Wells-next-the-Sea - Field Trip - 17/07/25

I made a trip to the north Norfolk coast with Leslie Gardiner back on the 17th of July.

It was a very warm day and the night ahead looked warm, even by the coast! Indeed it stayed lovely and mild, but we got gusty winds from the east about half an hour after dark, which hampered two of the traps that were positioned in the breeze. 

It didn't matter though, because the other two traps were absolutely heaving with moths, particularly Noctuid moths with many 10's of every type of Underwing.

When we arrived in thre car park, we walked down a track and came to a few open fields adjacent to the saltmarsh. We assessed the track and I decided to drive my car down the narrow bramble-laden track. There were no signs, so assume it was open access.

With 4 traps all running, it was time to sit back and have a drink and a chat.

Within 5 minutes of darkness, the best moth of the whole evening turned up, a cracking Ground Lackey, only the 2nd record for Norfolk, a female was found out of habitat in Norwich in 2013.

Other good moths included Garden Tiger, Crescent, Webb's Wainscot & Pediasis contaminella.

There were lots of Bactra, mostly fufurana and robustana (robustana is a new moth for me) and a couple of lancealana.  

3 Scrobipalpa species were retained, possibly two species and assuming both will be new species for me.

An excellent night with huge numbers of moths, but less species than expected. 

 

17/07/25 - Wells-next-the-Sea - North Norfolk - 1x 125w Trap, 1x 250w Robinson Trap, 1x 40w/22w Bucket Trap & 1x 160w Trap

Macro Moths 

Blood-vein
Broad-barred White
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
Brown-line Bright-eye
Brown-tail
Brown-veined Wainscot
Buff Ermine
Buff Footman
Burnished Brass
Campion
Chinese Character
Cloaked Minor
Common Rustic
Common Wainscot
Copper Underwing
Crescent
Dark Arches
Dark Sword-grass
Dingy Footman
Dog's Tooth
Dotted Fan-foot
Double Square-spot
Drinker
Dun-bar
Dusky Sallow
Dusky Thorn
Ear
Elephant Hawk-moth
Fen Wainscot
Flame Shoulder
Garden Tiger
Gold Spot
Grey Dagger sp
Ground Lackey
Kent Black Arches
Knot Grass
Large Yellow Underwing
Latticed Heath
Least Carpet
Least Yellow Underwing
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
Lesser Cream Wave
Lesser Yellow Underwing
Lesser-spotted Pinion
Lime-speck Pug
Lychnis
Marbled Clover
Mouse Moth
Nutmeg
Oak Eggar
Pebble Hook-tip
Peppered Moth
Phoenix
Poplar Hawk-moth
Red Twin-spot Carpet
Reed Dagger
Riband Wave
Rosy Minor
Rosy Rustic
Round-winged Muslin
Ruby Tiger
Rustic
Scalloped Oak
Shaded Broad-bar
Shuttle-shaped Dart
Silky Wainscot
Single-dotted Wave
Small Blood-vein
Small Dotted Buff
Small Fan-footed Wave
Smoky Wainscot
Southern Wainscot
Spectacle
Straw Dot
Tree-lichen Beauty
Turnip Moth
Twin-spotted Wainscot
Uncertain
Webb's Wainscot
White-point
White-spotted Pug
Willow Beauty
Wormwood Pug
Yellow-tail

 

Micro Moths

 

Acentria emphemerella
Acrobasis advenella
Agapeta hamana
Agdistis bennetii
Agonopterix alstromeriana
Agonopterix heracliana
Agonopterix subpropinquella
Agriphila straminella
Aproaerema anthyllidella
Bactra furfurana
Bactra lancealana
Bactra robustana
Blastobasis adustella
Blastobasis lacticolella
Blastodacna hellerella
Brachmia blandella
Calamotropha paludella
Calybites phasianipennella
Cameraria ohridella
Cataclysta lemnata
Catoptria falsella
Catoptria pinella
Celypha lacunana
Chilo phragmitella
Chrysoteuchia culmella
Clepsis consimilana
Coleophora alcyonipennella/frischella
Coleophora sp (TBC)
Crassa unitella
Dichrorampha simpliciana
Elachista canapennella
Endothenia quadrimaculana
Epiblema costipunctana
Epiblema foenella
Eucosma cana
Eucosma hohenwartiana
Eudonia mercurella
Eudonia pallida
Euzophera pinguis
Gelechiidae sp (TBC)
Grapholita janthinana
Helycystogramma rufescens
Limnaecia phragmitella
Lobesia abscisana
Mompha epilobiella
Neocochylis atricapitana
Neocochylis molliculana
Notocelia roborana
Pandemis heparana
Paraswammerdamia albicapitella
Patania ruralis
Pediasia contaminella
Phalonidia manniana
Phycita roborella
Phyllonorycter leucographella
Plutella xylostella
Ptherochroa inopiana
Rhopobota naevana
Ringed China-mark
Scoparia ambigualis
Scrobipalpa sp 3 (TBC)
Sitochroa verticalis
Spilonota ocellana
Stenoptilia pterodactyla
Udea prunalis
Yponomeuta evonynella
Yponomeuta rorrella
Ypsolopha scabrella
Zeiraphera isertana
Zelotherses paleana 

 

Wells-next-the-Sea

Agdistis bennetii

Bactra robustana

Busy Moth Trap Egg Tray

Crescent

Dog's Tooth

Garden Tiger

Ground Lackey

Scrobipalpa sp

Scrobipalpa sp

Scrobipalpa sp

Webb's Wainscot