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Longitude (deg): -1.2. Latitude (deg): 51.4. Longitude (deg/min): 1ð 10' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51ð 20' N. Vice county name: Berks. Vice county no.: 22. Country: England. Stage: Imago. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: Heath trap 13/14 June 03. Category: standard photograph or close-up. Photographic equipment used: Nikon D100 dSLR with Tamron SP T90 AF Macro 1:1 lens.
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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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Summary[
edit] Description: Some daytime finds from 04/06/18 and 08/06/18 A couple of hours wander around some verge grassland with mixed trees and shrubs and a plethora of wildflowers including Ox-eye Daisies yielded some great moths for me. On both days it was very warm and humid, and the sunnier day on the 4th yielded better results but I found the sunshine made the moths incredibly hard to pot up from the net, usually going skywards instantly and beyong my control. The little grass patch of approximately 1 acre was extremely abundant in life of all kinds, and I noted many species which unfortunately i've mislaid the piece of paper that I wrote them down on! Nevertheless, I potted many specimens of Dichrorampha for dissection. Many will probably be new to me. So far i've got 5 new species for my UK moth records. They are Commophila aeneana Dichrorampha sequana Elachista triatomea Endothenia oblongana Grapholita tenebrosana Pretty good going for 3hrs of sweeping and netting moths disturbed from Apple, Cherry, Dog-rose, Oak, Bramble and Blackthorn to name but a few native species of trees and bushes present on the site. Other species of note and ones I took photographs of include. 6x Dichrorampha sp (for dissection) Aproaerema anthyllidella Cauchas fibulella Cnephasia sp (for dissection) Cydia nigricana (lots) 2x Dichrorampha alpinana flavidorsana (for dissection) Dichrorampha petiverella Dichrorampha plumbagana Epiblema cirsiana/stictiana/scutulana (for dissection) Eucosma hohenwartiana Grapholita compositella Here are some photos, first of the habitat and then the moths. Date: 2 June 2018, 10:32. Source:
[1275] Dichrorampha alpinana flavidorsana. Author:
Ben Sale from Stevenage, UK.
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Canvey Island - 21/05/11 Made our first trip of the year to Canvey Wick at Canvey Island last night. Equipped with 2 traps, 1 with a 160w Mercury Blanded Bulb + 22w Actinic Robinson style trap, the other with a 150w Halogen bulb and dual 40w Actinic Skinner trap. We opted to leave the 125w Robinsion's at home as we would no be able to carry them with the heavy chokes that you need to run them. Walking along the path towards our trapping spot, there was lots of evidence of moth activity, so we did a quick recce and positioned our traps on the large circular tarmac areas which were left when the massive Oil drums where removed some years back now. Moth activity at the lights was slow, but did pick up as full darkness approached, we were very concerned at how clear it was as the daytime temperature had reached 21c, at nearly 10pm it had fallen to 14c, throughout the next few hours the temperature did fluctuate as we got a few fine wisps of cloud over our heads. First moths to arrive were a few micro's which were quickly potted up and then lots of Common Swifts arrived. There seemed to be periods where there were lots of moths flying in and then it would go completely quiet. Nevertheless we managed some good species including 8 Cream-spot Tiger's, 1 Fox Moth, 12+ Light Brocade and a single Sloe Pug, all being new for me and that is pretty good going considering i've been regularly trapping for over 4 years now. Graham had one new species to a trap, a Puss Moth, which came in right at the last minute of packing up. Here is the list of Moths recorded on the night and amounts Macro Moths - (45 species) 6x Common Swift 1x Fox Moth [NEW] - Female 4x Pebble Hook-tip 1x Figure of Eighty 2x Mullein Wave 1x Cream Wave 2x Common Carpet 1x Waved Umber 1x Mottled Pug 3x Common Pug 1x Freyer's Pug 1x Sloe Pug [NEW] 1x Clouded Border 2x Peacock Moth 4x Sharp-angled Peacock 1x Peppered Moth 1x Willow Beauty 2x Pale Oak Beauty 7x Common White Wave 2x Common Wave 2x Clouded Silver 8x Light Emerald 1x Poplar Hawk-moth 1x Elephant Hawk-moth 1x Puss Moth 2x Pebble Prominent 4x Pale Prominent 2x Iron Prominent 8x Cream-spot Tiger Moth [NEW] 1x White Ermine 5x Heart & Dart 3x Shuttle-shaped Dart 4x Flame Shoulder 1x Ingrailed Clay 7x Setaceous Hebrew Character 12x Light Brocade [NEW] 1x Bright-line Brown-eye 2x Clay 1x Shoulder-striped Wainscot 1x Grey Dagger 3x Rustic Shoulder-knot 10x Marbled Minor 10x Mottled Rustic 8x Cream-bordered Green Pea 1x Straw Dot 1x Snout Micro Moths - (19 species) 1x Argyresthia curvella 1x Coleophora sp. 3x Cochylis hybridella 2x Cochylis nana 1x Cochylis sp. to id 1x Cyclamen Tortrix Clepsis spectrana 1x Cydia nigricana 1x Dichrorampha alpinana 6x Epiblema trimaculana 1x Gypsonoma sociana [NEW] 3x Hedya pruniana 1x Phycitodes maritima 3x Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis heparana 1x Syndemis musculana 1x Bramble Shoot Moth Epiblema uddmanniana 1x Epinotia biluna 2x Epiblema cynosbatella 2x Chrysoteuchia culmella 2x Cnephasia sp.
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Field Trip - 09/06/16 - Roughdown Common - Hemel Hempstead The Herts Moth Group assembled at Roughdown Common for their third official outing of the year. Roughdown Common is an exceedingly important site for wildlife on the doorstep of the hustle and bustle of sub-urban Hemel Hempstead. Predominantly chalk grassland with an intersecting wooded section and split right down the middle by the A41, Roughdown Common is an outstanding site for a variety of moth species. We arrived at 7.30pm, early enough to have a walk around with a net and pots and we quickly added 17 species to kick-start our list, amongst the swarms of Diamond-back moths for which we netted 2/3rds of the time there was plenty of other species to keep us interested. Species such as Eupoecilia angustana, Micropterix aruncella and Cauchas fibulella were absolutely stunning to observe. By 8.30pm the rest of the team had arrived...we would need the extra hands to set up the 11 traps! We decided to cover all areas of the reserve with traps out in the open field, some along the border of the A41 and then running through the wood and over-looking the Dell. Conditions were pretty much perfect, no wind, warm at 22 degrees and with a smattering of thin cloud which would hopefully be just enough to lock the warmth in and it was, with a comfortable 13 degrees when I left at 2am. The variety of moths was pretty astounding and despite quite possibly the slowest Spring on record things are beginning to pick up. Highlights from the traps were Small Angle Shades, Dark Sword-grass, Puss Moth, Figure of Eighty and Alabonia geoffrella, the latter typically being a day-flying moth but both of my records have been to light! I think we were a little bit early for the typical chalkland species such as Pretty Chalk Carpet and Royal Mantle, the vegetation being about 2 weeks behind he norm would suggest so. Final list is pending- 142 species so far Numbers below are approximate as it really was hard trying to count them all! Catch Report - 09/06/16 - Roughdown Common - 5x 125w MV Robinson Trap 1x 125w MV + Sheet 1x 26w BLB Robinson Trap 1x 80w Actinic Suitcase Trap 1x 40w Actinic and 2 Actinic Bucket Traps Macro Moths - 90 Species 2x Angle Shades 1x Beautiful Golden-Y 3x Brimstone Moth 4x Broken-barred Carpet 5x Brown Rustic 1x Buff Ermine 2x Buff-tip 1x Cinnabar 2x Clouded Border 1x Clouded-bordered Brindle 1x Clouded Brindle 1x Common Carpet 10x Common Marbled Carpet 5x Common Pug 30x Clouded Silver 15+ Common Swift 2x Common Wainscot 2x Common White Wave 1x Coronet 1x Dark Arches 1x Dark Sword-grass 2x Double Square-spot 1x Dwarf Cream Wave 1x Elephant Hawk-moth 1x Figure of Eighty 2x Flame 1x Flame Carpet 4x Flame Shoulder 2x Foxglove Pug 1x Garden Carpet 10+ Green Carpet 2x Green Pug 5x Grey Pug 1x Haworth's Pug 10x Heart & Dart 3x Ingrailed Clay 5x Large Nutmeg 1x Large Yellow Underwing 1x Least Black Arches 5x Light Brocade 2x Light Emerald 1x Lime Hawk-moth 1x Maiden's Blush 10x Marbled Minor 1x Marbled White-spot 1x Middle-barred Minor 1x Miller 3x Mottled Pug 2x Mottled Rustic 5x Orange Footman 1x Pale Oak Beauty 1x Pale Prominent 3x Pale Tussock 1x Peach Blossom 1x Pebble Prominent 2x Peppered Moth 1x Poplar Hawk-moth 1x Privet Hawk-moth 2x Purple Bar 1x Puss Moth 10x Rustic Shoulder-knot 1x Scorched Carpet 2x Scorched Wing 6x Setaceous Hebrew Character 3x Shears 1x Shoulder-striped Wainscot 2x Shuttle-shaped Dart 4x Silver-Y 2x Silver-ground Carpet 1x Small Angle Shades 1x Small Clouded Brindle 1x Small Dusty Wave 2x Small Elephant Hawk-moth 1x Small Rivulet 2x Small Square-spot 1x Snout 1x Spectacle 2x Straw Dot 1x Swallow Prominent 1x Treble Brown Spot 2x Tawny Marbled Minor 1x Toadflax Brocade 10+ Treble Lines 1x Vine's Rustic 3x White Ermine 1x White-pinion Spotted 1x White-spotted Pug 2x Willow Beauty 2x Yellow Shell 1x Yellow-barred Brindle Micro Moths - 52 Species 1x Tinea trinotella 2x Endothenia gentianaeana 2x Dichrorampha sp - TBC 3x Eupoecilia angustana 1x Dichrorampha alpinana/flavidorsana - TBC 3x Micropterix aruncella 4x Nemophora degeerella 1x Eudonia angustea 2x Cnephasia sp 10+ Hedya pruniana Lots+ Plutella xylostella 8x Celypha lacunana 10+ Crambus lathoniellus 1x Chrysoteuchia culmella 1x Cauchas fibulella 1x Bryotropha terrella 5x Cochylimorpha straminea 1x Eucosma cana 2x Agonopterix arenella 1x Aphelia paleana 3x Agapeta hamana 2x Agapeta zoegana 1x Cydia pomonella 1x Notocelia uddmanniana 2x Notocelia trimaculana 1x Notocelia cynosbatella 3x Metzneria metzneriella 10+ Scoparia ambigualis 4x Scoparia pyralella 2x Epiphyas postvittana 1x Epiblema costipunctana 4x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1x Coptotriche marginea 1x Pseudatemelia flavifrontella/josephinae - TBC 2x Eulamprotes unicolorella/Monochroa tenebrella - TBC 1x Eudonia pallida 1x Eudonia lacustrata 1x Alabonia geoffrella 1x Cryptoblabes bistriga 2x Aphomia sociella 1x Udea olivalis 1x Endrosis sarcitrella 8x Teleiodes luculella 4x Pandemis cerasana 2x Epinotia bilunana 1x Archips podana 1x Parornix sp 1x Eudonia mercurella 2x Mompha raschkiella 1x Triaxomera parasitella 1x Nematopogon swammerdamella 2x Caloptilia syringella
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Summary[
edit] Description: Some daytime finds from 04/06/18 and 08/06/18 A couple of hours wander around some verge grassland with mixed trees and shrubs and a plethora of wildflowers including Ox-eye Daisies yielded some great moths for me. On both days it was very warm and humid, and the sunnier day on the 4th yielded better results but I found the sunshine made the moths incredibly hard to pot up from the net, usually going skywards instantly and beyong my control. The little grass patch of approximately 1 acre was extremely abundant in life of all kinds, and I noted many species which unfortunately i've mislaid the piece of paper that I wrote them down on! Nevertheless, I potted many specimens of Dichrorampha for dissection. Many will probably be new to me. So far i've got 5 new species for my UK moth records. They are Commophila aeneana Dichrorampha sequana Elachista triatomea Endothenia oblongana Grapholita tenebrosana Pretty good going for 3hrs of sweeping and netting moths disturbed from Apple, Cherry, Dog-rose, Oak, Bramble and Blackthorn to name but a few native species of trees and bushes present on the site. Other species of note and ones I took photographs of include. 6x Dichrorampha sp (for dissection) Aproaerema anthyllidella Cauchas fibulella Cnephasia sp (for dissection) Cydia nigricana (lots) 2x Dichrorampha alpinana flavidorsana (for dissection) Dichrorampha petiverella Dichrorampha plumbagana Epiblema cirsiana/stictiana/scutulana (for dissection) Eucosma hohenwartiana Grapholita compositella Here are some photos, first of the habitat and then the moths. Date: 5 June 2018, 11:25. Source:
[1275] Dichrorampha alpinana flavidorsana. Author:
Ben Sale from Stevenage, UK.
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Summary[
edit] Description: Well I won't top this anytime soon..19 NFY in one night On Monday night I set the trap up as usual and switched the light on at around 9.30pm, Summer solstice was nearly upon us and the weather lately has improved with warm days but most importantly warm evenings and Monday evening was no different. The morning came in a blink of an eye and seeing moths on our french door I knew there was going to be a good catch awaiting me with 19, yes 19! New for year moths. I can't remember the last time I had that many new ones in one sitting. Best moth of the night was a single Lychnis, only my second garden record, the first was in 2013 and not a common moth from my records in 10 years. Catch Report - 20/06/16 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap Macro Moths Clouded Silver 1 [NFY] Common Carpet 1 [NFY] Fan-foot 1 [NFY] Green Silver-lines 1 [NFY] Heart & Club 1 [NFY] Lychnis 1 [NFY] Small Dusty Wave 1 [NFY] Small Fan-foot 1 [NFY] Small Square-spot 1 [NFY] Smoky Wainscot 1 [NFY] Snout 1 [NFY] Angle Shades 1 Clouded Border 2 Common Pug 2 Common Swift 3 Common Wainscot 1 Dark Arches 2 Double-striped Pug 1 Flame 1 Garden Carpet 2 Green Pug 6 Grey Pug 1 Heart & Dart 16 Ingrailed Clay 1 Large Nutmeg 1 Marbled Minor 2 Mottled Rustic 2 Poplar Hawk-moth 1 Rustic Shoulder-knot 1 Silver-Y 2 Spectacle 1 Straw Dot 1 Treble Brown Spot 1 Willow Beauty 1 Yellow Shell 2 Micro Moths Aleimma loeflingiana 1 [NFY] Aphelia paleana 1 [NFY] Coleophora sp 1 [NFY] Dichrorampha alpinana 1 [NFY] Eulia ministrana 1 [NFY] Gypsonoma dealbana 1 [NFY] Hedya nubiferana 1 [NFY] Pandemis cerasana 1 [NFY] Amblyptilia acanthadactyla 1 Celypha striana 2 Chrysoteuchia culmella 6 Epiphyas postvittana 3 Eurrhypara hortulata 1 Mompha epilobiella 1 Parornix sp 1 Plutella xylostella 1 Scoparia ambigualis 3 Tortrix viridana 7. Date: 18 June 2016, 18:10. Source:
[1274] Dichrorampha alpinana. Author:
Ben Sale from UK.
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Summary[
edit] Description: Some daytime finds from 04/06/18 and 08/06/18 A couple of hours wander around some verge grassland with mixed trees and shrubs and a plethora of wildflowers including Ox-eye Daisies yielded some great moths for me. On both days it was very warm and humid, and the sunnier day on the 4th yielded better results but I found the sunshine made the moths incredibly hard to pot up from the net, usually going skywards instantly and beyong my control. The little grass patch of approximately 1 acre was extremely abundant in life of all kinds, and I noted many species which unfortunately i've mislaid the piece of paper that I wrote them down on! Nevertheless, I potted many specimens of Dichrorampha for dissection. Many will probably be new to me. So far i've got 5 new species for my UK moth records. They are Commophila aeneana Dichrorampha sequana Elachista triatomea Endothenia oblongana Grapholita tenebrosana Pretty good going for 3hrs of sweeping and netting moths disturbed from Apple, Cherry, Dog-rose, Oak, Bramble and Blackthorn to name but a few native species of trees and bushes present on the site. Other species of note and ones I took photographs of include. 6x Dichrorampha sp (for dissection) Aproaerema anthyllidella Cauchas fibulella Cnephasia sp (for dissection) Cydia nigricana (lots) 2x Dichrorampha alpinana flavidorsana (for dissection) Dichrorampha petiverella Dichrorampha plumbagana Epiblema cirsiana/stictiana/scutulana (for dissection) Eucosma hohenwartiana Grapholita compositella Here are some photos, first of the habitat and then the moths. Date: 5 June 2018, 11:26. Source:
[1275] Dichrorampha alpinana flavidorsana. Author:
Ben Sale from Stevenage, UK.
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Summary[
edit] Description: I recently had the results back from Graeme Smith for some of the dissections of the difficult species we encountered on our field trip to Roughdown Common. Date: 19 June 2016, 15:18. Source:
[1274] Dichrorampha alpinana. Author:
Ben Sale from Stevenage, UK.
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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: Less moths but still ticking. Last week I ran the trap on both the 25th and 26th, and as I haven't had time to blog, I have conjoined the catches. Not a huge amount of moths by recent standards but some lovely new ones. The weather has been quite unsettled as of late with quite a few showers towards the evening cooling the evening temperatures and thus decreasing the catch somewhat. It was nice to record the pretty Tortrix Pammene regiana again, a Sycamore feeder for which we have loads! Cydia pomonella was a new one for the garden. Hopefully trapping again in the garden tonight after a nice break. Catch Report - 25-26/06/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap Macro Moths 1x Smoky Wainscot [NFY] 1x Barred Straw [NFY] 2x Lesser Yellow Underwing [NFY] 1x July Highflyer [NFY] 1x Dun-bar [NFY] 2x Swallow-tailed Moth 6x Common Footman 1x Setaceous Hebrew Character 12x Mottled Rustic 2x Green Pug 2x Dwarf Cream Wave 1x Buff-tip 3x Bright-line Brown-eye 1x Common Wainscot 4x Large Yellow Underwing 2x Riband Wave 1x Common Emerald 3x Dot Moth 5x Mottled Beauty 45x Heart & Dart 3x Heart & Club 1x Privet Hawk-moth 2x Double Square-spot 1x Cabbage Moth 17x Uncertain 5x Dark Arches 1x Common White Wave 2x Buff Arches 1x Brown Rustic 1x Light Arches 1x Clouded Border 1x Clouded Brindle 1x Elephant Hawk-moth 1x Turnip Moth 1x Dwarf Cream Wave 1x Small Emerald 2x Buff Ermine 1x Double-striped Pug 1x Grey Pug Micro Moths 1x Cydia pomonella [NFG] 2x Pammene regiana [NFY] 5x Dipleurina lacustrata 1x Blastobasis lacticolella 2x Epiblema uddmanniana 1x Batia lunaris 2x Celypha lacunana 3x Celypha striana 1x Ditula angustiorana 1x Aphomia sociella 3x Scoparia ambigualis 7x Chrysoteuchia culmella 1x Hedya nubiferana 2x Eudonia mercurella. Date: 27 June 2014, 08:03. Source:
[1274] [1275] Dichrorampha alpinana/flavidorsana. Author:
Ben Sale from UK.
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