Ditton Park Woods - Field Trip - 30/07/24

I made a trip back to Ditton Park Woods at the end of July.

 

It was a much warmer start to the night, but the cloud never materialised and we were still under clear skies at midnight and with a fresh feeling in the air we started to slowly pack up.  

A rather tidy 164 species were noted, which included countless micros.

It was good to see that Shaded Fan-foot and Eudemis porphyrana were present, with 2 of the former and at least 10 of the latter (These two species were both new to Cambridgeshire last year from this wood).

A couple of other scarcer micros were nice to see, namely Gelechia nigra & Hedya ochroleucana.

There were swarms of Acleris emargana, easily numbering into the 40's, with a ratio of roughly 30 normal grey forms to 10 of the tessellated yellow form. One though stood out as to being a completely new form that I had never seen before.

There are no online images or pictures in books that I could find depicting an orange colour. Such a stunning moth.

A great night with plenty of interest.

30/07/24 - Ditton Park Woods - East Cambridgeshire - 1x 125w Trap, 1x 160w MBT Trap, 1x 250w Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

Barred Hook-tip
Beautiful Golden Y
Black Arches
Brimstone Moth
Buff Arches
Buff Footman
Chinese Character
Clouded Silver
Common Carpet
Common Footman
Common Rustic
Copper Underwing
Coronet
Dark Arches
Dingy Footman
Double-striped Pug
Drinker
Dun-bar
Early Thorn
Elephant Hawk-moth
Flame Carpet
July Highflyer
Large Twin-spot Carpet
Large Yellow Underwing
Least Carpet
Least Yellow Underwing
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
Lunar Yellow Underwing
Lunar-spotted Pinion
Magpie Moth
Maiden's Blush
Maple Pug
Mere Wainscot
Minor Shoulder-knot
Nut-tree Tussock
Oak Eggar
Pale Prominent
Pebble Hook-tip
Pebble Prominent
Peppered Moth
Poplar Lutestring
Poplar Kitten
Purple Thorn
Red Twin-spot Carpet
Riband Wave
Rosy Footman
Ruby Tiger
Rustic
Sallow Kitten
Scalloped Oak
Shaded Broad-bar
Shaded Fan-foot
Silver Y
Slender Brindle
Slender Pug
Small Dotted Buff
Small Fan-footed Wave
Small Phoenix
Small Rivulet
Smoky Wainscot
Snout
Straw Dot
Swallow-tailed Moth
Tree-lichen Beauty
Uncertain
Willow Beauty
Wormwood Pug
Yellow-tail

Micro Moths

Acentria ephemerella
Acleris comariana/laterana
Acleris emargana
Acleris forskalleana
Acleris notana/ferrugana
Acrobasis advenella
Acrobasis consociella
Acrobasis repandana
Agapeta hamana
Agonopterix alstromeriana
Agriphila straminella
Anacampsis blattariella/populella
Ancylis achatana
Apotomis betuletana
Aproaerema anthyllidella
Archips crataegana
Archips xylosteana
Argyresthia albistria
Argyresthia brockeella
Argyresthia goedartella
Argyresthia spinosella
Athrips mouffetella
Batia lunaris
Batrachedra praeangusta
Blastobasis adustella
Blastobasis lacticolella
Blastodacna hellerella
Bryotropha affinis
Caloptilia alchimiella/robustella
Caloptilia semifascia
Caloptilia stigmatella
Cameraria ohridella
Carcina quercana
Cataclysta lemnata
Catoptria pinella
Chrysoteuchia culmella
Cnephasia sp
Coleophora hemerobiella
Crassa unitella
Cydalima perspectalis
Cydia fagiglandana
Cydia splendana
Dioryctria sylvestrella
Ditula angustiorana
Ectoedemia louisella/sericopoza
Elachista stabilella
Elophila nymphaeata
Endotricha flammealis
Epinotia abbreviana
Epinotia brunnichana
Epinotia nisella
Epinotia solandriana
Epinotia tenerana
Eucosma cana
Eucosma hohenwartiana
Eudemis porphyana
Eudemis profundana
Eudonia mercurella
Euspilapteryx auroguttella
Evergestis forficalis
Gelechia nigra
Gelechia sororculella
Grapholita funebrana
Grapholita janthinana
Gypsonoma dealbana
Hedya nubiferana
Hedya ochroleucana
Hedya salicella
Limnaecia phragmitella
Notocelia uddmanniana
Orthotelia sparganella
Ostrinia nubilalis
Pandemis heparana
Parapoynx stratiotata
Parornix sp
Phycita roborella
Phyllonorycter coryli
Phyllonorycter harrisella
Phyllonorycter leucographella
Phyllonorycter trifasciella
Pleuroptya ruralis
Plutella xylostella
Prays fraxinella
Rhopobota naevana
Scoparia basistrigalis
Spilonota ocellana
Syncopacma cinctella/larseniella
Teloides vulgella
Tinea trinotella
Udea prunalis
Yponomeuta cag/mal/pad
Yponomeuta evonynella
Yponomeuta rorrella
Ypsolopha dentella
Ypsolopha scabrella
Zeiraphera isertana

Hedya ochroleucana

Magpie Moth

Trapping Habitat

Beautiful Golden Y

Acleris emargana variation

Epinotia solandriana

Gelechia nigra