Quickly, our total for the night rose, with large numbers of silver-ground carpet and common swift. The temperature dropped around 11.15 and it became quite damp and dewy which appeared to stop moths flying. Consequently, we began emptying the traps, listing the contents and saving those that required further work for identification.
In total 159 moths of 38 species were identified with 5 new macros for the parish year list and 9 micros one of which, Coptotriche marginea was new for parish records.
This means my totals for the year with Little Hadham presently stand at 99 macro moths and 54 micro moths, taking the total species count for the parish to a reasonably impressive 593 species since 2011. The champagne is now on ice for when I catch my 600th moth species for the parish.
The list in total:
Macros: New for year records in bold
- 30 silver -ground carpet
- angle shades
- 6 common marbled carpet
- 25 common swift
- 4 snout
- 2 yellowshell
- 3 brimstone
- 3 flame shoulder
- 3 light emerald
- 3 garden carpet
- 5 clouded silver
- 2 common pug
- 2 scorched wing
- 5 mottled pug
- 2 green carpet
- 2 marbled minor
- setaceous hebrew character
- 2 tawny marbled minor
- brindled pug
Micro moths: new for parish in red, new for year in bold
- 20 Plutella xylostella
- Yponomeuta cagnagella
- Anthophilia fabricana
- 3Hedya pruniana
- Nemapogon cloacella
- 2 Celypha lacunana
- 9 Scoparia ambigualis
- 5 Blastobasis lacticolella
- Nemaphora degeerella
- Monopsis weaverella
- Udea olivalis
- Tortrix viridana
- aphomia sociella
- Anania hortulata
- Tinea semifulvella
- Eulia ministrana
- Nematopogon swammerdamella
- Parapoynx striatata
- Coptotriche marginae
yellowshell
Anthophilia fabricana
Yponomeuta cagnagella
Nemophora degeerella
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| Scorched wing |
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| Tortrix viridana |
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| Tinea semifulvella |
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| Angle shades |
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| Clouded silver |
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