BOULTHAM MERE

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

TUESDAY 23rd JUNE 2026

What an incredible Day and Night in My Garden, to put it in Perspective my biggest Species catch was at Boultham Mere in 1996 when we caught 94 Species, we had a Blended MV running an Actinic trap, sugaring and Netting from Dusk and that record has lasted till tonight, 23rd June 2026 when i caught 499 Moths in the light Traps of a Record 97 Species on two Actinic Lights a triple in Back Garden and a single in front, i also had my Lure Buckets out which gave me 3 More 2 of which were New for Garden, i finished the Night on 502 Moths of 100 Species

Garden list is on 302 Species for 2026 and 424 for Life, there were 16 New for the year and a Record 14 of these new for Garden.

NEW FOR YEAR 23rd JUNE 2026

Dingy Footman
Vapourer

NEW FOR GARDEN 23rd JUNE 2026

Red Tipped Clearwing
Yellow Legged Clearwing
Dingy Shears
Suspected
Coleophora Sp- C.Ibipennella
Miller
Barred Straw
Brown Tail
Pammene regiana
Psedargyrotoza canwagana
Argyresthia curvella
Mompha ochraceela
Ancylis achatana
Carpatolechia proximella

YELLOW LEGGED CLEARWING

NEW FOR GARDEN

Could it get any better after the Red Tipped i checked the lure Buckets every 15 Minutes then at 8.00pm i could hardly believe my eyes a stunning Yellow Legged Clearwing in the VES lure Bucket, an incredible day two Clearwings and a Lunar Hornet

RED TIPPED CLEARWING

FIRST FOR GARDEN

With all the Lures out i thought i had a good chance of a Clearwing today, the VES lure scored at 6.00pm with this stunning Red Tipped a first for me having never seen a Clearwing before, It was photograph and released safely away from Garden 23rd June 2026