Catch Report - 25/05/11 - Farmland

   Had another amazing catch awaiting me this morning at 5am, with 3 traps running and mild conditions it seemed perfect whilst setting up, although after a few hours the sky cleared and a chill was in the air.
   about 5.30am the wind really picked up and the sky looked ever menacing, but luckily the rain held off for long enough to check the catch, and what a catch, there was literally 100's of moths everywhere inside and out, every egg tray was full both sides of different species including a massive haul of 220 Nutmeg's! and 124 Rustic Shoulder-knot's.
   Also I added 5 new species to my list, including a single Shears, a moth i've struggled to locate in the past 4 years.
   Most interesting though was a tiny longhorn micro moth called Adela croesella which i'm pretty sure is the correct id for this moth. I will be taking to show the Herts County recorder tomorrow. This being only the 2nd ever record for this species (funnily enough the first was a day ago, so I was beaten to a County first by one day hehe)

   Catch Report - 25/05/11 - 2x 125w MV Robinson Traps and 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap, all with white sheets underneath and positioned either on flat grass or concrete.

   Macro Moths

   16x Common Swift
   1x Ghost Moth
   4x Blood-vein
   1x Small Dusty Wave
   3x Treble Brown Spot
   18x Silver-ground Carpet
   2x Common Carpet
   1x Common Marbled Carpet
   1x Green Carpet
   12x Common Pug
   4x Grey Pug
   1x Brindled Pug
   6x Latticed Heath
   4x Scorched Wing
   1x Peppered Moth
   7x Clouded Silver
   3x Light Emerald
   2x Poplar Hawk-moth
   1x Iron Prominent
   1x Pebbled Prominent
   1x Swallow Prominent
   1x Pale Tussock
   2x Orange Footman
   1x Cinnabar
   3x White Ermine
   1x Buff Ermine
   2x Turnip Moth
   68x Heart & Dart
   6x Shuttle-shaped Dart
   4x Flame
   7x Flame Shoulder
   5x Ingrailed Clay
   42x Setaceous Hebrew Character
   220x Nutmeg
   1x Shears [NEW]
   1x Hebrew Character
   12x Common Wainscot
   3x Shoulder-striped Wainscot
   3x Brown Rustic
   2x Angle Shades
   4x Large Nutmeg
   124x Rustic Shoulder-knot
   6x Marbled Minor
   1x Middle-barred Minor
   10x Treble Lines
   3x Uncertain
   5x Vine's Rustic
   4x Mottled Rustic
   1x Green Silver-lines
   3x Burnished Brass
   1x Straw Dot
   1x Snout

   Micro Moths

   1x Adela croesella [NEW] - County 2nd record
   1x Elachista argentella [NEW]
   2x Epiblema cynosbatella
   1x Deltaornix torquillella
   1x micro id? [NEW]
   1x Tortrix id? [NEW]
   2x Blastobasis lacticolella
   1x Argyresthia sp.
   1x Brown House-moth Hofmannophila pseudospretella
   1x Paraswammerdamia albicapitella
   11x Celypha lacunana
   1x Scoparia ambigualis
   1x White-shouldered House Moth Endrosis sarcitrella
   12x Small Magpie Eurrhypara hortulata
   2x Cochylis atricapitana
   2x Bee Moth Aphomia sociella
   39x Udea olivalis
   1x Celypha striana
   3x Agapeta hamana
   8x Plum Tortrix Hedya pruniana
   29x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana