A BIG deep breath. A record-breaking night in Bedfordshire I joined Matt and Lionel at Home Wood on Monday night in Bedfordshire. The day had been absolutely scorching and hit nearly 30 degrees during the day and the night was meant to go no lower than 19/20 degrees, perfect muggy weather for moths despite clear skies we had absolutely no wind at all and no moon to contend with. We setup 5 traps and a light and sheet under sweaty conditions, it was hot stuff indeed and once again I attracted Horse-flies! As soon as it got dark, moths were absolutely everywhere with micros at first in their hundreds and then the Geometers started coming in and finally the Noctuids and boy was there action around the lights. I've been out before and had trouble with lots of midges and flies but never have I had as much trouble from inhaling moths as well. The species kept tallying up and it was hard to keep up. We got to 100 species about 2 hours in and then from midnight it was about 1 or 2 a minute being jotted down. Highlights were massively over-whelming with two County first species to start with....Rosy Marbled and Elegia similella. Copied from Andy Banthorpe's email. Gen Dets of species retained so far. Carpatolechia fugitivella m & f – been recorded there before Carpatolechia notatella f – 3rd county record Neofaculta ericetella m confirmed Dioryctria abietella f Satyr Pug f 18th county record, only third since 1996 Teleiodes vulgella f (worn dark grey) Caloptilia alchimiella m Nemapogon cloacella m Nemapogon ruricolella m – 4th county record Coleophore kuehnella m (the white one) Other Macro highlights were Cream-bordered Green Pea, 10+ Scarlet Tiger's, 5x Marbled Brown and Mere Wainscot. In total for the time being we recorded 140 species of Macro and 148 species of micro, eclipsing my highest ever previous species of 252 with a grand total of 288 species!! We finally finished packing up (which took over 2 hours) at 4am as it was getting light. Thanks guys for the help you gave me and adding to the list as we went through the night. Catch Report - 19/06/17 - Home Wood - SE Bedfordshire - 7 traps in total - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap 1x 40w Actinic + 15w LED Trap 1x 80w Actinic Trap 140 Macros & 148 Micros 288 species Macro Moths Barred Red Barred Straw Barred yellow Beautiful Golden-Y Beautiful Hook-tip Blackneck Blood-vein Blotched Emerald Blue-bordered Carpet Bordered white Bright-line Brown-eye Brimstone Brindled White-spot Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing Brown Rustic Brown Scallop Brown Silver-line Brown-line Bright-eye Buff Arches Buff Ermine Buff Footman Buff Tip Burnished Brass Clouded Border Clouded Brindle Clouded Silver Clouded-bordered Brindle Common Emerald Common Footman Common Marbled Carpet Common Pug Common Swift Common Wainscot Common wave Common White Wave Coronet Coxcomb Prominent Cream-bordered Green Pea Dark Arches Dingy Shears Dingy Shell Dotted Fan-foot Double Square-spot Double-striped Pug Drinker Dun-bar Elephant Hawk-moth Engrailed Fan-foot Fern Figure of eEghty Flame Flame Carpet Flame Shoulder Foxglove Pug Garden Carpet Ghost Moth Gold Swift Green Carpet Green Pug Green silver-lines Grey Pine Carpet Grey Pug Haworths Pug Heart & Club Heart & Dart July Highflyer Large Emerald Large Nutmeg Large Twin-spot Carpet Large Yellow Underwing Leopard Moth Light Arches Light Emerald Lime Hawk-moth Lunar-spotted Pinion Maiden's Blush Maple Prominent Map-winged Swift Marbled Brown [NEW!] Marbled Minor Marbled White-spot May Highflyer Mere Wainscot Middle-barred minor Miller Minor Shoulder-knot Mottled Beauty Mottled Pug Mottled Rustic Oak Nycteoline Obscure Wainscot Orange Footman Pale Oak Beauty Pale Prominent Pale Tussock Peach Blossom Peppered Moth Pinion-streaked Snout Poplar Grey Pretty Chalk Carpet Privet Hawk-moth Red-necked footman Riband Wave Rosy Marbled Ruddy Carpet Satin Beauty Satyr Pug Scalloped oak Scarce Footman Scarlet Tiger Scorched Carpet Scorched Wing Setaceous Hebrew Character Shaded pug Short-cloaked Moth Silver-ground Carpet Small Dotted Buff Small Dusty Wave Small Emerald Small Fan-foot Small Fan-footed Wave Small Rufous Small Yellow Wave Smoky Wainscot Snout Spruce Carpet Straw Dot Swallow-tailed Moth Tawny Marbled Minor Tawny-barred Angle Treble Brown Spot Treble Lines Turnip Moth Uncertain Vapourer V-Pug Willow Beauty Yellow Shell Yellow-tail Micro Moths Acentria ephemerella Acleris hastiana Acleris holmiana Acleris kochiella Acompsia cinerella Acrobasis repandana Agapeta hamana Agapeta zoegana Aleimma loeflingiana Anania coronata Anania hortulata Anania lancealis Anarsia innoxiella Ancylis achatana Anthophila fabriciana Aphomia sociella Archips crataegana Archips podana Archips rosana Archips xylosteana Argyresthia albistria Argyresthia bonnetella Argyresthia curvella Argyresthia glaucinella [NEW!] Argyresthia spinosella Batia lunaris Blastobasis lacticolella Blastodacna hellerella Bucculatrix cidarella [NEW!] Caloptilia alchimiella Caloptilia stigmatella Caloptilia syringella Carcina quercana Carpatolechia fugitivella Carpatolechia notatella [NEW!] Cedestis gysseleniella Celypha lacunana Celypha striana Chilo phragmitella Chrysoteuchia culmella Clepsis consimilana Cnephasia sp Cochylis atricapitana Cochylis hybridella Coleophora albidella [NEW!] Coleophora deauratella Coleophora kuehnella [NEW!] Coptotriche marginea Cosmopterix zieglerella [NEW!] Crambus lathoniellus Crambus pascuella Crambus perlella Crassa unitella Dioryctia abietella Ditula angustiorana Donacaula forficella Elachista bisulcella ? [NEW!] Elegia similella Elophila nymphaeata Endothenia gentianaeana/marginea Endothenia nigricostana Endotricha flammealis Epagoge grotiana Epermenia chaerophyllella Ephestia sp Epiblema foenella Epinotia abbreviana Epinotia signatana Epinotia subocellana Epinotia tedella Ethmia dodecea Eucosma cana Eudonia lacustrata Eudonia pallida Eupoecilia angustana Euzophera pinguis Exoteleia dodecella Gelechia sororculella [NEW!] Glyphipterix simpliciella Gypsonoma dealbana Gypsonoma sociana Hedya nubiferana Hedya pruniana Hedya salicella Hofmannophila pseudospretella Homoeosoma sinuella Hypsopygia costalis Incurvaria oehlmanniella Lathronympha strigana Lozotaeniodes formosana Metzneria metzneriella Mompha ochraceella Mompha propinquella Morophaga choragella Myelois circumvoluta Nemapogon cloacella Nemapogon ruricolella [NEW!] Nemophora degeerella Neofaculta ericetella Nephopterix angustella Notocelia trimaculana Notocelia uddmanniana Oegoconia sp Olindia schumacherana Pammene fasciana Pammene regiana Pandemis cerasana Pandemis heparana Parachronistis albiceps Parapoynx stratiotata Paraswammerdamia albicapitella Paraswammerdamia nebulella Parornix sp Phtheochroa rugosana Phycita roborella Phycitodes binaevella Piniphila bifasciana Pleuroptya ruralis Prays fraxinella Pseudargyrotoza conwagana Pterophorus pentadactyla Ptycholoma lecheana Rhopobota naevana Rhyacionia buoliana Rhyacionia pinicolana Scoparia ambigualis Scoparia basistrigalis Scoparia pyralella Scrobipalpa costella Scythropia crataegella Sorhagenia sp ? Spatalistis bifasciana Spilonota ocellana Syncopacma sp Teleiodes luculella Teleiodes vulgella Tinea semifulvella Tinea trinotella Tischeria ekebladella Tortrix viridana Triaxomera parasitella Udea olivalis Udea prunalis Yponomeuta evonymella Ypsolopha parenthesella Ypsolopha sequella Ypsolopha ustella Zeiraphera isertana
Trip to Las Descargues 8th August - 18th August - Macro Moths I made a trip back to Robin Howard's beautiful place in the Midi-pyrenees with my wife on the second week of August. We planned to stay over our anniversary but we were unsure of what the weather would be like, so very opted for a slightly longer stay of 10 days incase the weather wasn't too good. We are very glad that we did as the first 4 days were quite wet and windy and with daytime temperatures not getting much higher than 18 degrees, it felt like the trip back in June al over again! Thankfully by Saturday the temperature had recovered and we were enjoying the sunshine finally and by Monday we made use of the stunning swimming pool that we had all to ourselves (although it was quite cold and took your breathe away). Typically on the last day (Thursday) it was really warm and the pool felt a bit warmer so we made the most of it! Of course Moths were once again on the agenda, a I was granted permission to use traps aeound thr garden, extending to the ridge with a generator if I wanted to. The first few nights were hard going and measly pickings but of course every trap had it's surprises in, and having not been here in August before there were plenty of moths that i'd never seen before. 2 of the traps on the first couple of nights got water-logged and then I had the challenging time of dealing with lively Hornets, albeit they are quite docile once the sun has rose and some mornings I just had to wait for it to get light before I could get near the traps. We also lost one of the bulbs in the lower garden, I woke up to find it glowing green/white and thought it was odd and then getting nearer and realising the bulb had smashed, not good as Robin didn't have a 3-pin spare. How on earth it smashed when we had no rain that night (and it had a secure rainguard on it anyway) is beyond me. I could still see the light in my vision for about 15 minutes after which was slightly worrying! By Saturday and Sunday, nights were really warm and temperatures kept in the high teens some nights even when the sky had cleared and working the traps in the morning (sometimes 4) was pretty hard work to say the least. Potting stuff up I didn't recognise, keeping a list on a notepad, the traps were full up and some mornings each trap had about 400 moths in, and I had 4 running! The best night I had around 160 species which is pretty incredible for August apprarently. This first post I will list the Macro Moths that I saw on my trip. I still have a few for identification as always but so far the Macro Moth species list stands at 193 species. Species highlighted in red are completely new to me. All of the Macro Moth species that I took photos of can now be viewed on my flickr page HERE Adactylotis contaminaria Angle Shades Barred Hook-tip Beautiful Hook-tip Beautiful Marbled Beautiful Yellow Underwing Birch Mocha Bird's Wing Black Arches Black V Moth Blair's Mocha Blood-vein Bordered White Bright-line Brown-eye Brimstone Moth Broad-barred White Broad-bordered Bee Hawk-moth Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing Brussels Lace Buff Arches Buff Ermine Buff Footman Buff-tip Burnished Brass Campion Chinese Character Clay Clay Triple-lines Cloaked Carpet Cloaked Minor Clouded Border Clouded Buff Clouded Silver Common Carpet Common Footman Common Rustic Common Wainscot Common Wave Common White Wave Copper Underwing Coronet Coxcomb Prominent Crescent Dart Dark Spectacle Dark Sword-grass Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet Delicate Dewick's Plusia Dingy Footman Dotted Clay Double-striped Pug Drymonia querna Dumeril's Rustic Dun-bar Dusky Marbled Brown Ear Moth Early Thorn Engrailed Epilecta linogrisea Essex Emerald Eupithecia semigraphata or impurata False Mocha Festoon Figure of Eighty Flame Shoulder Flounced Rustic Four-spotted Footman Foxglove Pug Frosted Yellow Garden Carpet Garden Tiger Gem Grass Emerald Great Dart Green Silver-lines Grey Dagger Gypsy Moth Heart & Dart Hoary Footman Horse Chestnut Humming-bird Hawk-moth Idaea deversaria Idia calvaria Iron Prominent Jersey Emerald Jersey Tiger Knot Grass Large Yellow Underwing Latin Latticed Heath Least Yellow Underwing Leopard Moth Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing Lesser Cream Wave Lesser Swallow Prominent Lesser Treble-bar Lesser Yellow Underwing Light Emerald Lime Hawk-moth Lime-speck Pug Lobster Moth Lunar Thorn Lychnis Lythria cruentaria Maiden's Blush Marbled Clover Miller Nutmeg Nut-tree Tussock Oak Eggar Oak Hook-tip Oak Processionary Orache Moth Orange Footman Paidia rica Pale Mottled Willow Pale Oak Beauty Pale Prominent Pale Shoulder Passenger Peach Blossom Peacock Moth Pebble Hook-tip Peppered Moth Phoenix Pigmy Footman Pine Hawk-moth Pine Processionary Pine-tree Lappet Pinion-streaked Snout Plum Lappet Poplar Hawk-moth Poplar Kitten Poplar Lappet Portland Riband Wave Red Twin-spot Carpet Riband Wave Rosy Footman Rosy Marbled Ruby Tiger Rustic Satin Wave Scalloped Hook-tip Scarce Bordered Straw Scarce Footman Scarce Merveille du Jour Scarlet Tiger Scopula tesselaria Scorched Wing Setaceous Hebrew Character Shark Shears Silver-Y Single-dotted Wave Small Angle Shades Small Black Arches Small Blood-vein Small Dusty Wave Small Fan-foot Small Fan-footed Wave Small Mottled Willow Small Purple-barred Small Ranunculus Small Rivulet Small White Wave Snout Speckled Beauty Spotted Sulphur Square-spotted Clay Straw Dot Straw Underwing Swallow Prominent Synopsia sociaria Tawny Prominent Tawny-barred Angle Tephronia sepiaria Toadflax Brocade Treble-bar Tree-lichen Beauty True Lover's Knot Vestal Vine's Rustic Waved Umber White Ermine White-point White-speck Willow Beauty Wood Carpet Yellow Shell Yellow-barred Brindle Yellow-headed Phoenix Yellow-tail
A BIG deep breath. A record-breaking night in Bedfordshire I joined Matt and Lionel at Home Wood on Monday night in Bedfordshire. The day had been absolutely scorching and hit nearly 30 degrees during the day and the night was meant to go no lower than 19/20 degrees, perfect muggy weather for moths despite clear skies we had absolutely no wind at all and no moon to contend with. We setup 5 traps and a light and sheet under sweaty conditions, it was hot stuff indeed and once again I attracted Horse-flies! As soon as it got dark, moths were absolutely everywhere with micros at first in their hundreds and then the Geometers started coming in and finally the Noctuids and boy was there action around the lights. I've been out before and had trouble with lots of midges and flies but never have I had as much trouble from inhaling moths as well. The species kept tallying up and it was hard to keep up. We got to 100 species about 2 hours in and then from midnight it was about 1 or 2 a minute being jotted down. Highlights were massively over-whelming with two County first species to start with....Rosy Marbled and Elegia similella. Copied from Andy Banthorpe's email. Gen Dets of species retained so far. Carpatolechia fugitivella m & f – been recorded there before Carpatolechia notatella f – 3rd county record Neofaculta ericetella m confirmed Dioryctria abietella f Satyr Pug f 18th county record, only third since 1996 Teleiodes vulgella f (worn dark grey) Caloptilia alchimiella m Nemapogon cloacella m Nemapogon ruricolella m – 4th county record Coleophore kuehnella m (the white one) Other Macro highlights were Cream-bordered Green Pea, 10+ Scarlet Tiger's, 5x Marbled Brown and Mere Wainscot. In total for the time being we recorded 140 species of Macro and 148 species of micro, eclipsing my highest ever previous species of 252 with a grand total of 288 species!! We finally finished packing up (which took over 2 hours) at 4am as it was getting light. Thanks guys for the help you gave me and adding to the list as we went through the night. Catch Report - 19/06/17 - Home Wood - SE Bedfordshire - 7 traps in total - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap 1x 40w Actinic + 15w LED Trap 1x 80w Actinic Trap 140 Macros & 148 Micros 288 species Macro Moths Barred Red Barred Straw Barred yellow Beautiful Golden-Y Beautiful Hook-tip Blackneck Blood-vein Blotched Emerald Blue-bordered Carpet Bordered white Bright-line Brown-eye Brimstone Brindled White-spot Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing Brown Rustic Brown Scallop Brown Silver-line Brown-line Bright-eye Buff Arches Buff Ermine Buff Footman Buff Tip Burnished Brass Clouded Border Clouded Brindle Clouded Silver Clouded-bordered Brindle Common Emerald Common Footman Common Marbled Carpet Common Pug Common Swift Common Wainscot Common wave Common White Wave Coronet Coxcomb Prominent Cream-bordered Green Pea Dark Arches Dingy Shears Dingy Shell Dotted Fan-foot Double Square-spot Double-striped Pug Drinker Dun-bar Elephant Hawk-moth Engrailed Fan-foot Fern Figure of eEghty Flame Flame Carpet Flame Shoulder Foxglove Pug Garden Carpet Ghost Moth Gold Swift Green Carpet Green Pug Green silver-lines Grey Pine Carpet Grey Pug Haworths Pug Heart & Club Heart & Dart July Highflyer Large Emerald Large Nutmeg Large Twin-spot Carpet Large Yellow Underwing Leopard Moth Light Arches Light Emerald Lime Hawk-moth Lunar-spotted Pinion Maiden's Blush Maple Prominent Map-winged Swift Marbled Brown [NEW!] Marbled Minor Marbled White-spot May Highflyer Mere Wainscot Middle-barred minor Miller Minor Shoulder-knot Mottled Beauty Mottled Pug Mottled Rustic Oak Nycteoline Obscure Wainscot Orange Footman Pale Oak Beauty Pale Prominent Pale Tussock Peach Blossom Peppered Moth Pinion-streaked Snout Poplar Grey Pretty Chalk Carpet Privet Hawk-moth Red-necked footman Riband Wave Rosy Marbled Ruddy Carpet Satin Beauty Satyr Pug Scalloped oak Scarce Footman Scarlet Tiger Scorched Carpet Scorched Wing Setaceous Hebrew Character Shaded pug Short-cloaked Moth Silver-ground Carpet Small Dotted Buff Small Dusty Wave Small Emerald Small Fan-foot Small Fan-footed Wave Small Rufous Small Yellow Wave Smoky Wainscot Snout Spruce Carpet Straw Dot Swallow-tailed Moth Tawny Marbled Minor Tawny-barred Angle Treble Brown Spot Treble Lines Turnip Moth Uncertain Vapourer V-Pug Willow Beauty Yellow Shell Yellow-tail Micro Moths Acentria ephemerella Acleris hastiana Acleris holmiana Acleris kochiella Acompsia cinerella Acrobasis repandana Agapeta hamana Agapeta zoegana Aleimma loeflingiana Anania coronata Anania hortulata Anania lancealis Anarsia innoxiella Ancylis achatana Anthophila fabriciana Aphomia sociella Archips crataegana Archips podana Archips rosana Archips xylosteana Argyresthia albistria Argyresthia bonnetella Argyresthia curvella Argyresthia glaucinella [NEW!] Argyresthia spinosella Batia lunaris Blastobasis lacticolella Blastodacna hellerella Bucculatrix cidarella [NEW!] Caloptilia alchimiella Caloptilia stigmatella Caloptilia syringella Carcina quercana Carpatolechia fugitivella Carpatolechia notatella [NEW!] Cedestis gysseleniella Celypha lacunana Celypha striana Chilo phragmitella Chrysoteuchia culmella Clepsis consimilana Cnephasia sp Cochylis atricapitana Cochylis hybridella Coleophora albidella [NEW!] Coleophora deauratella Coleophora kuehnella [NEW!] Coptotriche marginea Cosmopterix zieglerella [NEW!] Crambus lathoniellus Crambus pascuella Crambus perlella Crassa unitella Dioryctia abietella Ditula angustiorana Donacaula forficella Elachista bisulcella ? [NEW!] Elegia similella Elophila nymphaeata Endothenia gentianaeana/marginea Endothenia nigricostana Endotricha flammealis Epagoge grotiana Epermenia chaerophyllella Ephestia sp Epiblema foenella Epinotia abbreviana Epinotia signatana Epinotia subocellana Epinotia tedella Ethmia dodecea Eucosma cana Eudonia lacustrata Eudonia pallida Eupoecilia angustana Euzophera pinguis Exoteleia dodecella Gelechia sororculella [NEW!] Glyphipterix simpliciella Gypsonoma dealbana Gypsonoma sociana Hedya nubiferana Hedya pruniana Hedya salicella Hofmannophila pseudospretella Homoeosoma sinuella Hypsopygia costalis Incurvaria oehlmanniella Lathronympha strigana Lozotaeniodes formosana Metzneria metzneriella Mompha ochraceella Mompha propinquella Morophaga choragella Myelois circumvoluta Nemapogon cloacella Nemapogon ruricolella [NEW!] Nemophora degeerella Neofaculta ericetella Nephopterix angustella Notocelia trimaculana Notocelia uddmanniana Oegoconia sp Olindia schumacherana Pammene fasciana Pammene regiana Pandemis cerasana Pandemis heparana Parachronistis albiceps Parapoynx stratiotata Paraswammerdamia albicapitella Paraswammerdamia nebulella Parornix sp Phtheochroa rugosana Phycita roborella Phycitodes binaevella Piniphila bifasciana Pleuroptya ruralis Prays fraxinella Pseudargyrotoza conwagana Pterophorus pentadactyla Ptycholoma lecheana Rhopobota naevana Rhyacionia buoliana Rhyacionia pinicolana Scoparia ambigualis Scoparia basistrigalis Scoparia pyralella Scrobipalpa costella Scythropia crataegella Sorhagenia sp ? Spatalistis bifasciana Spilonota ocellana Syncopacma sp Teleiodes luculella Teleiodes vulgella Tinea semifulvella Tinea trinotella Tischeria ekebladella Tortrix viridana Triaxomera parasitella Udea olivalis Udea prunalis Yponomeuta evonymella Ypsolopha parenthesella Ypsolopha sequella Ypsolopha ustella Zeiraphera isertana