New Moths Found on 2 August 2008

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Not quite as interesting as last week but still a good catch.  Those worth photographing were:

• a new one for us: the Lime-speck Pug,
• another new one in the form of a Yellow-tail (thanks to Joan Oakley for correcting our confusion with the White Ermine),
• a Straw Underwing (previously photographed here),
• a Grey or Dark Dagger (previously photographed here); this one was smaller and darker than the others we've caught, so we think it was a Dark,
• a Cabbage Moth (previously photographed here),
• a new micro: Epiphyas postvittana  (thanks to Mike Wall of HantsMoths for the ID),
• another new micro: Blastobasis adustella  (thanks again to Mike Wall),
• a Light Brown Apple Moth (previously photographed here),
• a Single-dotted Wave (previously photographed here).

Most common in the trap were the Pinion-streaked Snouts, Riband Waves, Oak Beauty agg, all the forms of yellow underwing (Large Yellow Underwings, Broad-bordered Yellow Underwings and Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwings), Cnephasia Agg and Dark Arches.  Otherwise there was one each of Dun Bar, Scalloped Oak, Mother of Pearl, Common Wainscot, Shuttle-shaped Dart, Common Rustic, Common Footman, Garden Rose Tortrix, Pseudargyrotoza conwagana and a Stenoptilia/Platyptilia.

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