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Some fantastic moths in the garden 16 new for years was blooming good for late July in my garden as we just creep past peak moth season, it is a sad time as numbers will probably fall away now but only slowly. If only we got a settled month of weather for Summer then we would probably see more moths.

Notable species for my garden included Pebble Hook-tip (went missing for 3 years), Shaded Broad-bar (not a common moth here) and two garden first micro moths, Eucosma conterminana and Achroia grisella. Other bits of interest was a dark Dart moth of somekind, it isn't Turnip Moth as the hindwings are dark grey, which leaves either Heart & Club and Garden Dart. It would be great if it is the latter as that would be a garden first.

Another pretty moth and quite common this year in the garden, a stunning form of July Highflyer.

Weather-wise now we stick with the changeable conditions, if it's sunny then it is warm, but with plenty of cloud and rain the temperatures look set to struggle in the low 20s.

Catch Report - 22/07/16 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

Dingy Footman 2 [NFY] Marbled Beauty 2 [NFY] Pebble Hook-tip 1 [NFY] Rustic 1 [NFY] Shaded Broad-bar 1 [NFY] Slender Brindle 1 [NFY] Bright-line Brown-eye 2 Brimstone Moth 2 Clouded Border 1 Common Emerald 1 Common Footman 4 Common Rustic 17 Dark Arches 1 Dart sp [TBC] Dot Moth 24 Double Square-spot 2 Dun-bar 3 Fan-foot 1 Fern 1 Haworth's Pug 3 July Highflyer 3 Lackey 1 Least Carpet 3 Mottled Rustic 1 Nut-tree Tussock 3 Poplar Hawk-moth 2 Riband Wave 3 Scalloped Oak 4 Single-dotted Wave 2 Small Blood-vein 1 Small Emerald 2 Small Fan-foot 1 Small Fan-footed Wave 4 Small Rivulet 1 Straw Underwing 2 Swallow-tailed Moth 1 V-pug 2 Willow Beauty 1

Micro Moths

Achroia grisella 1 [NFG] Eucosma conterminana 1 [NFG] Agriphilsa straminella 4 [NFY] Agriphila tristella 2 [NFY] Eudemis profundana 2 [NFY] Phyllonorycter messaniella 1 [NFY] Pyrausta aurata 1 [NFY] Scythropia crataegella 1 [NFY] Tinea trinotella 1 [NFY] Ypsolopha dentella 1 [NFY] Acrobasis suavella 1 Anania coronata 2 Aphomia sociella 1 Argyresthia goedartella 2 Argyrotaenia ljungiana 1 Blastobasis adustella 1 Blastobasis lacticolella 1 Bryotropha terrella 2 Carcina quercana 3 Celypha striana 2 Coleophora sp 1 Cydia splendana 1 Emmelina monodactyla 1 Endotricha flammelis 5 Endrosis sarcitrella 1 Eudonia mercurella 2 Eurrhypara hortulata 1 Gypsonoma dealbana 1 Helcystogramma rufescens 2 Hofmannophila pseudospretella 2 Hypsopygia costalis 1 Orthopygia glaucinalis 2 Pandemis heparana 1 Phyllonorycter coryli 1 Plutella xylostella 12 Scoparia ambigualis 1 Spilonota ocellana 5 Yponomeuta evonymella 3