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Field Trip - Home Wood - 30/05/18

My first field trip of the year and I joined up with Matt from Upper Caldecote to hit up Home Wood with a collection of traps and a sheet.

Unfortunately the evening started a bit confusingly, where I jokingly sent a photo of myself holding my son saying 'That it looks like i'm staying in tonight' (As a joke)... Matt picked the message up and immediately responded saying can I still make it. I didn't see this reply until 30 minutes later and in that time Matt had rang his Dad and had packed up and turned around from the site and had gone home.

To say I felt bad for pulling a prank was an understatement.

Lionel wished me good luck on the phone and said 'I hope you trip over the gate on the way in' ...I guess I deserved that comment :D

 

Anyhow, drama over and next time I won't make a silly joke :/

 

We set up just in time for night fall with 4 traps and a sheet. The weather was pretty perfect, no wind and although the day really struggled to get warm and by lunchtime it was still only 14 degrees, by 7pm it was pushing 18 with a few breaks in the cloud allowing the sun to warm things up but not losing much cloud at all things, were really looking up for us.

 

Indeed it was pretty damn good considering this was earlier in the year than we normally blitz this woodland.

 

The list is below with several species still pending.

 

There are several new species I believe for the County of Bedfordshire

 

New species for me were Ancylis diminutana and Cydia illutana (So far).

 

41 Macro and 55 Micro species so far

 

Catch Report - 30/05/18 - Home Wood - Nr Upper Caldecote - 1x 250w Frosted MV Robinson Trap, 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x twin 20w Wemite Actinic + 1x 40w Actinic & 15w LED corn light and 1x 80w MV on tripod with sheet

 

Macro Moths

 

Angle Shades

Beautiful hook-tip

Bordered white

Brimstone Moth

Brindled White-spot

Brown Rustic

Clouded Silver

Common Carpet

Common Marbled Carpet

Common Pug

Common Swift

Common White Wave

Coronet

Coxcomb Prominent

Cream Wave

Dingy Shell

Dwarf Pug

Figure of Eighty

Flame Carpet

Flame Shoulder

Garden Carpet

Gold Swift

Green Carpet

Green Pug

Green Silver lines

Grey-pine Carpet

Ingrailed Clay

Iron Prominent

Light Emerald

Lime Hawk-moth

Lobster Moth

Maiden's Blush

Marbled Brown

Marbled Minor sp

Marbled White-spot

Middle-barred Minor

Mottled Pug

Ochreous Pug

Orange Footman

Pale Oak Beauty

Pale Prominent

Pale Tussock

Peppered Moth

Poplar Grey

Poplar Lutestring

Puss Moth

Red Twin-spot Carpet

Rustic Shoulder-knot

Scorched Carpet

Scorched Wing

Seraphim

Setaceous Hebrew character

Silver-Y

Silver-ground Carpet

Snout

Spectacle

Spruce Carpet

Straw Dot

Treble Lines

White Ermine

 

Micro Moths

 

Acentria ephemerella

Adela reamurella

Ancylis diminutana

Ancylis mitterbacheriana

Aphomia sociella

Argyresthia laevigatella/glabratella

Argyresthia pruniella

Argyresthia spinosella

Caloptilia alchimiella/robustella

Capua vulgana

Celypha lacunana

Cochylis atricapitana

Coleophora caespititiella (Gen Det)

Coleophora laricella (Gen Det)

Crambus lathoniellus

Cryptoblabes bistriga

Cydia illutana

Epinotia tedella

Elachista sp

Hedya pruniana

Incurvaria oehlmanniella

Lathronympha strigana

Monopis laevigella

Nemapogon cloacella

Nematopogon metaxella

Nemophora degeerella

Notocelia cynosbatella

Notocelia trimaculana

Pammene prob ignorata

Parapoynx stratiotata

Parornix sp

Plutella xylostella

Prays fraxinella

Pseudargyrotoza conwagana

Pseudoswammerdamia combinella

Ptycholoma lecheana

Rhyacionia pinivorana

Scoparia ambigualis

Scoparia basistrigalis

Scrobipalpa costella

Syndemis musculana

Teleiodes luculella

Tinea semifulvella

Tortrix viridana

Udea olivalis

Done