Roughdown Common - Hemel Hempstead - Field Trip - 17/07/14

I was joined by David and Roger to Roughdown Common on a very favourable evening weatherwise.

We had hit 33 degrees earlier on and as we arrived at Roughdown to start setting up, it was still a heady 25 degrees at 9pm!

We did know of storms that were expected early morning, I thought we would be packed up and long gone before they turned up.

As the evening went on it got very breezy indeed and this did hamper the catch somewhat...luckily we were just packing up the last trap at 2am when a flash of lightning caught our attention coming in on a Southerly from London.

With traps all packed up it was a brisk walk back to the car...most of the gear was loaded and then the heavens opened.

The moths were represented by most species but in relatively low numbers for the time of year.

I was very very nice to see so many Dark Umbers, Brown Scallops and Maple Pugs.

Highlight of the night was a new micro for us all, Metalampra italica a possible accidental introduction in 2003 is responsible for this and all previous records as it was only known in the past from Italy!

Catch Report - 17/07/14 – Roughdown Common - Hemel Hempstead - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 40w Lucent Suitcase Trap, 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Suitcase Trap.

96 Macros and 80 Micros (176 species)

Macro Moths

1x Beautiful Hook-tip

2x Black Arches
2x Bright-line Brown-eye
4x Brimstone Moth
1x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing

6x Brown Scallop
2x Brown-line Bright-eye
1x Brown-tail
2x Buff Arches
4x Buff Footman
3x Clay
3x Cloaked Minor
5x Clouded Border

1x Clouded Brindle
8x Clouded Silver
3x Common Carpet
2x Common Emerald
5x Common Rustic
2x Common White Wave
10x Coronet

8x Dark Arches

10x Dark Umber
2x Dingy shears
1x Dot Moth
4x Double Square-spot  

1x Drinker
2x Dun-bar
1x Dusky Brocade

3x Early Thorn
2x Elephant Hawk-moth
1x Fan-foot 

1x Fern
1x Flame
2x Flame Shoulder 

2x Ghost Moth
2x Green Pug

1x Grey Dagger
4x Haworth's Pug
1x Heart & Club
4x Heart & Dart 
4x July Highflyer
2x Large Yellow Underwing

2x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
1x Lesser Yellow Underwing
1x Light Arches
1x Light Emerald 

1x Lime-speck Pug

2x Maple Prominent
10x Maple Pug

2x Marbled Minor

1x Miller
3x Mottled Beauty
2x Nut-tree Tussock
1x Pale Mottled Willow

1x Pale Prominent
2x Peach Blossom
1x Pebble Prominent
3x Peppered Moth

1x Phoenix

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

3x Pretty Chalk Carpet
1x Purple Bar

2x Red Twin-spot Carpet
5x Riband Wave 
4x Ruby Tiger
1x Rustic
2x Scalloped Oak
1x Scarce Footman
1x Scarce Silver-lines

1x Scorched Carpet
2x Shaded Broad-bar
2x Shuttle-shaped Dart
1x Single-dotted Wave

1x Six-spot Burnet

1x Slender Brindle

1x Small Angle Shades

2x Small Emerald
2x Small Fan-foot
10x Small Fan-footed Wave
4x Small Rivulet
2x Smoky Wainscot
2x Snout

2x Spectacle
5x Swallow-tailed Moth

1x Sycamore

1x Tawny Marbled Minor

1x Tawny Speckled Pug

6x Tree-lichen Beauty
3x Uncertain
1x Vapourer Moth

1x White-spotted Pug
1x Willow Beauty

1x Wormwood Pug

1x Yellow Shell

Micro Moths

1x Metalampra italica [NEW!]

6x Blastobasis laticolella

2x Blastobasis adustella  

5x Pleuroptya ruralis

3x Agapeta hamana

10+ Agapeta zoegana

2x Coleophora sp

2x Cydia splendana

1x Agonopterix heracliana sp

1x Hypatima rhomboidella

2x Zeiraphera isertana

1x Parornix sp

2x Eudemis profundana

1x Argyrotaenia ljungiana  

1x Eurrhypara hortulata  

20+ Chrysoteuchia culmella

1x Agonopterix arenella  

1x Pandemis cerasana  

4x Pandemis heparana

1x Pandemis corylana

1x Homoeosoma sinuella

2x Hofmannophila pseudospretella

2x Phycita roborella    

2x Celypha lacunana  

1x Archips podana  

1x Hedya nubiferana  

7x Aleimma loeflingiana

2x Epinotia demarniana  

3x Eudonia mercurella  

12x Cnephasia sp  

2x Coleophora sp

2x Ditula angustiorana  

3x Dipleurina lacustrata

10+ Eucosma cana

3x Batia unitella  

5x Acleris forsskaleana

2x Argyresthia albistria

20+ Eucosma hohenwartiana

1x Eucosma obumbratana

2x Aspilapteryx tringipennella

2x Bucculatrix nigricomella  

1x Rhopobota naevana

1x Epiblema costipunctana

1x Teleiodes vulgella  

2x Carcina quercana  

1x Pterophorus pentadactyla

4x Catoptria falsella

1x Oncocera semirubella  

2x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana  

5x Endotricha flammealis

1x Stigmella sp

3x Ancylis badiana

4x Yponomeuta evonymella

1x Phlyctaenia coronata

2x Limnaecia phragmitella

2x Syncopacma sp

2x Plutella xylostella

1x Gypsonoma dealbana  

2x Spilonota ocellana

1x Agriphila straminella

2x Crambus perlella

2x Dichomeris marginella  

2x Eucosma campoliliana  

10x Aethes rubigana

1x Aethes cnicana

2x Batia lunaris 

2x Udea prunalis

2x Clepsis consimilana

1x Pammene fasciana

1x Epinotia nisella

2x Acentria ephemerella

1x Recurvaria leucatella

2x Catoptria pinella

2 Epiblema uddmmaniana

1 Cochylimorpha straminea  

1x Eudonia pallida  

2x Archips xylosteana  

10+ Celypha striana    

5x Scoparia ambigualis  

2x Yponomeuta evonymella

 

Hypatima rhomboidella

Tawny Speckled Pug

Metalampra italica

Endothenia gentianaeana

Dichomeris marginella

 

Oncocera semirubella