Barnstead, NH

Kahn & Etta

Field Trip - Bramfield Woods - 09/07/19

We returned to Bramfield Park Woods last Tuesday... well the other's did.

My car broke down on the way, a mere mile away from the site, and so hoping my father-in-law would be able to fix it, he was called and on his way to rescue me.

Unfortunately he wasn't quite fully equipped for the job, and so a trip back to Wheathampstead and then back again with a drill and some bolts to secure the intake pipe and luckily the car survived to live another day.

I arrived at the site at 10:30pm and it was already dark under cloudy warm and humid conditions, the moths were everywhere and it took seconds for the moths to respond to each light as I fired them up, one after another.

The temperature was still 24 degrees and not set to get below 17 all night, crazy... and yes it was a bit.

With an estimated 1500 moths over 6 traps it was a busy night and we had to decide to start packing up at around 1am for fear of still being on site at 4am.

I left at 2:45am and felt frazzled after the drama of earlier and the frantic action around the moth traps.

Below is the list, it's rather lengthy and features a mammoth 270 species, one of my highest species count in one night.

One moth was new to me (Acleris logiana) and another was my first Hertfordshire record and only my second ever record (Carpatolechia alburnella).

Other ood species were, Gelechia nigra (4th County record, having caught the previous two from my garden), Capperia britanniodactyla, Kent Black Arches (3 examples( and Small Angle Shades (rare this end of Herts).

Here is the total list.

Macro Moths : 136 species

Micro Moths : 134 species

Total : 270 species

Catch Report - 09/07/19 - 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 + 3 extra traps provided by Trevor

Macro Moths

Barred Straw

Barred Yellow

Beautiful Carpet

Beautiful Golden Y

Beautiful Hook-tip

Bird's Wing

Black Arches

Black neck

Blotched Emerald

Blood-vein

Bordered White

Brimstone Moth

Bright-line Brown eye

Brown line bright eye

Brindled White spot

Brown Rustic

Brown Silver lines

Buff Arches

Buff Ermine

Burnished Brass

Buff Footman

Buff-tip

Cinnabar

Clay

Clay Triple-lines

Clouded Border

Clouded Brindle

Clouded Silver

Common Carpet

Common Emerald

Common Footman

Common Swift

Common Wainscot

Common White Wave

Common Wave

Coronet

Coxcomb Prominent

Dark Arches

Dingy Footman

Double Square spot

Double-striped Pug

Dun-bar

Dusky Brocade

Double Square-spot

Dwarf Cream Wave

Elephant Hawk-moth

Engrailed

Fan foot

Flame Shoulder

Gold Swift

Grey Arches

Great Oak Beauty

Green Carpet

Green Pug

Green Silver-lines

Haworth's pug

Heart & Club

Heart & Dart

Ingrailed Clay

Iron Prominent

July Highflyer

Kent Black Arches

Large Emerald

Large Nutmeg

Least Carpet

Leopard Moth

Large Yellow Underwing

Lesser Yellow Underwing

Light Arches

Light Emerald

Lobster Moth

Maple Prominent

Marbled Brown

Marbled Minor sp

Marbled White spot

Middle-barred Minor

Miller

Minor Shoulder-knot

Mottled Beauty

Mottled Pug

Oak Hook-tip

Orange Footman

Pale Oak Beauty

Pale Prominent

Peach Blossom

Peppered moth

Peacock Moth

Poplar Hawk-moth

Poplar Lutestring

Privet Hawk-moth

Pine Hawk-moth

Pinion-streaked Snout

Purple Clay

Purple Thorn

Red-necked Footman

Riband Wave

Round-winged Muslin

Ruby Tiger

Rosy Footman

Rufous Minor

Rustic

Silver-Y

Single-dotted Wave

Scalloped Oak

Scarce Footman

Scarce Silver-lines

Setaceous Hebrew Character

Scorched wing

Shaded Broad-bar

Shoulder-striped Wainscot

Silver-ground Carpet

Slender Brindle

Slender Pug

Small Angle Shades

Small Dotted Buff

Small Fan-foot

Small Fan-footed Wave

Small White Wave

Small Yellow Wave

Smoky Wainscot

Snout

Straw Dot

Swallow-tailed Moth

Sycamore

Tawny-barred Angle

Tawny Marbled Minor

Treble Brown Spot

Vapourer

Vine's Rustic

V-pug

White Ermine

Willow Beauty

Yellow tail

White-point

Uncertain

Waved Black

Micro Moths

Acrobasis consociella

Acleris forskaleana

Acleris logiana

Acrobasis repandana

Agapeta hamana

Agonopterix arenella

Aleimma loefligiana

Alucita hexadactyla

Anacampsis blatteriella

Anacampsis populella

Anania hortulata

Anania lancealis

Anarsia innoxiella

Ancylis diminutana

Aphomia sociella

Apotomis betuletana

Apotomis capreana

Apotomis turbidana

Archips craetagana

Acleris schalleriana

Archips podana

Acrobasis repandana

Aphelia paleana

Archips xylosteana

Argyresthia conjugella

Argyresthia goedartella

Argyresthia brockeella

Argyresthia pruniella

Assara terebrella

Athrips mouffetella

Blastodacna hellerella

Bactra sp

Batia lunaris

Batrachedra praeangusta

Blastobasis lacticolella

Brachmia blandella

Brown China Mark

Caloptilia alchimiella/robustella

Calomotropha paludella

Capperia britanniodactyla

Carcina quercana

Carpatolechia alburnella

Carpatolechia fugitivella

Catoptria falsella

Celypha cespitana

Celypha lacunana

Chrysoteuchia culmella

Clepsis consimiliana

Crambus lathoniellus

Crassa unitella

Cochylis atricapitana

Cochylis nana

Coleophora paripennella

Coleophora sp

Cydia fagiglandana

Cydia pomonella

Cydia splendana

Ditula angustiorana

Ectoedemia sp

Elophila nymphaeata

Epagoge grotiana

Epermenia falciformis

Ephestia sp

Epinotia abbreviana

Epinotia bilunana

Epinotia brunnichana

Epinotia demarniana

Epinotia fraternana

Epinotia immundana

Epinotia signatana

Epinotia tedella

Emmetia marginea

Eucosma cana

Eucosma obumbratana

Eucosma hohenwartiana

Euspilapteryx auroguttella

Exoteleia dodecella

Euzophera pinguis

Eudonia lacustrata

Eudonia pallida

Gelechia nigra

Gypsonoma dealbana

Gypsonoma sociana

Hedya nubiferana

Hedya pruniana

Hedya salicella

Hypsopygia costalis

Homo sinnuella

Lathronympha strigana

Limnaecia phragmitrella

Lobesia abscisana

Marasma lunaedactyla

Metzneria lappella

Metzneria metzneriella

Mompha ochraceella

Morophaga choragella

Notocelia cynosbatella

Notocelia trimaculana

Notocelia uddmanniana

Parachronistis albiceps

Pandemis cerasana

Pandemis heparana

Parachronistis albiceps

Paraswammerdamia nebulella

Parornix sp

Phycita roborella

Phycitodes binaevella

Phyllonorycter coryli

Plutella xylostella

Prays fraxinella

Pseudosciaphila branderiana

Pseudargyrotoza conwagana

Ptherochroa inopiana

Recurvaria leucatella

Rhodophaea formosa

Scoparia ambigualis

Scoparia pyralella

Scoparia subfusca

Scythropia crataegella

Spilonota ocellana

Stephensia brunnichella

Swammerdamia caesiella

Syncopacma sp

Teleoides luculella

Teleoides vulgella

Tinea semifulvella

Tortrix viridana

Udea olivalis

Udea prunalis

Yponomeuta evonymella

Yponomeuta padella/malinellus

Ypsolpha ustella

Ypsolpha dentella

Zeiraphera isertana

Her bark might be bad, but my bites bigger! :)

Yeahhhh, that'll teach you to fall in the fishpond, Caleb.

Feeding on Russian Comfrey at Motherwell.....09/06/24

Bogart at 3 months

Acasis viretata

A new sighting for me

That is a feather stuck to her nose.

My little luv bug, Dixiecup is looking up at me.

sup daddy

Samsung digimax a503

Kahn waits to pounce on Etta (from the new topsoil area that's ready for us to lay turf)

brindle hair (dog;)

Oil Pastel and watercolor.. I hope you're all not getting bored with these dog portraits, but I'm having fun experimenting, and there is too much snow to go paint outside.

Posing nicely for me.

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Bullmastiff

The grass needs cutting.

60024 of DB Schenker seen at Brindle on her way out of Preston Docks.

Thanks to Dave for his email as I had to rush back to get this!

My sisters two great danes...

Suzanne's mom's pup Karma.

Etta and Kahn

www.verkstad.com

My twin was making all sorts of strange noises to get him to look into the camera. He was baffled lol.

Supposedly she's a brindle pomeranian, 10 lbs.

She looks like a Japanese Raccoon dog, a tanuki, plus she stands and can walk a bit on her hind legs.

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She was a rescued dog, my friend's daughter who got into a bad situation. The lady who was keeping her for her, was letting the little dog roam the streets and the dog got hit by a car & dragged. The owner begged me to take her. I was pretty worried, we have two 70-lb dogs, they were wild to get the toy. Now, she is the queen bee and traffic coordinator, herds the big dogs, and attempts to enforce many potty breaks.

Belle vs Tupperware tub

The first time we ever heard him bark was when he mistook my dad putting away the hose as a snake attack.

My girl

Samsung digimax a503

Caught in a moth trap in our back garden in Livingston. Apamea crenata f. combusta.

Catch:

Heart and Dart: 5

Nut tree tussock: 2

Buff-tip : 1

Elephant hawkmoth: 1

Garden carpet: 1

Clouded-bordered brindle: 1

That's all.

Black and White Cocker Spaniel and Brindle Terrier posing for Easter pictures

Bottom left pic by Simon Roddis. Bottom right pic by James Lowen.

a bad allergic reaction to something (not sure what) caused poor shaun to become puffy in the face, and he developed yucky welts all over his body. poor guy.