[0737] Monochroa palustrella

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Hemel Hempstead - Field Trip - 08/07/13 - National Moth Night contributionDavid, Roger and myself made another effort to trap at Gadesprings again, for my contribution to National Moth Night (as I wouldn't be running a trap in my garden until Sunday night)The weather was perfect, cloudy and mild with just a hint of breeze. Luckily we had almost finished packing up at about 2am before the rain started.We set up 2 traps from the mains and a further 3 traps about 200 metres along the canal/watercress beds. Two of the traps were placed right next to large outcrops of Butterbur, in the vain attempt to see whether we could get a Butterbur Moth....that never happened! Although we did get a few interesting species at the end of the night.Olive was a good record. My only records are belowHatfield Broad Oak 21/07/2008Hatfield Broad Oak 22/07/2008Canvey Wick SSSI 08/07/2010Interestingly all my previous records are from Essex, so this is my first Hertfordshire specimen.Other moths of note were a Dioryctria, possbly abietella due to its plainess and size (I have set the specimen for further identification), Ypsolopha sequella which I haven't seen for awhile now, and a possible Elachista gleichenella, which to my knowledge is extinct in Herts now. I unfortunately let it go after a few photos which I am kicking myself for doing. It does look spot on for this species and has many more markings than atricomella, alpinella and the rest of the confusion species.Numbers below are approximate 08/07/13 - Gadesprings - Hemel Hempstead - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 160w MBT Trap, 1x 22w Actinic + 26w Blacklight Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Trap run from 9.00pm until 1.30am 124 Species in total63 Macro Moths & 61 Micro MothsMacro Moths1x Beautiful Hook-tip1x Bright-line Brown-eye2x Brimstone Moth5x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing1x Clay2x Cloaked Minor3x Common Carpet1x Common Emerald2x Common Footman4x Common Rustic1x Common Wave1x Common Wainscot1x Copper Underwing1x Coronet10x Dark Arches15x Dingy Footman10x Double Lobed1x Double Square-spot10x Dun-bar1x Fern5x Flame Shoulder1x Heart & Dart2x July Highflyer1x Knot Grass3x Large Yellow Underwing8x Least Yellow Underwing15x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing5x Lesser Yellow Underwing1x Lunar-spotted Pinion3x Maple Pug1x Nut-tree Tussock1x Olive4x Orange Swift1x Pale Mottled Willow2x Pale Prominent1x Poplar Hawk-moth2x Red Twin-spot Carpet4x Riband Wave1x Rosy Rustic12x Ruby Tiger1x Sallow Kitten1x Scorched Carpet2x Shuttle-shaped Dart5x Silver-Y1x Single-dotted Wave2x Small Fan-footed Wave2x Small Phoenix1x Small Rivulet1x Smoky Wainscot5x Snout1x Southern Wainscot1x Square-spot Rustic2x Straw Dot1x Tawny Speckled Pug1x Toadflax Pug4x Tree-lichen Beauty2x Uncertain2x V-pug5x White-spotted Pug5x Willow Beauty2x Wormwood Pug8x Yellow Shell1x Yellow-barred BrindleMicro Moths2x Acentria ephemerella1x Acleris emargana2x Acleris forsskaleana1x Acleris variegana2x Agapeta hamana10x Agriphila straminella5x Agriphila tristella2x Aleimma loeflingiana2x Apotomis lineana2x Argyresthia bonnetella1x Bactra lancealana1x Batia unitella2x Blastobasis adustella 1x Brachmia blandella1x Calamotropha paludella1x Caloptilia alchimiella2x Cameraria ohridella4x Carcina quercana2x Cataclysta lemnata2x Celypha lacunana1x Chrysoteuchia culmella4x Clepsis spectrana1x Cnephasia sp2x Coleophora sp2x Dipleurina lacustrata1x Dioryctria abietella (pending)5x Elachista canapennella1x Elachista gleichenella (pending)5x Elachista maculicerusella1x Emmelina monodactyla1x Epiblema uddmanniana5x Epinotia nisella1x Epinotia ramella1x Eucosma cana2x Eudemis profundana1x Eudonia mercurella1x Eudonia pallida2x Euzophera pinguis1x Gypsonoma dealbana1x Hedya salicella2x Helcystogramma rufescens4x Limnaecia phragmitella2x Mompha epilobiella1x Monochroa palustrella1x Orthopygia glaucinalis2x Pandemis cerasana1x Pandemis corylana5x Pandemis heparana1x Parornix sp2x Phycita roborella50+ Pleuroptya ruralis3x Plutella xylostella1x Prays ruficeps2x Pterophorus pentadactyla1x Pyrausta aurata1x Rhopobota naevana2x Spilonota ocellana4x Trachycera advenella1x Udea prunalis2x Yponomeuta evonymella1x Ypsolopha sequella