Description: A blinder of a night with the bright 250 And yes, it's bright.. in fact it makes the standard 125 MV look like a candle light in comparison. A cracking catch on a really warm night with temps no lower than 17 degrees at 4am. I decided to run the 250w Clear bulb again, and o my it was worth it with some quality moths found come the morning. Garden species count for 2018 now upto 217, with two Coleophora pending and to add. Here are the new for year species. Catch Report - 15/06/18 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap Macro Moths Barred Straw Barred Yellow Clouded Brindle Large Twin-spot Carpet Shaded Pug Small Clouded Brindle Micro Moths Coleophora sp 2 (To be be gen det) Nemophora degeerella Udea prunalis. Date: 16 June 2018, 13:50. Source: [1840] Shaded Pug (Eupithecia subumbrata). Author: Ben Sale from Stevenage, UK.
Description: A pleasing variety Back to trapping, and with a slightly cooler and less favourable night ahead compared to the two weekend nights, I wasn't expecting much. Luckily the cloud stuck around, and so did the moths and again not a huge amount, but a nice array of new species for the year making it another 10 to add to the year list. The majority of the catch was made up of Mottled Rustic (15) and Heart & Dart (34). A nice splash of colour with Barred Yellow and Small Emerald featuring for the first time this year. Privet Hawk-moth made up the size of the catch quite literally! Catch Report - 15/06/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap Macro Moths 1x Shaded Pug [NFY] 1x Small Emerald [NFY] 1x Buff Arches [NFY] 1x Barred Yellow [NFY] 2x Dark Arches [NFY] 1x Privet Hawk-moth [NFY] 1x Dot Moth [NFY] 2x Green Pug 1x Freyer's Pug 1x Large Yellow Underwing 1x Shuttle-shaped Dart 2x Common Footman 1x Flame Shoulder 2x Rustic Shoulder-knot 15x Mottled Rustic 34x Heart & Dart 1x Grey Pug 1x Light Emerald 2x Brimstone Moth 4x Marbled Minor 1x Tawny Marbled Minor 1x Ingrailed Clay 1x Green Silver-lines 1x Mottled Pug 3x Garden Carpet 6x Brown Rustic 4x Vine's Rustic 1x Common Swift 3x Mottled Beauty 3x Bright-line Brown-eye 10x Uncertain 1x Pale Mottled Willow 1x Treble Lines 2x Large Nutmeg Micro Moths 1x Agapeta hamana [NFY] 1x Aphelia paleana [NFY] 1x Bryotropha terrella [NFY] 3x Tortrix viridana 2x Dipleurina lacustrata 1x Epiphyas postvittana 2x Celypha lacunana 2x Udea olivalis 2x Aphomia sociella 1x Scrobipalpa acuminatella 2x Aleimma loeflingiana 1x Chrysoteuchia culmella 1x Scoparia ambigualis. Date: 16 June 2014, 17:09. Source: [1840] Shaded Pug (Eupithecia subumbrata). Author: Ben Sale from UK.
Description: A blinder of a night with the bright 250 And yes, it's bright.. in fact it makes the standard 125 MV look like a candle light in comparison. A cracking catch on a really warm night with temps no lower than 17 degrees at 4am. I decided to run the 250w Clear bulb again, and o my it was worth it with some quality moths found come the morning. Garden species count for 2018 now upto 217, with two Coleophora pending and to add. Here are the new for year species. Catch Report - 15/06/18 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap Macro Moths Barred Straw Barred Yellow Clouded Brindle Large Twin-spot Carpet Shaded Pug Small Clouded Brindle Micro Moths Coleophora sp 2 (To be be gen det) Nemophora degeerella Udea prunalis. Date: 9 July 2018, 17:53. Source: [1840] Shaded Pug (Eupithecia subumbrata). Author: Ben Sale from Stevenage, UK.
Description: A belated sweeping session yields 3 new moths for me Back on the 21st of May I had a brief hour sweeping session along a wildflower field at the edge of Hexton Chalk Pit just about in Hertfordshire (As it border's bedfordshire strangely on both sides). I ended up with a few nice moths including 3 firsts for me, Marsh Pug, Common Heath and Pancalia leuwenhoekella, all three species quite scarce in Herts. If that wasn't enough I caught up with a little beauty that i've only ever seen once before, the tiny shiney Stephensia brunnichella. The weather was warm with highs of 22c but a little breezy which made netting tricky at times. Full list below of species seen but no counts given There is still a Stigmella sp, Parornix sp and 2x Dichrorampha sps to gen det. Macro Moths Common Heath [NEW!] Marsh Pug [NEW!] Blood-vein Brindled Pug Burnet Companion Common Carpet Common White Wave Green Carpet Grey Pug Latticed Heath Mother Shipton Purple Bar Sandy Carpet Shaded Pug Silver-ground Carpet Small Purple-barred Yellow Shell Micro Moths Pancalia leuwenhoekella [NEW!] Adela reamurella Agonopterix purpurea Anthophila fabriciana Argyresthia pruniella Bucculatrix bechsteinella Cameraria ohridella Celypha lacunana Dichrorampha sp 2 Elachista apicipunctella Epiblema costipunctana Esperia sulphurella Glyphipterix simplicella Grapholita jungiella Elachista argentella Hedya pruniana Isotrias rectifasciana Micropterix aruncella Micropterix calthella Nemapogon swammerdamella Nematopogon schwarziellus Notocelia cynosbatella Parornix sp Plutella xylostella Pyrausta aurata Scoparia ambigualis Spuleria flavicaput Stephensia brunnichella Stigmella sp Syndemis musculana. Date: 19 May 2018, 14:58. Source: [1840] Shaded Pug (Eupithecia subumbrata). Author: Ben Sale from Stevenage, UK.
