This is in Chorleywood, VC 24.
It soon got quite cold and most of the moths were well before midnight. 23 species and not many of anything.
There were, however, a couple of moth varieties: My only Jersey Tiger had yellow hindwings, which makes it Form lutescens:
And there were several of these at the lights:
I believe it to be the dark form of
Cydia splendana, although there is still a niggling doubt that it may be
Cydia pomonella. Both were in attendance last night. The dark form of
splendana I
think is called reaumurana. Maybe somebody on here knows.
Worn and not photographed was a Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing that looked like a halfway-house with Langmaid's Yellow Underwing.
Fairly bog-standard, however, was this lone Flounced Rustic:
Hi Andy,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about splendana. I don't know how common or otherwise the dark form of it is supposed to be but I seem to have seen a lot of them this season.