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Very Lackey Blacky Well the weather has been very up and down with some breezy and very wet nights, but with decent night time temperatures at least. Tuesday night was no different. We did get a shower sometime during the night as the perspex collar had rain-drops on it, but at the time of emptying the trap it was nice and dry. Some more fantastic moths were to be observed. Lackey made it onto the 2014 list, after I recorded it a day earlier last year, but the best moth was a Waved Black a garden first and Macro number 247 for the garden.

Three Trachycera suavella's were the best of the Micro's. I have yet to see a Trachycera advenella, although my records seem to indicate it flying more end of July/early August.

Catch Report - 08/07/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Waved Black [NFG] 1x Lackey [NFY] 1x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing [NFY] 2x Least Carpet [NFY] 5x Bright-line Brown-eye 3x Brimstone Moth 1x Buff Arches 2x Buff-tip 2x Cloaked Minor 1x Clouded Border 22x Common Footman 1x Common Pug 7x Commo Rustic 1x Common Wainscot 7x Dark Arches 1x Dingy Shears 17x Dot Moth 5x Double Square-spot 2x Dun-bar 2x Dwarf Cream Wave 1x Flame 1x Flame Shoulder 3x Heart & Club 18x Heart & Dart 1x July Highflyer 1x Large Nutmeg 1x Marbled Minor 7x Mottled Rustic 1x Peppered Moth 1x Privet Hawk-moth 6x Riband Wave 2x Rustic 1x Scalloped Oak 1x Setaceous Hebrew Character 1x Small Emerald 3x Small Fan-footed Wave 2x Smoky Wainscot 2x Snout 43x Uncertain

Micro Moths

3x Trachycera suavella [NFY] 2x Acleris forsskaleana 4x Endotricha flammealis 1x Emmelina monodactyla 1x Eurrhypara hortulata 1x Epiblema uddmanniana 1x Phycita roborella 1x Udea olivalis 2x Cnephasia sp 3x Udea prunalis 1x Carcina quercana 1x Paraswammerdamia nebulella 1x Orthopygia glaucinalis 1x Elachista albifrontella 1x Epagoge grotiana 2x Crambus pascuella 3x Celypha lacunana 1x Zeiraphera isertana 2x Amblyptilia acanthadactyla 2x Celypha striana 15x Chrysoteuchia culmella