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Catch Report - 19/06/12 - Back Garden/Farmland Had a blistering night last night running 2 traps on the farm. Mild conditions have obviously helped more species come on the wing and yesterday was warm and calm and this theme continued well into the night, with a low this morning at 4.45am of 12c. 2 Lobster Moths were a nice surprise this morning, a Moth that I have only ever seen in mature Oak Woodland and only ever in numbers in Essex (Thorndon Country Park) Another moth that surprised me was 2 specimens (1 worn) of the Figure of Eighty moth, one that I rarely see (perhaps in decline?) Interesting Micro's including a 3rd County record of Phtheochroa inopiana and the rarely recorded Isotrias rectifasciana featured in last nights catch. Also an 2 examples of Cochylis molliculana turned up to the trap, quite a scarce moth in Hertfordshire, and no doubt spreading from its nearby stronghold in Essex.

All in all I noted 15 new species for the year with 2 of them new to me.

Today looks to be even warmer, so the traps will be on once again tonight

Catch Report - Braughing 19/06/12 - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

2x Lobster Moth [NFY] 2x Figure of Eighty [NFY] 1x Dwarf Cream Wave [NFY] 1x Light Arches [NFY] 1x Dusky Brocade [NFY] 1x Green Pug [NFY] 1x Treble Brown Spot [NFY] 2x Common Footman 8x Cinnabar 2x Common Pug 1x Buff-tip 2x Beautiful Golden-Y 1x Silver-Y 2x Lime Hawk-moth 1x Elephant Hawk-moth 1x Poplar Hawk-moth 1x Angle Shades 1x Bright-line Brown-eye 1x Burnished Brass 3x Brown Rustic 1x Clouded Border 2x Clouded Silver 3x Rustic Shoulder-knot 2x Peppered Moth 1x Turnip Moth 1x Light Emerald 1x Pale Tussock 1x Freyer's Pug 2x Garden Carpet 2x Flame Shoulder 2x Siver-ground Carpet 1x Common Marbled Carpet 2x Vine's Rustic 2x Marbled Minor sp. 1x Middle-barred Minor 2x Mottled Rustic 2x Double Square-spot 4x Large Nutmeg 8x Nutmeg 1x Common Wainscot 3x Shoulder-striped Wainscot 19x Common Swift 5x Ingrailed Clay 2x White Ermine 2x Dark Arches 1x Large Yellow Underwing 3x Treble Lines 3x Snout 1x Small Square-spot 1x Grey Pug 6x Flame 4x Heart & Dart 2x Rustic Shoulder-knot 3x Green Carpet 1x Buff Ermine 1x Spectacle 8x Setaceous Hebrew Character

Micro Moths

1x Isotrias rectifasciana [NEW!] 1x Phtheochroa inopiana [NEW!] 1x Eucosma cana [NFY] 1x Degeer's Longhorn Nemophora degeerella [NFY] 1x Marbled Orchard Tortrix Hedya nubiferana [NFY] 1x Endothenia marginana [NFY] 1x Bramble Shoot Moth Epiblema uddmanniana [NFY] 1x Metzneria metzneriella [NFY] 1x Teleiodes luculella [NFY] 1x Pea Moth Cydia nigricana [NFY] 1x Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis cerasana [NFY] 3x Plum Tortrix Hedya pruniana 2x Cochylis molliculana 1x Blastobasis lacticolella 2x Agapeta hamana 2x Celypha striana 1x Brown House-moth Hofmannophila pseudospretella 1x Argyresthia sp. 3x Scoparia ambigualis 1x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 2x Diamond-back Moth Plutella xylostella 3x Bee Moth Aphomia sociella 1x Coleophora sp. 6x Udea olivalis 2x Epiblema cynosbatella 14x Celypha lacunana 2x Small Magpie Eurrhypara hortulata