Thursday 14 July 2022

Back to the Old Vic with a bang

I arrived back in UK Sunday morning (the 6am flight from Varna and the two hour time difference meant I got from the Black Sea to UK for breakfast). A heatwave had started the Friday before so it was straight into a moth deluge in the garden with up to 600 individual moths this morning alone and over 140 species in the last two nights. The garden moth list is now on 537 and the garden year list is 326. 

Here's a few highlights and some yet to identify. 

Small Dotted Buff (lifer) 

Small Rivulet (lifer)
Either Beautiful Golden Y or a Plain Golden Y (If Beautiful it will be a lifer. The ground colour and spots on the forewing edge suggest it might be a Beautiful. It's a Plain (see comments, thanks Stewart)
I suspect this is a Small Clouded Brindle (rather than something like a well marked Common Rustic) 
Slender Brindle
July Highflyer
A well marked Black Arches 
Ghost Moth
Hawthorn Cosmet 
Kent Black Arches 
Rusty-dot Pearl (above) and Rush Veneers (below). Up to five Rush Veneers and this is the first RDP of the year, so obviously a bit of migration as well as dispersal going on. 

An interestingly marked Pyrausta purpuralis
Endothenia marginana (above) and Grapholita janthinana (below

Diamond-back Marble 
I thought this was probably a worn Marbled Minor agg but the shape doesn't seem right 
Zelleria hepariella?
Presumably a Paraswammerdamia (possibly nebulella, Hawthorn Ermine)

2 comments:

Stewart said...

Hi Peter your Golden Y is Plain. It lacks the black and gold 'box' on the costa.

Peter Alfrey said...

Thanks Stewart!