Also recently an L-album Wainscot (only the third for Bucks I believe) and few other new for years including this year's first wonderful Clifden Nonpariel.
The diversity and numbers of moths in these village and suburban gardens is pretty incredible. The most species of moth I had at Beddington was 327 species in a year (however this was from a third floor window but in many ways that could have been an advantage). Although I've had the moth trap out here occasionally since around 2017 and more regularly since 2020 (during Covid) it's only been 2021 and 2022 that I've really put in some reasonable effort here (but still only three or four nights a week). Jonathan Newman hit 1000 species (all time) in his Peterborough suburban garden this week and Dave from the Bucks CMR team is well over 1000 species for his garden. Dave is on over 700 species for the year and Ben Sale is on 650 species for the year. It's not just diversity of species but numbers involved too- I can get over 500 individual moths in one night here. That is a lot of moths for less than an acre sized garden.
One I made earlier, Diamond-spot Marble from Bulgaria earlier in the year (July) This was the most numerous species in July there.
Clifden Nonpariel
Cypress Pug- a new for year
Mouse moth- a new for year
L-album Wainscot- a new for site
....and another Vestal, always good to see. This is the 6th one this year.
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Loxostege in East Oxford this morning - pretty much the only migrant I've had though, and no sign of any Scrobipalpa!
Interesting no Beet moths there! Could it be these are hatching from local fields? Seem strange that they are not in everybody's traps if it was a mass regional dispersal? I've had over 70 in one night here (numbers of been tailing off since).
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