Creigiau Thursday 04 june

At last some moths to report. 46 moths in/around the trap of 27 species. 12 were new for the year (including Alder and Sallow Kitten, and  Large Yellow Underwing) and two of these were completely new for me - Common Swift (which had to be disentangled from an old web, a strand of which can be seen in the photograph) and a Scorched Carpet.

Clouded buff, Ogmore down this morning. SS898 764.

                    3 male Clouded buff seen on the slopes today. A new
                    moth for me. Otherwise quiet with just a Common heath,
                    3 Crambus lathionellus, Celypha lacunana and one
                    Caloptilia sp. A small pearl bordered fritilliary, Small heath
                    and Common blues also seen.

Gowerton Thursday 4th June

Really pleased, whilst doing an ancient woodland survey, to find these larval workings of Nemapogon clematella on the classic dead hazel branches. First I've seen in Wales after much searching.

Nemapogon clematella larval workings

Bridgend garden overnight 04Jun15 (MV)

A catch totally dominated by Heart & Dart (50 out of the 91 moths caught (17 species):
Brown House moth, LB Apple moth, Twenty-plumed moth, Chrysoteuchia culmella, Crambus pratella, Small Magpie, CM Carpet, Peppered moth, Light Emerald, Buff-tip, Pale tussock, Flame Shoulder, Shears, Marbled Minor and Trebles lines.
The highlight though was our first Puss moth for the garden (374th - 261st macro). In fact we can only ever remember trapping one before many years ago in North Norfolk.

Merthyr mawr dunes today.

                            Grizzled skipper

                            Small argent and sable

                           Pyrausta cingulata.
                           Also Pyrausta purpuralis and Ostrinalis.
   

Parc Slip

Nice find at Parc Slip today by Paul - sadly dead in a spider web but a male Yellow Belle was a new record for the site.

Coed y Bedw

Brief visit to the reserve this morning to check for fallen trees (plenty) also turned up a couple of moths: Micropterix aureatella and grey birch and there was also this little creature (badly photographed with phone unfortunately). Initially i thought it was a tortrix but I soon realised it wasn't a moth at all but what I believe is a well-marked lacehopper? I can't anything that quite matches it on British Bugs website but can anyone suggest a better id than Cixius cunicularius?