High Summer

My weather station recorded a low last night of 2.4 degrees Celsius. We are in July?Peter Hall

Tiger time

Better late than never to the party, hi everyone.

 Last Saturday I discovered a Scarlet Tiger feasting on the underside of one of my Buddleia flowers. This was the first I have ever recorded in my garden or my surrounding  local patch, rather pleased.

In the trap this morning (MV ) I had 75 moths of 23 species. Quality was high though with my first ever Ruby Tiger, a species I was really keen to record.

The second macro lifer out the trap was White Satin.

 In August 2013 I recorded Waved Black, and the second record was lurking this morning.

On the Micro front, I recorded  Lozotaeniodes formosana, like many micros, previously unknown to me. Unfortunately it legged it this afternoon as I tried to snap it and is currently at large in the house somewhere, a pretty moth though.
A nice list boosting session

Upton Warren

A return visit to the Moors Pool reedbeds (after several years for me) saw most of the 'sought-after macros' but slightly disappointing for micros last Tuesday night in reasonable overcast, humid conditions. 2 Double Lobed, 6 Brown-veined Wainscots, 3 Silky Wainscots, 2+ Southern Wainscots, Obscure Wainscot, 2 Crescents, Waved Black, Large Twin-spot Carpet, Pinion-streaked Snout, Round-winged Muslin, 3 Aroga velocellas and 4+ Mompha ochraceelas the pick of 96 species. Steve Whitehouse

Upton Warren: Brown-veined Wainscot

Upton Warren: Crescent

Upton Warren: Double Lobed

Haugh Wood July 20th

I joined up with Robin Hemming and together we ran 5 mv lights at Haugh Wood, in the lower sections away from the persistent breeze. Robin stayed all night and these results are from when I packed up and from my 2 white Robinsons only. I still have minors to do, but macros came to a nice 72 species including plenty of Rosy Footman (18) along with my first Least Yellow Underwing of the year, Minor Shoulder-knot (3), Barred Rivulet (2), Muslin Footman (3) and a new one for me: White-line Snout (2). Micros recorded so far come to 37 species with around another 15 to add later. It wasn't a busy night, but the moths came in steadily, tailing off around 1am when I began to pack up. Hornet workers are out now, so that provided some entertainment. Peter Hall

Haugh Wood: Barred Rivulet

Haugh Wood: Muslin Footman

Haugh Wood: Small Emerald

Haugh Wood: White-line Snout (in a dirty tube)

Garden mothing

Just thought I'd publish my moth species for this year. Normally I would expect to record 300 species of macros and 200 of micros every year. So far in 2015, I have recorded 232 species of macro and 154 species of micro. How is everyone else doing? Over the last couple of years, numbers and species lists have been below average.
Over the weekend of 17th-19th July, I had about 120 species in the garden, NFY were White-line Dart, Waved Black, Shark, Sallow Kitten, Drinker and Oak Eggar, plus lutealis, lunaris, hellerella, Honeysuckle, Gold Triangle, falsella and roborana. Other notable records were Coronet, 2 Varied Coronet, Sycamore, Barred Straw, Small Emerald, Dwarf Cream Wave, Gothic, Rush Veneer and suavella.
Ian Machin

Childswickham garden 16/7/15

Trapping on the night of the 16th I ended up with a very respectable 120 species.
Around 45 of these were micros. There was one migrant of note - Small Mottled Willow. Clay Triple Lines was an unexpected find and a very fresh Recurvaria leucatella was worth a photo.

Small Mottled Willow

Recurvaria leucatella

A week or so ago I found an intriguing folded Honeysuckle leaf which held a small tortrix larva. This emerged the other day as Acleris Forsskaleana. The food plant is usually Acer family trees so I imagine this one was blown or knocked off a nearby maple and ended up pupating where it landed in the Honeysuckle.

Acleris forsskaleana

Oliver Wadsworth

Reslaw Wood July 1st

On July 1st Rick Benson-Bunch and George Davis trapped three Esperia oliviella at Reslaw Wood which I believe is just in Herefordshire very close to the Gloucestershire border. As far as I know these are the first in VC36.
Robin Hemming

Reslaw Wood: Dasycera (Esperia) oliviella