Night's In 'White Satin' - Moody Blues

It may have been the torrential rain, which lasted for about a hour yesterday afternoon, that knocked out the external electrical ring main to the stables and other outbuildings. This resulted in loss of power to a couple of the Moth Traps overnight, a tragedy in as much as catches have been excellent in recent days. Despite that 68 species of Macro were secures including what may be described as 'goodies'. First up was

 LEOPARD MOTH*

 not at all a common species in Dorset

 and a personal 'first' ever for me!
Even rarer with, as far as I can find, less than 100 records in the County

 WHITE SATIN*

 which has its Dorset stronghold

in the region of the Moors River which forms the North Western
boundary of Parley Court Farm.
Others taken last night and including a few from the past couple of days
include

 SMALL BLOOD-VEIN

 CLAY TRIPLE-LINES*

 YELLOW SHELL

 BLUE-BORDERED CARPET

 BIRD'S WING

 DUN-BAR

BROAD-BARRED WHITE*

 TRUE LOVER'S KNOT

and the very similar
BEAUTIFUL YELLOW UNDERWING

LESSER YELLOW UNDERWING

 ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH and 

SMALL ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH

the Micro

ORTHOPYGIA GLAUCINALIS

A bit of a 'heart-stopper' this one as at first glance it was thought
to be the extremely rare and local (mostly to Kent)

LESSER BELLE
photo from Wiki.

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