Autumnal Moths in Cemaes

 Pearly Underwing

 Pearly Underwing and Feathered Ranunculus

 Feathered Ranunculus

 Burnished Brass

 Dusky Thorn

 Frosted Orange

 Lunar Underwing

 Common Marbled Carpet

 Marbled Carpet sp. 1

Marbled Carpet sp. 2

Above is a selection of moths I caught last night. Is Pearly Underwing a common immigrant in North Wales? Also any tips on separating Marbled Carpets would be good :-)

Orange appeal

Nice frosted orange trapped at R&R's in Colwyn Bay overnight while back home had my first lunar underwing of the autumn and 5 feathered ranunculus.

Frosted orange

More micros

Several new micros caught over the last couple of days, the first 2 at R&R's in Colwyn Bay and the last in Penrhyn Bay. The Bay ones were carcina quercana and acleris sparsana while back home I had either acleris laterana or the strawberry tort acleris comariana which can only be reliably sperarated by gen dis, although on size I would go for the former. Another trapping session produced one more new record for Conwy RSPB with setaceous hebrew character.

Acleris sparsana

carcina quercana

acleris laterana/comariana