Final frolics on the farm

The last trapping effort of the year at my parent's farm resulted in me picking up a couple of nice species.

The weather was good if a tad windy but mild all the same and come the morning it was once again challenging going through the traps as Wasps and Hornets were everywhere.

Pick of the bunch was a stunning Dusky-lemon Sallow, the only one I have seen this year there. Some years I have done very well for this species. I put it down to not regularly trapping there at the right time of year, as when I use to live there I would trap sometimes 4 times a week.

Bulrush Wainscot was also a nice surprise, a species I have recorded on the farm before as well as Webb's, Large, Southern and Fen amongst the less common Wainscot species. This must be to do with the fact that there is a large moat with a couple of ditches about a 1/4 of a mile directly North of the farm.

Other than that, numbers were down in general, apart from Setaceous Hebrew Character of which I counted 600 over 2 traps! Surely migrants boosting the local populations.

Also before all of the mothy action took place, my Dad showed me a Longhorn Beetle he had found earlier. I was pretty sure that it didn't belong to the family Cerambycidae, swinging more to Cantharidae. I was wrong too! It was from the family Lycidae And it is one of just two species in the family that are represented here in the UK. 

Quite a scarce Beetle too and one that I had never encountered before.

Catch Report - 13/09/16 - Farmland - Braughing Friars - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap 1x 80w Actinic Briefcase Trap & 1x 40w Actinic/26w BLB Trap

Macro Moths - 34 Species

Angle Shades

Barred Sallow

Black Rustic

Blood-vein

Brimstone Moth

Brindled Green

Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing

Brown-spot Pinion

Bulrush Wainscot

Burnished Brass

Centre-barred Sallow

Common Marbled Carpet

Common Wainscot

Copper Underwing

Double-striped Pug

Dusky-lemon Sallow

Dusky Thorn

Flame Shoulder

Garden Carpet

Green Carpet

Large Yellow Underwing

Latticed Heath

Lesser Yellow Underwing

Light Emerald

Lunar Underwing

Mouse Moth

Rosy Rustic

Sallow

Setaceous Hebrew Character

Silver-Y

Small Square-spot

Snout

Vine's Rustic

Willow Beauty

Micro Moths - 31 Species

Acleris forsskaleana

Acleris sparsana

Acleris variegana

Agapeta hamana

Anthophila fabriciana

Archips podana

Argyresthia semifusca

Blastobasis adustella

Caloptilia alchimiella/robustella

Cameraria ohridella

Celypha lacunana

Cochylis hybridella

Enarmonia formosana

Epinotia ramella

Epinotia tenerana

Epiphyas postvittana

Eudonia angustea

Eudonia pallida

Hofmannophila pseudospretella

Mompha epilobiella

Mompha subbistrigella

Monopis weaverella

Nephopteryx angustella

Nomophila noctuella

Plutella xylostella

Prays fraxinella

Tinea semifulvella

Udea ferrugalis

Ypsolopha parenthesella

Ypsolopha scabrella

Ypsolopha sequella

Sallow f.flavescens

Dusky-lemon Sallow

Bulrush Wainscot

Lunar Underwing

Epinotia tenerana

Enarmonia formosana

Platycis minutus