Chippenham Fen - Field Trip - 19th June

I made a trip with good village friend Leslie Gardiner, whom joined me for a session down our local fen.

The day had been very warm with highs nudging 30 degrees, and it was set to be a warm and humid night despite clear skies.

Before setting up, our attention was drawn to the tree-tops, where the sky was filled with moths, I had never seen anything quite like it before.

Leslie handed me his long handled net and I managed to finally net one after many misses. I thought they were maybe Cinnabar, Leslie thought Scarlet tiger, and he wasn't wrong, then o no... were we in for a repeat of last year? where I recorded around 2500 over 5 lights.

 

The answer was yes, though not as plague-like as last year.

 

There were probably still several hundred per trap come packing up time, so it made it really difficult sorting and sifting. 

 

A great haul of moths with 238 species counted over 4 hours of trapping.

 

Moth of the night was yet another Monopis fenestratella, the third I've taken this year (2 here and 1 at home). It must be breeding locally, a seriously rare moth nationally.

 

Other unusual moths wowed, like the odd looking Orthotelia sparganella and the extremely wacky Stathmopoda pedella.

 

But I couldn't forget about one certain cracking little moth, an absolute belting Monopis obviella which was very vivid in colouration.

 

The site continues to support an incredible diversity of lepidoptera. 

 

19/06/26 - Chippenham Fen - East Cambridgeshire - 1x 125w Clear MV Trap, 1x 250w Clear Robinson Trap, 1x 40w/22w Bucket Trap & 1x 160w MBT Trap

Macro Moths

Barred Straw 
Barred Yellow 
Beautiful Hook-tip 
Blackneck 
Blue-bordered Carpet 
Bordered Beauty 
Bordered White 
Brimstone Moth
Brown Rustic 
Brown Scallop 
Brown-tail 
Buff Arches
Buff Ermine 
Buff-tip 
Clouded Border 
Clouded Brindle 
Clouded Silver 
Common Carpet 
Common Emerald 
Common Footman 
Common Pug 
Common Swift
Common Wainscot 
Common Wave 
Common White Wave
Coronet
Cream-bordered Green Pea 
Dark Arches 
Delicate 
Dotted Fan-foot 
Double Square-spot 
Double-striped Pug 
Drinker 
Dun-bar 
Dwarf Cream Wave 
Elephant Hawk-moth 
Engrailed
Eyed Hawk-moth 
Fan-foot 
Fern
Figure of Eighty
Flame Shoulder 
Flame Wainscot 
Four-dotted Footman 
Ghost Moth 
Goat Moth 
Green Carpet 
Green Pug
Green Silver-lines 
Grey Pug 
Haworth's Pug
Heart & Club 
Heart & Dart
Iron Prominent 
Kent Black Arches 
Large Twin-spot Carpet 
Large Yellow Underwing 
Latticed Heath 
Least Carpet 
Leopard Moth 
Light Arches 
Light Emerald 
Lime Hawk-moth 
Lunar Yellow Underwing 
Marbled Clover 
Marbled Minor 
Marbled White-spot 
Mere Wainscot 
Middle-barred Minor 
Miller 
Mottled Beauty
Mottled Rustic 
Pale Oak Beauty
Pale Prominent 
Peppered Moth 
Pine Hawk-moth 
Pinion-streaked Snout 
Poplar Grey 
Poplar Hawk-moth 
Pretty Chalk Carpet 
Reed Leopard 
Riband Wave 
Rosy Footman 
Ruby Tiger 
Sallow Kitten 
Scarce Footman 
Scarlet Tiger 
Setaceous Hebrew Character 
Shaded Broad-bar 
Short-cloaked Moth 
Silky Wainscot 
Silver Barred 
Silver Y 
Single-dotted Wave 
Slender Brindle 
Small Dotted Buff 
Small Dusty Wave 
Small Elephant Hawk-moth 
Small Fan-footed Wave 
Small Seraphim 
Smoky Wainscot 
Snout
Southern Wainscot 
Straw Dot 
Striped Wainscot 
Swallow-tailed Moth 
Tawny Marbled Minor 
Treble Brown Spot
Uncertain 
V Pug 
White Ermine 
Willow Beauty 
Yellow Shell 
Yellow-tail 

Micro Moths

Achroia grisella
Acentria emphemerella 
Acleris forskalleana 
Acrobasis repandana 
Adaina microdactyla 
Aethes tesserana 
Agapeta hamana 
Agapeta zoegana 
Agonopterix alstromeriana 
Aleimma loeflingiana 
Anacampsis blattariella/populella
Anania hortulata 
Anania perlucidalis 
Ancylis achatana 
Aphomia sociella 
Apotomis betuletana 
Archips podana 
Archips rosana
Archips xylosteana 
Argyresthia albistria 
Aspila janthinana 
Batia lunaris 
Batrachedra praeangusta
Blastobasis lacticolella
Blastodacna hellerella 
Brachmia blandella 
Brachmia inornatella 
Bucculatrix albedinella
Bucculatrix cidarella 
Caloptilia semifascia 
Caloptilia stigmatella 
Carpatolechia fugivitella 
Cataclysta lemnata
Celypha lacunana 
Celypha striana 
Chilo phragmitella 
Chrysoteuchia culmella 
Clepsis consimilana 
Coleophora alcyonipennella/frischella
Cosmopterix lienigiella
Cosmopterix scribaiella
Crambus lathoniellus 
Crambus pascuella 
Crambus perlella 
Crassa unitella 
Cydalima perspectalis 
Cydia fagiglandana 
Cydia nigricana 
Ditula angustiorana 
Elachista atricomella 
Emmelina monodactyla 
Endothenia ericetana 
Ephestia sp 
Epiblema foenella 
Epinotia abbreviana 
Epinotia bilunana 
Epinotia signatana 
Epinotia tenerana 
Ethmia dodecea 
Ethmia quadrilella 
Eucosma cana 
Eucosma conterminana 
Eucosma hohenwartiana 
Eudonia lacustrata 
Eudonia pallida 
Euzophera pinguis 
Evergestis limbata 
Glyphipterix thrasonella 
Gypsonoma dealbana 
Gypsonoma sociana 
Hedya nubiferana 
Hedya pruniana 
Hedya salicella 
Hofmannophila pseudospretella 
Homoeosoma sinuella
Hypsopygia costalis 
Lobesia abscisana 
Metzneriana lappella
Mompha epilobiella 
Mompha ochraceella 
Mompha subbistrigella 
Monopis crocicapitella 
Monopis fenestratella 
Neocochylis hybridella 
Neocochylis molliculana 
Nephopterix angustella
Niditinea fuscella Strioella 
Notocelia trimaculana 
Notocelia uddmanniana 
Nubilalis Ostrinia 
Nymphula nitidulata
Nymphula nitidulata
Pammene fasciana 
Pandemis cerasana 
Pandemis heparana 
Parapoynx stratiotata 
Paraswammerdamia albicapitella 
Parornix sp
Pexicopia malvella
Phycitodes binaevella 
Phyllonorycter klemannella
Piniphila bifasciana 
Plutella xylostella 
Prays fraxinella 
Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 
Ptherochroa inopiana 
Ptherophorus pentadactyla 
Pyrausta despicata 
Rhopobota naevana 
Scoparia basistrigalis 
Scoparia pyralella 
Scoparia subfusca 
Scrobipalpa ocellatella 
Scythropia crataegella 
Sorhagenia sp
Spilonota ocellana 
Syncopacma sp
Teloides luculella 
Teloides vulgella 
Tinea trinotella 
Tortrix viridana 
Vitula biviella 
Yponomeuta cag/mal/pad

 

Valerian Pug

Aethes tesserana

Double Lobed

Elachista gleichenella

Evergestis extimalis

Monopis fenestratella

Monopis obviella

Nascia cilialis

Orthotelia sparganella

Rhyacionia pinicolana

Stathmopoda pedella