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Summary[
edit] Description: Field Trip - Ashwell Quarry - 30/03/17 On Thursday night I made a trip to Ashwell Quarry in the far North-West of the County of Hertfordshire. The weather was just perfect with highs of 21 degrees during the day and whilst setting up at 7.30pm it was still 17 degrees and even at packing up time at midnight the car temperature gauge read still read a balmy 15.5c all the way home! I decided to run 4 traps in the end, a mixture of different light sources. The four traps were 2x 125w MV Robinsons, 1x 160w Mercury Blended Robinson Trap and my homemade twin 20w wemlite actinic trap. The results to each trap were quite shocking. Both MVs had less than 20 moths in and around the traps. The MBT had just 12 moths but did attract the only Red-green Carpet of the night. The 20w twin wemlite actinic homemade jobby had 87 moths in and around the grass and had the only Small Quaker, Early Grey, Diurnea fagella and Dotted Chestnut of the night. 25 of those moths were Red Chestnut. It was just great to see so many moths flying this early on in the season..a sign of things to come perhaps? Lets hope so and I look forward to surveying this land again soon. Catch Report - 30/03/17 - Ashwell Quarry - North-west Heerts - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap & 1x 40w Actinic Trap - Warm and muggy, stiffening Easterly breeze by 11pm - minimum of 15c 227 moths of 21 species Macro Moths 2x Chestnut 7x Clouded Drab 108x Common Quaker 1x Dotted Chestnut 8x Double-striped Pug 1x Early Grey 1x Early Thorn 1x Engrailed 24x Hebrew Character 2x March Moth 1x Nut-tree Tussock 37 Red Chestnut 1x Red-green Carpet 2x Scorched Carpet 1x Small Quaker Micro Moths 22x Agonopterix alstromeriana 2x Agonopterix arenella 3x Agonopterix heracliana 1x Caloptilia semifascia 1x Diurnea fagella 1x Epiphyas postvittana. Date: 31 March 2017, 16:29. Source:
[2260] Dotted Chestnut (Conistra rubiginea). Author:
Ben Sale from UK.
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Summary[
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[2260] Dotted Chestnut (Conistra rubiginea). Author:
Ben Sale from UK.
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Hay Wood and Gadesprings Field Trip report - 02/04/14 Hello all. Last night I was joined by David and Steve for our first trapping session on the Boxmoor Trust's land. The ensuing conditions were perfect with a good amount of cloud cover present and temperatures holding up at dusk at about 15 degrees. The only niggle was that damn breeze, which thankfully did drop as the night progressed. David had already set-up three traps at Gadesprings earlier on, so the plan was to use four traps at Hay Wood and at the Old Barn, then go back to Gadesprings after we had finished. Setting up 3 different traps throughout the wood and leaving one out on an exposed position near the barn, we were all set and ready for the deluge. The moths did come, sparingly at first with a spankingly fresh Water Carpet being the first moth in, Brindled Pugs, Diurnea fagella's and Common Quakers followed. We fared much better this year compared to last year where we had our first trapping session over 3 weeks later than this date, and were catching pretty much the same species, although last year was very odd. See HERE for last years report. It was very nice to see so many Water Carpets again, last year we managed about 10, this year we easily trumped that with 20+ individuals. Also the freshest Waved Umber I have ever seen graced the side of the trap near the Old Barn. Species of note included 3 Shoulder-stripe, 1 immaculate Purple Thorn and a year first Pale Pinion, which was found sitting in the long grass near the trap at the Old Barn. So onto the list of moths recorded. Catch Report - Hay Wood (Westbrook Hay) - 02/04/14 - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap and 1x 80w Actinic Trap Lights run from 7.50pm until 11.30pm 262 moths of 28 species Macro Moths 20+ Water Carpet 5x Clouded Drab 9x Small Quaker 13x Hebrew Character 15x Engrailed 1x Satellite 97x Common Quaker 8x Early Thorn 8x Chestnut 18x Brindled Pug 14x March Moth 3x Shoulder-stripe 1x Waved Umber 3x Nut-tree Tussock 5x Early Grey 1x Red-green Carpet 2x Oak Nycteoline 1x Spruce Carpet 2x Oak Beauty 1x Double-striped Pug 1x Purple Thorn 1x Pale Pinion 1x Twin-spotted Quaker Micro Moths 22x Diurnea fagella 5x Eriocrania subpurpurella 1x Eriocrania semipurpurella 2x Agonopterix heracliana 2x Agonopterix arenella Catch Report - Gadesprings (Watercress Beds) - 02/04/14 - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 40w Lucent Briefcase Trap and 1x 40w Actinic/26w Blacklight Trap Lights run from Dusk until 12.00am 95 moths of 13 species Macro Moths 5x Clouded Drab 4x Small Quaker 2x Hebrew Character 1x Engrailed 71x Common Quaker 2x Early Thorn 3x Brindled Pug 1x Early Grey 2x Oak Beauty 1x Double-striped Pug 1x Dotted Chestnut 1x Oak-tree Pug Micro Moths 1x Agonopterix heracliana
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Summary[
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[2264] Yellow-line Quaker (Agrochola macilenta). Author:
Ben Sale from UK.
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Exemplar found: Russia, Moscow Oblast, Odintsovsky District, near village Pestovo, 01.05.2010, by light МО, Одинцовский р-н, окрестности деревни Пестово, 01.05.2010, на свет
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Exemplar found: Russia, Moscow Oblast, Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District, near settlement Topoliny, 20.04.2014, by light МО, Орехово-Зуевский р-н, окрестности посёлка Тополиный, 20.04.2014, на свет
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Summary[
edit] Description: English: Conistra rubiginea. Picture taken in Olsztyn, Poland. Date: 12 April 2015, 09:21:03. Source: Own work. Author:
Adam Furlepa.
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Exemplar found: Russia, Moscow Oblast, Odintsovsky District, near village Pestovo, 04.05.2015, by light МО, Одинцовский р-н, окрестности деревни Пестово, 04.05.2015, на свет
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Summary[
edit] Description: English: Conistra rubiginea. Picture taken in Olsztyn, Poland. Date: 12 April 2015, 09:20:43. Source: Own work. Author:
Adam Furlepa.
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Summary[
edit] Description: Catch Report - 01/03/12 - Farmland/Back Garden - Hertfordshire Happy St.David's day and a memorable night for me as well with two species I didn't expect to find in my trap this morning, Ypsolopha mucronella and a Dotted Chestnut. The Ypsolopha mucronella is my 3rd ever in 6 years and new for the garden. The Dotted Chestnut is my 7th and first for my garden as well. The rest of the catch comprised of the usual suspects. The trap is now packed away for the weekend and possibly well into the week as chilly temperatures are once upon us (I wonder how many people made the mistake of planting bulbs already!) Catch Report - 01/03/12 - 125w MV Robinson Trap - Back Garden/Farmland Macro Moths 1x Dotted Chestnut [NFY] 3x Dotted Border 13x Hebrew Character 10x Satellite 1x March Moth 5x Oak Beauty 5x Pale Brindled Beauty 13x Small Quaker 1x Common Quaker 9x Chestnut Micro Moths 1x Ypsolpha mucronella [NFY] 5x Tortricodes alternella. Date: 2 March 2012, 09:20. Source:
[2260] Dotted Chestnut (Conistra rubiginea). Author:
Ben Sale from UK.
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Field Trip - Boxmoor Trust Land - Hemel Hempstead - 12/04/16 Last night I was joined by Roger at Gadesprings for our first field trapping session of the year. The weather had been a mixed bag all day really but with highs of 15 degrees and little or no wind, it felt rather pleasant even if the sun was skulking behind the clouds for most of the day. About two hours before I was due to leave we had a torrential downpour for nearly half an hour, the temperature dropped and I was dubious about going out all of a sudden! We arrived at 7.15pm ready to set up. The plan was to do 3 different sites all in one night something that we hadn't done before. The Robinson Mercury Vapor trap was set up at Gadesprings along with my mini actinic trap, switched on and left to its own devices until we returned later. It was off to the old barn next at Westbrook Hay where we set up another MV, switched it on and then drove to our third and final site at Roughdown Common and started to go about setting up three traps. Disaster! The generator just wouldn't keep going (I think it needs an oil change) but eventually by tinkering with the choke it was stable. The another mishap and quite a big one at that, my MV Robinson which I use at home....completely dead. We assumed it was the fuse, so Roger kindly nipped back home and returned with a bag of fuses but unfortunately it seemed more terminal (or perhaps just a bulb)..........ironically this morning I expect the worst but plug it in just on the off chance that it may work and Bingo! it worked just like that. Very strange. With the lack of the highest output bulb we thought it would hamper us, but with a Mercury Blended 160w bulb and a twin 40w Actinic setup I couldn't have been further from the truth. Apart from netting a few Agoonopterix heracliana's at dusk, the first moth in was a Dotted Chestnut! When Roger got back with the fuses I joked that we could pack up now as that would be the best moth of the night. I was wrong. About 11pm a moth landed by the trap as we were kneeling down, a quick net and potting acrobats and on inspection it was one of the Pinions, Tawny Pinion! a moth I haven't seen since 2008 and Roger since 2006, a real uncommon moth in the County, super chuffed to say the least! Roger was also pleased to see a Shoulder-stripe, a moth that has evaded his garden for ten years! The one we caught was at Gadesprings, less than 1/4 of a mile away. Other moths of note were single of Twin-spotted Quaker, Frosted Green and a really nicely marked Common Quaker. All in all we managed a grand total of 84 moths of 16 species over the 3 sites. Not bad going considering that by midnight it was down to about 5 degrees and a clear sky. Catch Report - 12/04/16 - Gadesprings - Hemel Hempstead - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap and 1x 40w Actinic Trap Macro Moths 1x Shoulder-stripe 3x Common Quaker 2x Clouded Drab 2x Hebrew Character Micro Moths None recorded! Catch Report - 12/04/16 - Roughdown Common - Hemel Hempstead - 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap and 1x 80w Actinic Suitcase Trap Macro Moths 1x Tawny Pinion 1x Dotted Chestnut 1x Satellite 14x Common Quaker 11x Clouded Drab 6x Hebrew Character 1x March Moth 1x Early Grey 1x Early Thorn 3x Small Quaker 1x Double-striped Pug Micro Moths 1x Diurnea fagella 2x Agonopterix heracliana Catch Report - 12/04/16 - Westbrook Hay - Hemel Hempstead - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap Macro Moths 11x Common Quaker 10x Clouded Drab 6x Hebrew Character 2x Twin-spotted Quaker 1x Frosted Green 1x Small Quaker Micro Moths 1x Agonopterix arenella