Chippenham Fen - Field Trip - 28/08/24

At the tail-end of August, I ran some traps at Chippenham Fen once more.

It was another warm night, with a little breeze at times, the forecast was 0% precipitation, but of course it had to rain again, a common feature with the forecast this year it appears.

Luckily it wasn't much and I persevered.

60 species of macro moths and 67 species of micro moths were recorded over 4 hours.

Best moths included a late Silver Barred (Although these regularly go into September now with a partial second brood).

A worn Leucoptera sp (Which will be retained for dissection).

A beautiful Pyrausta purpuralis (One I haven't had in the garden this year, but multiples of aurata all year long).

 

A good trip out, and possibly by last for the year now, unless we get some incredible warm September nights and good migrant conditions (Which we haven't really had this year inland yet).

28/08/24 - Chippenham Fen - East Cambridgeshire - 1x 125w Trap, 1x 160w MBT Trap, 1x 250w Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

Barred Hook-tip
Blood-vein
Bordered Beauty
Bright-line Brown-eye
Brimstone Moth
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
Burnished Brass
Canary-shouldered Thorn
Centre-barred Sallow
Chinese Character
Common Carpet
Common Marbled Carpet
Common Wainscot
Common Wave
Copper Underwing
Coronet
Dingy Footman
Double-striped Pug
Dusky Thorn
Flame Shoulder
Flounced Rustic
Frosted Orange
Gold Spot
Green Carpet
Gypsy Moth
Iron Prominent
Large Yellow Underwing
Latticed Heath
Least Yellow Underwing
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
Lesser-spotted Pinion
Light Emerald
Maiden's Blush
Oak Hook-tip
Orange Swift
Peach Blossom
Pinion-streaked Snout
Pretty Chalk Carpet
Purple Bar
Red Twin-spot Carpet
Setaceous Hebrew Character
Silver Barred
Single-dotted Wave
Small Blood-vein
Small Fan-footed Wave
Small Rufous
Small Square-spot
Smoky Wainscot
Snout
Spectacle
Square-spot Rustic
Square-spotted Clay
Straw Dot
Straw Underwing
Tawny-speckled Pug
Vapourer Moth
Vine's Rustic
White-point
Willow Beauty
Yellow Shell

Micro Moths

Acentria emphemerella
Acleris laterana/comariana
Adaina microdactyla
Agonopterix alstromeriana
Agonopterix ocellana
Agriphila geniculea
Agriphila tristella
Anacampsis blattariella/populella
Apotomis betuletana
Argyresthia goedartella
Argyresthia pruniella
Argyresthia semitestacella
Bactra sp
Blastobasis adustella
Bucculatrix bechsteinella
Cameraria ohridella
Carcina quercana
Cataclysta lemnata
Catoptria falsella
Celypha lacunana
Chilo phragmitella
Cochylidia heydeniana
Cochylidia implicitana
Cochylimorpha straminea
Coleophora alcyonipennella/frischella
Cydalima perspectalis
Cydia fagiglandana
Cydia splendana
Elachista alpinella
Emmelina monodactyla
Emmetia marginea
Epinotia nisella
Epinotia ramella
Epinotia tenerana
Epiphyas postvittana
Eudonia mercurella
Eudonia pallida
Euzophera pinguis
Evergestis forficalis
Galleria mellonella
Gelechia senticetella
Gracillaria syringella
Hofmannophila pseudospretella
Hypsopygia costalis
Leucoptera sp
Limnaecia phragmitella
Lyonetia clerkella
Nemapogon koenigi
Neocochylis dubitana
Neocochylis hybridella
Neocochylis molliculana
Nomophila noctuella
Oegoconia sp
Pandemis corylana
Pandemis heparana
Parapoynx stratiotata
Parornix sp
Patania ruralis
Plutella xylostella
Pyrausta purpuralis
Scoparia subfusca
Scrobipalpa ocellatella
Tinea semifulvella
Yponomeuta cag/mal/pad
Yponomeuta evonynella
Yponomeuta rorrella
Ypsolopha scabrella

Silver Barred

Argyresthia semitestacella

Cochylidia heydeniana

Cochylidia implicitana

Cydia fagiglandana

Cydia splendana

Elachista alpinella

Epinotia tenerana

Leucoptera sp

Pyrausta purpuralis