Moths Found on 5 June 2010

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A wonderful weekend for moths and several interesting varieties of Hawk Moth flying at the same time: a Lime Hawk Moth slightly late (previously photographed here), and a rivet Hawk Moth (previously photographed here) and Small Elephant Hawk Moth (previously photographed here), both slightly early.  Many thanks to Tim Prichard of Suffolk Moths for correcting our ID confusions here.

Others worth photographing were:

• a Light Emerald (previously photographed here),
• a Scalloped Hazel with wings in a vertical resting position (previously photographed with them in a horizontal resting position here),
• a Common Swift (previously photographed here),
• The Shears (previously photographed here),
• an Oligia agg.  (previously photographed here),
• a Dark Arches (previously photographed here),
• a Brindled Pug (previously photographed here).

Others in the trap were loads of Heart & Dart, several Clouded Silvers and Clepsis consimilana, a Common Marbled Carpet, a Flame Shoulder and a Shuttle-shaped Dart.

As a bonus catch, Alice found a small and very pretty day flying moth in the garden this week.  No more than 10 mm long it's a Mint Moth.