Description: Less moths but still ticking. Last week I ran the trap on both the 25th and 26th, and as I haven't had time to blog, I have conjoined the catches. Not a huge amount of moths by recent standards but some lovely new ones. The weather has been quite unsettled as of late with quite a few showers towards the evening cooling the evening temperatures and thus decreasing the catch somewhat. It was nice to record the pretty Tortrix Pammene regiana again, a Sycamore feeder for which we have loads! Cydia pomonella was a new one for the garden. Hopefully trapping again in the garden tonight after a nice break. Catch Report - 25-26/06/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap Macro Moths 1x Smoky Wainscot [NFY] 1x Barred Straw [NFY] 2x Lesser Yellow Underwing [NFY] 1x July Highflyer [NFY] 1x Dun-bar [NFY] 2x Swallow-tailed Moth 6x Common Footman 1x Setaceous Hebrew Character 12x Mottled Rustic 2x Green Pug 2x Dwarf Cream Wave 1x Buff-tip 3x Bright-line Brown-eye 1x Common Wainscot 4x Large Yellow Underwing 2x Riband Wave 1x Common Emerald 3x Dot Moth 5x Mottled Beauty 45x Heart & Dart 3x Heart & Club 1x Privet Hawk-moth 2x Double Square-spot 1x Cabbage Moth 17x Uncertain 5x Dark Arches 1x Common White Wave 2x Buff Arches 1x Brown Rustic 1x Light Arches 1x Clouded Border 1x Clouded Brindle 1x Elephant Hawk-moth 1x Turnip Moth 1x Dwarf Cream Wave 1x Small Emerald 2x Buff Ermine 1x Double-striped Pug 1x Grey Pug Micro Moths 1x Cydia pomonella [NFG] 2x Pammene regiana [NFY] 5x Dipleurina lacustrata 1x Blastobasis lacticolella 2x Epiblema uddmanniana 1x Batia lunaris 2x Celypha lacunana 3x Celypha striana 1x Ditula angustiorana 1x Aphomia sociella 3x Scoparia ambigualis 7x Chrysoteuchia culmella 1x Hedya nubiferana 2x Eudonia mercurella. Date: 27 June 2014, 08:01. Source: [1261] Cydia pomonella. Author: Ben Sale from UK.
Description: A huge catch headed by a new for County! Well I thought Tuesday night was good for moth numbers..the next night on Wednesday blew that one out of the water completely! With no less than 44 species recorded and 16 new for the year species and one new for me and the garden. The weather was warm again and up to 26 degrees in the daytime and not dropping below 16 degrees here in North Herts despite another clear night. Something special that caught my eye was sitting on the top egg tray underneath the collar of the trap. It was a Pammene and I instantly said to myself 'flipping ell that's trauniana' having recently seen someone else catch one on social media. The moth was whisked over to Graeme for a second opinion and dissection just to be sure, it is indeed Pammene trauniana and new to the County of Hertfordshire! Two rare Pammene's in just over a week (after last Tuesday's Pammene ignorata) is incredible and i'll be happy with this being my best moth of 2017 for the garden. We do have a few small Field Maple trees about 400 metres from our house of which this moth feeds upon. Other bits of interest were a great big fat female Pale Tussock, the first time i've recorded a female in my garden trap and uncommon species for my garden such as Scorched Wing and Teleiodes luculella. Catch Report - 24/05/17 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap Macro Moths 1x Brown Rustic [NFY] 2x Common Wainscot [NFY] 1x Green Pug [NFY] 1x Ingrailed Clay [NFY] 1x Peppered Moth [NFY] 1x Willow Beauty [NFY] 1x Scorched Wing [NFY] 1x Snout [NFY] 1x Tawny Marbled Minor [NFY] 1x Bright-line Brown-eye 5x Common Marbled Carpet 3x Common Pug 1`x Common Swift 4x Flame Shoulder 1x Garden Carpet 1x Green Carpet 6x Heart & Dart 3x Large Nutmeg 1x Light Emerald 1x Maiden's Blush 3x Mottled Pug 2x Orange Footman 1x Pale Mottled Willow 2x Pale Tussock 5x Rustic Shoulder-knot 1x Setaceous Hebrew Character 6x Shuttle-shaped Dart 1x Vine's Rustic 1x Waved Umber Micro Moths 1x Pammene trauniana [NEW!] 1x Cydia pomonella [NFY] 1x Eudonia pallida [NFY] 1x Evergestis forficalis [NFY] 1x Pyrausta aurata [NFY] 1x Scoparia ambigualis [NFY] 1x Stigmella sp (prob aurella) [NFY] 1x Teleiodes luculella [NFY] 3x Celypha lacunana 15x Epiphyas postvittana 2x Eulia ministrana 1x Nematopogon swammerdamella 1x Notocelia cynosbatella 1x Plutella xylostella 1x Syndemis musculana. Date: 25 May 2017, 16:47. Source: [1261] Cydia pomonella. Author: Ben Sale from UK.
Description: Saturday night from the moth trap Back to trapping last night and after a dull and gloomy day with temperatures really struggling to hit 20 degrees under cloudy skies, the night was hopefully going to be cloudy most of the night. Indeed with lows of 16 degrees it wasn't bad at all but numbers have slowly dropped off recently but the new species keep on coming and 5 possibly 6 new for year's were observed and all being micros. There is still a potential Argyresthia glaucinella, a species I recorded in Bedfordshire 3 weeks ago for the first time. If this is right it will be the 3rd County record, it's such a tiny moth at 6mm long. But better still I recorded a new species for myself, Gelechia senticetella. Catch Report - 15/07/17 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap Macro Moths 1x Bright-line Brown-eye 1x Brimstone 1x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1x Buff Footman 1x Buff Ermine 1x Cloaked Minor 1x Common Carpet 7x Common Footman 5x Common Rustic 2x Dark Arches 3x Dingy Footman 3x Dot Moth 3x Double Square-spot 3x Dun-bar 1x Engrailed 1x Haworth's Pug 1x Heart & Dart 1x Knot Grass 2x Large Yellow Underwing 4x Least Carpet 2x Lesser Yellow Underwing 1x Maple Prominent 1x Mottled Beauty 1x Mottled Rustic 3x Nut-tree Tussock 1x Peppered Moth 5x Riband Wave 1x Ruby Tiger 1x Rustic 2x Scalloped Oak 2x Scarce Footman 1x Scorched Carpet 1x Shuttle-shaped Dart 4x Silver-Y 1x Single-dotted Wave 2x Small Blood-vein 1x Small Emerald 1x Small Fan-footed Wave 1x Smoky Wainscot 2x Swallow-tailed Moth 3x Uncertain 2x Yellow-tail Micro Moths 1x Gelechia senticetella [NEW!] 1x Argyresthia glaucinella [NFG]??Pos 1x Aphelia paleana [NFY] 1x Catoptria pinella [NFY] 1x Cydia splendana [NFY] 1x Paraswammerdamia nebulella [NFY] 1x Acleris forsskaleana 1x Acleris notana/ferrugana 1x Acrobasis advenella 2x Acrobasis suavella 3x Agriphila straminella 2x Anania coronata 2x Anania hortulata 8x Blastobasis adustella 1x Bryotropha terrella 3x Chrysoteuchia culmella 1x Coleophora sp 1x Cydia pomonella 2x Ditula angustiorana 1x Emmelina monodactyla 5x Endotricha flammealis 1x Epiphyas postvittana 5x Eudonia lacustrata 3x Eudonia mercurella 2x Oegoconia sp 1x Pammene aurita 1x Pammene fasciana 1x Pandemis heparana 3x Pleuroptya ruralis 7x Spilonota ocellana 2x Yponomeuta evonymella 1x Zeiraphera isertana. Date: 14 July 2017, 16:37. Source: [1261] Cydia pomonella. Author: Ben Sale from UK.
Camera location 51° 02′ 05.1″ N, 13° 40′ 42.6″ E: View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth: 51.034750; 13.678500. Description: Cydia pomonella (Linnaeus, 1758) English: Codling moth Deutsch: Apfelwickler Location: Dresden, Pohrsdorfer Weg (Saxony, Germany) Camera: Canon EOS 20D Lens: Canon EF 3.5/180L Focal Length: 180 mm Exposure: 1/250, f22 Film / Speed: ISO 100 Comment: Canon Flash 580EX. Date: 12 June 2006. Source: Own work. Author: picture taken by Olaf Leillinger. Permission (Reusing this file): I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses: : This file is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.:. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 CC BY-SA 2.5 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 truetrue. : Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.htmlGFDLGNU Free Documentation Licensetruetrue. You may select the license of your choice..
