug that I presumed was Freyer's. Since been corretced and it is a dwarf pug. This was the second new for parish records of the night.
Emptying was preceded by a half hour session with net and headtorch and net in Millennium Wood. 3 green carpet and a brimstone netted.
The garden trap was checked at 6.15 and contained a clouded border (NFY) a silver-ground carpet and a common swift.
All in all, 17 moths of 12 species: pleasing for mid May and signs that things are about to become very busy at the traps!!

Millennium Wood (headtorch)
3 green carpet
Brimstone

Alder Wood (15W actinic)
3 green carpet
2 Aphomia sociella
Maiden's blush (NFY)
Agonopterix arenella
Sandy carpet (NFM)
Dwarf pug (NFM)
Spruce pug (NFY)

Garden (Skinner trap 125W)
Clouded border (NFY)
Silver-ground carpet
common swift

Sandy carpet: 583rd moth species for the parish

clouded border

common swift