Late Single-dotted Wave

Single-dotted Wave attracted to the lighted window of our garden room last night, despite the constant drizzle: would this be a second brood?

On another subject, does anyone have any tips of discouraging hornets from creating havoc in the trap? On two recent trappings, at sites about 60m apart, I had eight and twelve hornets respectively. Curiously, three of the latter trapping were dead.

Blowin' in the Wind

I left the garden trap in a relatively sheltered corner last night. Mostly LYUs and Flounced Rustics, but this was a surprise:

I think it is Black-banded, presumably blown here from the coast (about a mile).

Endothenia marginana was also new for the garden list:

Neglected Rustic

 New for me in my garden at Troedrhiwseiri, Bontgoch

this morning a smart Neglected Rustic. Hardly heathland though I have a good bank of heather and moorland habitat not too far away.

Beautiful Brocade...probable

 Caught at Aberporth Sunday night, garden trap overlooking a valley to the sea (1km) organic fields recently cut to foreground.

Sorry about the photo quality...time pressure, just potted it quickly as I thought it was a strange looking Lychnis and let it go as the day was so warm.  Live and learn.

A puzzle lurking in my pics for 28th June

 Caught at light above Aberporth in a garden. 

The lines on paper are 8mm apart so about 10/12mm.

Any help appreciated.

Crescent Dart at Moelgolomen.

 Recorded from one of my traps last night on a very dry, grassy hillside east of Bont Goch. 

I would imagine it is a fairly common moth on the Ceredigion coast but a first for me.

22 other species but all ordinary for the habitat.

Scarce Silver Y

This week's highlight in the garden trap (Aberystwyth) was this Scarce Silver Y on Thursday night:

Catches have been quite small, but I also had three Small Mottled Willow and FFY Sallow Kitten, Flounced Rustic, Dusky Thorn and Agriphila selasella.

In the field behind our house, I was pleased to find Phyllonorycter trifasciella and Prays ruficeps. The former looks nicer, but the latter is more unusual:

Last night's trap in the Rheidol Valley was dominated by Black Arches and Apotomis betulatana (>20 of each). Also two August Thorn and two Cloaked Carpet, but nothing unusual.