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Wednesday 18 March 2020

Bramfield Woods - Field Trip

A debut session in the woods at Bramfield recently, was well worth it to add some early season records to the site list.
I need to tote the site list up properly at some point.
Best moths this week were at least 8 Lead-coloured Drabs, Oak Nycteoline and a female Diurnea fagella in copulation on a tree.

 The weather has been mild during the day peaking at around 14c and only dropping to around 8-10c, but with a persistent South-west breeze and that shaved a few degrees of that temperature.

Below is the list that we managed on the trips.

Catch Report - Bramfield Woods - Central Herts - 6 traps - 1x 125w MV Trap, 1x 250w Clear MV Robinson Trap, 1x 250w MV Trap, 1x 160w MBT Trap, Led Skinner Trap and 40w u-tube + twin 20w Wemlite + 15w Actinic tube & 15w Synergetic tube Trap



Macro Moths
 


Brindled Pug 6


Chestnut 6


Clouded Drab 5


Common Quaker 15


Early Thorn 1 


Engrailed 12


Hebrew Character 4


Lead-coloured Drab 8


Oak Beauty 4


Oak Nycteoline 1 


March Moth 25


Satellite 2


Shoulder-stripe 3


Small Brindled Beauty 2


Small Quaker 50+


Twin-spotted Quaker 8


Yellow Horned 21


 




Micro Moths


 




Acleris notana/ferrugana 1


Agonopterix alstromeriana 1 


Agonopterix heracliana 1


Diurnea fagella 50+


Dyseriocrania subpurpurella 1 


Emmelina monodactyla 1


Eriocrania sp pos sangii/semipurpurella 








Diurnea fagella in copulation










Diunea fagella










Engrailed










Eriocrania sp TBC










Lead-coloured Drab










Shoulder-stripe










Small Brindled Beauty










Yellow Horned 













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