FlyinginFordham: Chippenham Fen - Field Trip

3 weeks had gone by since I last went on a field trip due to weather and other things getting in the way.

As it was a weekday and I had work the next day, I plumped for a trip to my local fen.

It had been a lovely warm day of 26 degrees and the night was set to stay about 15 degrees minimum, and indeed it did.

I setup 4 traps around the reserve, and because of the chance of a migrant with the southerly breeze, I popped one of the traps in a new location overlooking pasture to the south of the reserve.

The breeze died off and it was one of the calmest nights of the year, perfect for local moths, but no good for far flung migrants.

It didn't matter because the traps were heaving with moths, the 250w clear doing it's usual, but what did surprise me was how good my clear 125w bulb was, the trap on the edge of the reserve. It contained at least 100 species at packing up time, just to that trap alone.

Stars of the night were the micros, with loads of great species such as Endothenia ustulana, Gypsonoma oppressana, Neosphaleroptera nubilana, Nascia cilialis & Triaxomera parasitella.

Some lovely larger moths were also photographed briefly in the field, Bordered Beauty, Blackneck & Vapourer Moth to name but a few.

I didn't get home until after 2.30am, and then I had the home trap to go through before a 3 hour kip before work.

A grand total of 239 species was a fair ole' return for the start of June.

I shall return very soon.

12/06/25 - Chippenham Fen - East Cambridgeshire - 1x 125w Trap, 1x 250w Robinson Trap, 1x 40w/22w Bucket Trap & 1x 160w MBT Trap

Macro Moths

Alder Moth
Barred Straw
Beautiful Hook-tip
Blackneck
Blood-vein
Blotched Emerald
Blue-bordered Carpet
Bordered Beauty
Bright-line Brown-eye
Brimstone Moth
Brown Rustic
Brown Scallop
Brown Silver-line
Buff Arches
Buff-tip
Burnished Brass
Clay
Clouded Border
Clouded Brindle
Clouded Silver
Common Carpet
Common Emerald
Common Footman
Common Pug
Common Swift
Common Wainscot
Common White Wave
Coronet
Cream-bordered Green Pea
Dark Arches
Dark Spectacle
Dotted Fan-foot
Double Square-spot
Double-striped Pug
Dusky Brocade
Dwarf Cream Wave
Elephant Hawk-moth
Engrailed
Eyed Hawk-moth
Fern
Figure of Eighty
Flame
Flame Shoulder
Flame Wainscot
Freyer's Pug
Garden Carpet
Ghost Moth
Gold Spot
Green Carpet
Green Pug
Green Silver-lines
Grey pug
Heart & Club
Heart & Dart
Iron Prominent
Kent Black Arches
Large Twin-spot Carpet
Large Yellow Underwing
Latticed Heath
Light Arches
Light Emerald
Lobster Moth
Lunar Yellow Underwing
Lychnis
Marbled Minor
Marbled White-spot
Middle-barred Minor
Miller
Mottled Beauty
Mottled Pug
Mottled Rustic
Orange Footman
Pale Oak Beauty
Pale Prominent
Pale Tussock
Peach Blossom
Pebble Hook-tip
Pebble Prominent
Peppered Moth
Pine Hawk-moth
Pinion-streaked Snout
Poplar Grey
Poplar Hawk-moth
Pretty Chalk Carpet
Privet Hawk-moth
Reed Leopard
Riband Wave
Rosy Footman
Ruby Tiger
Scarlet Tiger
Scorched Wing
Setaceous Hebrew Character
Short-cloaked Moth
Silky Wainscot
Silver Barred
Single-dotted Wave
Small Clouded Brindle
Small Elephant Hawk-moth
Small Fan-footed Wave
Small Square-spot
Smoky Wainscot
Snout
Southern Wainscot
Spectacle
Spruce Carpet
Straw Dot
Striped Wainscot
Swallow Prominent
Sycamore
Treble lines
Turnip Moth
Uncertain
Vapourer Moth
V-pug
White Ermine
White-point
Willow Beauty
Yellow Shell
Yellow-tail

Micro Moths

Acentria emphemerella
Achroia grisella
Acompsia cinerella
Adaina microdactyla
Aethes beatricella
Aethes cnicana
Aethes rubigana
Agapeta hamana
Aleimma loeflingiana
Anania hortulata
Anania lancealis
Anania perlucidalis
Ancylis achatana
Aphomia sociella
Archips crataegana
Archips podana
Archips rosana
Archips xylosteana
Argyresthia brockeella
Argyresthia cupressella
Argyresthia curvella
Argyresthia retinella
Bactra lancealana
Brachmia inornatella
Bucculatrix cidarella
Caloptilia alchimiella robustella
Carcina quercana
Cataclysta lemnata
Celypha cespitana
Celypha lacunana
Celypha rosaceana
Celypha striana
Chilo phragmitella
Chrysoteuchia culmella
Clepsis consimilana
Cnephasia sp
Cochylis hybridella
Coleophora alcyonipennella frischella
Cosmopterix lienigiella
Cosmopterix scribaiella
Crambus lathoniellus
Crambus pascuella
Crassa unitella
Cydia fagiglandana
Dichrorampha alpinana flavidorsana
Ditula angustiorana
Elachista humilis
Elachista maculicerusella
Elachista stabilella
Emmelina monodactyla
Emmetia marginea
Endothenia ustulana
Epermenia chaerophyllella
Ephestia sp
Epinotia bilunana
Epinotia demarniana
Epinotia immundana
Epinotia tenerana
Epiphyas postvittana
Ethmia dodecea
Ethmia quadrilella
Eucosma cana
Eucosma hohenwartiana
Eudonia lacustrata
Eudonia pallida
Euzophera pinguis
Gillmeria pallidactyla
Glyphipterix thrasonella
Grapholita lobarzewskii
Grapholita tenebrosana
Gypsonoma oppressana
Hedya nubiferana
Hedya ochroleucana
Hedya pruniana
Hofmannophila pseudospretella
Hypsopygia costalis
Luquetia lobella
Monopis crocicapitella
Morophaga choragella
Nascia cilialis
Nemapogon clematella
Nemapogon cloacella
Nematopogon metaxella
Neosphaleroptera nubilana
Nephopterix angustella
Niditinea fuscella striolella
Notocelia trimaculana
Notocelia uddmanniana
Olindia schumacherana
Ostrinia nubilalis
Pandemis heparana
Parapoynx stratiotata
Paraswammerdamia albicapitella
Phalonidia manniana udana
Phycitodes binaevella
Piniphila bifasciana
Plutella xylostella
Pseudargyrotoza conwagana
Ptherochroa rugosana
Ptherochroa sodaliana
Pyrausta purpuralis
Schoenobius gigantella
Scoparia ambigualis
Scoparia pyralella
Scrobipalpa costella
Scythropia crataegella
Sitochroa verticalis
Sorhagenia sp
Stenoptilia pterodactyla
Teleiodes vulgella
Thyraylia nana
Tinagma ocnerostomella
Tinea semifulvella
Tischeria eklebladella
Tortrix viridana
Triaxomera parasitella
Udea olivalis
Yponomeuta evonynella
Yponomeuta rorrella
Zelotherses paleana