Back at the trap

Home again; and the nighttime brought these new arrivals, above and below. I think the first is a Lychnis and the second a Purple Bar. Both were familiar in Leeds and it's good to see them here in Oxfordshire too. (Hang on... check out the comment by Learned Dave, my invaluable expert friend. They are in fact a Shears and a Silver-ground Carpet. But I had both of these in Leeds too). PS I should have recognised the Shears from the marking halfway down its forewing which looks like the blades of garden secateurs or indeed shears, as shown above - and more distinctly in Townsend, Waring & Lewington).

The trap was also home to three White Ermines, such a delicately beautiful moth that I couldn't resist taking another picture - this one below, which initially had Penny thinking the moth was child-size and snuggled up in one of our Habitat armchairs whose fabric resembles the eggboxes', at least on a photograph.

Completing the tally, were two Pebble Prominents, five Green Carpets, a Chocolate Tip, a Maybug and this Red Twin-spot Carpet below, another small but finely-patterned regular.