Musotima nitidalis
L-album Wainscot
Feathered Ranunculus
Agonopterix nervosa
Blossom Underwing
Beautiful Marbled
Lampronia fuscatella
Gravitarmata margarotana
Perittia obscurepunctella
Black-spotted Chestnut
Cydia pactolanaMy car broke down on the way, a mere mile away from the site, and so hoping my father-in-law would be able to fix it, he was called and on his way to rescue me.
Unfortunately he wasn't quite fully equipped for the job, and so a trip back to Wheathampstead and then back again with a drill and some bolts to secure the intake pipe and luckily the car survived to live another day.
I arrived at the site at 10:30pm and it was already dark under cloudy warm and humid conditions, the moths were everywhere and it took seconds for the moths to respond to each light as I fired them up, one after another.
The temperature was still 24 degrees and not set to get below 17 all night, crazy... and yes it was a bit.
With an estimated 1500 moths over 6 traps it was a busy night and we had to decide to start packing up at around 1am for fear of still being on site at 4am.
I left at 2:45am and felt frazzled after the drama of earlier and the frantic action around the moth traps.
Below is the list, it's rather lengthy and features a mammoth 270 species, one of my highest species count in one night.
One moth was new to me (Acleris logiana) and another was my first Hertfordshire record and only my second ever record (Carpatolechia alburnella).
Other ood species were, Gelechia nigra (4th County record, having caught the previous two from my garden), Capperia britanniodactyla, Kent Black Arches (3 examples( and Small Angle Shades (rare this end of Herts).
Here is the total list.
Macro Moths : 136 species
Micro Moths : 134 species
Total : 270 species
Catch Report - 09/07/19 - Bramfield Park Woods - Hertfordshire - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 250w MV Clear Robinson Trap & 1x 160w Mercury Blended Robinson Trap - 4 traps in total + 3 extra traps provided by Trevor
Macro Moths Barred Straw Barred Yellow Beautiful Carpet Beautiful Golden Y Beautiful Hook-tip Bird's Wing Black Arches Black neck Blotched Emerald Blood-vein Bordered White Brimstone Moth Bright-line Brown eye Brown line bright eye Brindled White spot Brown Rustic Brown Silver lines Buff Arches Buff Ermine Burnished Brass Buff Footman Buff-tip Cinnabar Clay Clay Triple-lines Clouded Border Clouded Brindle Clouded Silver Common Carpet Common Emerald Common Footman Common Swift Common Wainscot Common White Wave Common Wave Coronet Coxcomb Prominent Dark Arches Dingy Footman Double Square spot Double-striped Pug Dun-bar Dusky Brocade Double Square-spot Dwarf Cream Wave Elephant Hawk-moth Engrailed Fan foot Flame Shoulder Gold Swift Grey Arches Great Oak Beauty Green Carpet Green Pug Green Silver-lines Haworth's pug Heart & Club Heart & Dart Ingrailed Clay Iron Prominent July Highflyer Kent Black Arches Large Emerald Large Nutmeg Least Carpet Leopard Moth Large Yellow Underwing Lesser Yellow Underwing Light Arches Light Emerald Lobster Moth Maple Prominent Marbled Brown Marbled Minor sp Marbled White spot Middle-barred Minor Miller Minor Shoulder-knot Mottled Beauty Mottled Pug Oak Hook-tip Orange Footman Pale Oak Beauty Pale Prominent Peach Blossom Peppered moth Peacock Moth Poplar Hawk-moth Poplar Lutestring Privet Hawk-moth Pine Hawk-moth
Pinion-streaked Snout
Purple Clay Purple Thorn Red-necked Footman Riband Wave
Round-winged Muslin
Ruby Tiger Rosy Footman Rufous Minor Rustic Silver-Y Single-dotted Wave Scalloped Oak Scarce Footman Scarce Silver-lines Setaceous Hebrew Character Scorched wing Shaded Broad-bar Shoulder-striped Wainscot Silver-ground Carpet Slender Brindle Slender Pug
Small Angle Shades
Small Dotted Buff Small Fan-foot Small Fan-footed Wave Small White Wave Small Yellow Wave Smoky Wainscot Snout Straw Dot Swallow-tailed Moth Sycamore Tawny-barred Angle Tawny Marbled Minor Treble Brown Spot Vapourer Vine's Rustic V-pug White Ermine Willow Beauty Yellow tail White-point Uncertain Waved Black Micro Moths
Acrobasis consociella Acleris forskaleana
Acleris logiana
Acrobasis repandana Agapeta hamana Agonopterix arenella Aleimma loefligiana Alucita hexadactyla Anacampsis blatteriella Anacampsis populella Anania hortulata Anania lancealis Anarsia innoxiella Ancylis diminutana Aphomia sociella
Apotomis betuletana
Apotomis capreana Apotomis turbidana Archips craetagana Acleris schalleriana Archips podana Acrobasis repandana Aphelia paleana Archips xylosteana Argyresthia conjugella Argyresthia goedartella Argyresthia brockeella Argyresthia pruniella Assara terebrella Athrips mouffetella Blastodacna hellerella Bactra sp Batia lunaris Batrachedra praeangusta Blastobasis lacticolella Brachmia blandella Brown China Mark Caloptilia alchimiella/robustella Calomotropha paludella
Capperia britanniodactyla
Carcina quercana Carpatolechia alburnella Carpatolechia fugitivella Catoptria falsella Celypha cespitana Celypha lacunana Chrysoteuchia culmella Clepsis consimiliana Crambus lathoniellus Crassa unitella Cochylis atricapitana Cochylis nana Coleophora paripennella Coleophora sp Cydia fagiglandana Cydia pomonella Cydia splendana Ditula angustiorana Ectoedemia sp Elophila nymphaeata Epagoge grotiana Epermenia falciformis Ephestia sp
Epinotia abbreviana
Epinotia bilunana
Epinotia brunnichana
Epinotia demarniana
Epinotia fraternana
Epinotia immundana
Epinotia signatana
Epinotia tedella
Emmetia marginea
Eucosma cana
Eucosma obumbratana
Eucosma hohenwartiana
Euspilapteryx auroguttella
Exoteleia dodecella
Euzophera pinguis
Eudonia lacustrata
Eudonia pallida
Gelechia nigra
Gypsonoma dealbana
Gypsonoma sociana
Hedya nubiferana
Hedya pruniana
Hedya salicella
Hypsopygia costalis
Homo sinnuella
Lathronympha strigana
Limnaecia phragmitrella
Lobesia abscisana
Marasma lunaedactyla
Metzneria lappella
Metzneria metzneriella
Mompha ochraceella
Morophaga choragella
Notocelia cynosbatella
Notocelia trimaculana
Notocelia uddmanniana
Parachronistis albiceps
Pandemis cerasana
Pandemis heparana
Parachronistis albiceps
Paraswammerdamia nebulella
Parornix sp
Phycita roborella
Phycitodes binaevella
Phyllonorycter coryli
Plutella xylostella
Prays fraxinella
Pseudosciaphila branderiana
Pseudargyrotoza conwagana
Ptherochroa inopiana
Recurvaria leucatella
Rhodophaea formosa
Scoparia ambigualis
Scoparia pyralella
Scoparia subfusca
Scythropia crataegella
Spilonota ocellana
Stephensia brunnichella
Swammerdamia caesiella
Syncopacma sp
Teleoides luculella
Teleoides vulgella
Tinea semifulvella
Tortrix viridana
Udea olivalis
Udea prunalis
Yponomeuta evonymella
Yponomeuta padella/malinellus
Ypsolpha ustella
Ypsolpha dentella
Zeiraphera isertana
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| Small Angle Shades |
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| Acleris logiana |
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| Apotomis betuletana |
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| Kent Black Arches |
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Limnaecia phragmitrella
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| Pinion-streaked Snout |
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Athrips mouffetella
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| Capperia britanniodactyla |
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| Slender Brindle |
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| Carpatolechia alburnella |
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| Gelechia nigra |
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