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Gladsaxe Municipality, Hovedstaden, Denmark
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Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
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Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
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Cradley, Malvern, Worcs,. SO7347
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Hobro
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Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
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Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
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Gladsaxe Municipality, Hovedstaden, Denmark
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A new Macro and a new Micro from the back gardenNot as spectacular as recent standards and with fewer moths this morningall was not lost though as I found a County 3rd? Toadflax Brocade sittingon the wall behind my trap. The other two records are from Hertford (2009)and Bayfordbury in (2010), a welcome surprise.I have only included species that weren't present in last nights trap.As if a new Macro for my records wasn't enough. I managed a new Microaswell, Argyresthia albistria.I gave the moths a night off last night as it has been torrential here!Back to trapping tonight as it looks to be a warm night again.Catch Report - 04/08/13 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson trapMacro Moths1x Toadflax Brocade [NEW!]1x Buff Footman [NFG]1x Pebble Hook-tip [NFG]1x Phoenix [NFG]1x Magpie Moth [NFY]1x September Thorn [NFY]1x Scarce Footman3x Yellow Shell1x Snout1x Common White Wave1x Lackey1x Maidens BlushMicro Moths1x Argyresthia albistria [NEW!]1x Ypsolopha dentella [NFG]1x Catoptria falsella [NFG]2x Tinea trinotella [NFG]1x Hedya salicella [NFG]2x Parornix sp [NFG]1x Euzophera pinguis [NFG]2x Phyllonorycter messaniella [NFG]2x Teleiodes vulgella [NFG]1x Pyrausta aurata [NFY]1x Argyresthia goedartella1x Phalonidia sp (pending)
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Finally a Tree-lichen Beauty!A combined catch result for this week chaps, as I haven't had much time to update thy blog.Being officially married now means that my mothing exploits will apparently subdue over the years to come (but not too soon I must add!)I trapped on the 6th, 8th and 9th this week with pretty mixed results but with a downward trend starting to happen as we go into the beginning of the end....or is it?There was me going through the trap each time expecting to not be that thrilled with late Summer catches (Yes in the moth world it is nearing Autumn already) then to stumble upon rare and interesting moths in each of the three session.6th was the Cydia amplana night, on the 8th star of the show was Acrolepiopsis assectella, both completely new moths for me. The on the 9th after EVERYBODY else has had one, finally I managed a Tree-lichen Beauty....it's never too late is it!Also a Footman needs checking for Hoary.All in all a good end to the week trapping.Catch Report - 06-08-09/08/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson TrapMacro Moths1x Tree-lichen Beauty [NFG]1x Small Waved Umber [NFG]2x Lesser Swallow Prominent [NFY]6x Square-spot Rustic [NFY]1x Vapourer Moth [NFY]3x Angle Shades3x Black Arches3x Brimstone Moth1x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing1x Cloaked Minor1x Common Carpet22x Common Rustic3x Dark Arches1x Dot Moth2x Double-striped Pug2x Dun-bar3x Dusky Thorn 2x Flame Shoulder8x Flounced Rustic1x Green Carpet5x Large Yellow Underwing1x Least Carpet42x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing1x Lesser Yellow Underwing1x Maiden's Blush2x Maple Pug2x Marbled Beauty1x Nut-tree Tussock1x Oak Hook-tip4x Orange Swift2x Pale Mottled Willow1x Poplar Hawk-moth 1x Red Twin-spot Carpet11x Riband Wave1x Scarce Footman 4x September Thorn3x Setaceous Hebrew Character6x Shuttle-shaped Dart1x Silver-Y1x Small Emerald 1x Small Rivulet4x Spectacle2x Square-spotted Clay1x Straw Dot5x Straw Underwing1x Uncertain1x Vine's Rustic10x Willow Beauty2x Yellow Shell Micro Moths1x Acrolepiopsis assectella [NEW!]1x Cydia amplana [NEW!]1x Ypsolopha sequella [NFG]1x Dichrorampha acuminatana [NFG]1x Pyrausta purpuralis [NFG]1x Mompha divisella [NFG]6x Agriphila geniculea [NFY] 2x Ypsolopha parenthesella [NFY]4x Evergestis forficalis1x Hypsopygia costalis4x Amblyptilia acanthadactyla3x Eurrhypara hortulata1x Mompha subbistrigella1x Monopis laevigella2x Endotricha flammealis15x Blastobasis adustella2x Emmelina monodactyla2x Eudonia mercurella1x Ypsolopha dentella2x Trachycera advenella1x Trachycera suavella3x Carcina quercana7x Epiphyas postvittana1x Paronix sp1x Celypha lacunana1x Apotomis betuletana3x Argyrotaenia ljungiana5x Agriphila straminella2x Phycita roborella6x Agriphila tristella2x Spilonota ocellana1x Caloptilia betulicola2x Argyresthia goedartella1x Argyresthia pruniella5x Plutella xylostella2x Batia unitella1x Hofmannophila pseudospretella
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Hobro
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Broken trap - Bring out the reserve!A bit of a nightmare last night, I went to switch the trap on and....nothing! Ah nuts. It was late and I was tired, so I brought the trap in to look at it this morning.In place of it, I ran my 160w Mercury Blended Robinson Trap, which usually catches a lot less but the bonus is that it does attract different things.A trip down memory lane HERE is a catch from the same date using the same trap, five years ago in 2009.The weather was perfect, no wind and plenty of cloud cover, although it did clear sometime during the night as it was clear at 5.30am this morning.The emergency change of trap didn't disappoint....Micro's have definitely increased in numbers over the last few days with 9 new ones for the year last nightPandemis cerasana finally turned up (2 worn examples)...after seeing these for weeks out in the field.It was lovely to see my third garden Eyed Hawk-moth and a second Phoenix.Luckily my MV Robinson Trap is back in action!Catch Report - 21/06/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 160w MBT Robinson TrapMacro Moths1x Phoenix [NFY]1x Foxglove Pug [NFY]1x Marbled Minor2x Dark Arches1x Buff Ermine1x Willow Beauty1x Buff-tip2x Common Wainscot2x Flame1x Privet Hawk-moth1x Eyed Hawk-moth1x Grey Pug4x Common Footman1x Flame Shoulder2x Bright-line Brown-eye1x Heart & Club1x Fan-foot1x Nutmeg2x Dot Moth1x Clouded Brindle3x Treble Brown Spot1x Brimstone9x Uncertain4x Mottled Beauty5x Riband Wave1x Light Emerald3x Double Square-spot9x Heart & Dart5x Mottled RusticMicro Moths 1x Batia lunaris [NFY]1x Coleophora mayrella [NFY]2x Pandemis cerasana [NFY]2x Blastodacna hellerella [NFY]1x Lozotaenia forsterana [NFY]1x Argyresthia albistria [NFY]1x Gypsonoma dealbana [NFY]1x Phycita roborella [NFY]1x Spilonota ocellana [NFY]1x Udea prunalis4x Acleris schalleriana1x Aphelia paleana4x Udea olivalis2x Aphomia sociella3x Aleimma loeflingiana2x Tortrix viridana1x Crambus pascuella6x Chrysoteuchia culmella3x Ditula angustiorana2x Eurrhypara hortulata1x Hedya pruniana2x Celypha striana2x Epiblema uddmanniana4x Celypha lacunana1x Archips podana3x Scoparia ambigualis1x Epiphyas postvittana1x Ephestia parasitella unicolorella2x Dipleurina lacustrata3x Emmelina monodactyla
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Hobro
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Gladsaxe Municipality, Hovedstaden, Denmark
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Hobro, Jylland, Danmark
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Gladsaxe Municipality, Hovedstaden, Denmark
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13th July 2013: Broxbourne Wood, Hertfordshire13th July 2013: Broxbourne Wood, HertfordshireI am not sure if it was the phenomenally hot day on Saturday, with temperatures reaching 30 degrees Celsius, or the fact that this trip was to one of the county hot-spots for all things ecological, but we did have a staggering 27 people turn up for the Herts Moth Group trip to Broxbourne Wood National Nature Reserve on 13th July 2013. The West Car Park was completely filled; at one point a police car nosed in, looked, probably thought we were a bunch of weirdos and immediately drove off having turned on his blue lights! In addition to myself, five other people had brought traps and so, as darkness approached, we made use of the fact that the wood has a long and straight ride up the middle; traps were loaded into my Landrover and dropped off at intervals along the ride where they were set up by their owners. In all we ended up with 10 lights here, stretched over a linear distance of 700 metres but, of course, dipping into the sides and various clearings. I confess that I was rather lazy and only one of these (the furthest from the car park) was mine, but as it turned out we really did not need the other five I had in the vehicle. Once these lights were fired up, I also set up a sheet on the side of the Landrover in the West Car Park. People were then free to wander along the trap line and/or stay at the sheet and see what came in.Almost immediately, the moths started coming and they were still coming as the last four of us packed up the last trap at just after 3 am (most people having left in stages between midnight and about 2 am). I am pretty sure that if we had stayed another hour until daybreak we could easily have added a dozen or more further species to the list, but as it is we had to make do with a total of 208 moth species! Very recently, I was moaning that hundred nights were a thing of the past (and of course, when moth-ers talk of hundred nights they mean 100 macros). Well our macro total on Saturday night was 116 species. The astute will realise that this means we had 92 species of micro, but to my knowledge there are at least 3 further species awaiting dissection and it is possible that when this list appears that someone will e-mail me with others that I have overlooked. There are some rather good moths for Hertfordshire in the list use the Herts Moth Book (or if you are under 50, the web site) to look them up. In number order, I might perhaps suggest you look up, amongst others, 397: Glyphipterix thrasonella (rare in the county); 1088: Pseudosciaphila branderiana (very local); 1449: Elegia similella (nationally scarce); 1494: Capperia britanniodactyla (last recorded in the county at this site); 1771a: Thera cupressata Cypress Carpet (recent colonist first county record was in 2006); 1943: Hypomecis roboraria Great Oak Beauty (extremely local we had several in the traps and at the sheet); 2039: Atolmis rubricollis Red-necked Footman (almost certainly part of the recent immigration we had 6). Two species, in the form of 0926: Phalonidia manniana and 1375: Ostrinia nubilalis have recently been split into two species each we have retained specimens but not yet looked at these critically. It was good to have both Aethes cnicana and Aethes rubigana so they could be compared and there were other species pairs too, which made the evening informative as well as fun (e.g., Clouded Brindle and Clouded Bordered-brindle). Happily, the numbers of individuals of each species appear to have resumed a near normal setting, although there were singles of just a few species. There were several Satin Beauties, mostly in my trap at the far end of the line and at the end of the session around 2.30 am. Here too, I am told by others, Violet Ground Beetles (Carabus violaceus) were making off with large numbers of Leopard Moths that had not made it all the way to the safety of the trap! Good numbers of Great Oak Beauty emphasise the nature of the woodland habitat at Broxbourne.Those marked with an asterisk (*) have been named by genitalia dissection. Thanks to all the trap operators who gave me lists of moths from their traps throughout the course of the evening. Please tell me if I missed anything.C.W.PlantBelow I have listed the species that were present in my traps.As the group was spread out, my traps got different species to what the others got, the best species by far were 2 scarce Map-winged Swifts that came to the Actinic.Also the rare micros wee very pleasing to see in my traps.12/07/13 Broxbourne Woods - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 160w MBT Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Trap run from 9.45pm until 3.00amGhost MothMap-winged SwiftTischeria ekebladellaLeopard MothCaloptilia alchimiellaArgyresthia goedartellaScythropia crataegellaYponomeuta evonymellaParaswammerdamia nebulella [NEW!] Cedestis gysseleniella [NEW!]Prays fraxinellaPlutella xylostella Ypsolopha ustellaColeophora flavipennellaBatia unitellaCarcina quercanaPseudatemelia flavifrontella [NEW!]Parachronistis albiceps [NEW!]Teleiodes vulgellaTeleiodes luculellaBlastodacna hellerellaPhalonidia mannianaAgapeta hamanaAethes cnicanaCochylis atricapitanaPandemis cerasana Pandemis heparana Archips podana Archips xylosteana Lozotaeniodes formosanus Epagoge grotiana Ditula angustioranaPseudargyrotoza conwaganaCnephasia asseclana*Aleimma loeflingianaTortrix viridanaSpatalistis bifasciana [NEW!]Celypha lacunanaHedya prunianaHedya nubiferanaHedya salicellaApotomis turbidanaAncylis achatana Zeiraphera isertanaEpiblema uddmannianaEucosma canaEucosma obumbratanaSpilonota ocellanaRhyacionia pinivoranaChrysoteuchia culmellaCrambus lathoniellusCatoptria pinellaDipleurina lacustrataEurrhypara hortulataPerinephela lancealisUdea prunalisUdea olivalis Endotricha flammealis Phycita roborellaEphestia parasitellaCapperia britanniodactyla [NEW!]Pterophorus pentadactylaAdaina microdactylaDrinkerPebble Hook-tipPeach BlossomBuff ArchesFigure of EightyBlotched EmeraldCommon EmeraldClay Triple-linesBlood-veinLeast CarpetSmall Fan-footed WaveTreble Brown SpotRiband WaveSilver-ground CarpetCommon CarpetBarred StrawCommon Marbled CarpetBarred YellowBlue-bordered CarpetGrey Pine Carpet July HighflyerSmall RivuletFoxglove PugWormwood PugCurrant PugGrey PugGreen PugDouble-striped PugSmall White WaveSmall Yellow WaveClouded BorderTawny-barred AngleBrown Silver-lineBordered BeautyLilac BeautySwallow-tailed MothPeppered MothWillow BeautyMottled BeautySatin Beauty [NEW!]Great Oak BeautyPale Oak BeautyEngrailedBrindled White-spotBordered WhiteCommon White WaveCommon WaveClouded SilverLight EmeraldBarred RedPoplar Hawk-mothElephant Hawk-mothBuff-tipLobster MothIron ProminentPebble ProminentMaple ProminentPale ProminentYellow-tailRosy FootmanRed-necked FootmanScarce FootmanBuff FootmanCommon FootmanBuff ErmineShort-cloaked MothHeart and ClubFlameFlame ShoulderLarge Yellow UnderwingIngrailed ClayDouble Square-spotSmoky WainscotMinor Shoulder-knotPoplar GreyMillerGrey DaggerBird's WingSmall Angle ShadesDark ArchesLight ArchesClouded-bordered BrindleClouded BrindleDusky BrocadeRufous Minor*Tawny Marbled MinorSmall Dotted BuffUncertainMarbled White SpotScarce Silver-linesOak NycteolineBurnished BrassBeautiful Golden YSpectacleBeautiful Hook-tipStraw DotSnoutFan-footSmall Fan-foot
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Hobro, Jylland, Danmark
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Cradley, Malvern, Worcs. SO7347
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Hobro, Jylland, Danmark
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Hobro, Jylland, Danmark
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Hobro, Jylland, Danmark
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Hobro, Jylland, Danmark