Waved Carpet (Hydrelia sylvata)

10+ of these dark forms (f. goodwini) were caught at the Badgells Woodland Campsite by the Bald Birder. This was quite a faded example, with most of them looking even better. There were none of the usual paler (nominate) form caught on the site.

Waved Carpet f. goodwini, 19/6/14, Badgells Woodland Campsite, Kent, The Bald Birder

Sandwich

Plain Pug -


Pyrausta purpuralis


Mullein Wave


Broad-barred White


Varied Coronet


The Delicate - a migrant species here.


Waved Carpet - this was the first record for the observatory, 'scarcely distributed throughout England and Wales, and rare in Ireland.' (UKMoths)


Fen Wainscot - A non-descript but still rather pleasant species that occurs in reed-beds in south and east England, Midlands and north Wales. (Manley)

All taken between 9th and 13th of July.