Prominents

With the weather finally picking up I thought I'd stick the trap out. A worthwhile session with the highlights being Coxcomb Prominent (3rd garden record), Bordered Pug (4th garden record) and Brown-line Bright-eye (6th garden record but perhaps now established as most of those in past couple of years).

Lesser Swallow Prominent Pheosia gnoma

Coxcomb Prominent Ptilodon capucina

Bordered Pug Eupithecia succenturiata

Brown-line Bright-eye Mythimna conigera

Acleris holmiana and Common Footman Eilema lurideola

Canon EOS 500D 18-55mm IS USM

0455 Ypsolopha scabrella 1
0874 Blastobasis lacticolella 1
0980 Variegated Golden Tortrix (Archips xylosteana) 1
1037 Acleris holmiana 1
1082 Plum Tortrix (Hedya pruniana) 1
1115 Ancylis achatana 2
1293 Garden Grass-veneer (Chrysoteuchia culmella) 12
1301 Crambus lathoniellus 1
1305 Agriphila tristella 2
1338 Dipleurina lacustrata 3
1376 Small Magpie (Eurrhypara hortulata) 1
1424 Endotricha flammealis 3
1651 Chinese Character (Cilix glaucata) 1
1705 Dwarf Cream Wave (Idaea fuscovenosa) 3
1713 Riband Wave (Idaea aversata) ab. remutata 3
1713 Riband Wave (Idaea aversata) typical 1
1839 Bordered Pug (Eupithecia succenturiata) 1
1937 Willow Beauty (Peribatodes rhomboidaria) 1
2006 Lesser Swallow Prominent (Pheosia gnoma) 1
2008 Coxcomb Prominent (Ptilodon capucina) 1
2031 White Satin Moth (Leucoma salicis) 2
2044 Dingy Footman (Eilema griseola) ab. stramineola 1
2050 Common Footman (Eilema lurideola) 45
2061 Buff Ermine (Spilosoma lubricipeda) 1
2128 Double Square-spot (Xestia triangulum) 3
2192 Brown-line Bright-eye (Mythimna conigera) 1
2198 Smoky Wainscot (Mythimna impura) 1
2293 Marbled Beauty (Cryphia domestica) 1
2322 Light Arches (Apamea lithoxylaea) 1
2333 Large Nutmeg (Apamea anceps) 7
2341 Cloaked Minor (Mesoligia furuncula) 1
2343x Common Rustic agg. (Mesapamea secalis agg.) 1
2381 The Uncertain (Hoplodrina alsines) 4
2382 The Rustic (Hoplodrina blanda) 2
2387 Mottled Rustic (Caradrina morpheus) 2
2441 Silver Y (Autographa gamma) 1
2477 The Snout (Hypena proboscidalis) 1
2489 The Fan-foot (Herminia tarsipennalis) 8
2492 Small Fan-foot (Herminia grisealis) 1

Berner Oberland Wildlife

Mainly lepidoptera with assorted other things seen during a week in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland. Most were in the Murren area.

Swallowtail Papilio machao

Moorland Clouded Yellow Colias palaeno

Alpine Heath Coenonympha gardetta

Titania's Fritillary Boloria titania

Mountain Fritillary Boloria napaea

Heath Fritillary Melitaea athalia

Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary Boloria selene

Purple-edged Copper Lycaena hippothoe

Sooty Copper Lycaena tityrus, female

Yellow-spotted Ringlet Erebia manto

Large Wall Brown Lasiommata maera

Burnet Companion Euclidia glyphica

Northern Eggar Lasiocampa quercus

Small Argent & Sable Epirrhoe tristata

Catastia marginea

Psodos quadrifaria

Six-spot Burnets Zygaena filipendulae

Anania funebris

Lampronia rupella

Red Squirrel Sciurus vulgaris

Roman Snail Helix pomatia

Common Lizard Zootoca vivipara

White-faced Darter Leucorrhinia dubia

Early Purple Orchid Orchis mascula

Small White Orchid Psuedorchis albid

Common Spotted Orchid Dactylorhiza fuchsii

Glacier Crowfoot Ranunculus glacialis

Yellow Alpine Pansy Viola sp.

Unknown flower

Moss Campion Silene acaulis

Alpine Gentian Gentiana alpina

Huge recumbent fold

The Aletsch Glacier, the longest in the Alps, winds its way into the distance, carving the valleys of the future on its 23km journey through the mountains

Small Emerald

Came to the kitchen window last night in the pouring rain.

Small Emerald Hemistola chrysoprasaria