Llawrcwrt - Figure of Eighty

This turned up in the trap this morning and is new to Llawrcwrt. I see the foodplant is Poplar and Aspen. Neither is common here, but there are a couple of Aspen about 100yards from the trap site.

Talybont Garden

Things were much quieter in the garden trap last night.
Buff Ermine seems to have taken over as most numerous, only singles of others - White Ermine, Heart & Dart, Large Y/u, Dusky Brocade, Elephant H-m among them.
However there were some new micros for the year here, pictured below.
I found a pupa in a plant we have that gets chewed to within an inch of it's life every year and have been threatening to remove it as it also flops everywhere and covers other things.  Anyway it must be some sort of cultivated Fleabane as Anania crocealis emerged from the pupa this morning....think we will keep the plant!

Anania crocealis

Aethes cnicana

Celypha striana

Dusky Brocade

Pinion-streaked Snout

Llawrcwrt - Sharp-angled Peacock

I read that these are pretty much confined to the south of the county. I have seen a few in the past but never one as fresh and tidy as this one. So here it is, particularly for friends in the north.

Ynyslas saltmarsh

I visited the saltmarsh just beyond the tern posts at Ynyslas this morning looking (unsuccessfully) for coleophora species. Instead, several Mother Shipton and Cinnabar and a bunch of difficult micros. Most numerous was what I take to be Bactra robustana, although it appears indistinguishable from lancelana:

More striking is Lobelia littoralis:

and even less striking is Phalonidia affinitana:

I nearly let this go immediately as a LBAM, but I think it is actually Clepsis spectrana:

Also several 6-spot Burnets around the dunes.

Visitors to the garden trap this week have included Figure of Eighty, Rustic Shoulder-Knot, Pammene fasciana, and a Red-necked Footman that wanted to show me its yellow belly:

I think this very dark noctuid, caught at Nanteos, is a female Brown Rustic:

Devon & Waved Carpets

A reasonable catch last night included these two Nationally Scarce B carpet moths and two fresh Noctuids.

Carolyn & Evan

Devon Carpet

Waved Carpet

Miller

Broom Moth

Welsh Wave

Tony is now a happy bunny.  We visited our local site for the Welsh Wave with a little trepidation, T. wasn't convinced we would find them again this year as the area we trap in was devastated by the storms and most of the trees around were flattened.
35 macro and 3 micro species were recorded but the trap occupants were very excitable and many escaped.  Not easy to chase among the fallen trees!   Ina & Tony
A few photos below:

Small Yellow Wave

Incurvaria oehlmanniella

Epinotia tedella

Dwarf Pug

Barred-red

Welsh Wave

Pine Carpet

Ghost Moth

Satin Lutestring

Ingrailed Clay

Poplar Hawk-moth - trying to be scary!

Orange Footman

Sorting out the pics of the odd ones I had a good look at this.  Thought it was a footman though a bit small and with wings ajar.  It unfortunately was on its last legs so I have the specimen Tony!
I think the other record near to me was Tillo ?