Saturday Night Fewer

With the cooler nights now we can expect fewer moths in the trap and such was the case last night, however there was a new moth for the site, a Mottled Umber, not unexpected, but perhaps a little  early. This is a very variable moth - its Latin name is Erannis defoliaria.


Mottled Umber

                                                                       
A second new moth was however one of the very small micro-moths


Unidentified

and as yet I have not been able to identify it. But see below!

Firethorn Leafminer

In the garden yesterday was a Firethorn Leaf-miner, presumably one of those hatched from the leaf mines on the pyracantha bushes mentioned a few posts ago,











And in the house, a White-shouldered House-moth, which, unlike its neighbour the Brown House-moth, feeds on dead animal and vegetable matter.

White-shouldered House-moth

  
The moth has now been identified (by CW Plant) as Elachista canapennella.