Wednesday's moths

Meet the hawkmoths! Left to right: Pine, Elephant, Eyed and Poplar

True Lover's Knot

Green Silver-lines

Nice to catch a green moth

Peppered Moth

Shears

Full moth list follows, if you enjoy that kind of thing...

The charge of the Light Brocade

Meet the Pale Tussock

Check out the amazing furry legs!

Lime and Poplar Hawkmoths

White Ermine

Brimstone Moth

Coxcomb Prominent

Pale Prominent

Pebble Prominent

The Lychnis

The Miller

Orange Footman

Pebble Hook-tip

Treble Lines

Rustic Shoulder-knot

Look... I know it's a shocking post title, but I could not resist.

No large numbers of anything (not even Light Brocades), but nice diversity.

• Brimstone
• Cinnabar, 4
• Common Carpet
• Coxcomb Prominent
• Flame Shoulder, 4
• Green Carpet
• Light Brocade, 3
• Lime Hawkmoth
• Lime-speck Pug
• Lychnis
• Miller
• Muslin Moth
• Orange Footman, 2
• Pale Prominent, 3
• Pale Tussock 
• Pebble Hook-tip, 2
• Pebble Prominent, 2
• Peppered Moth
• Poplar Hawkmoth, 4
• Red/Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
• Shuttle-shaped Dart, 2
• Spectacle
• White Ermine, 2

The hawk has landed

Poplar Hawkmoth

Angle Shades

Muslin Moth

Light Brocade

Flame Shoulder

Things are picking up slowly...

• Poplar Hawkmoth, 2
• Muslin Moth, 2
• Flame Shoulder, 3
• Shuttle-shaped Dart, 1
• The Spectacle, 1
• Angle Shades, 1
• Hebrew Character, 1
• Green Carpet, 1

Big Bertha

Red Underwing

This gigantic moth - a Red Underwing - was snoozing on the wall next to the trap when I turned up at just after 5.30 this morning.

Though it was really warm overnight, I didn't catch big numbers - c110 moths of 25 species. But there were some interesting ones nonetheless.

It's been 8 days since I last put the trap out, and it feels like things have changed in that time... There were no Orange Swifts back then, and Setaceous Hebrew Characters seem to be on the rise.

Poplar Hawkmoth

Square-spotted Clay - the second for the garden and quite fresh-looking 

Orange Swift

Small Blood-vein - garden tick

Hornet - one of four around the trap

Boring moth list follows...

More moths than you can shake a stick at

This is what I was confronted when I went to empty the moth trap at 4.55 am today.

Where to start...?

At least hawkmoths are easy to identify (and photograph). This one's a Poplar.

I do like a nice Ruby Tiger.

Wasn't sure about this one. Thanks to Skev for IDing it correctly as a Straw Underwing

It turned out there were about 540+ moths of at least 61 species.

If you want to know what they all were, here's the list...

This moth trapping just gets tougher and tougher...

I believe this to be a Scarce Footman. Despite the name, it seems not to be that scarce. I am going to have to start looking at moths really carefully. Now I've separated Scarce Footman from Common, and also Smoky Wainscot from Common Wainscot, there are no excuses. Must get moth tuition...

Your daily hawkmoth - Poplar

Another cool, misty, damp morning with a breeze, which didn't look that promising, but which still yielded 190 moths of 30 species.

nerdy moth list follows: