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
Lime-speck Pug |
Blood-vein f.nigra |
Aethes smeathmanniana |
Cochylis atricapitana |
Nemapogon cloacella |
Monopis crocicapitella |
Cochylis sp |
Notocelia trimaculana |
Oak Hook-tip |
Scrobipalpa costella |
Tinea semifulvella |
Scrobipalpa sp |
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