Ditton Park Woods - Field Trip - 12/07/25

I made a second trip to Ditton Park Woods on the 12th of July, a full 2 months after my first visit.

It was a really good trip out with a few species shy of 200 species, 4 traps were deployed in various areas of the wood.

The moths were fast to respond to the lights, but there were less micros than I would have expected, partly due to a cool front coming through after 11pm, despite 18 degrees at midnight, it felt a tad cooler.

 

Despite that, it was very pleasing to see a good selection of moths, nothing new (which is what we all hope for when we do these field trips). 

Well, tell a lie.. one Epinotia specimen has been retained in the hope of a bland form of Epinotia caprana, the other 3 Epinotia have been agreed on via social media, that they are all varieties of solandriana. 

 

Other good micros included a pretty little Agonopterix liturosa, the darker form of Gypsonoma dealbana, the oddity Stathmopoda pedella and an absolutely smashing Psoricoptera gibbosella which is only the 2nd county record (having taken the 1st in exactly the same spot 2 years ago). 

Eudemis porphyrana was also good to see at the same wood once more, a moth that is seemingly having a bumper year in other counties, with records popping up everywhere. 

 

Pick of the macro moths was a confirmed Langmaid's Yellow Underwing, my 3rd of this species, having added it to the garden list last year. 

 

A good trip indeed.

 

12/07/25 - Ditton Park Woods - East Cambridgeshire - 1x 125w Trap, 1x 250w Robinson Trap, 1x 40w/22w Bucket Trap & 1x 20w Heath Bucket Trap

Macro Moths

Black Arches 
Bright-line Brown-eye 
Brimstone Moth 
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 
Buff Arches 
Buff Footman 
Buff-tip 
Clouded Border 
Common Carpet 
Common Rustic 
Common Wave
Common White Wave 
Copper Underwing 
Coronet 
Dark Arches 
Dark Spectacle 
Dingy Footman 
Dotted Fan-foot 
Double Lobed 
Double Square-spot 
Drinker 
Dun-bar 
Early Thorn 
Elephant Hawk-moth 
Engrailed 
Fen Wainscot 
Flame Shoulder 
Grey Dagger 
Iron Prominent 
July Highflyer 
Kent Black Arches 
Knot Grass 
Langmaid's Yellow Underwing
Large Twin-spot Carpet 
Large Yellow Underwing 
Latticed Heath 
Least Carpet 
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 
Lesser Yellow Underwing 
Lunar-spotted Pinion 
Magpie Moth 
Maiden's Blush 
Maple Pug 
Marbled White-spot 
Mere Wainscot 
Minor Shoulder-knot 
Mottled Beauty 
Nut-tree Tussock 
Oak Eggar
Pale Prominent 
Peppered Moth 
Phoenix 
Poplar Hawk-moth 
Red Twin-spot Carpet 
Riband Wave 
Rosy Footman 
Royal Mantle 
Ruby Tiger 
Rustic 
Sallow Kitten 
Scarce Footman 
Scorched Carpet 
Single-dotted Wave 
Small Dotted Buff 
Small Fan-footed Wave 
Small Phoenix 
Smoky Wainscot 
Snout
Straw Dot 
Swallow Prominend
Swallow-tailed Moth 
Tawny-barred Angle 
Turnip Moth 
Uncertain 
Vapourer 
V-pug 
White-spotted Pug 
Willow Beauty 
Wood Carpet 

Micro Moths

Acentria emphemerella 
Acleris emargana
Acleris forskalleana 
Acleris hastiana 
Acleris laterana comariana 
Acleris notana/ferrugana 
Acleris schalleriana 
Acrobasis advenella 
Acrobasis consociella 
Agapeta hamana 
Agapeta zoegana 
Agonopterix alstromeriana 
Agonopterix heracliana 
Agonopterix liturosa 
Agonopterix subpropinquella 
Alucita hexadactyla 
Anacampsis blattariella/populella
Apotomis capreana 
Aproaerema anthyllidella 
Aproaerema taen lars 
Archips crataegana 
Archips podana 
Archips xylosteana
Argyresthia albistria 
Argyresthia bonnetella 
Argyresthia brockeella 
Argyresthia glaucinella
Argyresthia goedartella 
Argyresthia pruniella 
Batia lunaris 
Batrachedra praengasta
Blastobasis adustella 
Blastobasis lacticolella 
Blastodacna hellerella 
Bucculatrix long white 
Bucculatrix ulmella 
Caloptilia alchimiella robustella 
Caloptilia semifascia 
Caloptilia stigmatella 
Cameraria ohridella 
Carcina quercana 
Catoptria pinella 
Celypha lacunana 
Chrysoteuchia culmella 
Cnephasia sp 
Coleophora alcyonipennella/frischella 
Crambus perlella 
Crassa unitella 
Cydia fagiglandana 
Cydia splendana 
Ditula angustiorana 
Elophila nymphaeata 
Emmelina monodactyla 
Endotricha flammealis
Epinotia brunnichana 
Epinotia nanana 
Epinotia nisella 
Epinotia signatana 
Epinotia solandriana
Epinotia tenerana 
Eucosma cana 
Eucosma hohenwartiana 
Eudemis porphyana 
Eudonia lacustrata 
Eudonia mercurella
Gelechia soroculala 
Gypsonoma dealbana 
Gypsonoma sociana 
Hedya nubiferana 
Hedya salicella 
Helycystogramma rufescens 
Monochroa cytisella
Nemapogon cloacella 
Neocochylis hybridella 
Neocochylis molliculana 
Notocelia uddmanniana 
Ostrinia nubilalis 
Phtheochroa inopiana
Pandemis heparana 
Paraswammerdamia albicapitella 
Parornix sp 
Patania ruralis 
Phalonidia manniana udana 
Phycita roborella 
Phyllonorycter acerifoliella
Phyllonorycter harrisella 
Psoricoptera gibbosella
Pyrausta aurata
Pyrausta purpuralis 
Recurvaria leucatella 
Rhopobota naevana 
Ringed China-mark 
Scoparia ambigualis 
Scoparia basistrigalis 
Spilonota ocellana 
Stathmopoda pedella
Teleiodes vulgella 
Thyraylia nana 
Tinea trinotella 
Tischeria eklebladella 
Udea prunalis 
Yponomeuta cag mal pad
Yponomeuta evonynella 
Yponomeuta rorrella 
Ypsolopha dentella
Ypsolopha nemorella
Ypsolopha parenthesella
Ypsolopha scabrella 
Zeiraphera isertana 
Zelleria hepariella

 

Ypsolopha nemorella

Acleris emargana

Agonopterix liturosa

Epinotia nisella

Epinotia solandriana

Epinotia sp

Eudemis porphyrana

July Highflyer

Langmaid's Yellow Underwing

Psoricoptera gibbosella

Stathmopoda pedella