SP9326: 07/07/15 - A New Beauty

Tmin: 12.1°C; W: SW 7-16 mph; P: 2 mm;

Squally showers dictated that the umbrella was deployed. Despite these encumbrances, a reasonable showing.
Most unexpectedly was the first garden record of Lilac Beauty Apeira syringaria.
Earliest garden record of House Groundling Bryotropha domestica.
Leopard Moth continues to appear, as do various Hawk-moths.

789 Bryotropha domestica

1910 Lilac Beauty

Date: 07/07/15 Site: Leighton Buzzard: Garden Trap: Skinner

Total:

19

species

/

48

moths

B/F	Taxon	Vernacular	Qty
161	Zeuzera pyrina	Leopard Moth	1
789	Bryotropha domestica	House Groundling	1
1293	Chrysoteuchia culmella	Garden Grass-veneer	9
1376	Eurrhypara hortulata	Small Magpie	1
1634	Malacosoma neustria	Lackey	1
1713	Idaea aversata	Riband Wave	1
1910	Apeira syringaria	Lilac Beauty	1
1958	Lomographa temerata	Clouded Silver	1
1976	Sphinx ligustri	Privet Hawk-moth	2
1991	Deilephila elpenor	Elephant Hawk-moth	1
1994	Phalera bucephala	Buff-tip	1
2077	Nola cucullatella	Short-cloaked Moth	1
2088	Agrotis clavis	Heart and Club	11
2089	Agrotis exclamationis	Heart and Dart	5
2098	Axylia putris	Flame	1
2107	Noctua pronuba	Large Yellow Underwing	1
2321	Apamea monoglypha	Dark Arches	5
2381x	Hoplodrina alsines-blanda	Uncertain-Rustic agg	3
2387	Caradrina morpheus	Mottled Rustic	1

	First - for - year
	First - for - garden