Last night I had the feeling that warm temperatures and an overcast sky would prove to be a good moth night. As I chatted in the village pub to about 11.30pm the feeling intensified as a continuous stream of moths flew through the open door, so I returned home in anticipation.
Upon arrival at the garden Skinner 125MV it was apparent a busy night was ahead. Moths everywhere!
I began listing those that I could identify and potting those that required further inspection. By 3.00a.m I had run out of pots and listed over 80 moths of 43 species. Considering the record for the garden, set last week, is 103 moths of 56 species, it was clear this was going to be broken.
I headed off to bed and awoke 2 hours later to identify the ones in the fridge as I would need the pots. Upon emptying the trap the numbers became apparent and by 8.30 am I was counting in excess of 175 moths. I had put plenty in the fridge to inspect later with hand lens etc and when these were identified the list stretched to an amazing
210 moths of 82 species!!
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| New for the year list: Poplar grey |
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| Another new for the year: Phoenix |
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| An uncommon moth for Hertfordshire: Rucurvaria leucatella |
In all, I have added 15 moths to either the year list or my parish records and, with the 6 remaining all probably being new for the parish record, an amazing evening.
Macro List:
- 5 Common wave
- 5 snout
- 7 common footman
- 8 Riband wave
- 5 clouded border
- 3 swallow tailed moth
- 8 beautiful hooktip
- marbled minor
- 5 heart and dart
- V pug (NFY)
- Setaceous hebrew character (NFY)
- 2 clouded silver
- 3 scarce footman
- buff footman
- small blood vein
- Early thorn
- Grey dagger
- 3 green pug
- privet hawkmoth
- 2 Bright eye brown line
- 5 uncertain
- 2 buff ermine
- willow beauty
- 4 rustic
- 2 double square spot
- 3 smoky wainscot
- tawny marbled minor
- 3 clay
- 4 dark arches
- short cloaked moth
- 3 common wainscot
- straw dot
- 2 single dot wave
- least carpet
- heart and club
- common rustic
- mottled rustic
- turnip
- brimstone
- 2 Poplar grey (NFY)
- small fan footed wave (NFY)
- Phoenix (NFY)
- fern
- slender pug (NFM)
- Dingy footman (NFY)
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| Recurvaria leucatella |
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| First for the year: Yponomeuta evonymella |
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| New for my records: Paraswammerdamia nebulella |
Micros list:
- 11 Chrysoteuchia culmella
- 2 Anania coronata
- 5 Emmelina monodactyla
- 3 Udea prunalis
- 3 Cydia pomonella
- Anania hortulata
- 3 Archips podana
- Pandemis heparana (NFY)
- 2 Archips xylosteana
- Agapeta hamana
- 4 Eudonia lacustrata
- 6 Celypha lacunana
- 3 Scoparia pyralella
- 4 Hedya nubiferana
- 2 Pleuropyta ruralis (NFY)
- 6 Hedya pruniana
- 7 Yponomeuta evonymella
- 3 Crambus perlella
- 2 Udea olivalis
- 2 Eudonia mercurella
- Celypha striana
- Pandemis cerasana
- 2 Ditula angustiorana (NFY)
- 2 Pterophorus pentadactyla
- Recurvaria leucatella (NFM)
- 2 Scoparia ambigualis
- 3 Paraswammerdamia nebulella (NFM)
- Agriphila straminella
- 2 Scoparia subfusca (NFY)
- Eucosma cana
- Loquetia lobella (NFM)
- Notocelia rosaecolana
- Acrobasis suavella (NFM)
- Hofmannophila pseudspretella
- Clepsis consimilana
- Teleiodes vulgella (NFM)
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| Early thorn |
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| Agriphila straminella |
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| Paraswammerdamia nebulella |
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| Crambus perlella |
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| Acrobasis suavella (note questionmark white line and just see dashed black marks on termen) |
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| Acrobasis suavella |
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