Weekend round up

The moths are still arriving in unprecedented numbers, with an all time high of 72 Setaceous hebrew characters taken on 9th Sept. This number dropped to 28 the following night.
A night trapping at Westland Green was hard going, running the trap from 7.15 until 11.30pm by which time I had identified 18 species from 85 moths, of which 50 were square spot rustics.
New for the year moths have been Epinotia ramella (5th) Nymphula nitidulata (6th) Brown spot pinion (8th) pale mottled willow and yellow line quaker (9th.) The last 2 showing that autumn really has arrived.
Total wise, the garden species list for 2016 is now up to 355 whilst in total, 8130 moths have been identified this year made up from 232 macro species and 210 micros.
Also of note, a sub species was taken in the garden trap on the 7th, a Silver Y diminutive specimen of the sub species gammina, shown below with a pen nib for comparison.

Nymphula nitidulata

Silver Y ssp gammina

Epinotia ramella

Dichrorampha simpliciana

Oak hooktip

Brindled green

Flame carpet

Acleris rhombana

Acleris emargana

Yellow line quaker

Pale mottled willow

Another Vestal!!