[2128] Double Square-spot (Xestia triangulum)

Bovingdon Brickworks - Hemel Hempstead - Field Trip - 11/07/14

We went back to Bovingdon Brickworks on Friday in search of the Garden Tigers we found last year at around this time.

Also seeing other people catching them up and down the Country last week spurred me on to go all out with 5 traps and cover as much area as we could.

Using over 200 metres of cable the traps were spread out in a delta shape from the car park.

The night started warm and muggy and once again I was plagued with horse-flies and proceeded to sit in the car until it got dark enough to avoid them!

Once dark the full moon was very bright but luckily we had imminent cloud cover and by around 10pm the moon was completely obscured.

It was quite a damp night though with a spooky mist surrounding each trap.

 

Best moth of the night was a Tiger (We didn't get any Garden Tiger's unfortunately) a rare one for the County, a Scarlet Tiger and about the 7th record for Hertfordshire.

It could possibly be a wanderer as there seems to be a lot of migrant and wandering activity across the County at present which is great news for us moth'ers!

 

Other good Macro moths included plenty of Ruby Tigers, Millers, Bordered Sallows, Barred Hook-tip, and 8 Coronets.

On the Micro moth front the best was probably Spilonota laricana, which was taken home to double-check, as Spilonota ocellana is very similiar and was much more common on the night.

 

Two plumes are still to check.

The the odd looking Double Square-spot turned out to be just that.

 

There were literally hundreds of Chrysoteuchia culmella's and Eucosma hohenwartiana's coming to all of the traps, both easily numbering 300+

Lots and lots of Knapweed as far as the eye could see.

 

All be ready for a predicted heat wave next week, traps at the ready!

 

 

Catch Report - 11/07/14 - Bovingdon Brickworks - Hemel Hempstead - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 40w Lucent Suitcase Trap, 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Suitcase Trap.

 

85 Macros and 61 Micros ( 146 species)

 

Macro Moths

 

1x Barred Hook-tip

1x Barred Straw

1x Beautiful Golden-Y

2x Beautiful Hook-tip

6x Bordered Sallow

1x Bright-line Brown-eye

3x Brimstone Moth

2x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing

3x Brown-line Bright-eye

1x Brown-tail

5x Buff Arches

3x Buff Ermine

10x Buff Footman

1x Burnished Brass

5x Clay

1x Cloaked Minor

5x Clouded Border

8x Clouded Silver

1x Common Carpet

2x Common Emerald

2x Common Footman

2x Common Rustic

1x Common Wave

2x Common White Wave

8x Coronet

15x Dark Arches

8x Dingy shears

3x Dot Moth

3x Double Square-spot

2x Double-striped Pug

5x Drinker

4x Dun-bar

1x Dusky Brocade

3x Elephant Hawk-moth

2x Engrailed

1x Fan-foot

4x Flame

2x Flame Shoulder

1x Garden Carpet

6x Green Pug

2x Grey Pug

1x Haworth's Pug

2x Heart & Club

2x Heart & Dart

6x July Highflyer

6x Large Yellow Underwing

1x Leopard Moth

1x Lesser Yellow Underwing

1x Light Arches

2x Light Emerald

3x Miller

5x Mottled Beauty

2x Mottled Rustic

3x Oak Nycteoline

1x Peach Blossom

1x Pebble Hook-tip

4x Peppered Moth

2x Poplar Grey

1x Poplar Hawk-moth

1x Purple Bar

5x Riband Wave

7x Ruby Tiger

4x Rustic

1x Scalloped Oak

2x Scarce Footman

2x Scarce Silver-lines

1x Scarlet Tiger [NEW!]

4x Setaceous Hebrew Character

5x Shaded Broad-bar

2x Shaded Pug

1x Single-dotted Wave

1x Slender Brindle

3x Small Elephant Hawk-moth

1x Small Fan-foot

2x Small Fan-footed Wave

2x Small Phoenix

2x Small Rivulet

10x Smoky Wainscot

3x Snout

1x Straw Dot

3x Swallow-tailed Moth

4x Uncertain

8x V-Pug

3x Vapourer Moth

1x Willow Beauty

 

Micro Moths

 

2x Blastobasis laticolella

5x Pleuroptya ruralis

10+ Agapeta hamana

2x Agapeta zoegana

2x Bryotropha terrella

1x Elachista canapennella

1x Acrobasis consociella

1x Aphomia sociella

3x Eurrhypara hortulata

300+ Chrysoteuchia culmella

2x Pandemis cerasana

5x Pandemis heparana

5x Celypha lacunana

1x Archips podana

1x Hedya pruniana

5x Hedya nubiferana

1x Hedya salicella

2x Acentria ephemerella

5x Aleimma loeflingiana

1x Eudonia mercurella

10x Cnephasia sp

2x Coleophora sp

1x Ditula angustiorana

20+ Crambus pascuella

1x Phycitodes binaevella

5x Dipleurina lacustrata

20+ Eucosma cana

2x Batia unitella

2x Acleris forsskaleana

1x Acleris hastiana

1x Aphelia paleana

300+ Eucosma hohenwartiana

10x Metzneria metzneriella

5x Epiblema uddmanniana

1x Rhopobota naevana

1x Carcina quercana

3x Brachmia blandella

1x Oegoconia sp

1x Pterophorus pentadactyla

8x Pyrausta purpuralis

1x Euzophera pinguis

1x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana

3x Endotricha flammealis

2x Plutella xylostella

3x Cochylis atricapitana

2x Orthopygia glaucinalis

5x Spilonota ocellana

1x Spilonota laricana

1x Epiblema foenella

1x Hypsopygia costalis

8x Crambus perlella

1x Emmelina monodactyla

3x Eucosma campoliliana

2x Aethes rubigana

1x Aethes cnicana

1x Batia lunaris

1x Udea olivalis

1x Eudonia pallida

1x Archips xylosteana

10+ Celypha striana

5x Scoparia ambigualis

2x Yponomeuta evonymella

Done