Ditton Park Wood - Field Trip - 26th June

Well, where do I start...

I returned to one of very few large woods in East Cambs, right on the border with West Suffolk, in fact you have to drive through Suffolk to get to it.

This wood has been very hit and miss for me over the years, and on the last trip it did not fare too good, although it was a bit breezy and cool a few hours in.

Last Friday the weather looked absolutely perfect, with massive highs of 37 degrees and with lows expected in the region of 22-24 degrees, it couldn't get much better.

In all honesty, it was ridiculous, to a point where I could barely get near the traps for fear of inhaling a moth snack, being so warm everything was super active and it made picking out certain species nigh on impossible.

Early doors, I missed a lovely pied form of Pseudosciaphila branderiana, but luckily did nab a darker form later on at one of the less busy traps.

I then fumbled potting up a county first Acleris umbrana!! ARGH, the one that got away so cannot count it, a new moth for me as well.

I must have missed loads, and typing up each new species as it came in was hard to keep up with at one point.

Best moth of the night that I actually managed to keep hold of was, what appears to be a Choristoneura species in the region of diversana/lafauryana. Certainly a new moth for me and is retained for dissection. 

Other good moths included Olive, Shaded Fan-foot, Pseudosciaphila branderiana, Psoricoptera gibbosella and Eudemis porphyrana.

It was rather exhausting and as I quote the late Don Down, 'There's now too many moths'. 

More field trips when my sleep catches up a bit! 

 

26/06/26 - Ditton Park Wood - East Cambridgeshire - 1x 125w Clear MV Trap, 1x 250w Clear Robinson Trap & 1x 30w Led Trap

Macro Moths

Beautiful Golden Y 
Beautiful Hook-tip 
Black Arches 
Blood-vein 
Blue-bordered Carpet 
Bright-line Brown-eye
Brimstone Moth 
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 
Brown Scallop 
Buff Arches 
Buff Ermine
Buff Footman 
Buff-tip 
Chinese Character 
Clouded Border 
Clouded Brindle 
Common Footman 
Common Swift 
Common Wave 
Common White Wave 
Dark Arches
Dotted Fan-foot 
Double Lobed
Double Square-spot 
Drinker 
Dun-bar 
Dwarf Cream Wave 
Early Thorn 
Elephant Hawk-moth 
Engrailed 
Flame
Fan foot 
Gold Swift 
Green Pug 
Grey Dagger 
Heart & Dart
Herald 
July Highflyer 
Kent Black Arches
Large Emerald 
Large Twin-spot Carpet 
Large Yellow Underwing 
Latticed Heath 
Least Carpet 
Leopard Moth 
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 
Lobster Moth 
Lunar-spotted Pinion
Lunar Yellow Underwing 
Maple Pug 
Marbled Minor 
Marbled White-spot 
Minor Shoulder-knot 
Mottled Beauty 
Mottled Rustic
Oak Hook-tip 
Olive
Pale Oak Beauty 
Pale Prominent 
Poplar Hawk-moth 
Privet Hawk-moth
Riband Wave 
Rosy Footman
Ruby Tiger 
Rufous Minor 
Rustic
Scarlet Tiger 
Short-cloaked Moth 
Silver Y
Single-dotted Wave 
Slender Pug 
Small Dotted Buff 
Small Elephant Hawk-moth 
Small Emerald 
Small Fan-footed Wave 
Small Mottled Willow
Smoky Wainscot 
Snout
Southern Wainscot 
Straw Dot 
Swallow-tailed Moth 
Uncertain 
Vapourer Moth 
V-pug 
Willow Beauty
Yellow Shell 
Yellow-tail 

Micro Moths

Acentria emphemerella 
Acleris forskalleana 
Acrobasis repandana 
Agapeta hamana 
Agonopterix alstromeriana
Agonopterix heracliana 
Agonopterix liturosa
Agriphila straminea 
Anacampsis populella
Anarsia innoxiella 
Ancylis achatana 
Aphomia sociella 
Apotomis capreana
Apotomis turbidana
Archips crataegana 
Archips podana 
Archips rosana 
Archips xylosteana 
Argyresthia albistria 
Argyresthia brockeella 
Argyresthia goedartella 
Argyresthia pruniella 
Argyresthia retinella
Athrips mouffetella
Batia lunaris 
Batrachedra praengasta 
Blastobasis lacticolella 
Blastodacna hellerella 
Borkhausenia fuscescens
Brachmia blandella 
Calamotropha paludella 
Caloptilia falconipennella 
Caloptilia semifascia 
Cameraria ohridella 
Carcina quercana 
Catoptria pinella 
Celypha lacunana 
Celypha rosaceana 
Choristoneura diversana/lafauryana pos
Chrysoteuchia culmella 
Clepsis consimilana 
Cnephasia sp 
Crambus lathoniellus 
Crambus perlella 
Crassa unitella 
Cydia inquinatana
Ditula angustiorana 
Eidophasia messingiella
Elachista adscitella
Endothenia gentianaeana/marginana 
Endotricha flammealis
Epagoge grotiana 
Epinotia solandriana
Epinotia tenerana 
Eucosma cana 
Eudemis porphyrana
Eudemis profundana 
Eudonia lacustrata 
Eudonia mercurella 
Euzophera pinguis 
Evergestis limbata 
Gelechia sororculella
Grapholita janthinana 
Gypsonoma dealbana 
Gypsonoma sociana
Hedya nubiferana 
Hedya pruniana
Hedya salicella 
Hofmannophila pseudospretella 
Hypsopyqgia costalis 
Lathyronympha strigana
Monochroa cytisella
Notocelia uddmanniana 
Olindia schumacherana
Ostrinia nubilalis
Pammene fasciana 
Pammene regiana 
Pandemis cerasana 
Pandemis heparana 
Parachronistis albiceps
Paraswammerdamia albicapitella 
Parornix sp 
Patania ruralis 
Phalonidia manniana 
Phycita roborella 
Plutella xylostella
Pseudosciaphila branderiana
Psoricoptera gibbosella
Psyche casta (Male)
Recurvaria nanella 
Rhopobota naevana 
Scoparia ambigualis 
Scoparia basistrigalis 
Sitochroa verticalis 
Spilonota ocellana 
Teleiodes luculella 
Tortrix viridana 
Triaxomasia caprimulgella
Yponomeuta cag/mal/pad 
Yponomeuta evonynella 
Ypsolopha parenthesella 
Ypsolopha sequella 
Zeiraphera isertana

Triaxomasia caprimulgella

30w Led Trap

250w Clear MV Robinson Trap

Agonopterix liturosa

Anacampsis populella

Caloptilia falconipennella

Choristoneura diversana pos

Eudemis porphyrana

MOTHS!

Lunar-spotted Pinion

Olive

Pseudosciaphila branderiana

Psoricoptera gibbosella

Shaded Fan-foot