Moth Night: Millennium Wood

3 of us set up 5 traps within the wood as from 8.45 and immediately began netting moths found on plants and bushes, many from nettle patches.
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

1. 30 silver -ground carpet
2. angle shades
3. 6 common marbled carpet
4. 25 common swift
5. 4 snout
6. 2 yellowshell
7. 3 brimstone
8. 3 flame shoulder
9. 3 light emerald
10. 3 garden carpet
11. 5 clouded silver
12. 2 common pug
13. 2 scorched wing
14. 5 mottled pug
15. 2 green carpet
16. 2 marbled minor
17. setaceous hebrew character
18. 2 tawny marbled minor
19. brindled pug

Micro moths: new for parish in red, new for year in bold

1. 20 Plutella xylostella
2. Yponomeuta cagnagella
3. Anthophilia fabricana
4. 3Hedya pruniana
5. Nemapogon cloacella
6. 2 Celypha lacunana
7. 9 Scoparia ambigualis
8. 5 Blastobasis lacticolella
9. Nemaphora degeerella
10. Monopsis weaverella
11. Udea olivalis
12. Tortrix viridana
13. aphomia sociella
14. Anania hortulata
15. Tinea semifulvella
16. Eulia ministrana
17. Nematopogon swammerdamella
18. Parapoynx striatata
19. Coptotriche marginae

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   yellowshell

   
   

   

   Anthophilia fabricana

   
   

   

   Yponomeuta cagnagella

   
   

   

   Nemophora degeerella

Scorched wing

Tortrix viridana

Tinea semifulvella

Angle shades

Clouded silver