[0050] Stigmella aurella

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Garden first Eyed Hawk meets it's peril :(A very pleasing night with good night time temperatures and plenty of cloud cover. Unfortunately it did rain during the night, and this morning it was drizzling a little.Still I was rewarded with a garden first Eyed Hawk-moth, unfortunately a Garden Spider had got to it before me and had already delivered the fatal bite :( Puss moth was also new, after rearing 3 Males recently, this one was a female and another garden first, delighted!Stigmella aurella was certainly the smallest moth in the catch, a moth I recorded earlier on in the year as a tenanted mine within Brambles at the back of the garden.Also Pseudoswammerdamia combinella was a good new micro for the garden, and despite letting go one from last weeks catch at Roughdown Common, thinking this was initially the same individual....after a photo of the same side it clearly has different markings.Catch Report - 05/05/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson TrapMacro Moths1x Eyed Hawk-moth [NFG]1x Puss Moth (F) [NFG]1x Orange Footman [NFY]2x Red-green Carpet [NFY]1x Buff-tip [NFY]1x Spruce Carpet 2x Brindled Pug1x Flame Shoulder1x Nut-tree Tussock2x Brimstone Moth3x Shuttle-shaped DartMicro Moths 1x Pseudoswammerdamia combinella [NFG]1x Syndemis musculana [NFY]1x Argyrotaenia ljungiana [NFY]1x Stigmella aurella1x Agonopterix purpurea1x Endrosis sarcitrella1x Epiphyas postvittana