#TeamMoth monthly stats June 2026 2098 moths 28 traps 147 NFY 27 lifers Year to date 3401 moths 104 traps 332 NFY 52 lifers

Augsburg Germany. #TeamMoth Moved to a much less rural location. 3NFY to report from a quieter trap. Bulrush Veneer Slender Pug Oncocera semirubella

Riesburg. Germany #TeamMoth 5NFY sampled from a busy trap. Mother of Pearl Common White Wave Dot Moth Beautiful Golden Y (in poor condition) Sprinkled Rustic (a lifer for me)

15NFY in Nordlingen. Germany Archips rosana Acrobasis tumidana Catoptria permutatellus Hummingbird Hawk-moth Buff Arches Sharp-angled Peacock Flame Latticed Heath Plain Golden Y Feathered Beauty Black Arches Clouded Magpie Brown Rustic Engrailed/Small Engrailed Shaded Fan-foot

Apatura ilia. Lesser Purple Emperor Rothenburg OT Germany #butterfly #butterflies

22/16 recorded. 3NFY #TeamMoth Rothenburg OT. Germany Obscure Wainscot Brown Scallop Barred Hook-tip Striped Shield bug bi-catch

29/23 recorded. 8NFY Rothenburg OT. Germany #TeamMoth Yellow Bands Underwing Rosy Footman Mocha Dicycla oo. Heart Moth Festoon Magpie Agapeta hamana Pyrausta cingulata

23/21 9NFY including 2 lifers #TeamMoth Wurzburg. Germany V-moth Reed Veneer Southern Wainscot Ruby Tiger Four-dotted Footman Tissue Purple Thorn Bright Wave Beautiful China-mark

Travelling Actinic plugged into the van and facing the river Main, Wurzburg. Getting ready for the midge onslaught and hopefully a couple of lifers? #TeamMoth.

A fairly poor photo of a Wood White. Now as it was found in a meadow in Southern Germany I’m going to propose that it’s likely to be Cryptic Wood White. Leptidea juvernica rather than Leptidea sinapsis. Any thoughts ? #butterfly #butterflies

Wurzburg. Germany. 19/14 3NFY #TeamMoth Double Kidney Dingy Shears Dark Umber

Würzburg. Germany 18/26 11 NFY of which 4 lifers #TeamMoth Barrett’s Marbled Coronet ?? August Thorn Scalloped Oak Copper Underwing agg Guernsey Underwing Phoenix Lunar-spotted Pinion Ground Lackey Common Heath Essex Emerald Dun-bar

Trapped near Reims. France SIX lifers and an additional 3NFY Bordered Beauty Four-spotted Royal Mantle Pine Processionary Spotted Sulphur Lesser Pearl Green Silver-lines Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow underwing agg. Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing. Trap off at 2.30am as bug crazy conditions

119/46 13NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Donacaula forficella Vapourer Brown-tail Cloaked Minor Barred Red Dichrorampha alpinana Yponomeuta cagnagella Spilonota ocellana Clepsis consimillaria Blackneck Reddish Light Arches Common Rustic agg Endotricha flammealis

91/35 7NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Leopard Moth x9 Small Angle Shades Barred Straw Miller Kent Black Arches Eudonia lacustrata Neocochylis molliculana Also visiting-Elephant HM x2 Small Elephant HM Privet HM

What is happening? Seven Leopard Moth just arrived! #TeamMoth VC13

Bembecia ichneumoniformis Six-belted Clearwing. Attracted to API lure VC13 #TeamMoth Six yellow belts so it’s a male. (Female has just five) Lifer No 736

94/34 3NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Lackey Moth Synaphe punctalis Silky Wainscot Also visiting Elephant HM and for comparison Snout & Plumed Fan-foot

145/28 4NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Yponomeuta evonymella Clancy’s Rustic Crescent Striped Plumed Fan-foot Also visiting Small Elephant HM & Elephant HM.

102/34 2NFY VC13 #TeamMoth European Corn Borer The Clay and a bit of a Hawk-moth fest.

White-letter Hairstreak VC13 A #butterfly that has eluded me until this morning.

60/22 2NFY VC13 # TeamMoth Parsnip Moth Short-cloaked Moth

Sheffield Park.

76/34 4NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Grey Pug Nutmeg Anania coronata Hypsopygia glaucinalis Also visiting the biggest Lozotaeniodes formosana that I’ve ever seen and Privet HM.

Okay Pugmeisters out there in #TeamMoth land, is this fence lurker Grey ? VC13.

88/29 6NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Barred Yellow Light Arches Haworth’s Pug Anania perlucidalis Bryotropha terrella Scoparia pyralella

75/26 4NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Dichomeris marginella Pyrausta despicata Lozotaeniodes formosana Least Carpet

101/22 1NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Archips xylosteana. Variegated Golden Tortrix. Also visiting: Pine Hawk-moth Toadflax Brocade. Broad-barred White.

68/23 2NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Blue-bordered Carpet Peach Blossom I’ve also included another shot of yesterday’s male Yellow-legged Clearwing with the red markings on the wings showing.

Lifer No 732 #TeamMoth VC13 Synanthedon vespiformis. Yellow-legged Clearwing attracted to VES pheromone lure this afternoon.

85/29 3NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Lobesia reliquana Smoky Wainscot Euzophera pinguis Also visiting Privet HM Poplar HM Small Elephant HM Toadflax Brocade.

58/19 0NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Three Hawk-moths on a cold clear night in ……..June?

143/32 7 NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Argyresthia brockeella Swallow-tailed Moth Common Emerald Shaded Pug Dwarf Cream Wave Common Footman L-album Wainscot Also visiting Small Elephant HM, Varied Coronet, Shears and Orange Footman.

119/24 5NFY #TeamMoth VC13 Celypha lacunana Epermenia chaerophyllella Scythropia crataegella Beautiful Hook-tip Lesser Yellow Underwing Also visiting Privet HM & Small Elephant HM. Packing up this morning just as the rain arrived again. 🙄☔️

115/22 5NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Notocelia uddmanniana Cabbage Moth The Uncertain Delicate Mottled Rustic 200th species milestone reached putting me on track to match last year at this point?

37/8 0NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Gusting Southwesterly winds so put the trap against the house for shelter which has historically been a poor position. Mostly H&D so here’s a picture of Tuesday night’s Ni Moth which didn’t make the cut for yesterday’s post.

137/24 6NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Single-dotted Wave Iron Prominent Chrysoteuchia culmella Choristoneura hebenstreitella Many-lined (lifer) Four-spotted Footman Quite windy but dry and overcast conditions

Multiple bursts of heavy rain overnight but it’s June so of course the trap was out. Largest number of trapped moths so far this year. (124 Heart & Dart) 180/23 4NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Celypha striana Privet Hawk-moth Poplar Grey Light Emerald Don’t let rain put you off trapping, the kit dries off.

Watching @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social and now giving the Wax moth some respect. Listening to plants to find a healthy site for ovipositing. Amazing #TeamMoth

May 2026 810 moths 108 NFY 16 traps 17 lifers Year to date 1303 moths 185 species 76 traps 24 lifers #TeamMoth

96/35 10NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Common Swift Lime Hawk-moth Varied Coronet Cydalima perspectalis Box-tree Moth Figure of Eighty Small Blood-vein The Lychnis White-point Prays fraxinella Ash Bud Moth (lifer) Notocelia rosaecolana Rose Shoot Moth (lifer)

174/33 8NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Ni Moth Parapoynx stratiotata Alabonia geoffrella Lime-speck Pug Archips crataegana Hedya prunaria Lozotaenia forsterana Crambus lathoniellus Pictured are the three lifers of those NFYs

Orange-tailed Clearwing attracted to the VES lure though I had expected Yellow-legged to be the visitor. Literature indicates that this is to be expected. #TeamMoth VC13

161/35 15 NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Eastern Bordered Straw Bordered Straw Pyrausta aurata Ethmia quadrillella Small Marbled Homeosoma sinuella Small Fan-foot Anania hortulata Broad-barred White Buff-tip Elephant Hawk-moth Pyralis farinalis Pine Hawk-moth Small Elephant Hawk-moth Pale Oak Beauty

Might be getting migrants. #TeamMoth

99/36 18NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Small Mottled Willow Pandemis cerasana Snout Turnip Moth Hedya nubiferana Evergestis limbata Orange Footman Green Pug Heart & Club Treble Brown Spot Tortrix viridana Riband Wave Middle-barred Minor Vestal Satin Wave The Shears Archips podana Eudonia pallida

First attempt with a Clearwing lure this morning. Synanthedon myopaeformis. Red-belted Clearwing x2 133rd species of 2026 so far and lifer No 720 VC13 #TeamMoth

80/30 14NFY #TeamMoth VC13 Common Marbled Carpet Yellow Shell Bucculatrix thoracella (lifer) Toadflax Pug Freyer’s Pug Enarmonia formosana Large Yellow Underwing Metalampra italica Common Wainscot Dark Arches Treble Brown Spot Rivula sericealis Silver-ground Carpet Sallow Kitten

A couple of NFYs in Kendal last night but I’m home now and after three weeks away the garden looks like someone rewilded it. Tandem traps out. Loads of local species to catch up with. #Teammoth Pictured are Coronet & Poplar Hawk-moth.

8/8 1NFY #TeamMoth Perizoma albulata. Grass Rivulet Bunree. West Inverness-shire VC97