Pug puzzle

 This small pug was in my trap on 18 June. I took two photographs to try on Obsidentify. One it suggested was Valerian Pug as a 100% certainty; the other it offered Lead-grey Pug at 60%.

I don't think it is Common Pug (central spot absent, white spot on termen appears to be present); we have plenty of red valerian (Centranthus ruber) in the garden, but the nearest Valeriana officinalis I know of is 6 miles away on Tregaron. As for Lead-grey, there is or was cow-wheat less than a mile from here.

Migrants and more

Not many moths in the garden trap last night, but a few migrants was an encouraging sign: Dark Sword-Grass, Silver Y (3) and Diamondback. Later, doing my gardening chores this afternoon, I disturbed a Bordered Straw which had presumably been attracted to the light but avoided the trap.

I visited Cors Ian this morning. Glyphipterix thrasonella in abundance. Highlights were a Scarlet Tiger and several Phiaris micana:

Smell the roses

A short walk (that took a long time!) around the dunes at Ynyslas on Tuesday evening. I was pleased to see Shaded Pug (2), but most noticeable were rose feeders: around 150 Acleris bergmanniana in the slacks and along the side of the golf course, and Notocelia roborana (1) and Hedya ochroleucana (c20). 

Shaded Pug

Acleris bergmanniana

Other highlights included Eucosma campoliliana (c10), Caloptilia stigmatella (1), Crescent Plume (c20), Cydia microgrammana (c10)  and the off-puttingly named Celypha cespitana (1).

Celypha cespitana