SP9326: 29/08/15 - New: Toadflax Brocade

Tmin: 13.8°C; W: calm; P: 1.5 mm;

The full moon was hidden by cloud, and a parasol was deployed as there was moderate rainfall.

The usual suspects were accompanied by a garden first - Toadflax Brocade Calophasia lunula.
VC30 Status: rare vagrant / resident; Distribution: extremely local.
A second site record of Webb's Wainscot was notable following the first on 2nd August.

2223 Toadflax Brocade

2373 Webb's Wainscot

Stats ! -

First garden record of Toadflax Brocade (Calophasia lunula)

Second garden record of Webb's Wainscot (Archanara sparganii)

Highest garden count (28) of Flounced Rustic (Luperina testacea)

Date: 29/08/15 Site: Leighton Buzzard: Garden Trap: Skinner

Total:

18

species

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102

moths

B/F	Taxon	Vernacular	Qty
15	Hepialus sylvina	Orange Swift	8
873	Blastobasis adustella	(=lignea) Dingy Dowd	1
998	Epiphyas postvittana	Light Brown Apple Moth	1
1304	Agriphila straminella	Pearl Veneer	1
1305	Agriphila tristella	Common Grass-veneer	12
1309	Agriphila geniculea	Elbow-stripe Grass-veneer	6
1331	Acentria ephemerella	Water Veneer	2
1937	Peribatodes rhomboidaria	Willow Beauty	1
2107	Noctua pronuba	Large Yellow Underwing	20
2126	Xestia c-nigrum	Setaceous Hebrew Character	2
2134	Xestia xanthographa	Square-spot Rustic	7
2223	Calophasia lunula	Toadflax Brocade	1
2293	Cryphia domestica	Marbled Beauty	6
2303	Thalpophila matura	Straw Underwing	1
2321	Apamea monoglypha	Dark Arches	1
2353	Luperina testacea	Flounced Rustic	28
2373	Archanara sparganii	Webb's Wainscot	1
2384	Hoplodrina ambigua	Vine's Rustic	3

	First - for - year
	First - for - garden