Roughdown Common - Field Trip - 02/06/14

I was joined by David, Roger and Steve at Roughdown Common for our second outing to this site this year.

We were probably a few weeks to early for peak flying species, but nevertheless it was great to see some species a little earlier than we have recorded them before (namely Snout and Double Square-spot)

Despite the warm and cloudy conditions, we had to wait a good hour and a half after lights on before we actually started seeing some variety which was a bit of a surprise as we were an hour into darkness with less than 15 species jotted down.

But at 11pm things went rather mad and the deluge started as the breeze dropped off.

By 1am the sky was breaking and there was a chill in the air and it was time to pack the 4 traps up.

Highlights were a single Pammene albuginana, confidently confirmed by the County recorder as the 3^rd record for Hertforshire of recent times, although the hindwing needs checking for certainty.

We also got an early Coronet and 3 of the pretty metallic Eulamprotes unicolorella, which seems to be quite scarce?

All in all a pleasing night, if we were a few weeks later we may have done better with species count.

Catch Report - 02/06/14 - Roughdown Common - Hemel Hempstead - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Suitcase Trap.

Macro Moths 

1x Clouded Border

20+ Common Swift

25+ Clouded Silver

10+ Grey Pug

5x Mottled Pug

3x Silver-ground Carpet

2x Ghost  Moth (2 Fem)

10+ Common Pug

5x Green Carpet

2x Tawny Marbled Minor

8x Marbled Minor

1x Middle-barred Minor

10+ Heart & Dart

3x Straw Dot

2x Small Elephant Hawk-moth

15x Common Marbled Carpet

5x Flame Shoulder

2x Clouded Brindle

2x Pale Oak Beauty

2x Clouded-bordered Brindle (1 ab combusta)

2x Buff Ermine

1x Lime Hawk-moth

1x Freyer’s Pug

2x Nutmeg

 2x Small Square-spot

1x Oak nycteoline

1x Green Pug

1x Flame

3x Ingrailed Clay

1x Brown Rustic

1x Burnished Brass

2x Mottled Beauty

1x Coronet

1x Scorched Carpet

4x Peppered Moth

1x Pale Tussock

2x Small Phoenix

3x Middle-barred Minor

3x White Ermine

2x Broken-barred Carpet

6x Treble Lines

1x Pale Prominent

2x Purple Bar

3x Marbled White-spot

2x Brimstone Moth

1x Willow Beauty

2x Common Carpet

1x Least Black Arches

2x Silver-Y

3x Lime-speck Pug

1x Snout

1x Light Emerald

1x Buff-tip

8x Light Brocade

1x Common White Wave

1x Double Square-spot

2x Garden Carpet

Micro Moths

1x Pammene albuginana [NEW!]

2x Epinotia subocellana

15+ Pseudargyrotoza conwagana

40+ Cochylimorpha straminea

1x Glyphipterix simpliciella

5x Scoparia ambigualis

2x Adela degeerella

4x Udea olivalis

1x Tischeria marginea

1x Phycitodes sp

3x Eulamprotes unicolorella

1x Endrosis sarcitrella

2x Agonopterix arenella

1x Argyresthia abistria

1x Coleophora sp

1x Nematopogon schwarziellus

1x Aphomia sociella

2x Plutella xylostella

3x Celypha lacunana

1x Cnephasia sp

1x Caloptilia syringella

1x Tinea trinotella

1x Epiblema cynosbatella

2x Syndemis musculana

1x Teleoides luculella

10x Pandemis heperana

1x Caloptilia alchimiella

1x Agapeta zoegana

2x Epiblema trimaculana

2x Argyrotaenia ljungiana

5x Scoparia pyralella

2x Metzneria metzneriella

1x Hedya pruniana

Tischeria marginea

Pammene albuginana

Epinotia subocellana

Eulamprotes unicolorella

Phycitodes sp