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Levelled up as usual.
Like the show Poodle variety.
Can I ask the rough area of your captures?
(In the hope of similar finds)
Ordinata-
Back garden in south Oxfordshire, edge of Chilterns. I've also got lures for Currant and Raspberry Clearings so may try the local allotments later in the week.
If you'ed like to do it and want to check what might be in your area follow a species link from https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/systematic-list/#Sesiinae click on the map thumbnail at the bottom of a given species page and then the link 'Viwe NBN Atlas Map' and that will show you the map of current accepted records for that species.
Only other thing to note is most(?) of the clearwings are high summer species so June / July / August is the main period for luring as I understand it.
JoePablo
When I was in Mallorca in the spring I saw a couple of Clearwing moths, day-flying moths that mimic hornets and wasps. In the UK there are only 14 species of clearwings and all are rarely seen due to their relative scarcity and because they are secretive despite being day-flying. So wanting to see if I could see some in the UK I bought a couple of pheromone lures from Anglian Lepidopteris Supplies. These attract males of specific clearwing species. I've have had no luck over the last couple of weeks but had high hopes for today as it was warm and sunny which is apparently what is needed to get the males flying. I left a lure out in the garden this morning and when I got back found this beauty, an Orange-tailed Clearwing (Synanthedon andrenaeformis). Luckily I managed some reasonable photos before it flew off.