Richard Fox

Many thanks

Many thanks Owen - it’s been a lot of effort

Thanks very much

Thanks Les!

Many thanks Dave

Thanks Steve. P.porrectella is almost annual in my garden but thought I’d missed it for this year

Many thanks Nick. I almost certainly wouldn’t have been able to do it in Devon either, but a little bit of mothing in the Brecks, in Kent and elsewhere makes a big difference

Many thanks. I don’t really know. Some people use the pan listing website for year lists (mine is there) but obviously only a tiny fraction of moth recorders do that. I’m sure plenty of others will have achieved the same, even without realising.

This little moth (Plutella porrectella Streaked Diamond-back) in my garden last night was the big one!! My 1,000th moth species of the year in the UK! #teammoth

Yes to Spruce Carpet (Juniper Carpet also correct for the other one)

Grapholita funebrana (Plum Fruit Moth)

Grapholita lobarzewskii (Small Fruit Moth)

A couple of dark little moths from my garden in June have been confirmed as Grapholita funebrana (Plum Fruit Moth) & G. lobarzewskii (Small Fruit Moth). The latter was a new species for the garden. #teammoth

Amazing what some cloud cover can do - 5 NFY species in the garden trap last night after several weeks of not seeing anything new here: Barred Sallow, Green-brindled Crescent, Blair’s Shoulder-knot & Black Rustic, plus a Merveille du Jour that didn’t stay for the team photo. #teammoth

The ‘new for Britain’ Oblique Wainscot (1 Nov 2024) has those thoracic stripes too, but also has an oblique apical stripe on each forewing, which I can’t see in your photo

Surprised and delighted to find my first ever larval case of Coleophora violacea (White-tipped Case-bearer) on elm yesterday in a Worcestershire hedgerow. The feeding damage is distinctive as it pierces both surfaces of the leaf. #teammoth

The books say that mines of Stigmella myrtillella (Bilberry Dot) are hard to find and I’d agree. Thankfully I eventually found my first one ever yesterday evening (in Leicestershire) after quite a lot of searching. Egg on underside near mid-rib as is typical for this species. #teammoth

Excellent day in Nottingham celebrating the 50th anniversary of the fabulous @ukbms.bsky.social

Coleophora kuehnella (Cloaked Case-bearer) from back in June at a local site. ID confirmed thanks to a gen. det. by Tony Davis. It’s a rarely recorded species in Devon and one I’d not seen before this year - now seen the adult and the larval case at different sites. #teammoth

This was a bit of a surprise when turning over apple leaves looking for leaf miners - Pale Tussock moth caterpillar 🐛 #teammoth

Interesting- all but one of my garden records are from Oct/Nov, just a single one in July 2023

I have no idea I’m afraid. It’s guesswork really, but their occurrences in Devon don’t always seem to particularly correspond to immigration, plus they are so regular now every year

Blair’s Mocha emergence is starting. This lovely individual was in the garden trap this morning, a different one from yesterday. #teammoth

Me neither

Amazed to see my first ever Dusky-lemon Sallow on a very cold evening in south Devon this week. A rare species in Devon with only a handful of records this century. #teammoth

Wiltshire Members' Day - Chippenham Wiltshire Branch of Butterfly Conservation invites everyone to join us at our Members’ Day on Saturday 4th October at Biddestone Village Hall near Chippenham.  A friendly social event with some great ...

Really looking forward to speaking in Wiltshire tomorrow about the impacts of climate change on UK butterflies & moths butterfly-conservation.org/events/wilts...

Yep! Set a challenge of trying to get 1000 moth species in the UK this year. Getting close now…

Finished September with lifer number 90 for the year with mines of Chrysoesthia drurella (Fiery Miner) at Dawlish Warren with Kevin Rylands. Seems to be a very scarce moth in Devon, though presumably it is also under-recorded. Brings me to 968 moth species for the year so far. #teammoth

Early mines of Ectoedemia erythrogenella (Coast Dot) on the east Devon coast on Sunday - a scarce species on bramble. The egg is clearly visible on the upper surface of the leaf. #teammoth

Surely chaps with those tasselled fringes?

It had made a home for itself by folding over the edge of an Alder leaf. I just took the leaf home and kept in a container. Once it had finished feeding, the larva pupated on the side of the container and emerged successfully today. I’ll take it back to the original site tomorrow and release it

Lifer today when this Caloptilia falconipennella (Dark Alder Stilt) emerged from a larva I found on Alder at Dawlish Warren earlier this month. #teammoth