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Hemel Hempstead Field Trip - 04/07/13

Last night David and myself decided on blitzing Westbrook Hay, and setup 2 traps near the barn, one at the top of a meadow and the other on the wooden walkway along a hedgerow towards Hay Wood. The remaining two traps were run in Hay Wood, with the MV overlooking the otherside of Hay Wood. The moths took quite awhile to get going, possibly due to it being clear, but the temperature did hold up enough for us to enjoy the presence of some moths. Mostly common species made up the catch with the best moths being 2 cracking Green Arches and a single Coronet. Singles are still dominating the catch, even where multiple traps are being used and this is a consistant observation. Grass moths featured well amongst the trap on the meadow, including 4 of the common Crambids, with Crambus perlella being the first I have seen this year.

Numbers of species are approximate.

98 species in total

(70 Macro - 28 Micro)

04/07/13 - Westbrook Hay - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 80w Actinic Trap & 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Angle Shades 2x Beautiful Golden-Y 1x Bright-line Brown-eye 3x Brimstone Moth 1x Buff Arches 1x Buff Ermine 1x Buff-tip 1x Clouded Border 8x Clouded Silver 2x Clouded-bordered Brindle 1x Common Carpet 5x Common Marbled Carpet 1x Common Pug 2x Common Swift 2x Common Wainscot 1x Common Wave 2x Common White Wave 1x Coronet 6x Dark Arches 3x Double Square-spot 1x Dwarf Pug 1x Elephant Hawk-moth 2x Fan-foot 1x Fern 1x Flame 10x Flame Shoulder 1x Garden Carpet 2x Ghost Moth 2x Green Arches 1x Green Carpet 2x Green Pug 1x Green Silver-lines 2x Grey-pine Carpet 4x Grey Pug 2x Heart & Club 20x Heart & Dart 3x Ingrailed Clay 1x Large Nutmeg 1x Large Yellow Underwing 1x Lesser Swallow Prominent 1x Light Arches 10x Light Emerald 1x Lime Hawk-moth 1x Maiden's Blush 1x Maple Prominent 5x Marbled Minor 1x Marbled White Spot 2x Middle-barred Minor 3x Mottled Beauty 1x Mottled Rustic 2x Orange Footman 2x Pale Prominent 2x Peach Blossom 4x Peppered Moth 2x Poplar Grey 1x Riband Wave 1x Rustic Shoulder-knot 3x Scorched Wing 6x Shoulder-striped Wainscot 10x Silver-ground Carpet 1x Small Square-spot 5x Snout 1x Spectacle 5x Spruce Carpet 15x Straw Dot 2x Treble Lines 2x Uncertain 2x White Ermine 1x Willow Beauty 1x Yellow Shell

Micro Moths

1x Archips podana 2x Celypha lacunana 2x Crambus lathoniellus 8x Pandemis cerasana 2x Prays fraxinella 1x Rhyacionia pinivorana 2x Lathronympha strigana 3x Scoparia ambigualis 2x Agapeta hamana 2x Epiblema uddmanniana 1x Eucosma cana 4x Hedya pruniana 1x Hedya nubiferana 5x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 2x Tinea semifulvella 1x Nemapogon cloacella 10x Tortrix viridana 1x Crambus pascuella 5x Chrysoteuchia culmella 2x Cochylimorpha straminea 2x Bryotropha terrella 1x Nomophila noctuella 2x Epiblema trimaculana 1x Eurrhypara hortulata 1x Argyresthia spinosella 1x Coleophora sp 1x Crambus perlella