And still they keep coming...

All this good weather is paying dividends in the garden.  There were another ten species new for the year list last night, comprising Pandemis heparana, Acleris forsskaleana, Lobesia abscisana, Pyrausta purpuralis, Anania coronata, Delplanqueia inscriptella, Capperia britanniodactylus, Lesser Cream Wave, Brown Silver-line and Kent Black Arches.  I've had the Delplanqueia once before, in 2016, but this one will again be checked to ensure that it really is inscriptella and not dilutella.  The plume, if proved correct, will be another completely new moth for the garden which is always nice, but its food-plant (Wood Sage) seems to be rather uncommon in this area according to the BSBI maps.  Kent Black Arches is another of those moths which is expanding its range.  The species first appeared here in 2013 and since 2015 I've had it in increasing numbers each year.  It seems to particularly like chalk grassland and I found it at another new site for Bucks earlier this week with the appearance of singletons in both traps run on Ivinghoe Beacon. 

Probable Delplanqueia inscriptella, Westcott 28th June

Probable Capperia britanniodactylus, Westcott 28th June

Kent Black Arches, Westcott 28th June

Dave Wilton
Westcott, Bucks