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Shades of Autumn showing Talking about sandy coloured Lunar Underwing's in my last post, I trapped one on Monday night amongst a modest haul of moths and some new for year species.

Of all of the species from the night I was most pleased with a Treble-bar that I haven't recorded since 2013, in fact it's only the fourth garden record with 2 in 2012 and 1 in 2013, a supposedly common moth but one I rarely record in my garden. The abdomen was checked for Lesser Treble-bar (Which would be new to the garden if it was so!).

A nice splash of Autumnal colours was provided by 4 'Sallow' moths, 3 Barred and 1 normal Sallow, such beauties.

Micro moths are still pretty scarce but a rather tatty Acleris sparsana was new for the year and it was nice to see my 5th Ypsolopha sequella which is having a good year here.

The weather looks set to warm up a shade with night time temperatures not set to drop into single figures for a while.

Also whilst looking around the garden for any moths I missed I stumbled upon a fully grown Vapourer Moth caterpillar, probably lookingfor somewhere to pupate.

Catch Report - 18/09/17 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Sallow [NFY] 1x Treble-bar [NFY] 2x Angle Shades 3x Barred Sallow 5x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1x Common Marbled Carpet 1x Garden Carpet 10x Large Yellow Underwing 2x Lesser Yellow Underwing 2x Light Emerald 5x Lunar Underwing 1x Pale Mottled Willow 2x Willow Beauty

Micro Moths

1x Acleris sparsana [NFY] 1x Amblypilia acanthadactyla 2x Epiphyas postvittana