July seemed to be fits and starts of lots of moths and then scarcely any. It was good fun though, although I don't think I would have coped if I had been still working for a living or didn't have the County Recorder, Tom Tams, to assist me in identifying moths that I didn't even know existed the day before. I have seen about 350 different birds in the last 10 years and can remember their names and what they look like roughly, but then all of a sudden to come across a couple of thousand new moths who seem to have unintelligible latin names and ones who you cant tell apart unless........ It is quite a big change and now that my small brain is full of information accumulated over 65 years of life and I am now trying to prise some more in and my red/green colour blindness along with my lousy eyesight means it should be so easy (NOT). Well, I love a challenge so here is my List of New Moths for the Garden in July 2016:
20.015 Argyresthia curvella
6 July
37.033 Coleophora trifolii Large Clover Case Bearer
7 July
20.007 Argyresthia cupressella Cypress Tip Moth
20.012 Argyresthia goedartella (courtesy Tom Tams)
71.005 Furcula forcula Sallow Kitten
49.286 Epiblema cirsiana (courtesy of Tom Tams)
63.081 Crambus pascuella
34.004 Limnaecia phragmitella
36.001 Batrachedra praeangusta (courtesy Tom Tams)
35.056 Metzneria lappella
16.022 Orchard Ermine Yponomeuta (Courtesy Tom Tams)
49.185 Lobesia littoralis
21.004 Leucoptera laburnella Laburnum Leaf Miner
73.168 Lateroligia ophiogramma Double Lobed
70.013 Idaea biselata Small Fan-footed Wave
49.234 Epinotia abbreviana
63.100 Caloptria margaritella
