Wednesday, 20 August 2025

Migrants in Aberystwyth

Some migrant activity in Aberystwyth as well. I've had small numbers of Rush Veneer and the occasional Rusty Dot Pearl, but on Monday night something slightly bigger, a Scarce Bordered Straw:

and lots of rather smaller ones - Beet Moth, or Scrobipalpa ocellatella, new for the garden:

Also Six-striped Rustic and Hemp-agrimony Plume, which are unusual here, 



and Stigmella trimaculella, which I don't think I've had before:










Tuesday, 19 August 2025

Small Mottled Willow Aberporth


 Pleased to find this in a box full of Flame Shoulders and Hebrew Characters though if I grew lettuces I might not think so!