Hallelujah! Whetstone Vestal at last

Vestal

I've been waiting many years for one of these to turn up in the garden, and with the current nation-wide influx I'd have been especially gutted to miss out again this year. One with pink markings or an overall pink flush would have been especially nice, but I really can't complain. I have seen a fair few Vestals over the years, including one I found at work in Leics. back in 2001 when there was another influx - that one was quite smart ....

Vestal, South Wigston, Leics. October 2001

Also a Waved Umber last night. I have had a few odd things in autumn before, usually something that has a second-brood in the south but not here, but as far as I can tell there is no usual second-brood of Waved Umber even in south UK?

Waved Umber - not a typical autumnal moth

Another highlight was Pale Pinion, making this the first year that I've recorded both Pale and Tawny Pinions and Blair's and Grey Shoulder-knots in the garden - one of the other three British Lithophane spp. would be most welcome!

Pale Pinion

Otherwise more expected autumnal species continue to appear, though there are not too many expected species left to go. I'm now on 433sp. and can't see me pushing too far beyond 440.

	Taxon	Vernacular	Date Added
426	Aporophyla nigra	Black Rustic	29/09/2013
427	Nomophila noctuella	Rush Veneer	04/10/2013
428	Acleris sparsana		04/10/2013
429	Lithophane hepatica	Pale Pinion	04/10/2013
430	Epirrita dilutata agg.	November Moth agg.	04/10/2013
431	Rhodometra sacraria	Vestal	04/10/2013
432	Conistra ligula	Dark Chestnut	04/10/2013
433	Agrochola macilenta	Yellow-line Quaker	04/10/2013

Black Rustic

Juniper Carpet

Barred Sallow

Green-brindled Crescent ab. capucina

Dark Chestnut

Rush Veneer

Acleris sparsana

Yellow-line Quaker

November Moth (probably)