Sawbridgeworth Marsh - 04/07/12

Yesterday evening I decided to spend the evening down my local marsh which is just a 15 minute drive from my house. I set up two traps in-between sedge and reed-beds hoping for some new species.
Indeed I managed loads of new species, soreally chuffed, I ran the two lights from 10pm until about 1am.
My friend Colin Plant joined me for awhile for some moral support.
Numbers weren't huge, but it was the variety that kept the interest up!
Most notably was only my second Miller.
The usual species such as Southern Wainscot, Dotted Fan-foot and Pinion-streaked Snout, were out in force, backed up by plenty of Round-winged Muslins and Small China-marks.
Elachista maculicerusella, Perinephela lancealis and Acleris hastiana were new micro's for me. 

Perinephela lancealis is a weird beastie, it's wings look far too long and narrow to fly successfully.


I did not count each and every moth so numbers are approximate.

Catch Report - Sawbridgeworth Marsh - 04/07/12 - 1x 125w Mv Robinson Trap and 1x combined 160w MBT and 40w Actinic Trap 

Macro Moths

1x Satyr Pug [NFY]

1x July Highflyer [NFY]

1x Blackneck [NFY]

1x Short-cloaked Moth [NFY]

20x Southern Wainscot [NFY]

4x Pinion-streaked Snout [NFY]

10x Round-winged Muslin [NFY]

12x Dotted Fan-foot [NFY]

1x Miller [NFY]

2x Common Rustic

1x Maple Prominent

15x Flame

3x Blood-vein

4x Flame Shoulder

3x Clouded Silver

1x Angle Shades

10x Barred Straw

1x Clay

10x Ghost Moth

2x Buff Arches

1x Pale Oak Beauty

6x Scorched Wing

1x Scarce Footman

1x Common Footman

2x Smoky Wainscot

6x Double Square-spot

1x Drinker

3x Brimstone

2x Straw Dot

5x Minor sp.

1x Bright-line Brown-eye

3x Heart & Dart

1x Pale Prominent

2x Mottled Rustic

2x Beautiful Hook-tip

2x Elephant Hawk-moth

1x Burnished Brass

1x Willow Beauty

2x Mottled Beauty

1x Large Yellow Underwing

4x Large Nutmeg

1x Peach Blossom

1x Common White Wave

2x Common Wave

1x Poplar Grey

2x Common Carpet

2x Dingy Shears

2x Common Emerald

2x Peppered Moth

5x Setaceous Hebrew Character

Micro Moths

1x Acleris hastiana [NEW!]
1x Perinephela lancealis [NEW!]
5x Elachista maculicerusella [NEW!] 
2x Adaina microdactyla [NEW!]

2x Phalonidia manniana [NEW!] 
15x Small China-mark [NEW!] 

2x Mompha ochraceella [NFY]

1x Cyclamen Tortrix Clepsis spectrana [NFY]

1x Variegated Golden Tortrix Archips xylosteana [NFY]

2x Eudonia pallida [NFY]

1x Archips xylosteana [NFY]

1x Ringed China-mark [NFY]

3x Limnaecia phragmitella [NFY]

2x Aleimma loeflingiana [NFY]

2x Calamotropha paludella [NFY]

1x Platyptilia pallidactyla [NFY]

4x Green Oak Tortrix Tortrix viridana

2x Pandemis cerasana

1x Ephestia parasitella

8x Agapeta hamana

2x Eucosma cana

10x Chrysoteuchia culmella

4x Celypha lacunana

6x Dipleurina lacustrata

1x Crambus perlella

3x Homoeosoma sinuella

4x Diamond-back Moth plutella xylostella

1x Epiblema trimaculana

5x Cnephasia sp.

1x Metzenaria lappella

10x Coleophora sp.

2x Bee Moth Aphomia sociella

Blackneck

Miller

Dotted Fan-foot

Pug sp.

Satyr Pug

Southern Wainscot

 

Acleris hastiana

Adaina microdactyla

Calamotropha paludella

Calamotropha paludella f.nivella

Phalonidia manniana

Variegated Golden Tortrix Archips xylosteana

Small China-mark

Round-winged Muslin

Platyptilia pallidactyla

Pinion-streaked Snout

Perinephela lancealis

Limnaecia phragmitella

Ephestia parasitella