New Moths Found on 2 July 2006

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A sweltering weekend with the temperature up to 30 C before 10:00 this morning.  It was too hot to even stand still around the trap and most of the moths were warmed-up enough to fly off immediately.  The selection in the trap was similar to the previous catch including a sample each of the impressive Elephant and Poplar Hawk-moths.

Those worth photographing were:

• a Sycamore, a significantly darker version than the previous catch,
• a really beautiful example of Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix,
• a Turnip Moth (thanks to surreybirder and brianhstone for the ID),
• while uncovering the garden furniture later in the day we found a beautiful, though admittedly dead, example of the White Plume Moth (see later picture of larva we found in our garden).

Others in the trap were:

• numerous Heart & Darts, Common Quakers and Common Footmen,
• some Udea Olivalis, Light Brocades, Riband Waves, Shuttle-shaped Darts, Bright-line Brown-eyes, Dot Moths, and Scoparia pyrallela,
• one each of the Small Emerald, Buff Tip, Light Arches, The Clay, Dagger, Common Wainscot, melanistic Marbled Minor Agg, Bee Moth, Treble Brown-spot, Pinion-streaked Snout, Celypha striana, Stenoptilia/Platyptilia and our first Double Square-spot of the year.