File:(1838) Tawny Speckled Pug (Eupithecia icterata) (14736673976).jpg

A pretty tricky customer Another warm and muggy night and another quality catch with plenty to smile about and some different moths to compliment the garden list so far. An initial headache over a very pretty micro moth lasted a good hour pondering books, websites and my own photos, the conclusion was a form of Epinotia nisella that I hadn't seen before.

A mint Tawny-speckled Pug was probably my favourite moth of the night.

Parachronistis albiceps was a good record of a species that is becoming more frequent.

Trap out again tomorrow night.

Catch Report - 26/07/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Knot Grass [NFY] 1x Lime-speck Pug [NFY] 1x Swallow Prominent [NFY] 1x Tawny Speckled Pug [NFY] 4x Black Arches 1x Bright-line Brown-eye 1x Brimstone Moth 1x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1x Buff Footman 1x Cabbage Moth 1x Cloaked Minor 1x Common Carpet 10x Common Rustic 1x Dark Arches 1x Dingy Footman 5x Dot Moth 1x Double Square-spot 2x Dun-bar 2x Dusky Sallow 1x Dwarf Cream Wave 1x Elephant Hawk-moth 2x Flame Shoulder 2x Flounced Rustic 1x Green Pug 2x Haworth's Pug 1x Heart & Dart 2x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 2x Lesser Yellow Underwing 1x Maple Prominent 4x Maple Pug 1x Marbled Beauty 1x Mottled Beauty 2x Nut-tree Tussock 1x Poplar Hawk-moth 1x Red Twin-spot Carpet 19x Riband Wave 1x Ruby Tiger 1x Scalloped Oak 1x Shaded Pug 3x Shuttle-shaped Dart 1x Small Fan-footed Wave 1x Small Rivulet 1x Snout 1x Straw Dot 2x Straw Underwing 2x Uncertain 3x Willow Beauty 1x Yellow Shell

Micro Moths

1x Paraswammerdamia albicapitella [NFG] 1x Epinotia nisella [NFG] 1x Parachronistis albiceps [NFG] 1x Hofmannophila pseudospretella [NFY] 1x Acleris variegana [NFY] 1x Cacoecimorpha pronubana [NFY] 2x Splionota laricana [NFY] 1x Euzophera pinguis [NFY] 1x Apotomis betuletana [NFY] 5x Carcina quercana 21x Blastobasis adustella 1x Pyrausta aurata 1x Pammene aurita 1x Acleris forsskaleana 1x Agriphila tristella 1x Zeiraphera isertana 1x Evergestis forficalis 2x Argyrotaenia ljungiana 2x Parornix sp 1x Cameraria ohridella 1x Oegoconia sp 1x Blastobasis lacticolella 1x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 2x Athrips mouffetella 1x Caloptilia betulicola 1x Ditula angustiorana 7x Agriphila straminella 5x Gysonoma dealbana 1x Conobathra repandana 1x Agonopterix alstromeriana 2x Phycita roborella 2x Trachycera advenella 3x Trachycera suavella 8x Dipleurina lacustrata 6x Endotricha flammealis 4x Chrysoteuchia culmella 2x Pleuroptya ruralis 10x Spilonota ocellana 1x Eurrhypara hortulata 1x Acleris schalleriana 2x Argyrotaenia ljungiana 3x Cydia splendana 4x Argyesthia goedartella 1x Yponomeuta evonymella 1x Clepsis consimilana 2x Batia unitella 2x Epiphyas postvittana 1x Pandemis corylana