At the end of October the Garden Moth List for the year was 391. I had a fairly good selection of the commoner Autumn species including Olive Tree Pearl, The Satellite and Beaded Chestnut. Interesting Birds seen in the month include Barn Owl and Brambling.
Olive Tree Pearl
Beaded Chestnut
Another month and the Garden Moth year list stands at 377. Interesting records include my first Autumnal Rustic for 6 years and my first Kent Black Arches for 7 years. Red Underwing is not one I get every year. A Wryneck at Swalecliffe was the best bird record of the month.
Autumnal Rustic
Kent Black Arches
Red Underwing
Wryneck
At the end of August the 2026 Moth list stood at 357. New for the garden in this period was The Pellitory Beauty C. pulchrimella. Another interesting species was the Ni Moth which was only my 2nd garden record. In the first half of the month I went on 3 Scilly Pelagic boat trips from The Isles of Scilly. Great and Cory's Shearwaters plus Wilson's Petrels were the star birds.
Great Shearwater
Cory's Shearwater
Wilson's Petrel
Pellitory Beauty
It's the 1st August and another hot month has passed. The Moth Trap year list is 329 but this, despite all the hot weather, is 33 fewer species than the same time last year. However, July's catch included 2 new Macros: Oak Processionary & Sub-Angled Wave, and 5 new Micros: The Bindweed Sleeper Bedellia somnulentella, Delplanqueia dilutella/inscriptella, Lobesia reliquana, Crocidosema plebejana and Coleophora deuratella.
Oak Processionary 
Sub-angled Wave
Delplanqueia dilutella/inscriptella
By the end of June the year's moth list reached 234 which, despite the recent hot weather, is 54 fewer than at the same time last year. However 3 new micros for the garden list were recorded during the recent warm weather: Azalea leaf-miner Caloptilia azaleela, Dichomeris alacella, and The White-cloaked Tortrix Gypsonoma aceriana. I also spent 10 days in Canada during the month where Dickcissel was a new bird for me. More Canada pictures on my Flickr site.
Dickcissel
White-cloaked Tortrix
Dichomeris alacella
Another month and the annual Moth List stands at 138 which is similar to last year's 141 at the same stage. Best record of the month was my first Portland Ribbon Wave, one I'd been expecting for some time. Other interesting insects seen include the Duke of Burgundy Butterflies at Bonsai Bank, Heath Fritillaries in Blean Woods and Scarce Blue-tailed Damselflies at Sandwich Bay.
Portland Ribbon Wave
Duke Of Burgundy
Heath Fritillary
May has arrived. Moth trapping in the later part of April was difficult, mainly due to cold winds a lot of the time. Moth list at the end of the month was 49. Interesting records in April included my 2nd ever Bloxworth Snout, a Grey Pine Carpet, aand a female Emperor Moth at Oare Marshes KWT Reserve, where a Ring Ouzel was also seen.
Bloxworth Snout
Grey Pine Carpet
Emperor Moth
Ring Ouzel
