Moths

 Friday July 25

Pam got up soon after dawn  a few days ago, on her way to bringing on the moth traps. She looked out of her bedroom window to find a Tawny Owl looking back at her. It was sitting about ten metres away, swaying gently, on the telegraph wire which runs across the garden. That has been a month's highlight for her. My garden highlight was a yaffling Green Woodpecker. We often get the young feeding on ants in the lawn at this time of year.

There have been some good moths around. We didn't see Giles' first for Norfolk Rest Harrow, unfortunately, but did see the Bedstraw Hawkmoth trapped by Roger Brownsword, and brought to NS by Mike H.

An in the pot photo 

 


Some of the moths trapped in our garden 

Oak Eggar - big and beautiful 

 

Yellow-legged Clearwing

Two Micro moths

Choreutis nemorana - Fig Leaf Skeletoniser

Wingspan 16-20mm. This species is widespread in the Mediterranean and North Africa.

The first for Britain was in 2014 when it was reared from Ficus carica in London. Since then it has spread to East Anglia, Kent and the Isle of Wight. There are two generations with adults flying in July and again in the autumn. The second generation over-winter.

 

 

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