Moth Trapping down on the farm part 2

I decided to run some more lights on my parents farm again on Tuesday night.

This was the second time this year that I decided to go all out with five traps scattered around the 10 acres of farmland.

The weather was very questionable indeed and we had had some rain earlier with flashes of lightning and rumbles of thunder thrown into the mix as well.

It was the temperature that spurred me on more than anything, hitting a heady 24 degrees during late afternoon and with predicted overnight minimum temperatures of around 14 degrees!

The traps were positioned underneath as much cover as possible to avoid being drenched through, two of the traps I placed under the old grain silos and another one went under the awning of a former stable block.

The other two braved the elements out in the open.

After I had setup it started to drizzle again and this theme continued through the night, eventually fizzling out by 12.30am.

By 4am however it seemed to have only just started to rain again which was a real pain sorting through the catches as moths seem to be hyper-sensitive to rain droplets landing on them when they are settled on the egg trays.

Thankfully the rain stopped in time for photographing them and we were soon greeted by a warm sunny day again.

There were plenty of moths coming to all of the lights but quite a few examples of the same species.

I was pleasantly surprised however when I nearly o so nearly hit 100 species...99 it was to be!

Best moths were examples of Lobster Moth, Sandy Carpet, Aethes tesserana, Anania perlucidalis and White-point.

Catch Report - 06/06/16 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap 1x 80w Actinic Suitcase Trap & 1x 40w Actinic and 26w BLB Trap

Macro Moths - 60 Species

2x Angle Shades

1x Brimstone Moth

1x Buff Ermine

5x Cinnabar

3x Clouded Silver

1x Clouded-bordered Brindle

2x Common Carpet

4x Common Pug

21x Common Swift

1x Common Wainscot

1x Coxcomb Prominent

1x Elephant Hawk-moth

3x Flame

7x Flame Shoulder

2x Garden Carpet

1x Ghost Moth

3x Green Carpet

2x Green Silver-lines

1x Grey-pine Carpet

5x Grey Pug

9x Heart & Dart

1x Iron Prominent

7x Large Nutmeg

2x Large Yellow Underwing

3x Light Emerald

1x Lime-speck Pug

1x Lobster Moth

17x Marbled Minor

5x Middle-barred Minor

2x Mottled Pug

2x Mottled Rustic

2x Orange Footman

3x Pale Oak Beauty

2x Pale Tussock

1x Peppered Moth

3x Poplar Hawk-moth

1x Purple Bar

20x Rustic Shoulder-knot

1x Sandy Carpet

1x Scorched Carpet

5x Scorched Wing

35x Setaceous Hebrew Character

2x Shears

1x Shoulder-striped Wainscot

3x Silver-Y

5x Silver-ground Carpet

4x Small Square-spot

2x Snout

2x Spectacle

2x Straw Dot

1x Swallow Prominent

3x Tawny Marbled Minor

16x Treble Lines

1x Uncertain

1x Vine's Rustic

1x Waved Umber

7x White Ermine

1x White-point

1x White-spotted Pug

2x Willow Beauty

Micro Moths - 39 Species

3x Epiblema cirsiana/stictiana

10x Anthophila fabriciana

300+ Plutella xylostella

1x Cauchas rufimitrella

8x Celypha lacunana

10x Crambus lathoniellus

2x Endrosis sarcitrella

3x Mompha subbistrigella

3x Glyphipterix simpliciella

5x Chrysoteuchia culmella

2x Aethes tesserana

4x Scoparia ambigualis

4x Aphomia sociella

1x Eucosma hohenwartiana

2x Hofmannophila pseudospretella

2x Agapeta hamana

1x Aphelia paleana

1x Paraswammerdamia albicapitella

3x Udea olivalis

2x Monopis weaverella

1x Blastobasis lacticolella

2x Epinotia bilunana

10x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana

3x Hedya pruniana

1x Eudonia pallida

3x Cochylis atricapitana

2x Homoeosoma sinuella

1x Prays fraxinella/ruficeps

2x Notocelia cynosbatella

2x Hedya nubiferana

1x Anania perlucidalis

1x Tinea semifulvella

1x Eudonia lacustrata

1x Eudonia mercurella

2x Argyresthia spinosella

1x Notocelia uddmanniana

1x Epiblema costipunctana

1x Achroia grisella

1x Metzneria metzneriella

The habitat

White-point

Green Silver-lines

Lobster Moth

Anania perlucidalis

Aphelia paleana

Epinotia bilunana

Eucosma hohenwartiana