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.

Llanarth garden

 This large micro is Sitochroa palealis. It was last recorded in Ceredigion in 1956 at Gwbert. Possibly a migrant, although there are populations in the south of Britain.

Sitochroa palealis

Old Warren Hill

I trapped at Nanteos (Old Warren Hill) last night, and was surprised to find Italian Bark Moth (Metalampra italica):

They appeared to be most abundant at dusk and dawn, and I saw 20 in total.

Best of the rest were Clouded Magpie (11), Buff Footman, Tissue (my 5th of the year, and 6th ever, so a good year for them) and this Double Kidney: