(2382) The Rustic (Hoplodrina blanda) - Flickr - Bennyboymothman (1)

Bye bye June, Hi July The last night of June 2014 and the trap was setup once again in anticipation of what the first morning of July might bring... Certainly a better selection of moths.

Scalloped Oak was a whole month earlier than last year in the garden...Common Rustic an incredible 48 days earlier than last year's first recorded specimen! That cold weather and snow we had definitely had a huge impact on emergences right through the year. Fern seems to have had a good year, with many records at home and when out and about trapping.

Best moth of the night was probably a Rustic as I don't get many of these.

Catch Report - 30/06/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

2x Common Rustic [NFY] 1x Scalloped Oak [NFY] 1x V-Pug [NFY] 1x Burnished Brass [NFY] 1x Rustic [NFY] 8x Common Footman 1x Engrailed 1x Peppered Moth 1x Fern 11x Mottled Rustic 1x Garden Carpet 2x Brimstone Moth 2x Dwarf Cream Wave 4x Bright-line Brown-eye 1x Tawny Marbled Minor 1x Pale Mottled Willow 1x Large Yellow Underwing

 2x Riband Wave

1x Large Nutmeg 3x Dot Moth 1x Mottled Beauty 48x Heart & Dart 1x Shuttle-shaped Dart 1x Snout 5x Heart & Club 1x Privet Hawk-moth 2x Double Square-spot 20x Uncertain 2x Dark Arches 1x Common White Wave 1x Buff Arches 1x Elephant Hawk-moth 1x Turnip Moth 1x Ingrailed Clay 2x Dwarf Cream Wave 1x Small Emerald 1x Vine's Rustic 2x Double-striped Pug 1x Grey Pug

Micro Moths

1x Pterophorus pentadactyla 2x Clepsis consimilana 2x Dipleurina lacustrata 2x Blastobasis lacticolella 1x Emmelina monodactyla 2x Aleimma loeflingiana 2x Udea prunalis 1x Archips xylosteana 1x Eurrhypara hortulata 1x Plutella xylostella 1x Ephestia parasitella 3x Celypha lacunana 7x Celypha striana 1x Epagoge grotiana 8x Chrysoteuchia culmella