Garden first Eyed Hawk meets it's peril :( A very pleasing night with good night time temperatures and plenty of cloud cover. Unfortunately it did rain during the night, and this morning it was drizzling a little. Still I was rewarded with a garden first Eyed Hawk-moth, unfortunately a Garden Spider had got to it before me and had already delivered the fatal bite :( Puss moth was also new, after rearing 3 Males recently, this one was a female and another garden first, delighted! Stigmella aurella was certainly the smallest moth in the catch, a moth I recorded earlier on in the year as a tenanted mine within Brambles at the back of the garden.

Also Pseudoswammerdamia combinella was a good new micro for the garden, and despite letting go one from last weeks catch at Roughdown Common, thinking this was initially the same individual....after a photo of the same side it clearly has different markings.

Catch Report - 05/05/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Eyed Hawk-moth [NFG] 1x Puss Moth (F) [NFG] 1x Orange Footman [NFY] 2x Red-green Carpet [NFY] 1x Buff-tip [NFY] 1x Spruce Carpet 2x Brindled Pug 1x Flame Shoulder 1x Nut-tree Tussock 2x Brimstone Moth 3x Shuttle-shaped Dart

Micro Moths

1x Pseudoswammerdamia combinella [NFG] 1x Syndemis musculana [NFY] 1x Argyrotaenia ljungiana [NFY] 1x Stigmella aurella 1x Agonopterix purpurea 1x Endrosis sarcitrella