Some Moths during August

 The hot and dry summer continued into August but by the latter half of the month the weather was starting to change, with overnight conditions becoming blustery and showery.

The moth-trap has continued to produce some interesting moths and the undoubted highlight of the month was the appearance of my first ever Striped Hawkmoth (Hyles livornica). This handsome species arrives in Britain as a migrant from the European mainland most years but numbers are generally small. In recent years however, they have been arriving in greater numbers along the coastal plain of Sussex and I had noted with envy reports of them appearing at moth-traps just a few miles away from my garden.

Striped Hawkmoth (Hyles livornica)

Orange Swift (Hepialus sylvina) (female)

Pebble Hook-tip (Drepana falcataria falcataria) (2nd brood)

Birch Mocha (Cyclophora albipunctata) (form subroseata) (2nd brood)

Maiden's Blush (Cyclophora punctaria) (2nd brood)

Clay Triple-lines (Cyclophora linearia) (2nd brood)

Yellow Shell (Camptogramma bilineata bilineata)

Scorched Carpet (Ligdia adustata) (2nd brood)

Tawny-barred Angle (Macaria liturata) (2nd brood)

September Thorn (Ennomos erosaria) (male)

Scalloped Oak (Crocallis elinguaria)

Gypsy Moth (Lymantria dispar) (male)

Rosy Footman (Miltochrista miniata)

Six-striped Rustic (Xestia sexstrigata)

Bright-line Brown-eye (Lacanobia oleracea)

Toadflax Brocade (Calophasia lunula)

Straw Underwing (Thalpophila matura)

Rosy Rustic (Hydraecia micacea)

Bordered Straw (Heliothis peltigera)

Green Silver-lines (Pseudoips prasinana britannica)

Pyrausta purpuralis

European Corn Borer (Ostrinia nubilalis) (female)