Conditions for trapping during this session, hosted by Olive Burroughs, were perfect - very warm, overcast, windless - but the moths didn't seem to appreciate this, and we only caught half a dozen species in the first two and a half hours! Only after most people had gone home, around midnight, did any real numbers of moths begin to arrive, and a few of us continued trapping until around 1am. The list is as follows, more or less in order of appearance.
Mother of pearl (6+)
Brimstone (2)
Least carpet
September thorn (2)
Large yellow underwing (2)
Dun bar (2)
Lesser spotted pinion (uncommon, elm species )
Swallowtailed
`Small Ermine'
Phlyctaenia coronata (a four-spotted pyralid, elder species)
Clay
Dwarf cream wave
Willow beauty
Straw dot
Dusky sallow (uncommon, grassland species )
Dark arches (3)
Either double kidney, or olive - neither is common, but this one escaped during identification!
Dick Alder