SP9326: 19/06/15 - Very Quiet

Tmin: 9.5°C; W: NW v. SW 0-6 mph; P: 0 mm;

Second garden record of Scorched Wing Plagodis dolabraria.
Earliest garden records of Marbled Beauty Cryphia domestica and Ermine Knot-horn Phycitodes binaevella.

1904 Scorched Wing

Date: 19/06/15 Site: Leighton Buzzard: Garden Trap: Skinner

Total:

12

species

/

25

moths

B/F	Taxon	Vernacular	Qty
1293	Chrysoteuchia culmella	Garden Grass-veneer	1
1376	Eurrhypara hortulata	Small Magpie	1
1483	Phycitodes binaevella	Ermine Knot-horn	1
1524	Emmelina monodactyla	Common Plume	1
1904	Plagodis dolabraria	Scorched Wing	1
1906	Opisthograptis luteolata	Brimstone Moth	1
1937	Peribatodes rhomboidaria	Willow Beauty	1
2088	Agrotis clavis	Heart and Club	2
2089	Agrotis exclamationis	Heart and Dart	13
2107	Noctua pronuba	Large Yellow Underwing	1
2293	Cryphia domestica	Marbled Beauty	1
2321	Apamea monoglypha	Dark Arches	1

	First - for - year
	First - for - garden

SP9326: May 2012 - A Scorcher

Another poor month, choosing instead to build a shed with patio during the hot spell. Doh ! Despite this, two new* moths for the garden were Large Tabby and Scorched Wing.

1174 Epiblema cynosbatella

1421* Large Tabby

1819 Mottled Pug

1904* Scorched Wing

2450 The Spectacle

List for SP9326: May, 2012

    17     Common Swift    2
  998      Light Brown Apple Moth      1
1174      Epiblema cynosbatella      1
1421*     Large Tabby      1
1428      Bee Moth      2
1651      Chinese Character      1
1728      Garden Carpet      2
1819      Mottled Pug      1
1834      Common Pug      4
1904*     Scorched Wing      1
1906      Brimstone Moth      1
1994      Buff-tip      1
2102      Flame Shoulder      1

2334      Rustic Shoulder-knot      1 (field record) 
2380      Treble Lines      1
2450      The Spectacle      1

Total: 16 species in 1 trap session and one field record