Juniper Carpet - garden

I only caught two moths, a wasp, and a cranefly last night in the garden. Scarcely worth the electricity (Lyn said), but I would counter that one of the moths was new for the garden; a Juniper Carpet.

Juniper Carpet

Juniper Carpet is described as local, but widespread. It seems to have spread due to the proliferation of cultivated junipers, and is often found in suburbia. My most recent distribution reference for Warwickshire shows none near Redditch, but that was published in 2006.

The other moth was a Barred Sallow, fairly regular in our garden at this time of year.