[0640] Batia lunaris

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Bovingdon Brickworks - Hemel Hempstead - Field Trip - 11/07/14We 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 Moths1x Barred Hook-tip1x Barred Straw1x Beautiful Golden-Y2x Beautiful Hook-tip6x Bordered Sallow1x Bright-line Brown-eye3x Brimstone Moth2x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing3x Brown-line Bright-eye1x Brown-tail5x Buff Arches3x Buff Ermine 10x Buff Footman 1x Burnished Brass 5x Clay1x Cloaked Minor 5x Clouded Border 8x Clouded Silver1x Common Carpet2x Common Emerald2x Common Footman2x Common Rustic1x Common Wave 2x Common White Wave 8x Coronet15x Dark Arches 8x Dingy shears 3x Dot Moth3x Double Square-spot 2x Double-striped Pug5x Drinker 4x Dun-bar1x Dusky Brocade3x Elephant Hawk-moth2x Engrailed1x Fan-foot 4x Flame 2x Flame Shoulder 1x Garden Carpet6x Green Pug2x Grey Pug1x Haworth's Pug2x Heart & Club 2x Heart & Dart 6x July Highflyer6x Large Yellow Underwing1x Leopard Moth1x Lesser Yellow Underwing1x Light Arches 2x Light Emerald 3x Miller5x Mottled Beauty 2x Mottled Rustic 3x Oak Nycteoline1x Peach Blossom1x Pebble Hook-tip4x Peppered Moth 2x Poplar Grey1x Poplar Hawk-moth1x Purple Bar5x Riband Wave 7x Ruby Tiger4x Rustic1x Scalloped Oak2x Scarce Footman2x Scarce Silver-lines1x Scarlet Tiger [NEW!]4x Setaceous Hebrew Character5x Shaded Broad-bar2x Shaded Pug1x Single-dotted Wave1x Slender Brindle 3x Small Elephant Hawk-moth1x Small Fan-foot 2x Small Fan-footed Wave2x Small Phoenix2x Small Rivulet10x Smoky Wainscot3x Snout1x Straw Dot 3x Swallow-tailed Moth4x Uncertain 8x V-Pug3x Vapourer Moth1x Willow BeautyMicro Moths2x Blastobasis laticolella5x Pleuroptya ruralis10+ Agapeta hamana2x Agapeta zoegana 2x Bryotropha terrella1x Elachista canapennella1x Acrobasis consociella1x Aphomia sociella 3x Eurrhypara hortulata300+ Chrysoteuchia culmella2x Pandemis cerasana 5x Pandemis heparana 5x Celypha lacunana1x Archips podana1x Hedya pruniana 5x Hedya nubiferana1x Hedya salicella 2x Acentria ephemerella5x Aleimma loeflingiana1x Eudonia mercurella 10x Cnephasia sp2x Coleophora sp 1x Ditula angustiorana20+ Crambus pascuella1x Phycitodes binaevella5x Dipleurina lacustrata20+ Eucosma cana2x Batia unitella2x Acleris forsskaleana1x Acleris hastiana1x Aphelia paleana300+ Eucosma hohenwartiana10x Metzneria metzneriella5x Epiblema uddmanniana 1x Rhopobota naevana1x Carcina quercana3x Brachmia blandella1x Oegoconia sp1x Pterophorus pentadactyla8x Pyrausta purpuralis1x Euzophera pinguis1x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana3x Endotricha flammealis2x Plutella xylostella3x Cochylis atricapitana2x Orthopygia glaucinalis5x Spilonota ocellana1x Spilonota laricana1x Epiblema foenella1x Hypsopygia costalis8x Crambus perlella1x Emmelina monodactyla3x Eucosma campoliliana2x Aethes rubigana1x Aethes cnicana1x Batia lunaris 1x Udea olivalis1x Eudonia pallida 1x Archips xylosteana10+ Celypha striana 5x Scoparia ambigualis2x Yponomeuta evonymella