Some Moths during May

 The start of May produced very changeable weather, with blustery showers and cool nights reducing moth-trapping opportunities. By the latter half of the month, we were basking in heatwave conditions, with temperatures nudging 30 degrees centigrade and this greatly increased the number of moths being attracted to my garden light-trap.

Oak Hook-tip (Watsonalla binaria)

(male)

(female)

Pebble Hook-tip (Drepana falcataria falcataria)

Peach Blossom (Thyatira batis)

Figure of Eighty (Tethea ocularis octogesimea)

Portland Ribbon Wave (Idaea degeneraria)

Flame Carpet (Xanthorhoe designata)

Red-green Carpet (Chloroclysta siterata)

Common Marbled Carpet (Chloroclysta truncata)

Broken-barred Carpet (Electrophaes corylata)

Green Carpet (Colostygia pectinataria)

May Highflyer (Hydriomena impluviata)

Foxglove Pug (Eupithecia pulchellata pulchellata)

Freyer's Pug (Eupithecia intricata arceuthata)

Green Pug (Pasiphila rectangulata)

Scorched Carpet (Ligdia adustata)

Scorched Wing (Plagodis dolabraria)

Waved Umber (Menophra abruptaria)

Willow Beauty (Peribatodes rhomboidaria)

Great Oak Beauty (Hypomecis roboraria)

Pale Oak Beauty (Hypomecis punctinalis)

Alder Kitten (Furcula bicuspis)

Pebble Prominent (Notodonta ziczac)

Coxcomb Prominent (Ptilodon capucina)

Marbled Brown (Drymonia dodonaea)

Buff-tip (Phalera bucephala)

Great Prominent (Peridea anceps)

Pale Tussock (Calliteara pudibunda)

(male)

(female)

Red-necked Footman (Atolmis rubricollis)

Poplar Grey (Acronicta megacephala)

Miller (Acronicta leporina)

Dark Arches (Apamea monoglypha)

Treble Lines (Charanyca trigrammica)

Small Mottled Willow (Spodoptera exigua)

(migrant)

Bordered Straw (Heliothis peltigera)

(migrant and episodic breeder in Sussex)

Nematopogon schwarziellus (Longhorn sp.)

(This is a first record for my garden)