Scuppered by the weather, but I managed a couple of brief visits to Rose End between the showers. Straw Dot and Zelotherses paleana nfy. The first Orchid Beetles too in fairly rubbish conditions 😑. Not looking good here for the foreseeable 😪 #TeamMoth

Currant Clearwing to TIP lure just now in the garden. #TeamMoth

A nice hour crawling around in wet grass on Rose End Meadows 😃 A surprise Forester fluttered across the path allowing a record shot when it landed briefly. Burnet Companion 15, was a good count. Another surprise was Beautiful Golden Y in bramble. #TeamMoth

A few from a soggy Gang Mine. Chimney Sweeper, what I'm confident is Scrobipalpa artemisiella and probably Cydia ulicetana? I told you they confused me @wheatersdave.bsky.social #TeamMoth

Another Privet Hawkmoth (pretty sure it was different as previous one had a tear in the wing) burst through the egg boxes and flew away at great speed! Otherwise 5, mainly brown, nfys in a very much reduced trap. #TeamMoth

Some nice moths in Rose End Meadows this afternoon. #TeamMoth

Pseudargyrotoza conwagana and Hedya pruniana nfy this morning on Gang Mine. Also Clouded Border from the garden last night. #TeamMoth

Oak Hook-tip was nfg last night which is probably surprising, but there's little Oak nearby. Also nfy Gold Spot, Clouded Border, Iron Prominent, Elephant Hawkmoth and Homoeosoma sinuella. #TeamMoth

Finally I'm in on the migrant action, Bordered Straw nfg. #TeamMoth A shame he's losing his hair.

Well that will do me for starters 🙂 Privet Hawkmoth nfg #TeamMoth

A nice little colony of Dichrorampha sequana discovered on Yarrow, in a semi local park, this afternoon. Not many records for VC57. #TeamMoth

Morning wander on Rose End Meadows: 4x dancing groups of degeerella, 6 B Companion, 5 G Rivulet, A hamana, C lacunana, E argentella x2, S-g Carpet, 3x Silver Y. Do we have a Eudonia/Scoparia expert in the house? I think this is E pallida? #TeamMoth

In these crazy times nobody is going to get excited by a Green Silver-lines, but hey it's all I've got. About 5 nfy including Turnip, Willow B and Snout. I fancy my chances better tonight, with a little cloud forecast. #TeamMoth

Lesser Swallow Prominent #MothFaceFriday

The Wood Tiger larva that I found just over 2 weeks ago hatched out this morning 🙂 #TeamMoth

Micros from Cromford Moor (and I missed plenty 😑) included nfm Eulia ministrana 'The Minister' x2, Orthotaenia undulana, and a probable Epinotia tetraquetrana? #TeamMoth

More macros from Cromford Moor. #TeamMoth

The trap on Cromford Moor was dominated by Brown Silver-line 40, Common Swift 10, Green Carpet 10, and Pale Tussock 12. A nice selection of other macros were recorded though. #TeamMoth

I closed off the MV in the garden at 0200hr as I knew I'd got to be up on the moor at first light. On return this was waiting for me - Small White Wave, a moth I've been thinking could be present locally. First VC57 record since 2017 I think. Best of the rest in pics #TeamMoth

Well let's hope it's still there at 04:00hrs 🤞 Roding Woodcock, Redstart, Tree Pipit and Willow Warbler back drop 🙂 Possible Capua vulgana on the way up and 24C at 2130hr when I got back to the car 🥵

Pammene aurana x2 to VES lure this afternoon 🤔 #TeamMoth

Anyone want to try to find the Elachista triatomea? 😁 #TeamMoth @belperbirder.bsky.social excepted.

A nice selection of dat flying moths on Rose End just: Burnet Companion 9, Grass Riv 7, Pam aurana, Ag hamana, Cauchas fibulella, Small YU, Wood Tiger, Elachista triatomea, G jungiella. #TeamMoth

5 nfy last night: Buff Ermine 3, Small Angle Shades, Spectacle (rescued from dog dish), Udea Olivalis and Bucculatrix nigricomella. Pale Tussock up to 16, 9 Silver Y. #TeamMoth

Marsh Pug nfy on Rose End Meadows just now. I'm not sure if I've had it there before 🤔. Grass Rivulet 10, Burnet Companion 3, still no sign of Mother Shipton 😕 #TeamMoth Ethmia quadrillella on the way up there

20 minutes on Rose End before I'm dragged kicking and screaming to the supermarket 🫩😭 Yellow Shell nfy (shades required) 😎, and a nice dancing group of c25 Nemophora degeerella 🙂 #TeamMoth

Purple Bar was nfy a couple of days ago but I didn't get a photo so... #TeamMoth

Beautiful Golden Y. I spent a while trying to capture the colours on this fresh individual, but I didn't do it justice. Not an easy subject to focus on with the phone camera. #TeamMoth

Grey Pug and Platyptilia gonodactyla (Triangle Plume) nfy last night in VC57 #TeamMoth

Pauper Pug nfy in Cromford. You see @sj84turner.bsky.social I can identify them 😏 #TeamMoth

Early morning wander on Gang Mine with a nice surprise of an early Nomophila noctuella (Rush Veneer). First Scoparia pyralella of the year, T diffinis, A hartmanniana, M aruncella, E argentella etc. #TeamMoth

Nothing too exciting here but 100+/50+ is good for May. Beautiful Golden Y, Purple Bar, V-Pug, C pomonella, C consimilana, C striana, N cynosbatella were amongst the nfys. Pale Tussock 10 was notable 👀 Not many pics (Cba) #TeamMoth

Oof! Speckled Yellow x2, Middleton by Wirksworth. Also c10 Brown Silver-line. ##TeamMoth

Early morning wander up Wirksworth Dale before it gets too hot 🔥 🥵 Grass moths out with both Crambus lathoniellus and Agriphila tristella. Missed an Aethes type, possibly hartmanniana 🤔. Plutella porrectella on the lane 🙂 #TeamMoth

40 odd species and about 8nfy last night: 8 Pale Tussock may be a record, Knot Grass, SHC, Lychnis, Small Rivulet, Peppered Moth, S-s Wainscot, Nemophora degeerella and B lacticolella. Also Poplar Hawkmoth, 2 Scorched Carpet, Bird's Wing.. #TeamMoth

Rose End Meadows: Pammene aurana nfy, C lacunana nfy, E argentella, M aruncella, Grass Riv 4, Burnet C 3, Small YU 2, Cinnabar 2, Dingy Skipper 3. Common Carpet nfy Bonsall Moor. #TeamMoth Moths not behaving for photos in the heat.

Other moths of note last night in Cromford were: Chocolate-tip nfy, another Small Elephant Hawkmoth (different individual), Shears 2, Silver Y 2, Chinese Character, Buff-tip. #TeamMoth

Less moths, but still some good ones. A nice selection of Carpets with my 2nd record of Devon. #TeamMoth

A couple of hours on Cromford Moor with the CUL lure produced nothing 🙄 Literally 100s of Micropterix calthella on buttercups (probably 1000s), loads of Cydia ulicetana on Gorse, Syndemis musculana. #TeamMoth I need a rest 🥵

A few more from last night. #TeamMoth No time for many photos this morning.

Scorched Wing... I assume 😏 Unless there's something from distant continents that my ancient brain has forgotten 😉 #TeamMoth

Small Elephant Hawkmoth, first for a few years here. Welcome back! 😍 #TeamMoth

Gang Mine produced the goods again this morning: Spuleria flavicaput netted near Hawthorn (6th county record), Aethes hartmanniana 4, and the now obligatory Hysterophora maculosana. Lurking Ingrailed Clay found at home nfy. #TeamMoth

Pale Prominent #MothFaceFriday #TeamMoth

Just the MV last night to battle the clear sky, but only a small catch. A few nfy in Angle Shades, Common Lutestring, Scorched Carpet and Anania hortulata but they didn't want to be photographed. #TeamMoth

Thoughts on this please people 🤔 Truly rubbish photos but it's barely 3.5mm. Obsidentify favours Elachista freyerella but that doesn't look quite right to me. #TeamMoth

Gang Mine this afternoon produced the rather lovely Aethes hartmanniana 2, Teleiopsis diffinis 2, Ethmia quadrillella, Elachista argentella and what I'm pretty sure is Epiblema cirsiana. #TeamMoth

Rose End Meadows morning wander - Cauchas fibulella is probably nfm 🤔 These two were intent on making it a more regular sight 😀 Small Yellow Underwing, Grass Rivulet, M calthella, G jungiella etc #TeamMoth Six-spot Burnet larva?

A good night here in VC57, despite the breeze, with 50/29 and 8 nfy. Orange Footman 4 (unprecedented here), Pebble Prominent, Rustic Shoulder-knot, Freyer's Pug, White-spotted Pug, Silver-ground Carpet, Alder Kitten and Bee Moth all nfy. #TeamMoth

Alder Kitten nfy 🙂 #TeamMoth