Currant Clearwing

While collecting pollen at a comfrey patch near New Romney, I was delighted to find and partially recognize this, my first clearwing moth.  I say partially recognize, because I was fairly sure it was a clearwing moth, but I wasn't sure of the species.  All the clearwing moths are regarded as Nationally Scarce and this is no exception.  They are probably under recorded because they are not attracted to the normal lures that moth collectors use such as light traps or sugar and wine-soaked ropes.  They fly by day and are closely related to the more familiar burnet moths.

This one is female having 3 abdominal stripes, the male has 4.

Just waiting for confirmation having posted the image on iRecord.

Currant Clearwing moth - Synanthedon tipuliformis

Brede High Woods Walk 18 June 2016

Half a dozen or so of us set out on a dull and occasionally rainy day to see what the woods had to offer.  We saw relatively few of the expected species, probably due to the weather, so no green tiger beetles or speckled yellow moths.  Most of the species we saw had roots so couldn't get away from the weather but we saw a few micro-moths, one macro-moth, a common toad, and some palmate newts.  Despite visiting the bridge over the stream, there were none of the damselflies or dragonflies we would normally have seen. Some of the better photos are below, but they are not very good thanks to the lack of light. (That's my excuse anyway!)

Common Marble micromoth - Celypha lacunana

Tormentil - Potentilla erecta One of two species of yellow flower that we saw,
 the other was yellow pimpernel

One of several sedges, probably common yellow-sedge, but I'm no expert.

Palmate newt - Lissotriton helveticus clearly showing why he's called that.

Probably a fragment of a blackbird's egg

Male Scorpion fly showing his scorpion-like tail, probably Panorpa communis

Small-barred long-horn micromoth - Adela croesella clearly showing his long horns

Common Carpet moth - Epirrhoe alternata that I chased into the grass.
Note that the term 'carpet' doesn't mean that it's a threat to your floor coverings,

but I'm not sure why they are called that.