Some stats

Whilst I have trapped moths since owning a house in 2004, I have only recorded the species I catch since 2020 (a lock down opportunity).  For five years, I only recorded the date of the first record for each species.  In 2025 I started to record each and every record of each moth caught.

Year 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Number of species 203 210 253 263 265 307
New for garden 203 47 45 33 25 22

In 2025, I recorded 17076 moths on 174 trapping nights and managed to beat my target species count of 300, recording 307 species in the garden over the course of the year.  The table below shows the most abundant species, all of which recorded over 100 individual moths.

Species Count
Large yellow underwing 1274
Shuttle-shaped dart 1150
Turnip 1051
Vine's Rustic 856
Heart and dart 824
Setaceous hebrew character 740
White point 739
The uncertain 705
Riband wave 487
Straw underwing 382
Brimstone 373
Common rustic 345
Willow beauty 307
Lesser broad-bordered yellow underwing 272
Double-striped pug 271
Broad-bordered yellow underwing 256
Square-spot rustic 255
Common quaker 247
Common wainscot 246
Dark arches 241
Elephant hawkmoth 237
Heart and club 232
Treble lines 162
Least carpet 161
Lunar underwing 158
Black rustic 150
Grey/dark dagger 136
Red-green carpet 135
Hebrew character 129
Lesser yellow underwing 122
Tree-lichen beauty 119
Green pug 113
Small dusty wave 110
Ruby tiger 106
Flame shoulder 101

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