Slender Pug

Field Trip - Bramfield Park Woods - 23/06/19

 

A cracker of a night was had at Bramfield Park Woods on Sunday night, with 3 traps run 50m apart and a further one MV trap run in a different part of the wood.

The day was cloudy and warm, upto 24 degrees and the evening looked spot on for a good session.

 

As always something just had to put that doubt in my mind, as I finished setting up my traps, it started spitting! and the sky looked extremely angry and storm like... plastic bags over the electrics and rain covers on the traps ASAP, it was like some sort of military operation!

 

Thankfully, those spots of rain came to nothing, it was a little breezy in certain places around the wood, but 3 out of 4 of the traps were tucked away nicely out of the wind, and with complete cloud cover...what else could go wrong.

 

It didn't take long to get in a muddle with writing the moths down, as they arrived in quick succession, and the interesting and more unusual moths were potted up as a priority, quite hard to do when you are getting bombed by so many moths.

There must have easily been 300 moths per trap, plus all of the ones sitting in the grass and you are looking at upwards of 1500 moths.

I ran the traps from 9:30pm until 2:30am where I was absolutely frazzled from tiredness.

Driving home, the car temperature gauge confirmed why it was such a good night, 16 degrees is what it was at 3am!

In total 194 species were recorded over 5 hours.

 

Big numbers of certain species were 25x Grey Arches, 35x Great Oak Beauty and over 100 Aleimma loeflingiana.

 

Species of note were 2x Beautiful Carpet (New for me), Ancylis diminutana, Apotomis capreana, Argyresthia pygmaeella (New for me), Cosmiotes stabilella, Epinotia fraternana (New for me), Euspilapteryx auroguttella, Pseudosciaphila branderiana (New for me) and Scoparia subfusca.

 

Here is the total list

 

Macro Moths : 93 species

Micro Moths : 101 species

 

Total : 194 species

 

Catch Report - 23/06/19 - Bramfield Park Woods - Hertfordshire - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 250w MV Clear Robinson Trap & 1x 160w Mercury Blended Robinson Trap - 4 traps in total

 

Macro Moths

 

Barred Straw

Barred Yellow

Beautiful Carpet [NEW]

Beautiful Hook-tip

Bird's Wing

Blood-vein

Blotched Emerald

Bordered White

Bright-line Brown-eye

Brimstone Moth

Brindled White-spot

Brown Rustic

Brown Silver lines

Buff Ermine

Buff Footman

Buff-tip

Cinnabar

Clay Triple-lines

Clouded Border

Clouded Brindle

Clouded Silver

Common Carpet

Common Emerald

Common Swift

Common Wainscot

Common Wave

Common White Wave

Coronet

Dark Arches

Double Square-spot

Dun-bar

Dusky Brocade

Elephant Hawk-moth

Engrailed

Flame Shoulder

Gold Swift

Great Oak Beauty

Green Carpet

Green Pug

Green Silver-lines

Grey Arches

Heart & Club

Heart & Dart

Ingrailed Clay

Iron Prominent

July Highflyer

Large Nutmeg

Large Yellow Underwing

Leopard Moth

Lesser Yellow Underwing

Light Arches

Light Emerald

Lobster Moth

Marbled Brown

Marbled Minor

Marbled White Spot

Middle-barred Minor

Minor Shoulder-knot

Mottled Beauty

Mottled Pug

Orange Footman

Pale Oak Beauty

Pale Prominent

Peach Blossom

Peacock Moth

Peppered moth

Poplar Hawk-moth

Poplar Lutestring

Purple Clay

Riband Wave

Rosy Footman

Rufous Minor

Scarce Silver-lines

Scorched wing

Setaceous Hebrew Character

Silver-ground Carpet

Silver-Y

Slender Pug

Small Dotted Buff

Small Fan-foot

Small Fan-footed Wave

Small White Wave

Small Yellow Wave

Smoky Wainscot

Snout

Straw Dot

Tawny Marbled Minor

Tawny-barred Angle

Treble Brown Spot

Uncertain

Vine's Rustic

White Ermine

White-point

 

Micro Moths

 

Acleris notana/ferrugana

Acleris schalleriana

Acrobasis repandana

Agapeta hamana

Agonopterix arenella

Aleimma loefligiana

Anania hortulata

Anania lancealis

Ancylis diminutana

Aphelia paleana

Aphomia sociella

Apotomis capreana

Apotomis turbidana

Archips craetagana

Archips podana

Archips xylosteana

Argyresthia brockeella

Argyresthia goedartella

Argyresthia pruniella

Argyresthia pygmaeella [NEW]

Argyresthia retinella

Assara terebrella

Bactra sp

Batia lunaris

Blastobasis lacticolella

Blastodacna hellerella

Caloptilia alchimiella robustella

Carcina quercana

Carpatolechia fugitivella

Celypha cespitana

Celypha lacunana

Chrysoteuchia culmella

Clepsis consimiliana

Cochylis atricapitana

Cochylis nana

Coleophora sp

Cosmiotes stabilella

Crambus lathoniellus

Crambus pascuella

Crassa unitella

Cydia fagiglandana

Cydia pomonella

Ditula angustiorana

Ectoedemia sp

Elophila nymphaeata

Emmetia marginea

Epagoge grotiana

Epermenia falciformis

Ephestia sp

Epinotia bilunana

Epinotia demarniana

Epinotia fraternana [NEW]

Epinotia immundana

Epinotia signatana

Epinotia tedella

Eucosma cana

Eucosma hohenwartiana

Eudonia lacustrata

Euspilapteryx auroguttella

Euzophera pinguis

Exoteleia dodecella

Gypsonoma dealbana

Gypsonoma sociana

Hedya nubiferana

Hedya pruniana

Hedya salicella

Hypsopygia costalis

Lathronympha strigana

Metzneriana metzeriana

Mompha ochraceella

Morophaga choragella

Nemophora deegerella

Notocelia cynosbatella

Notocelia roborana

Notocelia trimaculana

Notocelia uddmanniana

Ostrinia nubilalis

Pammene argyrana

Pandemis cerasana

Pandemis heparana

Parachronistis albiceps

Parornix sp

Phtheochroa inopiana

Phycita roborella

Phyllonorycter coryli

Plutella xylostella

Prays fraxinella

Pseudargyrotoza conwagana

Pseudosciaphila branderiana [NEW]

Ptherochroa inopiana

Rhodophaea formosa

Scoparia ambigualis

Scoparia pyralella

Scoparia subfusca

Spilonota ocellana

Stephensia brunnichella

Syncopacma sp

Teleoides luculella

Teleoides vulgella

Tortrix viridana

Udea olivalis

Done