My new moths of 2022

UPDATE: 2 Sep 2022 We (I) took the LepiLED with a portable trap to the New Forest in August and added 12 or so moths to the list, when we returned from our trip, first night lighting up we saw a Convolvulus Hawk-moth turn up to nectar on the Nicotiana (garden tobacco plants) before diving into the home garden moth trap. Another turned up later that evening and another on night of 1st September. One of 2 or 3 seen in the garden this year for the first time – Convolvulus Hawk-moth It was four years in July 2022 that I had been mothing in our back garden with a 40W actinic/UV trap. In that time I’ve photographed well over 400 species of macro and micro moth. I keep logs for the County Moth Recorder, so it’s not only a photographic venture it’s citizen science too. The Blackneck at Devil’s Dyke, Cambs By 2020/2021 I felt like I had probably seen most of the species of moth that are in this area, but there are always surprises that turn up and in those years there were 31 and 37 species that turned up that I hadn’t seen before. It’s the middle of August and so far in 2022, I have logged well over 300 species in the garden (and elsewhere as noted) this year, with 45 of them being species new to me. Pine Beauty Arches, Black (Lymantria monacha, Linnaeus, 1758) NF* Beauty, Pine (Panolis flammea, Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) Bell, Crescent (Epinotia bilunana, Haworth, 1811) Bell Pale Lettuce (Eucosma conterminana, or could be E. fu...
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