FlyinginFordham: Cranwich Camp - Field Trip

I was kindly invited to join Mark Hows and Iain Leach at Cranwich Camp in Norfolk on the 11th of August, a site I had never been to before.

The heath would have been an option, but it was swarming with heffalumps, maybe next year.

We pitched up along the track and in the adjacent fields, and lights were on as early as 9pm, as the nights started to draw in.

I stupidly forget to a) Top up my generator & b) put the fuel can in the car (which sat on the drive whilst I was out, much to my bemused wife).

Many thanks to Mark for topping me up and keeping me going until 1am.

The other two turned in about midnight, and would sleep until 5am ish. I packed my traps up by 1am and drove off very happy indeed.

The moths were great, plenty of different species, some i've seen before but only on the one occasion.

Both Dotted Clay & Clouded Magpie to my traps were new records for me in the UK (having only previously seen them abroad).

All of the moths I photographed I could only dream about getting in the garden trap, but never say never!

I'm not quite sure what the finally tally was, but it must have been over 200 species, I personally managed 155 species.

I retained an Apotomis species that could be sororculana, we shall see.

A great trip out, meeting up with like-minded keen mother's.

11/08/24 - Cranwich Camp - Norfolk - 1x 125w Trap, 1x 160w MBT Trap, 1x 250w Robinson Trap & 1x Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Black Arches
Blood-vein
Brimstone Moth
Burnished Brass
Cabbage Moth
Canary-shouldered Thorn
Clay
Clay Triple-lines
Cloaked Minor
Clouded Magpie
Common Carpet
Common Rustic
Common Wainscot
Common White Wave
Copper Underwing
Coronet
Coxcomb Prominent
Currant Pug
Dark Arches
Dark Spinach
Dark Umber
Dingy Footman
Dotted Clay
Double-striped Pug
Drinker
Dun-bar
Dusky Thorn
Ear Moth
Flame Shoulder
Green Carpet
Grey Dagger
Grey-pine Carpet
Iron Prominent
Large Emerald
Large Yellow Underwing
Latticed Heath
Least Carpet
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
Lesser Spotted Pinion
Lobster Moth
Maiden's Blush
Maple Prominent
Mottled Beauty
Nut-tree Tussock
Oblique Carpet
Orange Swift
Pale Prominent
Peppered Moth
Pine Carpet
Pine Hawk-moth
Poplar Grey
Pretty Chalk Carpet
Purple Bar
Red Twin-spot Carpet
Riband Wave
Rosy Footman
Ruby Tiger
Scarce Footman
Setaceous Hebrew Character
Shaded Broad-bar
Sharp-angled Carpet
Silver Y
Single-dotted Wave
Small Angle Shades
Small Fan-footed Wave
Small Rivulet
Smoky Wainscot
Spectacle
Spruce Carpet
Square-spotted Clay
Straw Dot
Straw Underwing
Swallow Prominent
Tawny-barred Angle
Tawny-speckled Pug
Treble Bar
Tree-lichen Beauty
True Lover's Knot
Vine's Rustic
White-point
White-spotted Pug
Willow Beauty
Yellow Shell
Yellow-barred Brindle

Micro Moths

Acentria emphemerella
Acleris forskalleana
Acleris laterana/comariana
Acompsia cinerella
Acrobasis advenella
Adaina microdactyla
Agapeta hamana
Agapeta zoegana
Agonopterix alstromeriana
Agonopterix arenella
Agonopterix assimilella
Agonopterix heracliana
Agonopterix liturosa
Agriphila inquinatella
Agriphila straminella
Agriphila tristella
Anania verbascalis
Aphomia sociella
Argyresthia albistria
Aristotelia ericinella
Bactra furfurana
Blastobasis adustella
Blastobasis lacticolella
Brachmia blandella
Bucculatrix ulmella
Caloptilia alchimiella/robustella
Caloptilia falconipennella
Caloptilia stigmatella
Cameraria ohridella
Carcina quercana
Catoptria falsella
Catoptria pinella
Celypha cespitana
Celypha lacunana
Chilo phragmitella
Coleophora alcyonipennella/frischella
Crassa unitella
Cryptoblabes bistriga
Cydalima perspectalis
Cydia fagiglandana
Dichomeris alacella
Dichrorampha simpliciana
Dioryctria simplicella
Emmelina monodactyla
Emmetia marginea
Endotricha flammealis
Eucosma conterminana
Eudonia mercurella
Euzophera pinguis
Evergestis forficalis
Galleria mellonella
Hofmannophila pseudospretella
Homoeosoma nebulella
Lathyronympha strigana
Metalampra italica
Monopis weaverella
Neocochylis dubitana
Ocnerostoma friesei
Oegoconia sp
Onococera semirubella
Pammene aurita
Pandemis corylana
Parapoynx stratiotata
Phycita roborella
Phyllonorycter quercifoliella
Pleuroptya ruralis
Plutella xylostella
Rhyacionia pinicolana
Scoparia ambigualis
Yponomeuta evonynella