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Calm before the storm On Sunday night I ran the trap in the garden after another mild day. We did get some rain at some point in the night as the outside egg trays were damp but the temperature was a pretty respectable 15 degrees still at 5am. The wind was the main problem and this only got worse yesterday and into today halting trapping for a few nights.

Here's a strange one to start off with, the Micro Moth Cochylimorpha straminea is an abundant moth out in the field at the moment with hundreds to the traps but here in the garden...just 3 records over 5 years! And the 3rd record was on Sunday night and very welcome indeed.

Middle-barred Minor was also new for the year, one I missed out on last year and then two come along at once!

A few migrants made it to the trap as well, two examples of both Silver-Y and Plutella xylostella.

A great sight also was a Lesser Stag Beetle which I don't see many of in my garden.

The weather i'm keeping a close eye on and hope to get the trap out tomorrow.

Catch Report - 04/06/17 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Common White Wave [NFY] 2x Middle-barred Minor [NFY] 2x Brimstone Moth 1x Brown Rustic 2x Buff-tip 2x Common Marbled Carpet 5x Common Swift 1x Common Wainscot 1x Green Pug 10x Heart & Dart 3x Ingrailed Clay 5x Large Nutmeg 1x Light Emerald 1x Marbled Minor 2x Mottled Rustic 2x Riband Wave 4x Rustic Shoulder-knot 3x Setaceous Hebrew Character 2x Shuttle-shaped Dart 2x Silver-Y 1x Tawny Marbled Minor 2x Vine's Rustic 4x Willow Beauty

Micro Moths

1x Cochylimorpha straminea [NFY] 1x Cochylimorpha straminea [NFY] 1x Eudonia lacustrata [NFY] 1x Nemapogon cloacella [NFY] 1x Tortrix viridana [NFY] 1x Aphomia sociella 1x Argyresthia spinosella 3x Celypha lacunana 1x Crambus lathoniellus 1x Endrosis sarcitrella 1x Epiphyas postvittana 1x Notocelia uddmanniana 2x Plutella xylostella 3x Scoparia ambigualis