Norfolk moths: Rockland St. Peter garden, 8 July 2016

It has been a cool, wet summer, so 20°C made a respectably warm day, and with partly cloudy skies in the evening it looked to be a good night to get out the trap. The temperature held up, with 17.5°C when I turned on the MV light at 22h00 and 13°C when I turned it off at 04h00. A light E breeze. Waxing new moon.

New macro moths for the garden were Blue-bordered Carpet, July Highflyer, V-Pug, Small Yellow Wave, Short-cloaked Moth and Poplar Grey. Large Twin-spot Carpet, Sycamore and Beautiful Hook-tip are local species. All moths were rather flighty, and none posed for photographs.

Large Twin-spot Carpet Xanthorhoe quadrifasiata

Eudonia lacustrata

Macro-moths (102 moths of 43 spp.):-

Hepialus humuli	Ghost Moth	1
Hemithea aestivaria	Common Emerald	1
Idaea aversata	Riband Wave	9
Xanthorhoe quadrifasiata	Large Twin-spot Carpet	1
Cidaria fulvata	Barred Yellow	1
Plemyria rubiginata	Blue-bordered Carpet	1
Hydriomena furcata	July Highflyer	2
Chloroclystis v-ata	V-Pug	1
Pasiphila rectangulata	Green Pug	3
Hydrelia flammeolaria	Small Yellow Wave	1
Lomaspilis marginata	Clouded Border	5
Opisthograptis luteolata	Brimstone Moth	4
Ourapteryx sambucaria	Swallow-tailed Moth	2
Biston betularia	Peppered Moth	1
Peribatodes rhomboidaria	Willow Beauty	6
Cabera exanthemata	Common Wave	1
Lomographa temerata	Clouded Silver	3
Laothoe populi	Poplar Hawk-moth	1
Deilephila elpenor	Elephant Hawk-moth	1
Pterostoma palpina	Pale Prominent	1
Euproctis similis	Yellow-tail	1
Eilema lurideola	Common Footman	5
Spilosoma luteum	Buff Ermine	9
Tyria jacobaeae	Cinnabar	1
Nola cucullatella	Short-cloaked Moth	1
Axylia putris	Flame	2
Ochropleura plecta	Flame Shoulder	1
Xestia triangulum	Double Square-spot	3
Melanchra persicariae	Dot Moth	2
Lacanobia oleracea	Bright-line Brown-eye	4
Mythimna impura	Smoky Wainscot	1
Acronicta megacephala	Poplar Grey	1
Acronicta aceris	Sycamore	1
Apamea monoglypha	Dark Arches	3
Apamea lithoxylaea	Light Arches	1
Hoplodrina alsines	Uncertain	6
Hoplodrina blanda	Rustic	2
Caradrina morpheus	Mottled Rustic	1
Paradrina clavipalpis	Pale Mottled Willow	1
Laspeyria flexula	Beautiful Hook-tip	3
Hypena proboscidalis	Snout	1
Zanclognatha tarsipennalis	Fan-foot	5
Oligia strigilis agg.	Marbled Minor agg.	1

Micro-moths (9 moths identified, of 4 spp.):-

Dipleurina lacustrata	(Eudonia lacustrata)	1
Eurrhypara hortulata	Small Magpie	6
Phlyctaenia coronata		1
Aphomia sociella	Bee Moth	1