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Bovingdon Brickworks - Hemel Hempstead - Field Trip David, Steve and myself made a trip to Bovingdon Brickworks on Thursday night to see what we could attract to the lamps. The day had been perfect with sunny intervals, plenty of cloud cover and a high of 27 degrees. The forecast was for clear skies towards the evening and this was indeed the case. With a near full moon we were just hoping that it was warm enough for the moths to emerge and venture out from the undergrowth. Indeed it was! With the temperature staying relatively mild and the car sensor still reading 13 degrees at 2.30am. The catch was phenomenal, plenty of species, but what made it even better was the sheer amount of some species of moths, some numbering well over 40 individuals, so numbers below are as close as I could record.

Highlight for me was my first Gypsonoma oppressana. 4 Green Arches and 2 Purple Clays were also great additions. It was also fantastic to see so many Cinnabar's (24).

It just goes to show how important this site is for wildlife and on this occasion, Moths!

Catch Report - 12/06/14 - Bovingdon Brickworks - Hemel Hempstead - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Suitcase Trap.

86 Macros and 46 Micros (132 species)

Macro Moths

6x Angle Shades 1x Beautiful Golden-Y 3x Beautiful Hook-tip 2x Bright-line Brown-eye 8x Brimstone Moth 6x Brown Rustic 1x Brown Silver-line 3x Buff Arches 4x Buff Ermine 1x Buff-tip 2x Burnished Brass 24x Cinnabar 2x Clouded Border 40+ Clouded Silver 1x Clouded-bordered Brindle 2x Common Carpet 1x Common Emerald 2x Common Footman 10x Common Marbled Carpet 5x Common Pug 6x Common Swift 1x Common Wave 1x Common White Wave 8x Coronet 3x Dark Arches 10x Double Square-spot 1x Dusky Brocade 2x Elephant Hawk-moth 3x Engrailed 1x Eyed Hawk-moth 1x Figure of Eighty 5x Flame 1x Flame Carpet 6x Flame Shoulder 1x Foxglove Pug 5x Freyer's Pug 1x Garden Carpet 4x Green Arches 1x Green Carpet 2x Green Pug 5x Green Silver-lines 10x Grey Pug 10x Heart & Dart 20x Ingrailed Clay 2x July Highflyer 1x Large Nutmeg 8x Large Yellow Underwing 1x Light Brocade 5x Light Emerald 2x Lobster Moth 1x Maple Prominent 10x Marbled Minor 1x Middle-barred Minor 5x Mottled Beauty 1x Mottled Pug 4x Mottled Rustic 1x Nutmeg 2x Orange Footman 2x Pale Prominent 1x Pale Tussock 4x Peach Blossom 1x Pebble Hook-tip 3x Peppered Moth 1x Poplar Grey 2x Poplar Hawk-moth 2x Purple Clay 1x Red Twin-spot Carpet 3x Riband Wave 3x Rustic Shoulder-knot 8x Scorched Wing 2x Setaceous Hebrew Character 5x Shoulder-striped Wainscot 5x Silver-ground Carpet 7x Small Angle Shades 2x Small Elephant Hawk-moth 3x Small Fan-foot 1x Small Phoenix 1x Small Square-spot 3x Snout 40+ Straw Dot 2x Tawny Marbled Minor 3x Treble Lines 1x Uncertain 3x White Ermine 1x White-pinion Spotted 5x Willow Beauty

Micro Moths

1x Gypsonoma oppressana [NEW!] 1x Gypsonoma dealbana 3x Crambus pascuella 10x Crambus lathoniellus 1x Nemapogon cloacella 1x Phlyctaenia perlucidalis 1x Stenoptilia bipunctidactyla 2x Hedya nubiferana 5x Hedya pruniana 2x Coleophora sp 20+ Cochylimorpha straminea 1x Mompha propinquella 1x Mompha raschkiella 5x Metzneria metzneriella 12x Pandemis heparana 5x Pandemis cerasana 2x Aphomia sociella 10x Scoparia ambigualis 2x Scoparia pyralella 1x Scoparia subfusca

2x Eudonia pallida

2x Dipleurina lacustrata 30+ Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 2x Celypha lacunana 5x Udea olivalis 1x Anthophila fabriciana 1x Phyllonorycter harrisella 5x Cnephasia sp 2x Eurrhypara hortulata 1x Strophedra weirana 5x Epiblema cynosbatella 5x Epiblema trimaculana 2x Epiblema uddmanniana 2x Agapeta hamana 1x Caloptilia syringella 5x Evergestis forficalis 1x Eucosma cana 2x Eucosma hohenwartiana 1x Eucosma conterminana 2x Tortrix viridana 1x Archips podana 1x Yponomeuta evonymella 1x Emmetia marginea 5x Cochylis atricapitana 1x Prays fraxinella/ruficeps