Moths galore

With the rise in both day and night time temperatures, coupled with no moon and little wind, the last few nights have been excellent mothing conditions.
Last night, a quick check along Chapel Lane before it was fully dark gave :
Treble brown spot (NFY)
A 5 minute standing still session at The Green at Westland Green gave:
3 silver ground carpet
5 straw dot
Scoapria ambigualis (NFY)
Scoparia basistrigalis

Then, on to the 15W actinic trap set along a muddy track in Pigs Green. By this time it was 10.50 and it was clearly going to be a busy trap. Even with the tube turned off, moths (mainly common swifts) were being constantly attracted to the head torch. Anything that wasn't a common swift or silver-ground carpet was netted, but still 15+ escaped capture and therefore identification. Anyway these were noted:
Aphomia sociella
12 common swift
2 straw dot
3 common pug
4 silver-ground carpet
4 treble lines
6 ingrailled clay
common white wave (NFY)
pebble hooktip (NFM)
Rivulet (NFY)
Eulia ministrana
Brown silver line (NFM)
Crambus lathionellus
Pthteochroa rugosana
Scoparia ambigualis
3 pugs await confirmation

This morning, a not too early check on the garden skinner gave records of:
Shears
buff ermine
willow beauty
2 common swift
snout
treble lines
Rustic shoulder knot
straw dot
Hedya pruniana (NFY)
Epiblema scutulana (TBC) and (NFY if so)
Mottled pug
1 pug awaits confirmation

All in all, takes me past 1000 moth records for the year, made up now from 94 macros and 44 micros: 138 species for 2016. Far in excess of last year's figure.

Pebble hooktip

selection of ingrailed clay