Canary-shouldered Thorn, North Elmham, 4th August
Dusky Thorn, North Elmham, 4th August
Among the micros Apple Leaf Miner Lyonetia clerkella, Cherry Fruit Moth Argyresthia pruniella and Barred Grass-veneer Agriphila inquinatella were all new for the year for home.
Apple Leaf Miner Lyonetia clerkella, North Elmham, 4th August
Cherry Fruit Moth Argyresthia pruniella, North Elmham, 4th August
Barred Grass-veneer Agriphila inquinatella, North Elmham, 4th August
My third Ash-coloured Sober Acompsia cinerella for the year was perhaps the scarcest record while 48 Pearl Veneers Agriphila straminella and 35 Common Grass-veneers Agriphila tristella pushed the total numbers up.
Other macros were Ghost Moth, 2 Chinese Characters, Blood-vein, Small Blood-vein, 3 Small Fan-footed Waves, Dwarf Cream Wave, 6 Single-dotted Waves, Small Scallop, 7 Riband Waves, 3 Red Twin-spot Carpets, Shaded Broad-bar, July Highflyer, Clouded Border, Early Thorn, Purple Thorn, 5 Scalloped Oaks, Willow Beauty, Iron Prominent, Swallow Prominent, Coxcomb Prominent, Pale Prominent, Buff-tip, 3 Yellow-tails, 2 Black Arches, 15 Dingy Footmen, 3 Scarce Footmen, 16 Common Footmen, 3 Buff Ermines, Ruby Tiger, Heart and Dart, Shuttle-shaped Dart, 3 Flame Shoulders, 3 Large Yellow Underwings, Lesser Yellow Underwing, 7 Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwings, 2 Double Square-spots, 2 Clays, Smoky Wainscot, Straw Underwing, 4 Dun-bars, 8 Dark Arches, 3 Cloaked Minors, 4 Common Rustics, 2 Lesser Common Rustics, Common Rustic agg., 2 Dusky Sallows, 13 Uncertains, 2 Rustics, 5 Nut-tree Tussocks, Spectacle, Herald and 3 Snouts.
Herald, North Elmham, 4th August
Lesser Common Rustic (male, gen det), North Elmham, 4th August
Other micros were 6 Bird-cherry Ermines Yponomeuta evonymella, Little Ermel Swammerdamia pyrella, Long-horned Flat-body Carcina quercana, Dark Groundling Bryotropha affinis, Cinereous Groundling Bryotropha terrella, House Groundling Bryotropha domestica, 3 Gorse Crests Brachmia blandella, Orange Crest Helcystogramma rufescens, Maple Button Acleris forsskaleana, White-triangle Button Acleris holmiana, Garden Rose Tortrix Acleris variegana, 2 Barred Marbles Celypha striana, Common Marble Celypha lacunana, Summer Rose Bell Notocelia roborana, Bud Moth Spilonota ocellana, 6 Marbled Piercers Cydia splendana, 2 Garden Grass-veneers Chrysoteuchia culmella, Chequered Grass-veneer Catoptria falsella, Little Grey Eudonia lacustrata, 2 Small Greys Eudonia mercurella, Garden Pebble Evergestis forficalis, 2 Small Magpies Eurrhypara hortulata, 17 Mother of Pearls Pleuroptya ruralis, 2 Rosy Tabbies Endotricha flammealis, Bee Moth Aphomia sociella, 2 Grey Knot-horns Acrobasis advenella and Common Plume Emmelina monodactyla.
Little Ermel Swammerdamia pyrella, North Elmham, 4th August
Summer Rose Bell Notocelia roborana, North Elmham, 4th August
Perhaps the best insect in the moth trap though was not a moth at all. In fact I wasn't sure what order it belonged to as it was much larger than the few other barkflies I've identified previously. But that's what it looked like and without too much searching I found a match with Psococerastis gibbosa - an uncommon species nationally. There's a link to a distribution map in the National Barkfly Recording Scheme website and that map shows just that one square in Norfolk (near Attleborough) with a record or records of this species. I don't suppose there are many people looking out for barkflies so I'm sure they're under-recorded, but other species show a fair spread of records throughout Norfolk so they're not completely neglected and it seems reasonable to conclude this one is relatively scarce.
Psococerastis gibbosa, North Elmham, 4th August
Lastly here is a tiny larva that was chomping its way through a wing (of what I'm not sure - some kind of fly I think). I've not the faintest idea what it is... let me know if you have any idea!
unidentified larva, North Elmham, 4th August
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