Species List for 25/02/2026

Mothing for 2025 finished for me at the end of August (27th) when I then went for two months ro Australia, not mothing but Birding and Mammal and Reptile watching. I returned at the end of October, to be greeted with some of the wettest  most dismal weather imaginable. Coupled with the awful weather extending into January and February and a couple of  physical problems, due to my penchant in old age for falling over, I didn't get started this year until February 25th.  At the moment I am using two traps, a 125W MV Robinson in the Back Garden and an 80W  MV Robinson in the Pond Garden. Hopefully I will add photos for each NFY species as we go along. I will catch up in the near future.

There were 16 moths of five species.

Code	Taxon	Vernacular	Individuals
70.251	Biston strataria	Oak Beauty	2	nfy
73.242	Orthosia incerta	Clouded Drab	1	nfy
73.244	Orthosia cerasi	Common Quaker	8	nfy
73.249	Orthosia gothica	Hebrew Character	4	nfy
73.250	Anorthoa munda	Twin-spotted Quaker	1	nfy

Common Quaker

Oak Beauty

 

Twin-spot Quaker

Clouded Drab

Hebrew Character

Species List for 01/06/2022

 The cold night continue, dropping to about 7 deg C and consequently there were only 53 moths of 31 species with fie NFY.

Code	Taxon	Vernacular	Individuals
998	Epiphyas postvittana	Light Brown Apple Moth	6
1082	Hedya pruniana	Plum Tortrix	1
1174	Epiblema cynosbatella		2
1378	Phlyctaenia coronata		1	NFY
1524	Emmelina monodactyla		1
1707	Idaea seriata	Small Dusty Wave	1	NFY
1764	Chloroclysta truncata	Common Marbled Carpet	3
1769	Thera britannica	Spruce Carpet	1
1825	Eupithecia centaureata	Lime-speck Pug	1
1883	Acasis viretata	Yellow-barred Brindle	1
1887	Lomaspilis marginata	Clouded Border	1	NFY
1931	Biston betularia	Peppered Moth	2
1994	Phalera bucephala	Buff-tip	1
2000	Notodonta dromedarius	Iron Prominent	1
2007	Pheosia tremula	Swallow Prominent	1	NFY
2050	Eilema lurideola	Common Footman	1	NFY
2061	Spilosoma luteum	Buff Ermine	1
2089	Agrotis exclamationis	Heart and Dart	3
2092	Agrotis puta	Shuttle-shaped Dart	1
2102	Ochropleura plecta	Flame Shoulder	1
2126	Xestia c-nigrum	Setaceous Hebrew Character	3
2147	Hada plebeja	Shears	3
2154	Mamestra brassicae	Cabbage Moth	1
2160	Lacanobia oleracea	Bright-line Brown-eye	1
2199	Mythimna pallens	Common Wainscot	1
2306	Phlogophora meticulosa	Angle Shades	1
2334	Apamea sordens	Rustic Shoulder-knot	1
2337x	Oligia strigilis agg.	Marbled Minor agg.	3
2380	Charanyca trigrammica	Treble Lines	4
2384	Hoplodrina ambigua	Vine's Rustic	2
2450	Abrostola tripartita	Spectacle	2

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Phlyctaenia coronata

Small Dusty Wave

Clouded Border

Swallow Prominent

Common Footman

Species List for 17/6/2015

Numbers wise this was the best night of the year with 172 moths of 41 species. The third Striped Hawk-moth of the year was the high light, although there were another 11 new moths for the year.

Three different Burnished Brass, but the camera never does justice to this "metallic" moth.

Thew first Clouded Border of the year.

Two more Bordered Straws brought the total to 16 this year. 22 in 2006 is the most for a year so this could be a new recordina couple of weeks.

 Orange Footman

Common Footman

The first two footman of the year, but I expect many more will follow.

The star of the show, a third Striped Hawk-moth for the year.

Code	Taxon	Vernacular	Individuals
17	Hepialus lupulinus	Common Swift	5
647	Hofmannophila pseudospretella	Brown House Moth	2	NFY
937	Agapeta hamana		1	NFY
994	Clepsis consimilana		1	NFY
998	Epiphyas postvittana	Light Brown Apple Moth	14
1011	Pseudargyrotoza conwagana		1	NFY
1293	Chrysoteuchia culmella	Garden Grass-veneer	3
1294	Crambus pascuella		1	NFY
1334	Scoparia ambigualis		1
1344	Eudonia mercurella		1
1376	Eurrhypara hortulata	Small Magpie	1	NFY
1651	Cilix glaucata	Chinese Character	1
1707	Idaea seriata	Small Dusty Wave	1	NFY
1724	Xanthorhoe spadicearia	Red Twin-spot Carpet	1	NFY
1727	Xanthorhoe montanata	Silver-ground Carpet	1
1764	Chloroclysta truncata	Common Marbled Carpet	3
1776	Colostygia pectinataria	Green Carpet	1	NFY
1819	Eupithecia exiguata	Mottled Pug	1
1827	Eupithecia intricata	Freyer's Pug	1
1887	Lomaspilis marginata	Clouded Border	1
1931	Biston betularia	Peppered Moth	1
1958	Lomographa temerata	Clouded Silver	1
1990	Hyles livornica	Striped Hawk-moth	1
1991	Deilephila elpenor	Elephant Hawk-moth	1
1992	Deilephila porcellus	Small Elephant Hawk-moth	2
2043	Eilema sororcula	Orange Footman	1	NFY
2050	Eilema lurideola	Common Footman	1	NFY
2061	Spilosoma luteum	Buff Ermine	3
2089	Agrotis exclamationis	Heart and Dart	60
2102	Ochropleura plecta	Flame Shoulder	2
2107	Noctua pronuba	Large Yellow Underwing	9
2123	Diarsia rubi	Small Square-spot	2
2126	Xestia c-nigrum	Setaceous Hebrew Character	23
2147	Hada plebeja	Shears	1
2278	Acronicta megacephala	Poplar Grey	2
2321	Apamea monoglypha	Dark Arches	1
2380	Charanyca trigrammica	Treble Lines	9
2384	Hoplodrina ambigua	Vine's Rustic	4
2403	Heliothis peltigera	Bordered Straw	2
2434	Diachrysia chrysitis	Burnished Brass	3
2474	Rivula sericealis	Straw Dot	1