Apple Ermine

We've had them already this year but this is the 1st photograph - aka 426 Yponomeuta malinellus.           

Also last night: 2 x Mother of Pearl, 2 x 20 Plume Moth , 1 x 1305 Common Grass Veneer aka Agriphilia tristella, plus a few more that got away - still a good night overall.                                                          

A Bumper Crop

A good crop last night - and a few more escaped before I could
identify them!

6 x Ringed China Mark
3 x Mother of Pearl
1 x Light Brown Apple Moth
1 x 426 - Apple Ermine
2 x 1395 - Rusty-dot Pearl
and pictured 1 x 1336 Eudonia pallida

Could this be....

Not much in the micro line last night but could this be 1044/1045 - Acleris ferrugana/Acleris notana.

They are so similar that genitalia examination is required to separate them.

1044 larva prefer oak whereas 1045 lean towards birch.

With oak in the area and no birch I prefer to think this is A ferrugana.
Either way it's not in Pembs. according to the distribution maps although it is found not too many miles  away.

5 of the best!

5 different micros last night: Small Magpie, Lt. Brown Apple Moth, 1293- Garden Grass-veneer, 1067 - Celypha Cespitana, and the new one for the year 1302 Crambus Perlella which has a distinct pearl-like sheen to its wings.
No pictures today - I'm hoping for something more photogenic coming my way.

****make that 6 different - 1 Rusty Dot Pearl I forgot.****

Rusty-dot Pearl

This is 1395 aka Udea ferrugalis the Rusty-dot Pearl.

It's classed as a migrant though it can be seen in almost any month.
Not too many records though - just 1 in the 2009 report and 3 in 2008.

At 1st glance we thought it was a China Mark so it pays to look a little closer sometimes!