Go Figure... into July

July is the month of the greatest diversity of macro moth species in my garden, though that figure may be partly affected by the number of weeks of August I have been away since I started the trap. A nice start to the month with the first warm night for a while, a Newbie and a trap full of monsters. Here's looking forward to a few more over the next couple of weeks...

 Figure of Eighty - new for garden 2nd July

 Deckboard of Hawkmoths - 2nd July - still not had Lime here

Shaded Pug - one of a handful in the last half of June

 Bordered Pug - another one that is easier to identify

 Shoulder-striped Wainscot - into double figures on these this year

 Nicely marked Short-cloaked Moth

Peppered Moth of form insularia (or close)

Third week of June

Been quiet for new species this week and vast majority of moths trapped have been brown noctuids, dominated by Heart & Dart, with a one night maximum of 68, and an increasing number of Heart & Club and Uncertain. Also been working through some photos of micros as I have been capturing images of distinctive individuals for a while but more of those another time.

Fern - a bit worn, NFY 21/6, had two of these last July

Shaded Pug - second for the year and better to look at than the previous one that I could not capture outside of the pot

Light Emerald - NFY 18/6, eleven of these last year mostly in July

Heart & Dart - this one should be "Heart & Cutlass"

Fanfoot - regular around these parts

First weekend of June

A nice selection over the weekend with three NFG (Puss Moth, Shaded Pug and Ingrailed Clay) with a good supporting cast of NFY to go with them, some commoner than others.

Puss Moth - NFG 4th June

Shaded Pug (record photo through the side of glass pot I'm afraid) - uncommon in VC30 and NFG on 2nd June

Freyers Pug

Broken-barred Carpet (local but had a couple last year) - NFY 4th June

Double Square-spot (first for year of a common visitor)

Grass Rivulet (a few of these last year and numerous on the local hills at the moment)

Ingrailed Clay (these seem to be very variable from browsing other images) - NFG 4th June

Shoulder-striped Wainscot (a repeat of last years belated ex-photo discovery)