[2495] Olive Crescent (Trisateles emortualis)

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On Thursday night I joined Graham Bailey and Don Down and a few others for our contribution to national moth night(s)It had been a whole year nearly since I last came down this way, and it was nice to be back.The trapping conditions looked pretty good, we did not have the cloud cover that I was blessed with on the previous night in Bedfordshire, but the temperatures were very warm and for the rest of the evening it stayed warm.We set up 7 traps in high anticipation of a bucket load of moths. Unfortunately it wasn't to be. The moths (particularly the macro's) were very slow turning up to the lamps.And even after a full two hours, apart from nearly 40 species of micro moths we had only noted around 15 macro species!What on earth was going wrong!Luckily all was not lost as we did manage the target species, all 4 of them... the elusive Olive Crescent which is only know from a few sites nationwide, this being one of them and naturally i'd rather protect the sites identity from possible collector's!It was also nice to see a few Festoons which were really freshly hatched.Along with the Olive Crescent, there were plenty of Lead-coloured Pugs and Opsibotys fuscalis, all three species being new for meCatch Report - 03/07/14 - Essex - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Suitcase Trap.Numbers below are approximate50 Macros and 57 Micros ( 107 species)Macro Moths4x Black Arches3x Brimstone Moth2x Buff Arches2x Buff Ermine10x Buff Footman2x Buff-tip5x Clouded Border10x Clouded Silver2x Common Carpet2x Common Emerald3x Common Footman1x Common Marbled Carpet2x Common White Wave3x Double Square-spot2x Dun-bar3x Engrailed1x Festoon1x Flame2x Flame Carpet2x Flame Shoulder1x Green Pug2x Green Silver-lines2x July Highflyer1x Large Emerald3x Lead-coloured Pug [NEW!]2x Marbled Minor3x Marbled White Spot5x Mottled Beauty3x Olive Crescent [NEW!]5x Orange Moth2x Peach Blossom1x Peacock Moth2x Peppered Moth5x Riband Wave5x Rosy Footman2x Scarce Footman1x Scorched Carpet2x Scorched Wing10x Single-dotted Wave2x Slender Brindle3x Small Fan-foot20+ Small Fan-footed Wave1x Small White Wave1x Small Yellow Wave2x Snout3x Swallow-tailed Moth1x Tawny-barred Angle2x Treble Brown Spot5x Uncertain1x Yellow ShellMicro Moths 1x Blastobasis lacticolella1x Orthopygia glaucinalis2x Endotricha flammealis1x Batia unitella1x Batia lunaris1x Incurvaria oehlmanniella1x Caloptilia robustella2x Parachronistis albiceps5x Celypha lacunana2x Eudonia mercurella2x Tortrix viridana1x Ditula angustiorana2x Epagoge grotiana10x Carcina quercana15+ Aleimma loeflingiana5x Gypsonoma dealbana1x Stigmella aurella10x Zeiraphera isertana1x Coleophora sp5x Chrysoteuchia culmella2x Hedya pruniana1x Ypsolopha ustella1x Ypsolopha dentella1x Aphomia sociella2x Celypha striana2x Archips crataegana5x Conobathra repandana2x Cydia splendana5x Epinotia brunnichana2x Scoparia ambigualis1x Catoptria pinella2x Batrachedra praenangusta 3x Teleoides luculella2x Epiblema uddmanniana2x Cnephasia sp1x Hofmannophila pseudospretella5x Argyresthia brockeella2x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana1x Emmetia marginea2x Acleris kochiella1x Amblyptilia acanthadactyla2x Archips xylosteana2x Udea prunalis2x Pandemis cerasana1x Pandemis heparana2x Eurrhypara hortulata2x Yponomeuta evonymella2x Archips podana1x Crambus pascuella2x Spilonota ocellana1x Epinotia biluna1x Apotomis betuletana3x Apotomis turbidana1x Caloptilia populetorum1x Epinotia nanana4x Opsibotys fuscalis [NEW!]2x Spatalistis bifasciana1x Epinotia demarniana