Bramfield Woods - Field Trip

A debut session in the woods at Bramfield recently, was well worth it to add some early season records to the site list. I need to tote the site list up properly at some point. Best moths this week were at least 8 Lead-coloured Drabs, Oak Nycteoline and a female Diurnea fagella in copulation on a tree.

The weather has been mild during the day peaking at around 14c and only dropping to around 8-10c, but with a persistent South-west breeze and that shaved a few degrees of that temperature.

Below is the list that we managed on the trips.

Catch Report - Bramfield Woods - Central Herts - 17/03/20 - 6 traps - 1x 125w MV Trap, 1x 250w Clear MV Robinson Trap, 1x 250w MV Trap, 1x 160w MBT Trap, Led Skinner Trap and 40w u-tube + twin 20w Wemlite + 15w Actinic tube & 15w Synergetic tube Trap

Macro Moths

Brindled Pug 6 Chestnut 6 Clouded Drab 5 Common Quaker 15 Early Thorn 1 Engrailed 12 Hebrew Character 4 Lead-coloured Drab 8 Oak Beauty 4 Oak Nycteoline 1 March Moth 25 Satellite 2 Shoulder-stripe 3 Small Brindled Beauty 2 Small Quaker 50+ Twin-spotted Quaker 8 Yellow Horned 21

Micro Moths

Acleris notana/ferrugana 1 Agonopterix alstromeriana 1 Agonopterix heracliana 1 Diurnea fagella 50+ Dyseriocrania subpurpurella 1 Emmelina monodactyla 1