SP9326: 23/06/15 - Minimal Fare

Tmin: 9.8°C; W: E v. W 0-2 mph; P: 0 mm;

Third garden record of Garden Cosmet Mompha subbistrigella. Earliest garden records of Bud Moth Spilonota ocellana and Elephant Hawk-moth Deilephila elpenor.

892 Mompha subbistrigella

1991 Elephant Hawk-moth

Date: 23/06/15 Site: Leighton Buzzard: Garden Trap: Skinner

Total:

15

species

/

25

moths

B/F	Taxon	Vernacular	Qty
648	Endrosis sarcitrella	White-shouldered House Moth	1
892	Mompha subbistrigella	Garden Cosmet	1
1063	Celypha striana	Barred Marble	1
1205	Spilonota ocellana	Bud Moth	1
1293	Chrysoteuchia culmella	Garden Grass-veneer	2
1764	Chloroclysta truncata	Common Marbled Carpet	1
1937	Peribatodes rhomboidaria	Willow Beauty	1
1991	Deilephila elpenor	Elephant Hawk-moth	1
2088	Agrotis clavis	Heart and Club	4
2089	Agrotis exclamationis	Heart and Dart	7
2098	Axylia putris	Flame	1
2321	Apamea monoglypha	Dark Arches	1
2333	Apamea anceps	Large Nutmeg	1
2337x	Oligia strigilis agg.	Marbled Minor agg.	1
2381x	Hoplodrina alsines-blanda	Uncertain-Rustic agg	1

	First - for - year
	First - for - garden

SP9326: 24/06/13 - New: Mompha subbistrigella

Total: 10 species/ 12 moths - Cool with T.min 9.0 Celsius.

A new* (but somewhat worn) garden moth was Mompha subbistrigella. Other moths included The Spectacle, and the fourth Pale Tussock (all males) this year - the only other garden record was of one in May 2011.

0892* Mompha subbistrigella