Return of old faves (part 2)

The other big moth we had in last night is one we hadn't been visited by for weeks. It is the Bright-line Brown Eye, a noted pest of tomato plants. This example is a late developer as this species supposedly flies in June and July; then again this year has taken an awfully long time to warm up properly. It lays its eggs on many plants besides tomatoes, including bind weed and stinging nettles which we have in some abundance the minute I slack off the gardening.

This is another I can now put a name to on sight, thanks to the line along the wing edge (with the distictive W shaped jag) as well as the bright orange dot on the upper wings and the white ringed patch above.

Oxford Circus type night.

What a busy night. What a difference a rise towards summer-like temperatures makes. First I found a couple of very small moths that have been in and out over the past few days at different places on the external wall side of the room. They're so small I probably don't stand a chance of identifying them and struggled to get reasonably representative photographs.



While doing that I noticed a brilliant green insect on the window. In fact there were two of them, the other one was lurking on the underside of the frame of the open window.










Then this moth about the size of the Garden Carpet which was so prevelent about a week ago, but distincly differently marked.

Next up this moth (also very small), which I've only previously seen downstairs. I'm as certain as I can be this is an example of the White-shouldered House-moth Endrosis sarcitrella

It was now about 2 in the morning, and a couple of larger moths were buzzing at the window from the outside, bouncing up and down but never quite managing to bounce through the opening. I glanced back and up and saw this moth resting against the light fitting, a bit tattered around the edges and I'm sure I should be able to nail an ID for it.

Finally one of the larger moths found the opening, buzzed about for a while angrily. When the moth settled the orange markings on the wings were highly visible and I could see the distinctive white line along the edge of the wings with the W that enabled me to identify this as Bright-line Brown-eye. This is a notorious tomato pest so the ID makes sense, just for a change.

The other big moth that came in was this one, which initially settled too close to the light for me to get a shot of the markings, then settled on the underside of the basin which gave me a chance at what I think was my best shot of the night.