Superb garden trapping from last week

Another great catch after a really cold night on Tuesday night when I thought it would be suicide putting the trap out..just 8 degrees was the night-time maximum which is absurd for the 05th of July.

Nevertheless the night after looked much better and with a minimum of 15 degrees..almost double of the previous nights temperature.

An exceptionally pleasing total of 74 species of moth observed.

Some really good moths were found including a garden first Wood Carpet.

Wood Carpet use to be quite a scarce moth, but in this last week I have recorded it in 3 different locations, is it just having a really good year? I think so indeed...a very pleasing record for my garden.

Other moths of note included a year first Red-necked Footman and a beautifully marked Mottled Rustic with really dark margins to it's wings.

Peach Blossom was also nice to see having not seen it in the garden since 2013.

Catch Report - 06/07/16 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

 

Macro Moths

Wood Carpet 1 [NFG] 

Mottled Beauty 2 [NFY]

Peach Blossom 1 [NFY]

Varied Coronet 1 [NFY]

Red-necked Footman 1 [NFY] 

Scalloped Oak 1 [NFY]

Small Fan-footed Wave 1 [NFY]

Barred Straw 1

Beautiful Hook-tip 1

Beautiful Golden-Y 1

Blood-vein 1

Bright-line Brown-eye 6

Brimstone Moth 2 

Clay 1

Clouded Brindle 2

Common Carpet 1 

Common Footman 8

Clouded Silver 2

Common Wainscot 1

Common White wave 1

Dark Arches 12

Dot Moth 3

Double-striped Pug 1

Double Square-spot 1

Elephant Hawk-moth 1

Fan-foot 4

Flame Shoulder 1

Garden Carpet 2

Green Pug 2

Haworth's Pug 2

Heart & Club 3

Heart & Dart 6

Large Nutmeg 1

Large Yellow Underwing 6

Light Emerald 2

Mottled Rustic 5

Pale Mottled Willow 1

Peppered Moth 2

Riband Wave 10

Satin Beauty 1

Silver-Y 2

Small Fan-foot 1

Smoky Wainscot 1

Snout 1

Spectacle 1

Tawny Marbled Minor 1 

Treble Brown-spot 2

Uncertain 20

Willow Beauty 5

Micro Moths

Blastodacna hellerella 1 [NFY] 

Carcina quercana 1 [NFY]

Crambus pascuella 1 [NFY] 

Pandemis heparana 1 [NFY]

Pterophorus pentadactyla 1 [NFY] 

Spilonota ocellana 1 [NFY]

Aphomia sociella 1

Anania hortulata 2

Celypha lacunana 1

Celypha striana 1

Chrysoteuchia culmella3

Clepsis consimilana 2

Emmelina monodactyla 2

Ephestia sp 3

Eudonia lacustrata 2

Eudonia mercurella 2

Hofmannophila pseudospretella 2

Oegoconia sp 2

Pandemis cerasana 2

Phycita roborella 2

Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1

Scoparia ambigualis 2

Udea olivalis 1

Udea prunalis 2

Zeiraphera isertana 1

Varied Coronet

 

Wood Carpet

Mottled Rustic

Red-necked Footman