Wednesday (and
as per a previous post) I was scheduled to go out but in brief my wife wasn't
very well and the weather was a little iffy after a huge thunderstorm on
Tuesday night with some localised downpours.
Conditions
seemed better on Wednesday but the expected temperature of 28 degrees never
materialised and we topped out at 22 degrees here, which is still relatively
respectful.
The trap was
set-up with the rain cover firmly on expecting more rain, which did come at
some point in the night.
By the morning,
the catch was quite pleasing with a new Tortrix moth for me and always a
sweetner adding it to the garden list, Adoxophyes orana the Summer Fruit
Tortrix and making it the 1st County record for Hertfordshire!
Other nice moths
included a year first Tree-lichen Beauty, a moth that is increasing its range
across the Country and the last 3 years it has been recorded from my garden.
Chinese
Character was also very welcome and I have had just one record in 2013 and 2015
so far, so as you can see it is a bi-yearly singleton species and very
consistent.
Mompha
propinquella returned after a 4 year absence, a pretty unusual little moth that
is very photogenic.
Also I’m pretty
sure I have both Acleris laterana and comariana, the latter a rare moth in
Herts having caught the second County record many years ago on the farm,
laterana would be a year first and comariana would be a garden first. Both will
need dissecting to be 100% the photos look convincing.
Epiblema
costipunctana was back after its debut year last year, a thistle feeder and a
most welcome second garden record.
And finally
Zelleria hepariella was a new species of Micro Moth for the garden having
recently recorded one at Scales Part in North-east Herts, not a common moth for
me I must add.
As I finish
typing, Saturday has been a complete wash-out and last night's catch was
completely sodden...more on that soon.
Catch Report
- 19/07/17 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap
Macro Moths
1x Chinese
Character [NFY]
1x Tree-lichen
Beauty [NFY]
1x Bright-line
Brown-eye
3x
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
1x Buff Footman
2x Common
Footman
11x Common
Rustic
1x Common
Wainscot
1x Dark Arches
1x Dingy Footman
2x Dot Moth
2x Dun-bar
2x Elephant
Hawk-moth
1x Grey Dagger
1x Haworth's Pug
1x Heart &
Dart
1x July
Highflyer
2x Least Carpet
2x Maple Pug
1x Mottled
Beauty
1x Mottled
Rustic
2x Nut-tree
Tussock
1x Poplar
Hawk-moth
1x Purple
Thorn
1x Red Twin-spot
Carpet
14x Riband Wave
1x Rustic
3x Scarce
Footman
1x Scalloped Oak
2x Silver-Y
1x Smoky
Wainscot
1x V-Pug
6x Uncertain
1x Yellow-tail
Micro Moths
1x Adoxophyes
orana [NEW!]
1x Zelleria
hepariella [NFG]
2x Acleris
laterana/comariana [NFY]
1x Agriphila tristella
[NFY]
1x Eucosma
conterminana [NFY]
1x Eucosma
hohenwartiana [NFY]
1x Mompha
propinquella [NFY]
4x Pammene
regiana
1x Prays
fraxinella
1x Acleris
forsskaleana
1x Acrobasis
advenella
2x Acrobasis
suavella
10x Agriphila
straminella
11x Blastobasis
adustella
2x Chrysoteuchia
culmella
1x Coleophora sp
2x Cameraria
ohridella
1x Cnephasia sp
3x Cydia
spledana
7x Endotricha
flammealis
18x Eudonia
lacustrata
3x Eudonia
mercurella
1x Euzophera
pinguis
2x Oegoconia sp
1x Pammene
aurita
2x Pandemis
heparana
9x Pleuroptya
ruralis
2x Plutella
xylostella
6x Spilonota
ocellana
9x Yponomeuta
evonymella
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| Adoxophyes orana |
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| Agriphila tristella |
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| Chinese Character |
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| Epiblema costipunctana |
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| Eucosma conterminana |
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| Acleris laterana & comariana? |
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| Mompha propinquella |
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| Tree-lichen Beauty |
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| Zelleria hepariella |
