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Sunday 7 May 2017

A Slightly Better Night

A slightly better morning in the moth trap, with 8 moths of 7 species. A first for me a Chocolate-tip and Ash Pug

Moths recorded were:

1 Clouded Drab, Orthosia incerta
1 Hebrew Character, Orthosia gothica
Early Grey, Xylocampa areola
1 Knot GrassAcronicta rumicis
1 Light Brown Apple moth, Epiphyas postvittana
1 Chocolate-tip, Clostera curtula
1 Ash Pug, Eupithecia innotata f. fraxinata

Also:

1 Caddis-fly sp.
2 "Fruit Fly" size flies
1 fly sp.


Clouded Drab

Light Brown Apple Moth

Hebrew Character

Early Grey and Knot Grass (bottom)

Chocolate-tip

Chocolate-tip

Chocolate-tip

Ash Pug, Eupithecia innotata f. fraxinata, also known as an Angle-barred Pug

Ash Pug, Eupithecia innotata f. fraxinata. Thank you to Robin Griffiths and Steve Nash of the Wiltshire Moths and Butterflies Facebook Group Here who identified this Pug for me.