Fordham Meadows - 27/05/23

Leslie and myself ran a few traps along the footpath at Fordham Meadows on Saturday night, it was a warm day, with lots of activity as the sun was setting, but that was it really.

With a clear sky and fairly bright moon but no breeze, temperatures plummeted, so much so that my hands were hurting reeling in the cables at midnight because of how cold and wet they were.

Walking back to the car was also hard to see where we were going, because of the mist and steam from our breath!

 

Best moths were two dark form Treble Lines, an early Oxyptilus distans and an interesting Coleophora that will need dissecting.

 

39 species was very poor for the time of year, but reflects how bad the conditions are currently.

 

Still cool and breezy and night and really not worth it sadly.

27/05/23 - Fordham Meadows - East Cambridgeshire - 3 traps, 250w Clear Mercury Robinson Trap, 160w MBT Trap and 120w Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Brimstone Moth 1
Chocolate-tip 1
Cinnabar 1
Common Swift 5
Common Wainscot 1
Flame Shoulder 2
Green Carpet 10+ many netted
Iron Prominent 1
Light Brocade 1
Marbled Minor sp 3
Mottled Pug 1
Orange Footman 1
Pale Tussock 5
Pebble Prominent 1
Poplar Hawk-moth 1
Purple Bar 1
Rustic Shoulder-knot 1
Sandy Carpet 3
Shears 1
Shuttle-shaped Dart 1
Small Square-spot 5
Treble-bar 1
Treble Lines 5 including 2 f.obscura
Turnip Moth 3
Yellow Belle 3
White-point 1
Willow Beauty 1

Micro Moths 

Aethes smeathmanniana 3
Cnephasia sp 3
Cochylidia heydeniana 1
Cochylis atricapitana 1
Coleophora alticolella/caespititiella 1 TBC
Dichrorampha acuminatana 1
Elachista argentella 1
Endothenia gentianaeana/marginana 1
Monopis weaverella 10+ many netted
Oxyptilus distans 1
Paraswammerdamia albicapitella 1
Tinea trinotella 1

Cochylidia heydeniana

Coleophora alticolella/caespititiella

Oxyptilus distans

Paraswammerdamia albicapitella

Sandy Carpet

Treble Lines f.obscura