An insane catch - Garden Trapping - Fordham - Cambridgeshire - 02/09/21

An even bigger catch than the previous night was unexpected, as it was only a shade warmer (14 degrees minimum), but maybe the drop in wind had helped.

A glut of Flounced Rustic made up nearly half the catch, all 112 of them! with Vine's a close second at 41 individuals.

Over 250 moths of 61 species in all, in fact they barely fit in my small really useful tub, trap.

The usual fare was found in and around the trap, and infact it took me nearly an hour to pot everything up from the fences and wall of the house and to pop them into trap to cover over for the day.

Some really stand-out moths were also potted up.

Best of all was a new moth for me, Evergestis limbata, a recent arrival to Cambridgeshire with 3 previous records over the last two years, stunning!

 

As if that wasn't good enough, a second new species for me was on the side of the trap in the evening, a tiny Cochylidia implicitana, specimen retained just in case it isn't this, but i've keyed it out as best as I can visually with my books and online resources.

 

Another shock was a late Wood Carpet (Nearly the latest record for Cambs, which was the 7th of September in 1969, the same year as the moon landing!).  

And finally a absolutely mint Small Ranunculus was another species I seldom see. 

Exhausting but rewarding! As I sat by the trap for a few hours late into the night, and arose at 4:30am.

Moth garden list stands at 106 species.

02/09/21 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

 

Macro Moths

 

Blood-vein 1 [NFG]

Burnished Brass 1 [NFG] 

Small Ranunculus 1 [NFG]

Wood Carpet 1 [NFG]

Angle Shades 1

Bright-line Brown-eye 1

Cabbage Moth 6

Chinese Character 2

Common Wainscot 39

Coronet 2 

Double-striped Pug 8 

Flame Shoulder 8
Flounced Rustic 112
Green Carpet 5
Large Yellow Underwing 10

Latticed Heath 1

Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1
Light Emerald 4

Lime-speck Pug 1

Marbled Beauty 1
Orange Swift 1
Pale Mottled Willow2

Riband Wave 1
Setaceous Hebrew Character 25
Shuttle-shaped Dart 4

Small Dusty Wave 3
Smoky Wainscot 13

Snout 1

Spectacle 2
Square-spot Rustic 7
Straw Underwing 9

Treble Bar 1

Tree-lichen Beauty  2
Turnip Moth 16
Vine's Rustic 41
White point 15
Willow Beauty 10

Yellow Shell 4 

Yellow-barred Brindle 5

Micro Moths

Cochylidia implicitana 1 [NEW!] 

Evergestis limbata 1 [NEW!]

Bedellia somnulentella 1 [NFG]

Cameraria ohridella 1 [NFG] 

Cochylis dubitana 2 [NFG]

Cochylis molliculana 1 [NFG]

Cydia pomonella 1 [NFG]

Pyrausta aurata 1 [NFG] 

Tischeria ekebladella 1 [NFG]

Swammerdamia pyrella 1 [NFG]

Acleris variegana 2

Blastobasis adustella 3 

Celypha lacunana 1  

Coleophora sp 1 [TBC]

Emmelina monodactyla 3

Endrosis sarcitrella 1 

Epiphyas postvittana 4

Evergestis forficalis 4

Bryotropha domestica 1
Catoptria faslella 1

Wood Carpet

Swammerdamia pyrella

Small Ranunculus

Evergestis limbata

Cochylidia implicitana

Burnished Brass

Bedellia somnulentella