Following on from Dave's comments it looks as if the Agriphila straminella are just starting here. Tristella has yet to appear.
I think I might have Pediasia contaminella?
Also I think I have a Silky Wainscot?
Mark Griffiths, Garsington, Oxford
Hello Mark, all three are correct. Pediasia contaminella is not a common moth so that's a nice garden find. Silky Wainscot seems to be very good at dispersal and turns up in all sorts of strange places. I had one deep inside oak/beech woodland in the Chilterns on the Bucks/Herts border at the weekend, a long way from its normal wetland habitat.
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