Overnight temperature low: 14.7c.
Conditions: Mild, overcast with mist formation into the morning hours.
Ran the actinic trap in a slightly different area of the garden with an additional sheet and enticed 63 moths of 22 species with 2 pending confirmation.
Moths recorded were:
Light Brown Apple Moth (9) Common Plume (3) Brimstone Moth (4)
Light Emerald (6) Silver Y, Snout, Pale Mottled Willow (2) Treble-bar, Common Marbled Carpet (7) Angle Shades, Square-spot Rustic,
Copper Underwing, Common Marble, Narrow-winged Grey (4)
Setaceous Hebrew Character (2) Large Yellow Underwing (10)
Lesser Yellow Underwing (4) Small Blood-vein, Green Carpet,
Lunar Underwing and Dark Sword-grass.
Pending: 1 unknown and possible Cherry Bark Tortrix.
There was a second recording of the immigrant Dark Sword-grass moth on site this year with a previous sighting on the 29th July.
The moth tends to be more frequently recorded between the months of July to October across the British Isles.
Dark Sword-grass (Agrotis ipsilon)
Pale Mottled Willow (Paradrina clavipalpis)
Lunar Underwing (Omphaloscelis lunosa)