Last night, I ran my trap at work and after sorting through it upon arival, I only managed 19 species, throughout the day and on tea break + lunch, I search the long grass and bushes near the trap, and ended up with 31 species in total! So very worth an extra rummage around.
Another Aethes tesserana was nice, again being the same yellowy colour form as the last one from here. A hint of migration with Dark Sword-gras, Silver Y and 6 Plutella xylostella.
There is a Scrobipalpa species to check that is incredibly worn (It probably is just acuminatana).
All in all a pleasing catch under quite poor weather conditions for nearly July!
I'm hoping the night time temperatures increase a little higher than 10-12c, 15c seems quite optimal for prime moth activity, last year and the year before we were spoilt with lots of warm and humid nights (much to my wife's annoyance and her sleep!).
29/06/21 - Work - Bishop's Stortford - East Herts - 40w Actinic + 15w Twin Synergetic/Actinic Trap & 160w MBT Trap
Macro Moths
Beautiful Hook-tip
Dark Sword-grass
Dwarf Cream Wave
Fan-foot
Garden Carpet
Heart & Club
Heart & Dart
Least Carpet
Leopard Moth
Pine Carpet
Scarce Footman
Turnip Moth
White Ermine
Willow Beauty
Micro Moths
Aethes tesserana
Anarsia innoxiella
Bryotropha terrella
Celypha lacunana
Celypha striana
Chrysoteuchia culmella
Crambus pascuella
Emmelina monodactyla
Endothenia gentianaeana/marginana
Ephestia sp
Euzophera pinguis
Homoeosoma sinuella
Pandemis cerasana
Plutella xylostella
Pseudargyrotoza conwagana
Scrobipalpa sp TBC
Scythropia crataegella
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| Scrobipalpa sp |
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| Scarce Footman |
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| Pine Carpet |
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| Leopard Moth |
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| Least Carpet |
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| Euzophera pinguis |
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| Endothenia sp |
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| Dwarf Cream Wave |
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| Dark Sword-grass |
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| Beautiful Hook-tip |
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| Anarsia innoxiella |
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| Aethes tesserana |