Scarce Bordered Straw and Garden Pebble

Burnished Brass, Diachrysia chrysitis

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We've been visited by many moths during the period of hot weather August 11 to 17th. New ones to the balcony were Scarce Bordered Straw, Spectacle and Garden Pebble. These are the more interesting ones plus a bug and ladybird:

Birch Shieldbug, Elasmostethus interstinctus

Comfrey Ermel, Ethmia quadrillella

Delicate, Mythimna vitellina

Garden Pebble, Evergestis forficalis 

Harlequin Ladybird, Harmonia axyridis 

Oak Eggar, Lasiocampa quercus

Orange Swift, Triodia sylvina 

Pine Hawk-moth, Sphinx pinastri 

Poplar Bent-wing, Phyllocnistis unipunctella (5mm)

Rosy Rustic, Hydraecia micacea 

Scarce Bordered Straw, Helicoverpa armigera 

Small Red Slender, Caloptilia rufipennella 

Spectacle, Abrostola tripartita

Spectacle, Abrostola tripartita

Swallow Prominent, Pheosia tremula 

Yponomeuta species

Zebra Jumping Spider, Salticus scenicus with Meal Moth, Pyralis farinalis