Thanks - yes I did consider that. Certainly common enough in my garden!

They look unbelievable!

As I don’t trap lure or sugar, my experience with the mothy world is limited! The Rush Veneer was hiding in grass near the Agriphila in the field where I walk the dog off Ryehills in Audley

*HBHM, duh

Dave’s Natural History of Keele University, updated ed. 2016. Chunky 88 page booklet full of lists and colour pix. Published by the Uni, don’t know if you can still get it

Dave Emley used to get over 1000 a night trapping in the Walled Garden at Keele Uni in the 1980s! see graph

😂 same here except the ones I needed were Viper’s-bugloss, the Campion and the Mullein! 👍