Moth update

Jersey Tiger

A new month brings a new for year moth in the form of a Feathered gothic. This constitutes my 330th garden moth species for the year and also represents my 250th macro moth for 2017.
Very much the same catch most nights at present, with good numbers before the heavy rain of Wednesday night. Also, that night was the coldest for a long time, so meant numbers were well down. Just started to pick up again

Feathered gothic

Highs over the last few days have been:
33  Large yellow underwing from Pigs Green on the 21st
33 Setaceous hebrew characters from the garden on the 27th
19 Common wainscot from the garden on the 28th
14 Latticed heath from the garden on the 1st.

Frosted orange

Less regular moths recently have included:
Jersey Tiger, garden 24th
Angle shades, garden 24th
Burnished brass, garden 24th
Lime speck pug, Clinton's footpath 28th
Old Lady, garden 28th
Frosted orange, garden 28th
Purple bar, Millfield Lane and garden 29th
Yellow barred brindle, Millfield Lane 29th
Silver Y, garden 29th
White point, garden 29th

Burnished brass

Yellow barred brindle

Purple bar

All these additions take the total of moths taken this year to 8572 specimens of 431 species