Little Hadham Birding: Millennium Wood Moth Night: Thursday

We had a super turn out of locals for the moth night organised in Millennium Wood. Graeme and I set up plenty of traps throughout the 3.75 acre wood and, whilst Graeme and visitors Paul and Andrew monitored these and checked the brambles for feeding moths, I took the rest of the party on a wander around, netting anything that came to our lights. Only snouts and square spot rustics were netted but the children were excited to see them.
Most of the families had left by 8.30 and with little flying we spent time chatting and potting insects on the sheets next to the traps. Two members of Bishop's Stortford Camera Club spent time photographing potted moths.
We eventually began checking and emptying the traps around 11pm and had completed this and packed up just after midnight. In all 140 moths, with 3 to dissect to ascertain species.
List as follows

Emmetia marginea (New for parish records)
2 Anthophila fabricana
Plutella xylostella
Yposolopha horridella (new for 2016)
Carcina quercana
Agonopterix arenella
2 Clepsis consimilana
Acleris variegana
5 Acleris emargana
8 Epinotia nisella
Eudonia pallida
Emmelina monodactyla
Scrobipalpa costella
Celypha lacunana
5 Common marbled carpet
2 Green carpet
4 Brimstone
Dusky thorn
Willow beauty
6 Large yellow underwing
10 Setaceous hebrew character
25 Square spot rustic
8 Brindled green
Centre barred sallow
Barred sallow (new for 2016)
Pink barred sallow
Sallow (new for 2016)
5 Angle shades
35 Snout
red green carpet
2 Light emerald

These additions take to total for 2016 on the 15.09.16 to 236 macro species and 217 micro species. With a little hard work and some leaf mining expeditions, should get 500 species for the year.