Chippenham Fen - East Cambs - Field Trip - 25th July

A month had gone by since I had last ran traps at my local nature reserve.

A warm day with (hopefully) a warm night was chosen as the date, and as I rolled up to the gate and got out, the temperature difference between the air-con of the car and outside was significant, I knew at that moment it was going to be a good night.

With a clear night on the cards, normally I wouldn't bother. But the air mass was warm, there was no moon and the only breeze was like a warm hair-dryer. 

4 traps were set-up as the muggy conditions made it a sweaty job and the constant tickling from the hundreds of Mosquitoes was rather irritating.

That was only the start, the Hornets have started to appear at the traps along with the odd wasp, so care in potting them up for the evening and then releasing at the end was the best idea.

 

What a night it was though, with no less than 236 species recorded over 5 hours.

 

Best moth of the night is a probable Endothenia oblongana, a tiny little moth the same size as an ustulana with dark highlights along the yellow banding, I reckon it's certainly worth dissecting to make sure. It's a moth I haven't seen before.

Migrant moths were evident, particularly to the trap out in the open in the grassy field, two Small Mottled Willows the pick.

Some species that came in 2's, were different forms and great to see, Ear Moth, Pyrausta despicata & Pediasia contaminella showing the variation in one particular species.

 

Macro moth of the night went to a cracking Alder Kitten, my 2nd this year after adding it to the garden list a month or so ago.

Two fark Pugs were checked for White-spotted, both are Golden-rod Pug, a Pug that seems to be on the increase at the fen.

Two Reed Dagger's were a close second though, a male & female to the same actinic trap. 

 

What a night!

 

25/07/25 - Chippenham Fen - East Cambs - 1x 125w Trap, 1x 250w Robinson Trap, 1x 40w/22w Bucket Trap & 1x 160w MBT Trap

 

Macro Moths

Alder Kitten
Black Arches 
Bordered Beauty 
Brimstone Moth 
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 
Buff Footman 
Canary-shouldered Thorn 
Cloaked Minor 
Common Carpet 
Common Rustic 
Common Wave 
Common White Wave 
Copper Underwing 
Coronet
Coxcomb Prominent 
Currant Pug 
Dark Arches 
Dark Sword-grass 
Dark Umber 
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet 
Dingy Footman
Dingy Shell 
Double-striped Pug 
Drinker 
Dun-bar 
Dusky Sallow 
Dusky Thorn 
Ear Moth 2
Early Thorn 
Elephant Hawk-moth 
Fen Wainscot 
Flame Shoulder 
Ghost Moth 
Gold Spot 
Golden-rod Pug 2
Grey Dagger 
Gypsy Moth 
Haworth's Pug 
Hoary Footman 
Iron Prominent 
Knot Grass 
Large Emerald 
Large Twin-spot Carpet 
Large Yellow Underwing 
Latticed Heath 
Least Carpet 
Least Yellow Underwing 
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 
Lesser Cream Wave 
Lesser Yellow Underwing 
Lime-speck Pug 
Lychnis 
Maiden's Blush 
Maple Prominent
Maple Pug 
Marbled Clover 
Marbled White-spot 
Mere Wainscot 
Miller
Nutmeg 
Oak Eggar 
Oak Processionary 
Pale Prominent 
Pebble Hook-tip 
Pebble Prominent 
Peppered Moth 
Pinion-streaked Snout 
Plain Pug 2
Poplar Hawk-moth 
Pretty Chalk Carpet 
Purple Bar 
Red Twin-spot Carpet 
Reed Dagger 2
Reed Leopard 
Riband Wave 
Rosy Footman 
Rosy Minor 
Round-winged Muslin 
Ruby Tiger 
Sallow Kitten 
Scalloped Oak 
Scarce Footman 
Setaceous Hebrew Character
Shaded Broad-bar 
Shuttle-shaped Dart 
Single-dotted Wave 
Small Fan-footed Wave 
Small Mottled Willow 2
Small Phoenix 
Small Rufous 100
Small Scallop 
Snout 
Spectacle 
Straw Dot 
Swallow Prominent 
Tawny Wave 
Tree-lichen Beauty 
Turnip Moth 
Twin-spotted Wainscot 
Uncertain 
Vapourer Moth 
Vine's Rustic 
White Satin 
White-point 
White-spotted Pug 
Willow Beauty 
Wormwood Pug
Yellow Shell 
Yellow-tail 

Micro Moths

Acentria emphemerella 
Acleris comariana/laterana
Acleris variegana 
Acompsia cinerella 
Acrobasis advenella 
Acrolepia assectella
Adaina microdactyla 
Aethes rubigana 
Agapeta hamana 
Agapeta zoegana 
Agonopterix alstromeriana 
Agonopterix ocellana 
Agriphila straminella 
Agriphila tristella 
Anacampsis blattariella/populella
Anania hortulata 
Anania lancealis 
Ancylosis oblitella 
Apotomis betuletana
Archips podana 
Argyresthia albistria 
Argyresthia brockeella 
Argyresthia goedartella 
Bactra lancealana 
Blastobasis adustella
Blastobasis lacticolella 
Bucculatrix bechsteinella
Bucculatrix cidarella 
Caloptilia cuculipennella 
Caloptilia populetorum
Calybites phasianipennella
Cameraria ohridella 
Carcina quercana 
Cataclysta lemnata 
Catoptria falsella 
Catoptria pinella 
Celypha lacunana 
Celypha rosaceana 
Celypha striana 
Chilo phragmitella 
Chrysoteuchia culmella 
Clepsis consimilana 
Clepsis spectrana 
Cochylidia implicitana
Cochylidia rupicola
Cochylimorpha straminea 
Coleophora alcyonipennella/frischella
Coleophora hemerobiella 
Crambus perlella 
Crassa unitella 
Cydalima perspectalis 
Cydia fagiglandana 
Cydia splendana 
Dichrorampha simpliciana 
Dioryctria simplicella
Ditula angustiorana 
Elachista maculicerusella 
Emmelina monodactyla 
Emmetia marginea 
Endothenia ericetana
Endothenia gentianaeana/marginana
Endothenia oblongana (TBC)
Endotricha flammealis 
Endrosis sarcitrella 
Epiblema foenella 
Epinotia nisella 
Epinotia ramella 
Epinotia tenerana 
Epiphyas postvittana 
Ethmia quadrilella 
Eucosma cana 
Eucosma conterminana 
Eucosma hohenwartiana 
Eucosma obumbratana 
Eudonia mercurella 
Eudonia pallida 
Euzophera pinguis 
Evergestis forficalis 
Evergestis pallidata
Grapholita funebrana 
Helycystogramma rufescens 
Hypsopygia glaucinalis 
Limnaecia phragmitella 
Lobesia abscisana 
Mompha subbistrigella 
Monopis weaverella 
Neocochylis dubitana 
Neocochylis molliculana 
Nephopterix angustella
Nomophila noctuella 
Notocelia roborana 
Nymphula nitidulata
Oegoconia sp 
Orthotelia sparganella
Ostrinia nubilalis 
Pandemis corylana 
Pandemis heparana 
Paraswammerdamia albicapitella 
Parornix sp 
Patania ruralis 
Pediasia contaminella 
Phalonidia manniana 
Phycita roborella 
Phyllonorycter stettinensis
Platyptilia gonodactyla
Plutella xylostella 
Ptherophorus pentadactyla 
Pyrausta aurata 
Pyrausta despicata 2
Pyrausta purpuralis 
Rhopobota naevana 
Rhyacionia buoliana
Scoparia subfusca 
Scrobipalpa costella 
Scrobipalpa ocellatella 
Scrobipalpa sp
Sitochroa verticalis
Sorhagenia sp 
Spilonota ocellana 
Stenoptilia pterodactyla 
Teleiopsis diffinis
Tinea trinotella 
Udea lutealis
Yponomeuta evonynella 
Yponomeuta rorrella 
Ypsolopha scabrella 
Zelleria hepariella
 

Trap at Dusk

Acleris laterana comariana

Alder Kitten

Caloptilia cuculipennella

Cochylidia implicitana

Cochylidia rupicola

Ear Moth

Ear Moth

Endothenia oblongana pos

Golden-rod Pug

Orthotelia sparganella

Pediasia contaminella

Pyrausta despicata

Pyrausta despicata

Reed Dagger

Small Mottled Willow