Beddington Farmlands Moth Night

Met up with Zach last night to do some moth trapping at Beddington Farmlands. There's been a big influx of migrant moths across the south coast in the last few days during the heatwave and arrival of Saharan sand so we put a trap up by the main Mile Road gates to target any migrants. We only had a couple of hours as Zach was heading to Spurn for the autumn early the next morning. It wasn't bad for a couple of hours with 2 Rusty-dot Pearl and 1 Silver-Y in the way of migrants and also 2 Old Lady and a few local micros. 48 species of 120 or so moths in total. 

As I'm still in exile from the farmlands due to very effective campaigning (no good deeds go unpunished) Zach shared some photos with me on how the restoration is going which by the looks of it could be worse but also could be better.

I also ran an actinic at my mum's nearby and had a few other bits there too and on the way back to Oxfordshire I stopped off at Lee and Rachel's and we ran the MV for an hour or so in their wildlife garden and got a few more micros there too. 

Closest I can get to this is a worn Crocidesmia plebejana. At first glance it looks like a Crescent Bell but there is distinct fold in the wing and the eye is dark too

Bordered Marble, Endothenia marginana (above and below) I think 

Hawthorn Moth

 Maybe Grapholita jungiella. If not then presumably a cydia sp? From my mum's garden. 100923 update, mystery solved HERE

There were plenty of conches in the trap. Looks like White-bodied Conch, Cochylis hybridella (above) and Little Conch Cochylis dubitana (below) 

Another C.hybridella

This one looks like Ox-tongue Conch, Cochylis molliculana

Maybe Round-winged Drill, although I think this is a gen dent job from Sharp-winged Drill 

Not sure what this Tortrix is. Maybe something along these lines here

Had some lovely micros at Lee and Rachel's including Copper Ermel (below) and possibly Brindled Shoot (below that) and also still trying to work out this gorgeous little tortrix (above) . 100923- mystery solved HERE

L-album Wainscot- still a mega back in Bucks

Couldn't make my mind up whether this was a Small Square spot or a Square spot Rustic? 

View over Phase 2 wetland (above and below) 

The last sludge bed on south east corner- the old habitat is slowly be phased out (there were 9 Green Sands, 2 Common Sand and Snipe on here last night according to Zach and also a juv LRP on Phase 2 so the waders are still holding out there) 

The main lake 

Common Toad on Mile Road Bridge

Jersey Tiger back at my mum's. Down from double figures to just this single.