Thatch Neb and Satyr Pug

The night of 18th June was another good one with 13 new moths for the year including a couple of good ones.  The latter were Thatch Neb Bryotropha basaltinella (all Norfolk records up to this point were from my garden, though I see Dave Jones had one in Stoke Holy Cross in August) and Satyr Pug.

Thatch Neb Bryotropha basaltinella (female, gen det), North Elmham, 18th June

Satyr Pug (male, gen det), North Elmham, 18th June

The other new moths for the year were Buff Mompha Mompha ochraceella, Straw Conch Cochylimorpha straminea, Cyclamen Tortrix Clepsis spectrana, Pine Marble Piniphila bifasciana, Marbled Orchard Tortrix Hedya nubiferana, Bright Bell Eucosma hohenwartiana, Small China-mark Cataclysta lemnata, 3 Common Emeralds, Barred Straw, Small Yellow Wave, Double Square-spot and Beautiful Hook-tip.

Buff Mompha Mompha ochraceella, North Elmham, 18th June

Straw Conch Cochylimorpha straminea, North Elmham, 18th June

Cyclamen Tortrix Clepsis spectrana, North Elmham, 18th June - complete with a tick hanging off the side of its face!

Pine Marble Piniphila bifasciana, North Elmham, 18th June

Small Yellow Wave, North Elmham, 18th June

Beautiful Hook-tip, North Elmham, 18th June

The rest of the moths brought the total species count to 76 - actually not all that remarkable for the second half of June but probably the best here this year.  The others were Blackthorn Slender Parornix torquillella, Tipped Oak Case-bearer Coleophora flavipennella, Little Dwarf Elachista canapennella, Sloe Flat-body Luquetia lobella, Common Yellow Conch Agapeta hamana, 4 Large Fruit-tree Tortrixes Archips podana, Privet Tortrix Clepsis consimilana, 3 Light Brown Apple-moths Epiphyas postvittana, Brindled Tortrix Ptycholoma lecheana, Hedge Tortrix Isotrias rectifasciana, 8 Green Oak Tortrixes Tortrix viridana, Barred Marble Celypha striana, 4 Common Marbles Celypha lacunana, 2 Plum Tortrixes Hedya pruniana, Blotched Marble Endothenia quadrimaculana, Hoary Bell Eucosma cana, 17 Garden Grass-veneers Chrysoteuchia culmella, Hook-streak Grass-veneer Crambus lathoniellus, 2 Common Greys Scoparia ambigualis, Marsh Grey Eudonia pallida, Little Grey Eudonia lacustrata, Ringed China-mark Parapoynx stratiotata, Garden Pebble Evergestis forficalis, 5 Small Magpies Anania hortulata, 2 Bee Moths Aphomia sociella, Twin-barred Knot-horn Homoeosoma sinuella, Common Plume Emmelina monodactyla, Single-dotted Wave, 3 Treble Brown Spots, 3 Riband Waves, 3 Silver-ground Carpets, Common Marbled Carpet, Barred Yellow, 2 Green Carpets, Common Pug, Double-striped Pug, Clouded Border, Tawny-barred Angle, 2 Willow Beauties, Mottled Beauty, 9 Clouded Silvers, 3 Light Emeralds, Coxcomb Prominent, 3 Common Footmen, 3 Buff Ermines, Heart and Club, 2 Heart and Darts, 5 Flames, Flame Shoulder, 2 Ingrailed Clays, 4 Brown Rustics, Small Angle Shades, Marbled Minor, 2 Tawny Marbled Minors, 6 Middle-barred Minors, Treble Lines, 2 Uncertains, 3 Burnished Brasses, 2 Spectacles, 38 Straw Dots, 2 Snouts and Fan-foot.

It must have been a good night for ticks with the one hanging off the face of the Clepsis spectrana above and this one hanging off the face of a Elachista canapella.  No idea if ticks on moths are host-specific - I guess not but if they are then they're probably quite rare.

Little Dwarf Elachista canapennella and tick, North Elmham, 18th June

The only lacewing was Dichochrysa prasina, new for the year, and there was also just one mayfly, a Pond Olive Cloeon dipterum.

Dichochrysa prasina, North Elmham, 18th June

Other insects included the caddisflies Agraylea multipunctata (new for the year), Limnephilus lunatus, Grouse Wing Mystacides longicornis, the mirid bugs Orthotylus tenellus (2), Psallus perrisi and Psallus varians, the leafhopper Oncopsis subangulata, the soldier beetles Cantharis cryptica and Cantharis decipiens and a new weevil for the garden, Vine Weevil Otiorhynchus sulcatus.

Agraylea multipunctata (female), North Elmham, 18th June

Vine Weevil Otiorhynchus sulcatus, North Elmham, 18th June