Field Trip - Bramfield Park Woods - 23/06/19

A cracker of a night was had at Bramfield Park Woods on Sunday night, with 3 traps run 50m apart and a further one MV trap run in a different part of the wood. The day was cloudy and warm, upto 24 degrees and the evening looked spot on for a good session.

As always something just had to put that doubt in my mind, as I finished setting up my traps, it started spitting! and the sky looked extremely angry and storm like... plastic bags over the electrics and rain covers on the traps ASAP, it was like some sort of military operation!

Thankfully, those spots of rain came to nothing, it was a little breezy in certain places around the wood, but 3 out of 4 of the traps were tucked away nicely out of the wind, and with complete cloud cover...what else could go wrong.

It didn't take long to get in a muddle with writing the moths down, as they arrived in quick succession, and the interesting and more unusual moths were potted up as a priority, quite hard to do when you are getting bombed by so many moths. There must have easily been 300 moths per trap, plus all of the ones sitting in the grass and you are looking at upwards of 1500 moths. I ran the traps from 9:30pm until 2:30am where I was absolutely frazzled from tiredness. Driving home, the car temperature gauge confirmed why it was such a good night, 16 degrees is what it was at 3am! In total 194 species were recorded over 5 hours.

Big numbers of certain species were 25x Grey Arches, 35x Great Oak Beauty and over 100 Aleimma loeflingiana.

Species of note were 2x Beautiful Carpet (New for me), Ancylis diminutana, Apotomis capreana, Argyresthia pygmaeella (New for me), Cosmiotes stabilella, Epinotia fraternana (New for me), Euspilapteryx auroguttella, Pseudosciaphila branderiana (New for me) and Scoparia subfusca.

Here is the total list

Macro Moths : 93 species Micro Moths : 101 species

Total : 194 species

Catch Report - 23/06/19 - Bramfield Park Woods - Hertfordshire - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 250w MV Clear Robinson Trap & 1x 160w Mercury Blended Robinson Trap - 4 traps in total

Macro Moths

Barred Straw Barred Yellow Beautiful Carpet [NEW] Beautiful Hook-tip Bird's Wing Blood-vein Blotched Emerald Bordered White Bright-line Brown-eye Brimstone Moth Brindled White-spot Brown Rustic Brown Silver lines Buff Ermine Buff Footman Buff-tip Cinnabar Clay Triple-lines Clouded Border Clouded Brindle Clouded Silver Common Carpet Common Emerald Common Swift Common Wainscot Common Wave Common White Wave Coronet Dark Arches Double Square-spot Dun-bar Dusky Brocade Elephant Hawk-moth Engrailed Flame Shoulder Gold Swift Great Oak Beauty Green Carpet Green Pug Green Silver-lines Grey Arches Heart & Club Heart & Dart Ingrailed Clay Iron Prominent July Highflyer Large Nutmeg Large Yellow Underwing Leopard Moth Lesser Yellow Underwing Light Arches Light Emerald Lobster Moth Marbled Brown Marbled Minor Marbled White Spot Middle-barred Minor Minor Shoulder-knot Mottled Beauty Mottled Pug Orange Footman Pale Oak Beauty Pale Prominent Peach Blossom Peacock Moth Peppered moth Poplar Hawk-moth Poplar Lutestring Purple Clay Riband Wave Rosy Footman Rufous Minor Scarce Silver-lines Scorched wing Setaceous Hebrew Character Silver-ground Carpet Silver-Y Slender Pug Small Dotted Buff Small Fan-foot Small Fan-footed Wave Small White Wave Small Yellow Wave Smoky Wainscot Snout Straw Dot Tawny Marbled Minor Tawny-barred Angle Treble Brown Spot Uncertain Vine's Rustic White Ermine White-point

Micro Moths

Acleris notana/ferrugana Acleris schalleriana Acrobasis repandana Agapeta hamana Agonopterix arenella Aleimma loefligiana Anania hortulata Anania lancealis Ancylis diminutana Aphelia paleana Aphomia sociella Apotomis capreana Apotomis turbidana Archips craetagana Archips podana Archips xylosteana Argyresthia brockeella Argyresthia goedartella Argyresthia pruniella Argyresthia pygmaeella [NEW] Argyresthia retinella Assara terebrella Bactra sp Batia lunaris Blastobasis lacticolella Blastodacna hellerella Caloptilia alchimiella robustella Carcina quercana Carpatolechia fugitivella Celypha cespitana Celypha lacunana Chrysoteuchia culmella Clepsis consimiliana Cochylis atricapitana Cochylis nana Coleophora sp Cosmiotes stabilella Crambus lathoniellus Crambus pascuella Crassa unitella Cydia fagiglandana Cydia pomonella Ditula angustiorana Ectoedemia sp Elophila nymphaeata Emmetia marginea Epagoge grotiana Epermenia falciformis Ephestia sp Epinotia bilunana Epinotia demarniana Epinotia fraternana [NEW] Epinotia immundana Epinotia signatana Epinotia tedella Eucosma cana Eucosma hohenwartiana Eudonia lacustrata Euspilapteryx auroguttella Euzophera pinguis Exoteleia dodecella Gypsonoma dealbana Gypsonoma sociana Hedya nubiferana Hedya pruniana Hedya salicella Hypsopygia costalis Lathronympha strigana Metzneriana metzeriana Mompha ochraceella Morophaga choragella Nemophora deegerella Notocelia cynosbatella Notocelia roborana Notocelia trimaculana Notocelia uddmanniana Ostrinia nubilalis Pammene argyrana Pandemis cerasana Pandemis heparana Parachronistis albiceps Parornix sp Phtheochroa inopiana Phycita roborella Phyllonorycter coryli Plutella xylostella Prays fraxinella Pseudargyrotoza conwagana Pseudosciaphila branderiana [NEW] Ptherochroa inopiana Rhodophaea formosa Scoparia ambigualis Scoparia pyralella Scoparia subfusca Spilonota ocellana Stephensia brunnichella Syncopacma sp Teleoides luculella Teleoides vulgella Tortrix viridana