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Into September with a few new species! This catch was from the 04th of September and featured a good array of late Summer early Autumn species and amongst other things, not just two new species for my garden but two new species I had never seen before! Both Ypsolopha vittella and Phyllonorycter geniculella. Phyllonorycter geniculella was to be expected as I have oodles of Sycamore near me and probably should look for the leaf mines shortly as well, such a pretty but tiny delicate moth.

These two new additions bring the garden species list to a whopping 598 since my first trapping effort on the 17th of August 2012.

Turnip Moth was new for the year as was Sallow, Centre-barred Sallow and Lunar Underwing. Sallow... after a two year gap of not seeing one in the garden which I find odd, is a common moth out on field trips.

A late and mint Common Rustic was worthy of note, these surely must be coming to an end by now!

Also a trickle of migrants seem to still be reaching my trap and although with still very warm day-time temperatures we are slowly losing out to the overnight chill that we typically see in Autumn.

Catch Report - 04/09/16 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

Centre-barred Sallow 1 [NFY] Lunar Underwing 1 [NFY] Sallow 1 [NFY] Turnip Moth 1 [NFY] Angle Shades 4 Brimstone Moth 3 Cabbage Moth 1 Common Rustic 2 Copper Underwing 2 Common Wainscot 2 Dusky Thorn 3 Flounced Rustic 1 Garden Carpet 2 Green Carpet 1 Large Yellow Underwing 19 Lesser Yellow Underwing 1 Pale Mottled Willow 2 Setaceous Hebrew Character 5 Shuttle-shaped Dart 1 Silver-Y Small Dusty Wave 1 Snout 1 Square-spot Rustic 1 Vine's Rustic 2 White-point 1 Willow Beauty 5

Micro Moths

Phyllonorycter geniculella 1 [NEW!] Ypsolopha vittella 1 [NEW!] Acleris sparsana 1 [NFY] Amblyptilia acanthadactyla 1 Agriphila tristella 1 Blastobasis adustella 2 Byrotropha domestica 1 Carcina quercana 1 Celypha lacunana 2 Clepsis consimilana 1 Emmelina monodactyla 2 Epiphyas postvittana 1 Eudonia pallida 1 Hofmannophila pseudospretella 2 Pandemis corylana 1 Plutella xylostella 2