Click on thumbnails for larger pictures. Left to right we have:miller,blood vein and buff tip. The miller is a first for us so a pleasing sight, the buff tip looks very like a broken twig - a useful bit of camouflage!

Click on thumbnails for larger pictures. Left to right we have: mottled beauty, pod lover and yellow barred brindle (again superbly camouflaged against the pebble dash wall.)

Click on thumbnails for larger pictures. Left to right we have: burnished brass, flame carpet, common pug Pugs are notoriously hard to i.d. - they are very small and markings fade quickly. This month we had some fresh ones.

Click on thumbnails for larger pictures. Left to right we have: elephant hawk moth, foxglove pug, green pug

Click on thumbnails for larger pictures. Left to right we have: heart and club, heart and dart, broad barred white

Click on thumbnails for larger pictures. Left to right we have:common swift, lychnis and privet hawk moth. The privet hawk is one of the more regular hawk moths (along with poplar and small elephant )- they are huge!

Click on thumbnails for larger pictures. Left to right we have:small magpie and the uncertain. The small magpie in technically a 'micro' lepidoptera species - many micros are larger in size than macros! The uncertain - really called that! - looks similar to several other species hence the name

All of these moths were captured and released unharmed around St Ishmaels.
A good number do not like to be photographed so in addition to what we see here we have also caught the following this month:chinese character, spectacle, burnished brass, shaded broad bar and many more.
I will publish a complete list at year end which should tot up to 150 - 200 species.
The end of the month turned nasty weatherwise so no trapping was possible.