Gem, Dusky Sallow, Mouse Moth

In the garden trap on Thursday night, it was the turn of Cydia splendana to appear en masse: 43, including only 4 of the melanic form. A new-for-me Gem and 3 Small Mottled Willow were suggestive of migration. Also Marsh Oblique-barred, Hypsopygia glaucinalis and NFY Z. ratzeburgiana (2), Slender Pug and Endotricha flammealis.

Last night I trapped in Ponterwyd. Over 400 moths of 90 species. Good numbers of Large Yellow Underwing (51), True Lovers Knot (32), Dark Arches (52) and Agriphila straminella, and even Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing (11). FFYs included Grass Emerald (3), Barred Straw, Chinese Character, Small Elephant Hawkmoth (2), Garden Tiger (3), Coxcomb Prominent, Dotted Clay, Bulrush Wainscot, Gold Spot (3), Small Rufous, Honeysuckle Moth, Mompha propinquella, Mompha raschkiella, and Eupoecilia angustana. New for my county list were Catoptria falsella, Mouse Moth and Dusky Sallow.