Hemel Hempstead Field Trip - 26/06/13

Last night Roger, David and myself did another field trip to the Boxmoor Trusts land. We decided to set-up 2 traps at Gadesprings like we normally do, lock it up and leave it running, and then drive about a mile and a half to our second site. Roughdown Common is a lovely looking piece of unimproved grass chalkland with intersecting mature woodland and new plantations of mixed trees and scrub. The site is very uneven as I found out after I slipped over chasing a moth! The amount of flora on offer at this site speaks volumes for the divesity of moths that we would record. The evening was perfect, overcast warm and with a slight breeze. The moths did not take long to arrive and the micro's were borderline overwhelming for all of us. Gadesprings did not fair so well, and was slightly cooler (because of the Watercress beds) with about a 1/4 of what we recorded at Roughdown. But again we found different species at this site, notably Netted Pug! All in all a very enjoyable (and exhausting) evening, which I look forward to repeating again very soon.

Numbers of species are approximate.

121 species total

104 species at Roughdown Common (70 Macro - 34 Micro)

58 species at Gadesprings (49 Macro - 9 Micro)

17 extra species at Gadesprings

[] = Only at Gadesprings

26/06/13 Roughdown Common - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Trap run from 9.45pm until 1.30am

Macro Moths

1x Angle Shades 5x Beautiful Golden Y 3x Brimstone Moth 1x Broken-barred Carpet 2x Brown Rustic 2x Buff Arches 1x Buff-tip 1x Burnished Brass 2x Clouded Border 20x Clouded Silver 2x Clouded-bordered Brindle 4x Common Carpet 6x Common Marbled Carpet 2x Common Pug 3x Common Swift 2x Common Wainscot 5x Common White Wave 1x Coronet 1x Dark Arches 1x Elephant Hawk-moth 1x Fern 1x Flame 4x Flame Shoulder 2x Ghost Moth 10x Green Carpet 1x Green Pug 10x Grey Pug 10x Heart & Dart 3x Ingrailed Clay 1x Iron Prominent 5x Large Nutmeg 2x Light Brocade 1x Liht Emerald 1x Lobster Moth 6x Marbled Minor 3x Marbled White Spot 1x Middle-barred Minor 2x Mottled Beauty 2x Mottled Pug 1x Orange Footman 2x Pale Oak Beauty 1x Pale Prominent 1x Pale Tussock 3x Peppered Moth 2x Purple Bar 1x Riband Wave 2x Rustic Shoulder-knot 1x Scorched Carpet 5x Scorched Wing 2x Seraphim 1x Setaceous Hebrew Character 1x Shaded Pug 2x Shoulder-striped Wainscot 1x Shuttle-shaped Dart 1x Silver-Y 10x Silver-ground Carpet 1x Small Blood-vein 2x Small Square-spot 1x Snout 1x Spectacle 10x Straw Dot 1x Sycamore 1x Tawny-barred Angle 1x Toadflax Pug 1x Treble Brown Spot 2x Treble Lines 1x V-pug 3x Waved Umber 2x White Ermine 1x Yellow Shell

Micro Moths

2x Celypha lacunana 6x Scoparia pyralella 1x Scoparia ambigualis 3x Crambus lathoniellus 1x Hedya nubiferana 8x Cochylimorpha straminea 4x Agapeta hamana 1x Agepeta zoegana 2x Acentria ephemerella 6x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1x Eupoecilia angustana 1x Nemapogon cloacella 1x Blastobasis laticolella 10x Metzneria metzneriella 1x Coleophora sp 1x Bactra sp 1x Agonopterix arenella 1x Tinea semifulvella 2x Eucosma cana 3x Eucosma obumbratana 1x Eucosma hohenwartiana 4x Tortrix viridana 3x Pandemis cerasana 1x Bryotropha affinis 1x Chrysoteuchia culmella 2x Epiblema uddmanniana 1x Epiblema trimaculana 2x Eucosma campoliliana 2x Elachista sp 2x Udea olivalis 1x Archips podana 1x Aphelia paleana 1x Epiblema cynosbatella 1x pos Eulamprotes unicolorella (to be checked)

26/06/13 Gadesprings, Hemel Hempstead - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap & 1x 160w MBT Trap run from 9.30pm until 2.00am

Macro Moths

1x Beautiful Golden Y 1x Bright-line Brown-eye [] 2x Brimstone Moth 1x Brown Rustic 1x Buff Ermine [] 3x Buff-tip 1x Burnished Brass 5x Cinnabar [] 1x Clouded Border 1x Common Carpet 1x Common Footman [] 5x Clouded Silver 1x Clouded-bordered Brindle 2x Common Marbled Carpet 2x Common Rustic [] 4x Common Swift 1x Common Wave [] 2x Common White Wave 2x Dark Arches 1x Double Square-spot [] 1x Dusky Brocade [] 1x Elephant Hawk-moth 3x Flame 3x Flame Shoulder 3x Green Carpet 1x Grey-pine Carpet [] 3x Grey Pug 5x Heart & Dart 1x Ingrailed Clay 2x Large Nutmeg 2x Light Brocade 4x Marbled Minor 1x Middle-barred Minor 1x Netted Pug [] 1x Pale Prominent 1x Peppered Moth 1x Rustic Shoulder-knot 1x Scorched Wing 1x Shuttle-shaped Dart 1x Silver-Y 5x Silver-ground Carpet 1x Small Square-spot 1x Snout 2x Straw Dot 1x Swallow Prominent [] 1x Treble Lines 1x Uncertain [] 1x White Ermine 1x Willow Beauty []

Micro Moths

4x Celypha lacunana 2x Cochylimorpha straminea 3x Crambus lathoniellus 2x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1x Agonopterix arenella 2x Elachista maculicerusella [] 2x Clepsis spectrana [] 1x Plutella xylostella []