Kithurst meadow and moths

Common Purple and Gold, Pyrausta purpuralis

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On July 30 I visited Kithurst meadow and saw plenty of moths including Red-fringed Conch and Ash-coloured Sober.

Last night by the garage I found a dead Brown-tail moth and by the balcony light I found several moths and a Harlequin Ladybird devouring the many midges. moths: Blastobasis vittata, Common Plume, Elbow-stripe Grass veneer, Ox-tongue Conch, Small Purple and Gold aka Mint Moth. I have only seen the Mint Moth on grassland previously.

Kithurst Meadow, July 30:

Ash-coloured Sober, Acompsia cinerella

Ash-coloured Sober

Cinnabar larva, Tyria jacobaeae

Cinnabar larva

Common Carpet, Epirrhoe alternata

Common Purple and Gold, Pyrausta purpuralis

Dark Strawberry Tortrix, Celypha lacunana

Diamond-back Moth, Plutella xylostella

fly with pollen

Gatekeeper, Pyronia tithonus

Peacock, Inachis io

Pearl Veneer, Agriphila straminella

Red Admiral, Vanessa atalanta

Red Admiral

Red-fringed Conch, Falseuncaria ruficiliana

Ringlet, Aphantopus hyperantus

Rough Hawkbit, Leontodon hispidus

Satyr Pug larva, Eupithecia satyrata on Rough Hawkbit

galls on Rough Hawkbit

Spotted Longhorn Beetle, Rutpela maculata

Littlehampton, August 24:

Carabid beetle, Bradycellus verbasci

dead Brown-tail, Euproctis chrysorrhoea

Common Plume, Emmelina monodactyla

Common Rough Woodlouse, Porcellio scaber

Elbow-stripe Grass-veneer, Agriphila geniculea

Harlequin Ladybird, Harmonia axyridis

Harlequin Ladybird

Harlequin Ladybird

harvestman

Missing Sector Spider, Zygiella x-notata

Missing Sector Spider

Blastobasis vittata
Strangely, I saw the same species here exactly one year ago.

Ox-tongue Conch, Cochylis molliculana

Rove beetle, Gyrohypnus angustatus

Small Purple and Gold aka Mint Moth, Pyrausta aurata

tiny unidentified spider