SP9326: 29/06/15 - Two new moths: 1640 & 1699

Tmin: 10.0°C; W: Calm mph; P: 0 mm;

A warm day, but night minimum remains low.

First garden records of Drinker Euthrix potatoria and Least Carpet Idaea rusticata.

Both are common moths, so where have they been ? !

2x Cnephasia sp.

1640 Drinker

1699 Least Carpet

Date: 29/06/15 Site: Leighton Buzzard: Garden Trap: Skinner

Total:

13

species

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43

moths

B/F	Taxon	Vernacular	Qty
1293	Chrysoteuchia culmella	Garden Grass-veneer	13
1334	Scoparia ambigualis	Common Grey	2
1634	Malacosoma neustria	Lackey	1
1640	Euthrix potatoria	Drinker	1
1699	Idaea rusticata	Least Carpet	1
1860	Pasiphila rectangulata	Green Pug	1
2050	Eilema lurideola	Common Footman	3
2088	Agrotis clavis	Heart and Club	9
2089	Agrotis exclamationis	Heart and Dart	6
2293	Cryphia domestica	Marbled Beauty	1
2321	Apamea monoglypha	Dark Arches	2
2333	Apamea anceps	Large Nutmeg	1
2381x	Hoplodrina alsines-blanda	Uncertain-Rustic agg	2

	First - for - year
	First - for - garden