Another largely birdless week but John bought two moths trap over on Friday evening for an excellent catch. One was in our neighbours’ Tom and Kirsty’s garden and one up at Ladyfield. We recorded 449 moths of 101 species. This included six new species for the parish: Marbled Beauty, House Groundling, Yellow-oak Button and (four) Beautiful Hook-tip…
This used to be very much a southern species but is another one that has been moving progressively further north and Alan Miller caught his first in his garden in Northallerton on the same night.
The other newbies included Bordered White…
And this micro, White-backed Marble…
This is a scarce moth in this area and was actually a new species even for John.
We also caught only the second parish record of Tawny-barred
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Some commoner, but stunning, others included Antler...
And Buff Arches...
To finish off I also had a Hummingbird Hawkmoth in our garden this week feeding, as always, on Red Valerian.
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