Little Hadham Birding: 80 moths in 24 hours

Making the most of the warm weather, I set the garden trap for the night of 11th June with enthusiasm for a good night's haul. All things considered, not to poor a return with the following found the following morning;
7 Crambus lathoniellus,
rustic shoulder knot
2 Mompha subbistrigella (NFM)
common pug
straw dot
2 common marbled carpet
bee moth
cinnabar
buff ermine
4 brown rustic
4 heart and dart
Celypha striana
Celypha lacunana
common swift
white spotted pug
mottled pug

Crambus lathoniellus

After work (identifying insects for 30 year 3 primary school children in a local wood) I headed oof to Millennium Wood. Here, very few moths showing.
Anthophila fabricana
3 Nempaphora degeerella
Odd looking silver ground carpet

Rather faded silver ground carpet

From here, I was off to the local golf course and one small patch that has proved particularly good on previous visits. I wasn't disappointed with;
2 cinnabar
2 straw dot
2 silver Y
2 Chrysteuchia culmella
Anthophila fabricana
2 Agriphila straminella (NFY)
Aphelia paleana (NFY)
Crambus lathoniellus (numerous)
2 Dicrorampha petiverella
5 Dicrorampha sequana
burnet companion (NFY)
A good collection for just over an hour netting in daylight. The forecasted heavy rain did not materialise until much later than expected, so garden trap on in very warm and muggy conditions, with a promising easterly breeze. Rain fell spasmodically throughout the evening and heavy rain at 5.15 meant I just closed the trap and returned to bed. Upon emptying later in the morning, a most pleasing selection:
Pale tussock (NFY)
3 white ermine
spectacle
Marbled minor agg (NFY)
2 treble lines
heart and dart
2 brown rustic
small magpie
buff ermine
Agapeta hamana
common pug
mottled pug
Agonopterix arenella
Scorparia subfusca (NFM)
Epiblema trimaculana (NFM)
2 Straw dot

Dicrorampha sequana, The back from extinction moth of the year so far.

So, basically, in 24 hours 77 moths (with a few micros still to identify.) The pale tussock also represented my 100th moth species for the year, 58 macros and 42 micros, with 480 moths taken. This compares to 2014 on the same day, when the total was 540 moths of 121 species, made up of 95 macros and 26 micros. The micro total is higher this year due to daytime netting in a variety of rough grassland habitats around the parish, but still clearly, a much poorer year than previous years.