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Field Trip - 13/06/18 - Ashwell Quarry My second field trip of the year as to the far North-west of the County of Hertfordshire to Ashwell Quarry. I'm quite fond of this small disused chalk quarry and grassland, and i've had some fantastic species of the last few years that I have been recording here. This night back in mid-june was no different. In total over 4 lights (Sorry Mercury Blended trap, but I couldn't find your bulb...which I have now found luckily) I recorded 95 species of which only 36 were Macro Moths, leaving the Micro Moths to bolster the list by 59 species! The day had been warm at 25 degrees and the temperature was holding up nicely at dusk. Unfortunately the wind increased and with clear skies I was cursing the conditions from the offset (Particularly as it had been cloudy, still and muggy all day), there was now a distinct coolness in the breeze but I was determined to see what would turn up. It turned out to be worth it with one new moth for my records. There were at least 5 examplrs of Sloe Pug! Hardly surprising given the fact that the reserve is bordered by umpteen Prunus bushes, but the fact that I had never seen them before at this time of the year was a nice surprise in itself. Also Netted Pug made it's annual appearance, not a particularly fresh example mind. Both common species of Metzeneria turned up giving a nice comparison between the two species. Other than that, Tawny Shears was most welcome and another two good micros for the night were the distinctive Luquetia lobella and Telechrysis tripuncta, the latter quite scarce in the County. Below is the full list. 36 Macro and 59 Micro species recorded Catch Report - 13/06/18 - Ashwell Quarry - 1x 250w Frosted MV Robinson Trap, 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x twin 20w Wemite Actinic + 1x 40w Actinic & 15w LED corn light Macro Moths Bright-line Brown-eye Brown Rustic Cinnabar Clouded Brindle Common Wainscot Dagger sp Dark Spectacle Elephant Hawk-moth Eyed Hawk-moth Fern Freyer's Pug Garden Carpet Green Silver-lines Haworth's Pug Large Nutmeg Large Yellow Underwing Light Arches Middle-barred Minor Mottled Beauty Mottled Rustic Netted Pug Pale Prominent Pale Tussock Peppered Moth Poplar Grey Purple Bar Riband Wave Royal Mantle Sandy Carpet Scorched Wing Silver Y Sloe Pug [NEW!] Tawny Shears Treble Lines Wood Carpet Yellow Shell Micro Moths Agapeta hamana Agapeta zoegana Agonopterix arenella Anania hortulata Anania perlucidalis Ancylis achatana Anthophila fabriciana Aphomia sociella Argyresthia pruniella Blastobasis lacticolella Borkhausenia fuscescens Bryotropha terrella Celypha lacunana Chrysoteuchia culmella Clepsis consimiliana Cnephasia sp Cochylimorpha straminea Cochylis atricapitana Crambus lathoniellus Crambus pascuella Crambus perlella Crassa unitella Elachista apicipunctella Elachista atricomella Endrosis sarcitrella Ephestia sp Epinotia signatana Epiphyas postvittana Eucosma cana Eucosma hohenwartiana Eudonia pallida Eupoecilia angustana Hedya nubiferana Hedya pruniana Hypsopygia costalis Luquetia lobella Metzneria lappella Metzneria metzneriella Monopis crocicapitella Monopis laevigella Monopis obviella Nemapogon cloacella Notocelia cynosbatella Notocelia trimaculana Notocelia uddmanniana Pandemis cerasana Paraswammerdamia nebulella Phtheochroa rugosana Phtheochroa sodaliana Plutella xylostella Prays fraxinella Scoparia ambigualis Scoparia basistrigalis Scrobipalpa costella Stenoptilia pterodactyla Telechrysis tripuncta Teleiodes vulgella Tinea semifulvella Udea olivalis
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Field Trip - Scales Park - 16/05/17 + New for County record! On Tuesday night I joined several fellow moth'ers to a very large Wood in the North-east corner of Hertfordshire for some moth trapping. We had been granted permission to be there because this is quite a highly guarded site with reasonable tight security as it has a shooting ground in the vicinity and use to be a main RAF/USAF base in WW2, in fact looking on a map from 1944, my traps were positioned right over where the bomb dump use to be! The weather was warm and sunny and up to 24 degrees in the afternoon but extremely windy which made netting nearly impossible! But by the evening the wind had dropped but the rain started as soon as we turned up and with less wind, it wasn't going to be blown through anytime soon. We got soaked and the equipment suffered as well with no less than 5 blown bulbs, luckily my gear just about survived although I had to throw a load of egg trays out as they were completely sodden and ripped. Firstly though, I managed to do some day-time netting before the night trapping effort and was rewarded with some great moths, including a new one for me, Pammene rhediella (unfortunately it was quite worn). Adela croesella also turned up, and is the County 3rd record after both 1st and 2nd County records were found in 2011 by myself and Andrew Wood on the same night! A joint County first record doesn't happen very often. In fact...was this to be a sign? Spookily Andrew and I may have caught the same moth again on the same night and a County first once again. Mine has been confirmed as of last night as the first South-east record of Pammene ignorata and the 12th County that it has been recorded in. Some great moths were found and a few are still pending identification including two possible Epinotia tetraquetrana which would also be a new moth for me, but having never seen it before I thought I would get it checked. I'm not pretty confident that it is Epinotia tetraquetrana. Day-time 16/05/17 - Scales Park - North-east Herts 1x Adela croesella 2x Adela fibulella 15+ Anthophila fabriciana 15+ Cauchas rufimitrella 5x Celypha lacunana 1x Common Pug 1x Crambus lathoniellus 2x Dichrorampha sp (to be gen det by Graeme Smith) 1x Dichrorampha plumbana 1x Epiblema scutulana sp (to be gen det by Graeme Smith) 2x Epinotia subocellana 1x Epinotia tedella 100+ Glyphipterix simpliciella 100+ Micropterix calthella 1x Monopis weaverella 1x Nemapogon schwarziellus 1x Notocelia cynosbatella 1x Orange Footman 1x Pammene rhediella [NEW!] 3x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1x Pyrausta aurata 1x Red Twin-spot Carpet 1x Rivulet 1x Silver-ground Carpet 1x Silver-Y 1x Syndemis musculana 3x Psyche casta (Case) Catch Report - 16/05/17 - Scales Park - North-east Herts - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap 1x Synergetic Skinner Trap & 1x 40w Actinic Trap 70 species Macro Moths 1x Angle Shades 1x Barred Hook-tip 2x Brimstone Moth 1x Brindled Pug 1x Broken-barred Carpet 2x Chinese Character 2x Clouded Border 2x Common Carpet 2x Common Pug 1x Common Swift 1x Common White Wave 15x Cream Wave 4x Flame Shoulder 2x Grey pine Carpet 2x Hebrew Character 1x Iron Prominent 5x Latticed Heath 1x Least black Arches 1x Light Emerald 2x Maiden's Blush 1x Maple Prominent 15x Mottled Pug 2x Nut-tree Tussock 5x Oak-tree Pug 60x Orange Footman 1x Pale Oak Beauty 2x Pale Prominent 10x Pale Tussock 5x Pebble Hook-tip 1x Pebble Prominent 1x Peppered Moth 3x Poplar Hawk-moth 5x Poplar Lutestring 5x Red Twin-spot Carpet 1x Rustic Shoulder-knot 1x Sandy Carpet 8x Scalloped Hazel 1x Scalloped Hook-tip 2x Scorched Carpet 4x Seraphim 1x Setaceous Hebrew Character 2x Silver-ground Carpet 5x Small Phoenix 1x Spectacle 1x Streamer 3x V-Pug 1x Waved umber 3x White Ermine 1x Yellow-barred Brindle Micro Moths 1x Agapeta hamana 1x Agonopterix arenella 1x Argyrotaenia ljungiana 5x Bucculatrix nigricomella 1x Caloptilia robustella/alchimiella 1x Crambus lathoniellus 1x Cryptoblabes bistriga 10+ Glyphipterix simpliciella 20+ Epinotia subocellana 5x Epinotia tedella 2x Epinotia tetraquetrana [NEW!] (to be gen det by Graeme Smith) 1x Endrosis sarcitrella 2x Eulia ministrana 1x Monopis weaverella 1x Notocelia cynosbatella 1x Pammene Ignorata [NEW!] (Gen det by Graeme Smith) 2x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1x Strophedra sp (to be gen det by Graeme Smith) 1x Swammerdamia caesiella?? (to be gen det by Graeme Smith) 3x Syndemis musculana 1x Tinea semifulvella
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Field Trip - Ashwell Quarry - 22/05/17 On Monday night and after a really warm day peaking at around 25 degrees, it was off to Ashwell Quarry with traps in tow. Trevor and myself set about setting up all of the lights spread across the reserve covering nearly all of it. We did a little bit of 'dusking' before it was time to switch the lights on and turned up a few micros, notably Cauchas fibulella (Is this moth on every patch of Germander Speedwell in the County of does it just favour chalky areas where the plant seems to flourish?). The night started well and we had a bit of cloud cover to boot, but that did disappear eventually to leave a large clear sky and a slight drop in temperature to 13 degrees by 2am. The thing that did hamper us slightly was the fact that the wind got up a bit as the night went on. It was good to get Netted Pug which is still a scarce moth in the County and cracking to look at, also Trevor saw his first ever Pseudargyrotoza conwagana, a pretty little tortrix moth. Also a Geometer had us really stumped. To Trevor's trap we potted up a dark grey Emerald looking species, which after much searching of books and the web I finally settled on the rare 'nigra' form of Blood-vein, minus the vein marking and with a hint of 'blood' along the fringe of the forewings There a few outstanding specimens to be gen det, a Cochylis species and a Scrobipalpa species. Generally numbers were a little down on what we had hoped and we didn't quite get to the target of 100 species but nevertheless some good fresh specimens were observed and it was a pleasure to just get out there and give it a go! Catch Report - 22/05/17 - Ashwell Quarry - North-west Herts - 8 traps in total - 3x 125w MV Robinson Trap 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap 1x 40w Actinic + 15w LED Trap 1x 5w LED Trap Uva/uvb Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Trap 92 species Macro Moths Angle Shades Blood-vein Brimstone Moth Brown Rustic Common Pug Clouded Silver Common Carpet Common Marbled Carpet Common Swift Common Wainscot Figure of Eighty Flame Shoulder Garden Carpet Green Carpet Grey-pine Carpet Large Nutmeg Large Yellow Underwing Latticed Heath Least Black Arches Light Brocade Light Emerald Lime-speck Pug Marbled Minor Mottled Pug Netted Pug Oak Hook-tip Orange Footman Pale Tussock Poplar Grey Purple Bar Red-green Carpet Red Twin-spot Carpet Rustic Shoulder-knot Sandy Carpet Scorched Carpet Setaceous Hebrew Character Silver-ground Carpet Silver-Y Small Fan-foot Small Square-spot Small Waved Umber Snout Spectacle Treble Lines V-Pug Waved Umber White Ermine White-spotted Pug Willow Beauty Yellow-barred Brindle Micro Moths Aethes smeathmanniana Agapeta hamana Agonopterix alstromeriana Agonopterix arenella Aphomia sociella Argyresthia trifasciata Aspilapteryx tringipennella Blastobasis lacticolella Cauchas fibulella (Swept from Germander Speedwell) Celypha lacunana Cochylimorpha straminea Cochylis atricapitana Coleophora sp Crambus lathoniellus Depressaria radiella Dichrorampha alpinana Elachista argentella Endrosis sarcitrella Epiblema cirsiana/sticticana Epiphyas postvittana Esperia sulphurella Evergestis forficalis Glyphipterix simpliciella Hedya pruniana Homoeosoma sinuella Monopis crocicapitella Monopis laevigella Monopis weaverella Nemapogon cloacella Nematopogon swammerdamella Nematopogon schwarziellus Notocelia cynosbatella Notocelia trimaculana Plutella xylostella Pseudargyrotoza conwagana Scrobipalpa costella Scrobipalpa sp - to be gen det Scoparia ambigualis Scoparia pyralella Syndemis musculana Tinea semifulvella Udea olivalis
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edit] Description: Heatwave continues More trapping again this week and I put the trap out again on the most favourable night that the forecasters had predicted. Thursday morning saw me going through the trap once again at 6am and jotting down the species present. I would love to trap every night, but couldn't justify the time making lists day after day, often repeating the same species. The trap wasn't brimming this morning but there was one surprise towards the bottom. The wetland Pyralid Donacaula forficella. A little tatty but a very welcome addition to the ever growing garden list. A nice collection of Micros were also new for the year. Catch Report - 24/07/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap Macro Moths 1x Flounced Rustic [NFY] 1x Small Rivulet [NFY] 1x Black Arches 1x Bright-line Brown-eye 1x Brimstone Moth 1x Buff Arches 2x Buff Footman 1x Buff-tip 1x Cloaked Minor 1x Common Carpet 3x Common Footman 15x Common Rustic 1x Dark Arches 8x Dot Moth 1x Double Square-spot 1x Double-striped Pug 2x Dun-bar 1x Dwarf Cream Wave 1x Elephant Hawk-moth 2x Fern 2x Flame Shoulder 2x Garden Carpet 1x Grey Dagger 1x Large Twin-spot Carpet 1x Large Yellow Underwing 2x Least Carpet 3x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1x Light Arches 1x Maple Prominent 1x Maple Pug 1x Nutmeg 1x Pale Prominent 2x Peppered Moth 1x Phoenix 12x Riband Wave 2x Scalloped Oak 1x Scarce Footman 1x Setaceous Hebrew Character 1x Shuttle-shaped Dart 3x Single-dotted Wave 1x Small Emerald 1x Small Fan-footed Wave 1x Straw Underwing 2x Uncertain 1x Willow Beauty 2x Yellow Shell 2x Yellow-tail Micro Moths 1x Donacaula forficella [NFG] 1x Eucosma hohenwartiana [NFG] 2x Acentria ephemerella [NFY] 2x Hypatima rhomboidella [NFY] 1x Bucculatrix thoracella [NFY] 1x Tinea semifulvella [NFY] 1x Agriphila tristella [NFY] 1x Pyrausta aurata [NFY] 2x Phyllonorycter harrisella 1x Helcystogramma rufescens 1x Aphomia sociella 2x Pandemis corylana 3x Bryotropha terrella 1x Epiphyas postvittana 1x Cydia splendana 1x Phlyctaenia coronata 1x Celypha striana 3x Yponomeuta evonymella 4x Batia unitella 12x Plutella xylostella 2x Pleuroptya ruralis 2x Agapeta hamana 14x Endotricha flammealis 1x Spilonota ocellana 2x Phycita roborella 1x Udea prunalis 3x Eudonia mercurella 2x Agriphila straminella 2x Crambus perlella 1x Hypsopygia costalis 5x Chrysoteuchia culmella. Date: 25 July 2014, 08:29. Source:
[0246] Tinea semifulvella. Author:
Ben Sale from UK.
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Figure 9.—Clothes' moth.—(Tinea Pellionella) A. Head of Vestianella.—B. Eggs of Pellionella.—C. Worm emerging from the Egg.—D. The Moth, in its case, feeding.
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Field Trip - Scales Park - 16/05/17 + New for County record! On Tuesday night I joined several fellow moth'ers to a very large Wood in the North-east corner of Hertfordshire for some moth trapping. We had been granted permission to be there because this is quite a highly guarded site with reasonable tight security as it has a shooting ground in the vicinity and use to be a main RAF/USAF base in WW2, in fact looking on a map from 1944, my traps were positioned right over where the bomb dump use to be! The weather was warm and sunny and up to 24 degrees in the afternoon but extremely windy which made netting nearly impossible! But by the evening the wind had dropped but the rain started as soon as we turned up and with less wind, it wasn't going to be blown through anytime soon. We got soaked and the equipment suffered as well with no less than 5 blown bulbs, luckily my gear just about survived although I had to throw a load of egg trays out as they were completely sodden and ripped. Firstly though, I managed to do some day-time netting before the night trapping effort and was rewarded with some great moths, including a new one for me, Pammene rhediella (unfortunately it was quite worn). Adela croesella also turned up, and is the County 3rd record after both 1st and 2nd County records were found in 2011 by myself and Andrew Wood on the same night! A joint County first record doesn't happen very often. In fact...was this to be a sign? Spookily Andrew and I may have caught the same moth again on the same night and a County first once again. Mine has been confirmed as of last night as the first South-east record of Pammene ignorata and the 12th County that it has been recorded in. Some great moths were found and a few are still pending identification including two possible Epinotia tetraquetrana which would also be a new moth for me, but having never seen it before I thought I would get it checked. I'm not pretty confident that it is Epinotia tetraquetrana. Day-time 16/05/17 - Scales Park - North-east Herts 1x Adela croesella 2x Adela fibulella 15+ Anthophila fabriciana 15+ Cauchas rufimitrella 5x Celypha lacunana 1x Common Pug 1x Crambus lathoniellus 2x Dichrorampha sp (to be gen det by Graeme Smith) 1x Dichrorampha plumbana 1x Epiblema scutulana sp (to be gen det by Graeme Smith) 2x Epinotia subocellana 1x Epinotia tedella 100+ Glyphipterix simpliciella 100+ Micropterix calthella 1x Monopis weaverella 1x Nemapogon schwarziellus 1x Notocelia cynosbatella 1x Orange Footman 1x Pammene rhediella [NEW!] 3x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1x Pyrausta aurata 1x Red Twin-spot Carpet 1x Rivulet 1x Silver-ground Carpet 1x Silver-Y 1x Syndemis musculana 3x Psyche casta (Case) Catch Report - 16/05/17 - Scales Park - North-east Herts - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap 1x Synergetic Skinner Trap & 1x 40w Actinic Trap 70 species Macro Moths 1x Angle Shades 1x Barred Hook-tip 2x Brimstone Moth 1x Brindled Pug 1x Broken-barred Carpet 2x Chinese Character 2x Clouded Border 2x Common Carpet 2x Common Pug 1x Common Swift 1x Common White Wave 15x Cream Wave 4x Flame Shoulder 2x Grey pine Carpet 2x Hebrew Character 1x Iron Prominent 5x Latticed Heath 1x Least black Arches 1x Light Emerald 2x Maiden's Blush 1x Maple Prominent 15x Mottled Pug 2x Nut-tree Tussock 5x Oak-tree Pug 60x Orange Footman 1x Pale Oak Beauty 2x Pale Prominent 10x Pale Tussock 5x Pebble Hook-tip 1x Pebble Prominent 1x Peppered Moth 3x Poplar Hawk-moth 5x Poplar Lutestring 5x Red Twin-spot Carpet 1x Rustic Shoulder-knot 1x Sandy Carpet 8x Scalloped Hazel 1x Scalloped Hook-tip 2x Scorched Carpet 4x Seraphim 1x Setaceous Hebrew Character 2x Silver-ground Carpet 5x Small Phoenix 1x Spectacle 1x Streamer 3x V-Pug 1x Waved umber 3x White Ermine 1x Yellow-barred Brindle Micro Moths 1x Agapeta hamana 1x Agonopterix arenella 1x Argyrotaenia ljungiana 5x Bucculatrix nigricomella 1x Caloptilia robustella/alchimiella 1x Crambus lathoniellus 1x Cryptoblabes bistriga 10+ Glyphipterix simpliciella 20+ Epinotia subocellana 5x Epinotia tedella 2x Epinotia tetraquetrana [NEW!] (to be gen det by Graeme Smith) 1x Endrosis sarcitrella 2x Eulia ministrana 1x Monopis weaverella 1x Notocelia cynosbatella 1x Pammene Ignorata [NEW!] (Gen det by Graeme Smith) 2x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1x Strophedra sp (to be gen det by Graeme Smith) 1x Swammerdamia caesiella?? (to be gen det by Graeme Smith) 3x Syndemis musculana 1x Tinea semifulvella
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National Moth Night - Balls Wood - Hertford - 11/06/16 Our fouth trip of the year saw eleven keen mother's descend on Ball's Wood for our effort for National Moth Night. The target was to be Hawk-moths of which we saw very few, in fact just one species which was Poplar Hawk-moth, 4 specimens were observed. When we all arrived the weather did not look very promising and rain put a slight dampener on the night ahead, the only saving grace was that it was cloudy, still warm at 20 degrees and still...maybe we would do ok despite the rain? Lots of lights were set-up and I myself ran four traps with different bulbs in to try and tempt different species to be attracted to them. We covered a few of the rides and made sure everything was water-proofed to avoid any accidents. As the rain continued into the night I was confident that we would do well, famous last words I know but with the ambient temperature not expected to drop below 14 degrees it would be perfect if the rain stopped, and it did! At about 11pm the rain ceased and the moths seemed to be spurred on by this and more were arriving to the traps. We stuck it right out until the bitter end and as the time was approaching 3am we were still going through the traps! There were many superb moths found in all of the traps and several uncommon species that just aren't found in your average garden. Species such as Poplar Lutestring, Great Oak Beauty, Cream Wave, Grey Arches and Gold Swift to name but a few of the Macro's. And then there were the Micro's...there were quite a few! And I nearly ran out of pots for them all. One species in particular Choristoneura hebenstreitella, a very large Tortrix reminiscent of a bigger variety of Pandemis cerasana I don't recall seeing before, there were several to my lights. Another good moth confirmed today was Epinotia tedella, only my second example, my first one was recorded at Roughdown Common in July 2013. Other Micro's of note included a stunning Spatalistis bifasciana and plenty of the pretty Tortrix moth Ptycholoma lecheana, one example was so brightly coloured with yellow, it looked like a piece of shining gold in the trap. All in all 152 species was pretty good considering the amount of rain we endured before it got dark leaving the vegetation soaking. Numbers below are approximate. Catch Report - 11/06/16 - Balls Wood - Hertford - 7x 125w MV Robinson Traps 1x 160w MBT Trap 1x 26w BLB Robinson Trap and 1x 80w Actinic & 26w CFL Bulb Suitcase Trap Macro Moths - 89 Species 2x Angle Shades 2x Beautiful Golden-Y 1x Beautiful Hook-tip 1x Blood-vein 1x Brimstone Moth 3x Brindled White-spot 2x Broken-barred Carpet 2x Brown Rustic 1x Buff Ermine 1x Buff-tip 2x Burnished Brass 5x Clouded Border 5x Clouded Silver 1x Clouded-bordered Brindle 3x Common Marbled Carpet 5x Common Pug 25+ Common Swift 3x Common White Wave 1x Dark Arches 1x Double Square-spot 1x Dusky Brocade 2x Flame 2x Flame Shoulder 1x Foxglove Pug 5x Gold Swift 5x Great Oak Beauty 1x Grey Arches 5x Green Carpet 2x Green Silver-lines 1x Grey-pine Carpet 5x Grey Pug 2x Heart & Dart 2x Ingrailed Clay 1x Iron Prominent 2x Large Nutmeg 1x Large Yellow Underwing 1x Lesser Swallow Prominent 5x Light Brocade 10x Light Emerald 2x Lobster Moth 1x Maiden's Blush 2x Marbled Minor 6x Marbled White-spot 1x Middle-barred Minor 1x Mottled Beauty 3x Mottled Pug 2x Mottled Rustic 4x Orange Footman 10x Pale Oak Beauty 1x Pale Prominent 6x Pale Tussock 1x Peach Blossom 2x Peacock Moth 1x Pebble Prominent 1x Peppered Moth 1x Poplar Grey 1x Poplar Hawk-moth 5x Poplar Lutestring 1x Purple Bar 1x Red-necked Footman 1x Riband Wave 2x Rustic Shoulder-knot 1x Scalloped Hazel 1x Scorched Carpet 8x Scorched Wing 1x Seraphim 1x Setaceous Hebrew Character 10x Silver-ground Carpet 1x Small Angle Shades 3x Small Dotted Buff 1x Small Dusty Wave 3x Small Fan-foot 1x Small Rivulet 1x Small Square-spot 15+ Small White Wave 2x Small Yellow Wave 1x Snout 1x Spruce Carpet 5x Straw Dot 3x Swallow Prominent 2x Sycamore 2x Tawny Marbled Minor 2x Tawny-barred Angle 2x Treble Brown Spot 5x Treble Lines 4x White Ermine 1x White-pinion Spotted 1x White-spotted Pug 2x Willow Beauty 1x Yellow-barred Brindle Micro Moths - 63 Species Adela reaumurella 1 Aleimma loeflingiana Ancylis badiana 1 Ancylis laetana 5+ Ancylis mitterbacheriana 3 Aphomia sociella 1 Apotomis turbidana 1 Archips Podana 2 Argyresthia brockeella 3 Argyresthia goedartella 1 Argyresthia spinosella 2 Argyresthia albstria 1 Blastobasis lacticolella 2 Caloptilia alchiemiella Caloptilia robustella 1 Capua vulgana 1 Carpatolechia proximella 1 Celypha cespitana 3 Celypha lacunana 5 Choristoneura hebenstreitella 10 Cochylis molliculana 1 Cochylis nana 5 Crambus lathoniellus 5 Cryptoblabes bistriga 1 Cydia fagiglandana 8 Elachista apicipunctella 2 Elophila nymphaeata 10+ Epinotia bilunana 10+ Epinotia demarniana 10+ Epinotia nisella 1 Epinotia ramella 1 Epinotia tedella 1 Epiphyas postvittana 4 Eucosma cana 1 Eudonia lacustrata 2 Eudonia pallida 1 Hedya pruniana 10+ Hedya nubiferana 2 Lathronympha strigana 5 Monopis laevigella 1 Monopis weaverella 2 Morophaga choragella 2 Nemapogon cloacella 2 Nemophora degeerella 2 Notocelia cynosbatella 1 Notocelia trimaculana 1 Notocelia uddmanniana 2 Pandemis cerasana 10+ Pandemis cinnamomeana 1 Parapoynx stratiotata 5 Paraswammerdamia albicapitella 1 Phtheochroa inopiana 1 Plutella xylostella 50+ Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 4 Ptycholoma lecheana 4 Scoparia ambigualis 30+ Scoparia pyralella 1 Spatalistis bifasciana 1 Teleiodes luculella 10+ Tinea semifulvella 1 Tinea trinotella 1 Tortrix viridana 15+ Triaxomera parasitella 1
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Field Trip - Scales Park - 16/05/17 + New for County record! On Tuesday night I joined several fellow moth'ers to a very large Wood in the North-east corner of Hertfordshire for some moth trapping. We had been granted permission to be there because this is quite a highly guarded site with reasonable tight security as it has a shooting ground in the vicinity and use to be a main RAF/USAF base in WW2, in fact looking on a map from 1944, my traps were positioned right over where the bomb dump use to be! The weather was warm and sunny and up to 24 degrees in the afternoon but extremely windy which made netting nearly impossible! But by the evening the wind had dropped but the rain started as soon as we turned up and with less wind, it wasn't going to be blown through anytime soon. We got soaked and the equipment suffered as well with no less than 5 blown bulbs, luckily my gear just about survived although I had to throw a load of egg trays out as they were completely sodden and ripped. Firstly though, I managed to do some day-time netting before the night trapping effort and was rewarded with some great moths, including a new one for me, Pammene rhediella (unfortunately it was quite worn). Adela croesella also turned up, and is the County 3rd record after both 1st and 2nd County records were found in 2011 by myself and Andrew Wood on the same night! A joint County first record doesn't happen very often. In fact...was this to be a sign? Spookily Andrew and I may have caught the same moth again on the same night and a County first once again. Mine has been confirmed as of last night as the first South-east record of Pammene ignorata and the 12th County that it has been recorded in. Some great moths were found and a few are still pending identification including two possible Epinotia tetraquetrana which would also be a new moth for me, but having never seen it before I thought I would get it checked. I'm not pretty confident that it is Epinotia tetraquetrana. Day-time 16/05/17 - Scales Park - North-east Herts 1x Adela croesella 2x Adela fibulella 15+ Anthophila fabriciana 15+ Cauchas rufimitrella 5x Celypha lacunana 1x Common Pug 1x Crambus lathoniellus 2x Dichrorampha sp (to be gen det by Graeme Smith) 1x Dichrorampha plumbana 1x Epiblema scutulana sp (to be gen det by Graeme Smith) 2x Epinotia subocellana 1x Epinotia tedella 100+ Glyphipterix simpliciella 100+ Micropterix calthella 1x Monopis weaverella 1x Nemapogon schwarziellus 1x Notocelia cynosbatella 1x Orange Footman 1x Pammene rhediella [NEW!] 3x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1x Pyrausta aurata 1x Red Twin-spot Carpet 1x Rivulet 1x Silver-ground Carpet 1x Silver-Y 1x Syndemis musculana 3x Psyche casta (Case) Catch Report - 16/05/17 - Scales Park - North-east Herts - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap 1x Synergetic Skinner Trap & 1x 40w Actinic Trap 70 species Macro Moths 1x Angle Shades 1x Barred Hook-tip 2x Brimstone Moth 1x Brindled Pug 1x Broken-barred Carpet 2x Chinese Character 2x Clouded Border 2x Common Carpet 2x Common Pug 1x Common Swift 1x Common White Wave 15x Cream Wave 4x Flame Shoulder 2x Grey pine Carpet 2x Hebrew Character 1x Iron Prominent 5x Latticed Heath 1x Least black Arches 1x Light Emerald 2x Maiden's Blush 1x Maple Prominent 15x Mottled Pug 2x Nut-tree Tussock 5x Oak-tree Pug 60x Orange Footman 1x Pale Oak Beauty 2x Pale Prominent 10x Pale Tussock 5x Pebble Hook-tip 1x Pebble Prominent 1x Peppered Moth 3x Poplar Hawk-moth 5x Poplar Lutestring 5x Red Twin-spot Carpet 1x Rustic Shoulder-knot 1x Sandy Carpet 8x Scalloped Hazel 1x Scalloped Hook-tip 2x Scorched Carpet 4x Seraphim 1x Setaceous Hebrew Character 2x Silver-ground Carpet 5x Small Phoenix 1x Spectacle 1x Streamer 3x V-Pug 1x Waved umber 3x White Ermine 1x Yellow-barred Brindle Micro Moths 1x Agapeta hamana 1x Agonopterix arenella 1x Argyrotaenia ljungiana 5x Bucculatrix nigricomella 1x Caloptilia robustella/alchimiella 1x Crambus lathoniellus 1x Cryptoblabes bistriga 10+ Glyphipterix simpliciella 20+ Epinotia subocellana 5x Epinotia tedella 2x Epinotia tetraquetrana [NEW!] (to be gen det by Graeme Smith) 1x Endrosis sarcitrella 2x Eulia ministrana 1x Monopis weaverella 1x Notocelia cynosbatella 1x Pammene Ignorata [NEW!] (Gen det by Graeme Smith) 2x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1x Strophedra sp (to be gen det by Graeme Smith) 1x Swammerdamia caesiella?? (to be gen det by Graeme Smith) 3x Syndemis musculana 1x Tinea semifulvella
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