Farmland - Braughing Friars - Field Trip - 19/07/14

The Herts moth group assembled once more on their annual trip to a 10 acre site of Hertfordshire farmland that has been left in 2006 to grow wild.

The vegetation was certainly dense and even encroaching over the roads that once had 40 tonne lorries driving up and down it every single day.

Those days have long gone and 8 years down the line it is amazing how much nature has really taken a hold and used every inch of space to its full potential.

It is really sad that this may be the last time we all get together and trap this site (I hope not)

But with sad news comes good news, and boy did we go out in style.

The list is still a work in progress with various moths with other people to be checked, I will compile my notes on the night of what we observed to the hanging sheet and all of the traps that we tried to empty carefully

Carefully with two things in mind, the moths flying off and Hornets...of which we had quite a few!

The weather was absolutely perfect, warm overcast (most of the time) and humid with a faint southerly breeze at times and a minimum temperature reading on my car at 4am this morning of 18 degrees!

The moths...well where do we start. We could of had a field day with all the beetle species that were coming to the traps let alone the 1000’s of moths, yep that many I would predict.

Stars of the show were Kent Black Arches, Waved Black, Brown-veined Wainscot, Lesser-spotted Pinion and Olive.

The micros are now finally done and thanks to Colin Plant and Andy King for extra dissections from moths collected during the night, we seem to have a fair old whack of the Cnephasia species present on the farm for starters! We also got quite a few wetland species suggesting a lot of movement from other habitats.

Numbers are very approximate! Please do email me for any corrections and additions chaps.

Catch Report - 19/07/14 - Braughing Friars Farmland - Braughing – 1x Hanging Sheet with 125w MV, 3x 125w MV Robinson Traps, 1x 40w Actinic Suitcase Trap, 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap & 1x 80w Actinic + CFL 26w Suitcase Trap.

134 Macros and 118 Micros (252 species)

Macro Moths
1x Beautiful Hook-tip

3x Black Arches

2x Bordered Pug
5x Bright-line Brown-eye
2x Brimstone Moth
15+ Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
10+ Brown-line Bright-eye

1x Brown-veined Wainscot
5x Buff Arches
5x Buff Footman

3x Buff-tip

1x Burnished Brass

1x Chinese Character

3x Chocolate-tip

100+ Cinnabar (Caterpillars)
20+ Clay
20+ Cloaked Minor
1x Clouded Border
2x Clouded Silver
8+ Common Carpet
5x Common Footman
80+ Common Rustic

5x Common Wainscot

1x Currant Pug

30+ Dark Arches

1x Dark Dagger (checked)

5x Dark Umber

5x Dingy Footman
1x Dingy Shears
2x Dot Moth

1x Double Lobed
10+ Double Square-spot

1x Double-striped Pug  

2x Drinker
15+ Dun-bar

1x Dusky Brocade

4x Dusky Sallow

2x Dwarf Cream Wave

1x Ear Moth

2x Early Thorn
12+ Elephant Hawk-moth
3x Fan-foot 

2x Fern
2x Flame
8+ Flame Shoulder 

1x Garden Carpet

2x Ghost Moth
3x Green Pug
2x Haworth's Pug
5x Heart & Dart

2x Iron Prominent
15+ July Highflyer

1x Kent Black Arches

1x Knot Grass

5x Large Twin-spot Carpet
15+ Large Yellow Underwing

5x Latticed Heath

10+ Least Carpet

10+ Least Yellow Underwing

2x Leopard Moth

10+ Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing

1x Lesser Common Rustic
10+ Lesser Yellow Underwing

1x Lesser-spotted Pinion
2x Light Arches

1x Lime-speck Pug

1x Maiden’s Blush

3x Maple Prominent
10+ Maple Pug

1x Marbled Beauty

1x Marbled Minor
2x Mottled Beauty

1x Mouse Moth
5x Nut-tree Tussock

1x Nutmeg

3x Oak Hook-tip

1x Oak Nycteoline

1x Old Lady

1x Olive
2x Pale Mottled Willow
2x Pebble Prominent
10+ Peppered Moth

1x Phoenix

1x Pine Hawk-moth
1x Poplar Grey
2x Poplar Hawk-moth

5x Privet Hawk-moth
1x Purple Thorn

5x Red Twin-spot Carpet
15+ Riband Wave
20+ Ruby Tiger
2x Rustic

1x Sallow Kitten
4x Scalloped Oak
5x Scarce Footman

2x Scorched Carpet

1x Setaceous Hebrew Character
5x Shaded Broad-bar

2x Shaded Pug
2x Shuttle-shaped Dart

2x Silver-Y
2x Single-dotted Wave

2x Slender Brindle

1x Slender Pug

1x Small Angle Shades

1x Small Blood-vein

3x Small Emerald
2x Small Fan-foot
20+ Small Fan-footed Wave

1x Small Phoenix
1x Small Rivulet

1x Small Rufous

1x Small Waved Umber

2x Small Yellow Wave
20+ Smoky Wainscot
5x Snout

3x Spectacle

2x Straw Dot

2x Swallow Prominent
8x Swallow-tailed Moth

1x Sycamore

1x Tawny Marbled Minor

1x Tawny Speckled Pug

12+ Tree-lichen Beauty
10+ Uncertain

3x V-Pug
2x Vapourer Moth

1x Vine’s Rustic

5x White Satin Moth

1x White-spotted Pug
1x Willow Beauty

2x Yellow Shell

1x Yellow-barred Brindle

5+ Yellow-tail

Micro Moths

Acentria ephemerella 10+

Acleris forsskaleana 5x

Acrobasis consociella 1x

Aethes cnicana 1x

Aethes rubigana 15+

Agapeta hamana 10x

Agapeta zoegana 6x

Agonopterix alstromeriana 1x  

Agonopterix heracliana 1x

Agriphila straminella 1x

Aleimma loeflingiana 2x

Anacampsis blattariella 1x TO BE CHECKED

Anthophila fabriciana 1x

Aphomia sociella 2x

Apotomis lineana 1x

Archips podana 1x 

Archips xylosteana 1x 

Argyresthia goedartella 1x

Argyresthia pruniella 1x

Argyresthia trifasciata 1x

Argyrotaenia ljungiana 1x

Batia lunaris 1x

Batia unitella 10+ 

Blastobasis adustella 5x 

Blastobasis laticolella 6x

Blastodacna hellerella 1x

Borkhausenia fuscescens [NEW!] 1x

Brachmia blandella

Bryotropha terrella 5+

Calamotropha paludella 1x

Caloptilia rufipennella 1x

Caloptilia semifascia 1x

Cameraria ohridella 1x

Carcina quercana 5x

Cataclysta lemnata 2x

Catoptria falsella 25+

Catoptria pinella 4x

Celypha lacunana 2x

Celypha striana 3x 

Chrysoteuchia culmella 60+

Clepsis consimilana 5+

Cnephasia asseclana 1x Gen Det

Cnephasia longana 3x Gen Det

Cnephasia pasiuana 1x Gen Det

Cnephasia stephensiana 1x Gen Det

Cochylimorpha straminea 2x 

Cochylis atricapitana 2x

Cochylis hybridella 2x

Coleophora sp 2x

Crambus pascuella 1x

Crambus perlella 6x

Cydia pomonella 2x

Cydia splendana 5+

Dipleurina lacustrata 10+

Ditula angustiorana 1x

Donacaula forficella 1x

Emmelina monodactyla 1x 

Endotricha flammealis 10+

Epiblema foenella 3x

Epiblema uddmmaniana 2x

Eucosma campoliliana 2x  

Eucosma cana 10+

Eucosma hohenwartiana 5x

Eucosma obumbratana 1x

Eudemis profundana 2x

Eudonia mercurella 10+

Eudonia pallida 1x

Eurrhypara hortulata 5+ 

Euzophera pinguis 2x

Evergestis forficalis 1x

Gypsonoma dealbana 10+  

Hedya nubiferana 5x

Hedya pruniana 2x

Helcystogramma rufescens 1x

Hofmannophila pseudospretella 2x

Homoeosoma sinuella 1x

Hypatima rhomboidella

Hypsopygia costalis 1x

Limnaecia phragmitella 2x

Lyonetia clerkella 1x

Monochroa palustrella 1x

Myelois circumvoluta 5x

Orthopygia glaucinalis 1x

Ostrinia nubilalis 1x

Pammene fasciana 1x

Pandemis cerasana 1x  

Pandemis corylana 2x

Pandemis heparana 5x

Paraswammerdamia albicapitella 2x

Paraswammerdamia nebulella 1x

Pempelia formosa 1x

Phlyctaenia coronata 2x

Phycita roborella 2x     

Phycitodes maritima 1x Gen Det

Pleuroptya ruralis 100+

Plutella xylostella 15+

Prays fraxinella 1x

Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 5x 

Pterophorus pentadactyla 2x

Pyrausta aurata 2x

Pyrausta purpuralis 1x

Recurvaria leucatella 1x

Rhopobota naevana 3x

Rhyacionia pinicolana 1x

Scoparia ambigualis 2x 

Scoparia subfusca 1x

Scrobipalpa costella 1x

Sitochroa verticalis 1x

Spilonota ocellana 20+

Teleiodes vulgella 1x

Tinea trinotella 1x

Trachycera advenella 1x

Trachycera suavella 1x

Udea olivalis 1x

Udea prunalis 4x

Yponomeuta cagnagella 1x Gen Det

Yponomeuta evonymella 10+

Ypsolopha scabrella 4x

Zeiraphera isertana 5x

Anacampsis blattariella

Brown-veined Wainscot

Calamotropha paludella

Cnephasia longana

Myelois circumvoluta

Ostrinia nubilalis

pos Gynnidomorpha alismana

Scoparia subfusca