Field Trip - Bovingdon Brickworks - Bovingdon - 08/05/16

Last night I was joined by Roger and Steve at Bovingdon Brickworks just outside of the village of Bovingdon, roughly 5 miles South-West of Hemel Hempstead.
The reserve was formerly a brickworks and is consequently very sandy with undulating pits making it quite a unique trapping location that is full of wild flowers.

David had already setup his MV Robinson at Gadesprings which we would return to after packing up from Bovingdon.
We did a lengthy walk from the cars with the equipment which isn't for the faint-hearted, set up a total of four traps, an actinic in the wooded section and then three other traps scattered around the pits.
The weather was pretty much perfect minus cloud cover, but we didn't need it as it was still 16 degrees when I was driving home at half 2! With the day-time temperature peaking at a heady 27 degrees, we were confident that even if the sky stayed clear that it would take a few hours for the temperature to drop, and a few hours is all we needed.

Best moth of the night was a pretty scarce moth for Hertfordshire but seemingly common in other parts o the Country, Early Tooth-striped a new moth for me! 
Other species of note were mainly micros with a few still to sort out.
Three stunning Cydia strobilella were great to get, and a Herts scarce species along with my third new species an Incurvaria pectinea.

It was great to finally see good numbers of moths and many species numbered into double-figures.


Catch Report - 08/05/16 - Bovingdon Brickworks - Bovingdon- 2x 125w MV Robinson Traps 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap and 1x 80w Actinic Suitcase Trap

Macro Moths

1x Early Tooth-striped [NEW!]

12x Small Phoenix 

8x Nut-tree Tussock

4x Clouded Drab

4x Early Thorn

7x Lunar Marbled Brown 
1x Chinese Character

7x Common Quaker

4x Brimstone Moth

9x Least Black Arches

1x Common Pug

1x Purple Thorn

13x Streamer

1x Red-green Carpet

8x Waved Umber

4x Frosted Green

3x Pale Tussock

12x Seraphim

8x Oak-tree Pug

1x Hebrew Character

1x Spruce Carpet

1x Green Carpet 

1x Garden Carpet

1x Double-striped Pug

1x Clouded Border

2x White-spotted Pug

1x Orange Footman

1x Bright-line Brown-eye

1x Mottled Pug

1x Flame Shoulder

1x Iron Prominent 

1x Water Carpet

3x Angle Shades

3x Brindled Pug

4x Red Twin-spot Carpet

1x Chestnut

2x Shuttle-shaped Dart

1x Swallow Prominent

2x Shoulder-stripe

1x Oak Hook-tip

1x Powdered Quaker

1x Maiden's Blush

1x Scalloped Hazel

1x Pale Pinion

1x Engrailed

Micro Moths

3x Cydia strobilella [NEW!]

1x Incurvaria pectinea [NEW!]
1x Endrosis sarcitrella
1x Bucculatrix nigricomella
3x Agonopterix arenella
2x Epiphyas postvittana
1x Parornix sp
3x Acleris cristana
1x Agonopteris heracliana
1x Caloptilia alchimiella
1x Capua vulgana
2x Incurvaria masculella
2x Dyseriocrania subpurpurella
1x Monpis weaverella
1x Aphomia sociella
2x Syndemis musculana
1x Swammerdamia pyrella
1x Scrobipalpa costella
1x Phyllonorycter leucographella
3x Mompha raschkiella


Catch Report - 08/05/16 - Gadesprings - Hemel Hempstead - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Pale Tussock

2x Common Quaker

3x Clouded Drab

2x Hebrew Character

3x Double-striped Pug

1x Frosted Green

1x Spectacle

1x Angle Shades

1x Oak-tree Pug 

1x Green Carpet

1x Light Brocade

1x Brindled Pug

1x Brimstone Moth

Micro Moths

1x Aphomia sociella

Bucculatrix nigricomella

Early Tooth-striped

The Gear

Trap location

Incurvaria pectinea

Cydia strobilella

Acleris cristana