A Poor Moth Night

Where have all my moths gone. Last week I had a single Light Brown Apple Moth in my Nythe moth trap and last night, despite it being 9.3°C, I had just a single moth again. At least it was a new one for the year, a Treble Lines, Charanyca trigrammica.

A Treble Lines.

My year list to date is 19:

Nythe Back Garden

In date order

Oak Beauty, Biston strataria - 11 Mar

Oak Nycteoline, Nycteola revayana - 11 Mar

Clouded Drab, Orthosia incerta - 14 Mar

Common Quaker, Orthosia cerasi - 16 Mar

Early Grey, Xylocampa areola - 16 Mar

Early Thorn, Selenia dentaria - 16 Mar

Hebrew Character, Orthosia gothica - 16 Mar 

Double-striped Pug, Gymnoscelis rufifasciata - 27 Mar

Leek Moth, Acrolepiopsis assectella - 31 Mar

Light Brown Apple moth, Epiphyas postvittana - 31 Mar

Maple Slender, Caloptilia semifascia - 31 Mar

The Herald, Scoliopteryx libatrix - 31 Mar

Brindled Beauty, Lycia hirtaria - 3 Apr

Knot Grass, Acronicta rumicis - 6 Apr

Sulphur Tubic, Esperia sulphurella - 10 Apr

Common Plume, Emmelina monodactyla - 22 Apr

Ash Pug, Eupithecia innotata f. fraxinata - 5 May

Treble Lines, Charanyca trigrammica - 15 May

Mouldon Hill

Red-brindled Dwarf, Elachista rufocinerea - 1 May