FlyinginFordham: The lost post, a field trip from late August

A little bit late on this one!

Back on the 23rd of August I did a last minute outing to my local nature reserve.

It was so long ago that i've forgot what the weather was like and had to look on 'Past Weather Cambridge' to get a rough idea, which came back, highs of 25c and lows of 18c, sounds about right for making the effort to go out.

The best moth of the night was a tiny moth I found thrashing around frantically in a spiders web near one of my traps, it was to be a Falseuncaria ruficiliana and a really stonking record for the county (Not see in over 115 years from what I can see).

Other highlights included many colourful tortrix moths, the Epinotia family are always a treat to see, particularly the endless forms of nisella.

A late(ish) Peach Blossom was pleasing, as was a terribly knackered Oak Processionary and an equally beaten up White-spotted Pinion.

136 species in total was great, with just one Elachista pending dissection.

23/08/23 - Chippenham Fen - East Cambridgeshire - 3 traps, 125w MV Robinson Trap, 250w Clear Mercury Robinson Trap and 62w Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Angle Shades
Bright-line Brown-eye
Brimstone Moth
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
Burnished Brass
Cabbage Moth
Canary-shouldered Thorn
Centre-barred Sallow
Chinese Character
Cloaked Minor
Common Carpet
Common Wainscot
Common Wave
Common White Wave
Copper Underwing
Coronet
Dingy Footman
Double-striped Pug
Drinker
Dusky Thorn
Figure of Eighty
Flame Shoulder
Flounced Rustic
Foxglove Pug
Gold Spot
Green Carpet
Gypsy Moth
Large Yellow Underwing
Latticed Heath
Least Carpet
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
Lesser Swallow Prominent
Light Emerald
Lime-speck Pug
Lychnis
Maiden's Blush
Nutmeg
Oak Processionary
Old Lady
Orange Swift
Pale Mottled Willow
Peach Blossom
Pinion-streaked Snout
Pretty Chalk Carpet
Purple Bar
Ruby Tiger
Scarce Footman
Setaceous Hebrew Character
Single-dotted Wave
Six-striped Rustic
Small Fan-footed Wave
Small Rufous
Small Square-spot
Smoky Wainscot
Snout
Spectacle
Square-spot Rustic
Straw Dot
Straw Underwing
Swallow Prominent
Tawny-barred Angle
Tawny-speckled Pug
Turnip Moth
Vine's Rustic
Waved Umber
White-point
White-spotted Pinion
Willow Beauty
Yellow-barred Brindle

Micro Moths

Acentria emphermerella
Acleris laterana/comariana
Acleris variegana
Acompsia cinerella
Acrobasis advenella
Agapeta hamana
Agapeta zoegana
Agonopterix alstromeriana
Agriphila geniculea
Agriphila tristella
Apotomis betuletana
Argyresthia albistria
Argyresthia goedartella
Argyresthia semifusca
Bactra sp
Blastobasis adustella
Bucculatrix bechsteinella
Cameraria ohridella
Cataclysta lemnata
Catoptria falsella
Celypha lacunana
Chrysoteuchia culmella
Cochylis dubitana
Cochylis molliculana
Coleophora alcyonipennella/frischella
Cryptoblabes bistriga
Cydia splendana
Dichrorampha acuminatana
Donacaula mucronella
Ectoedemia decentella
Elachista freyerella
Elachista obliquella
Elophila nymphaeata
Emmetia marginea
Epermenia falciformis
Epinotia nisella
Epinotia ramella
Epiphyas postvittana
Eudonia mercurella
Eudonia pallida
Euzophera pinguis
Evergestis limbata
Falseuncaria ruficiliana
Galleria mellonella
Grapholita janthinana
Hofmannophila pseudospretella
Monopis laevigella
Monopis weaverella
Morophaga choragella
Nomophila noctuella
Oegoconia sp
Pammene aurita
Pandemis corylana
Paraswammerdamia nebulella
Parornix sp
Phycita roborella
Phyllocnistis saligna
Phyllonorycter rajella
Phyllonorycter stettinensis
Pleuroptya ruralis
Pseudargyrotoza conwagana
Pyrausta aurata
Pyrausta despicata
Scythropia crataegella
Swammerdamia pyrella
Udea ferrugalis
Yponomeuta cag/mal/pad