Garden Moth Scheme last night:

• 4x Heart and Dart (Agrotis exclamationis)
• 1x Silver Y (Autographa gamma)
• 1x Vines Rustic (Hoplodrina ambigua)
• 1x Treble Lines (Charanyca trigrammica)
• Some pugs

Common Pug © Harry Mole 2017

Kitty spotted this common pug (Eupithecia vulgata) on the kitchen ceiling – don’t know what it was doing there. 

I know it’s not sharp, but it turns out it’s really hard to photograph butterfly scales. 

A few moths in the moth trap last night:

• 1x Treble lines (Charanyca trigrammica)
• 1x Treble bar (Aplocera plagiata)
• 1x Vines rustic (Hoplodrina ambigua)
• 1x Yellow barred brindle (Acasis viretata)
• 1x Heart and dart (Agrotis exclamationis)
• 1x Common pug

I had 2 Heart and Darts (Agrotis exclamationis) in the moth trap this morning. It’s a common one, but these were my first of the year. I though this one was dead, but it turned out to be just pretending.

Alfie spotted a Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus) in the back garden this morning, In fact it was one of 3 hanging around in the ivy. We did see the lovely deep blue of the open wings, but they never stay that way for long. It seems like a good year for the holly blue, i’ve never seen so many. They actually have an interesting a boom / bust cycle over about 4 years…

© Harry Mole 2017

Vines rustic (Hoplodrina ambigua) this morning. I really struggled to identify this one, even with the book I couldn’t tell the difference between this and a common quaker. Facebook to the rescue!