Mega Moths of May including Marsh Pug and Woodland Marble

60 Species were caught during May and a total of 366 moths were trapped. 13 New Species for the Garden! All bar 2 were moth lifers.

I found total of 24 new moths during May.

I ran the trap 10 times only once I pulled it in at 11.20pm due to rain but the rest were all nighters.

Here is the full list and the total number of moths trapped for may and in brackets the highest single number caught in one night.

Brimstone - 12 (3)
Brown Silver Line - 1 (1) (Lifer)

Buff Ermine - 1 (1)
Buff-tip - 1 (1)
Cinnabar - 1 (1)
Common Marbled Carpet - 14 (10)
Common Pug - 17 (7)
Common Quaker - 8 (3)
Common Swift - 11 (4) (this was my first all brown Common Swift)

Dark Arches - 1 (1)
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet - 1 (1)
Early Grey - 5 (2)
Eyed Hawkmoth - 2 (1) (Lifer)

Flame Shoulder - 4 (2)
Freyer's Pug - 2 (1)

Garden Carpet - 7 (3)

including my first dark form

Grey Pine Carpet - 1 (1)

Heart and Dart - 71 (14)
Hebrew Character - 4 (1)
Iron Prominent - 1 (1)
Least Black Arches - 2 (1)
Lesser Yellow Underwing - 1 (1)
Light Emerald - 1 (1)
Marbled Minor - 1 (1) (Lifer)

Mottled Pug - 1 (1)

Orange Footman - 1 (1) (Lifer)

Pale Mottled Willow - 6 (3)
Pale Prominent - 1 (1) (Garden Tick)

Pale Tussock - 1 (1) (Lifer)

Pebble Prominent - 1 (1)
Peppered Moth - 1 (1)

Poplar Kitten - 1 (1) (Lifer)

Puss Moth - 1 (1) (Lifer)

Red Twin-spot Carpet - 3 (1)
Rustic Shoulder-knot - 1 (1) (Lifer)

Scalloped Hazel - 4 (2)
Setaceous Hebrew Character - 1 (1)
Shuttle-shaped Dart - 71 (16)
Silver Ground Carpet - 1 (1) (Garden Tick (but 'Garden Tick only' because I had seen one this month at Ebridge so not a lifer)

Silver Y - 2 (2)
Small Dusty Wave - 1 (1)
Small Square-spot - 2 (2)
Spectacle - 2 (2)
Tawny Marbled Minor - 1 (1)

Treble Lines - 10 (4)
Turnip Moth - 1 (1)
Vine's Rustic - 1 (1)
Willow Beauty - 1 (1)

The Micro's

Bee Moth - Aphomia Sociella - 9 (5)
Codling Moth - Cydia Pomonella - 2 (1)
Common Grey - Scoparia Ambigualis - 1 (1)
Common Slender - Gracilaria Syringella - 1 (1) (lifer)

Diamond Back Moth - Plutella Xylostella - 3 (2)
Light Brown Apple Moth - Epiphyas Postvittana - 46 (12)
Many Plumed Moth - Alucita Hexadactyla - 6 (2)
Small Clover Case-bearer - Coleophora alcyonipennella - 1 (1) (lifer)

Small Magpie - Eurrhypara hortulata -2 (1)
White-shouldered House Moth - Ebdrosis Sarcitrella - 1 (1) (Lifer)

Other Moths Seen Not in the Garden all Lifers

Muslin Moth - Bacton

Broad-bordered Bee Hawkmoth - Holt

White-pinion Spotted - Holt (No Picture)
Grey Gorse Piercer - Cydia ulicentana - Mousehold

Green Long-horn - Adela reaumurella - Sheringham (No Picture)
Cyclamen Tortrix - Clepsis spectrana - Ebridge

Meadow Long-horn - Cauchas rufimitrella - Ebridge

Rush Marble - Bactra lancealana - Ebridge

Small China-mark - Cataclysta lemnata - Ebridge

Scorchedwing - Ebridge (no Picture)
Marsh Pug - Pigney's

Woodland Marble - Orthotaenia undulana - Sheringham