(1991) Elephant Hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor) (34941776633)

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A belated catch-up with some unbelievable garden records! Again i'm playing catch up with catches from the 21st/22nd and 24th of June combined as i'm just too knackered to do the full list so here are the new species for my garden before I went jetting off to the South of France. Here are all of the new ones making the year list total increase dramatically during a warm spell with muggy mild nights. Highlights were garden firsts of Reddish Light Arches, Coronet, Blackneck, Argyresthia retinella, Endothenia nigricostana, Apotomis capreana and Hypsopygia glaucinalis. And it was also pleasing to complete the resident Hawk-moth list for the garden with Pine Hawk-moth. Garden Mothing has never been so good!! And things haven't let up at all with my first catch from last night (after getting back from France) a huge 150+ moths of 70+ species. The warm weather continues for the rest of the week with highs of 30 possible by the end of the week and tonight is looking fantastic so I will be lighting up again. Catch Report - 21/22/24/06/17 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap Macro Moths 1x Blackneck [NFG] 1x Coronet [NFG] 1x Pine Hawk-moth [NFG] 1x Reddish Light Arches [NFG] 1x Beautiful Hook-tip [NFY] 1x Blood-vein [NFY] 1x Clay [NFY] 1x Dun-bar [NFY] 1x Ghost Moth [NFY] 1x Haworth's Pug [NFY] 2x Lesser Yellow Underwing [NFY] 1x Lime-speck Pug [NFY] 1x Oak Nycteoline [NFY] 1x Pale Prominent [NFY] 1x Peach Blossom [NFY] 1x Poplar Lutestring [NFY] 1x Rustic [NFY] 1x Scalloped Oak [NFY] 1x Shaded Pug [NFY] 1x Short-cloaked Moth [NFY] 2x Small Emerald [NFY] 2x Small Fan-footed Wave [NFY] 1x Small White Wave [NFY] 1x Small Yellow Wave [NFY] 1x Varied Coronet [NFY] 1x Wormwood Pug [NFY] 1x Yellow-tail [NFY] Micro Moths 1x Apotomis capreana [NFG] 1x Argyresthia retinella [NFG] 1x Endothenia nigricostana [NFG] 1x Hypsopygia glaucinalis [NFG] 1x Acentria ephemerella [NFY] 1x Acrobasis consociella [NFY] 1x Anania coronata [NFY] 1x Anania ruralis [NFY] 1x Argyresthia goedartella [NFY] 1x Argyresthia pruniella [NFY] 1x Athrips mouffetella [NFY] 1x Bryotropha affinis [NFY] 1x Eana incanana [NFY] 1x Endotricha flammealis [NFY] 1x Epagoge grotiana [NFY] 1x Epinotia abbreviana [NFY] 1x Nemophora degeerella [NFY] 1x Ostrinia nubilalis [NFY] 1x Pammene fasciana [NFY] 1x Phycita roborella [NFY] 1x Phycitodes binaevella [NFY] 1x Piniphila bifasciana [NFY] 1x Udea prunalis [NFY]