Norfolk moths: Rockland St. Peter garden, 4 September 2013

The night of 4 September was fine and cloudless, yet warm (a min. of perhaps 16°C?), with a very light breeze that had dropped off by the pre-dawn.

Of the four nights I have run the new trap so far, this was the most diverse, with some 35 species of macro moth. A nice big Bulrush Wainscot was the first out, but this was the night of the carpets, with six species, including a lovely fresh Green Carpet, two ginger-coloured Common Marbled Carpets and a neat Purple Bar.

Bulrush Wainscot Nonagria typhae, one of the largest wainscots.

One of six carpet species, Purple Bar Cosmorhoe ocellata.

Macros (35 spp.):-

Timandra comae	Blood-vein	1
Idaea seriata	Small Dusty Wave	1
Xanthorhoe spadicearia	Red Twin-spot Carpet	1
Xanthorhoe fluctuata	Garden Carpet	2
Epirrhoe alternata	Common Carpet	1
Cosmorhoe ocellata	Purple Bar	1
Chloroclysta truncata	Common Marbled Carpet	2
Colostygia pectinataria	Green Carpet	1
Opisthograptis luteolata	Brimstone Moth	13
Ennomos alniaria	Canary-shouldered Thorn	3
Ennomos fuscantaria	Dusky Thorn	3
Peribatodes rhomboidaria	Willow Beauty	2
Campaea margaritata	Light Emerald	7
Agrotis segetum	Turnip Moth	2
Ochropleura plecta	Flame Shoulder	4
Noctua pronuba	Large Yellow Underwing	6
Noctua comes	Lesser Yellow Underwing	5
Noctua janthe	Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing	5
Diarsia rubi	Small Square-spot	4
Xestia c-nigrum	Setaceous Hebrew Character	16
Xestia xanthographa	Square-spot Rustic	4
Lacanobia oleracea	Bright-line Brown-eye	1
Mythimna pallens	Common Wainscot	2
Agrochola litura	Brown-spot Pinion	1
Atethmia centrago	Centre-barred Sallow	4
Xanthia icteritia	Sallow	1
Luperina testacea	Flounced Rustic	2
Hydraecia micacea	Rosy Rustic	8
Gortyna flavago	Frosted Orange	2
Nonagria typhae	Bulrush Wainscot	1
Hoplodrina ambigua	Vine's Rustic	3
Diachrysia chrysitis	Burnished Brass	3
Abrostola tripartita	Spectacle	1
Rivula sericealis	Straw Dot	1
Hypena proboscidalis	Snout	7