Epermenia chaerophyllella (2008) - Flickr - Bennyboymothman

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Description: Poor year..but that is more like it! By recent standards, a superb selection of moths greeted me this morning at 5.30am, with 9 new for the year and 6 of them new for the garden, a grand total of 29 moths of 21 species was quite frankly overwhelming! Best moth of the night was undoubtedly Epermenia chaerophyllella which is only my second record of this rather non-descript moth. My last record was on the 3rd of April 2008 in Essex so this is my first Hertfordshire example of this supposed 'common' moth? Other than that all of the other species were to be expected. Clouded Drab was nearly my first June example... Catch Report - 31/05/13 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson trap Macro Moths 1x Peppered Moth [NFG] 1x Mottled Pug [NFG] 1x Rustic Shoulder-knot [NFG] 1x Silver-ground Carpet [NFG] 2x Common Swuift [NFY] 1x Vine's Rustic [NFY] 1x Green Carpet [NFY] 3x Shuttle-shaped Dart 2x Red Twin-spot Carpet 1x Orange Footman 4x Brimstone Moth 1x Yellow-barred Brindle 1x Clouded Drab 1x Pebble Prominent 1x Flame Shoulder 1x Angle Shades 1x Nut-tree Tussock 1x Garden Carpet Micro moths 1x Epermenia chaerophyllella [NFG] 2x Syndemis musculana [NFG] 1x Adela reamurella. Date: 7 November 2008, 10:39. Source: Epermenia chaerophyllella (2008). Author: Ben Sale from UK.