Herts Moth Group Field Trip - Bovingdon Brickworks - 23/07/16 On Saturday night the Herts Moth Group assembled at Bovingdon Brickworks ready to see what moths would turn up at this fantastic site owned by the Boxmoor Trust.

Bovingdon Brickworks is situated about a mile South-West of Bovingdon village and is still very much active today with Bovingdon Bricks selling all manor of Bricks for industrial and commercial needs. In 2000, the Boxmoor Trust was gifted 40 acres of land at the old workings site of Bovingdon Brickworks, to be managed as a conservation area. Since then the site has seen an important area for all types of wildlife and is always an interesting location to trap moths. Saturday was no different. We set up a total of 8 lights spread across the lower field and into the woods and on the edge of the disused brick pits. Many of the people that turned up to help set the equipment up and study the moths had never been here before, and it was a pleasure showing them how special this site is.

We ran our lights until about 2am and it took a good hour to pack away, in fact I didn't arrive home until nearly 4am! Well worth the effort though as we managed some incredible records for the site.

We didn't managed to see our target species, Garden Tiger. Which was a shame but nevertheless there were some lovely local species that did turn up as compensation. Species such as Barred Rivulet, Gem, Bordered Pug and Tree-lichen Beauty.

There is still a Pug species to confirm and a few micro's to sort out but 213 species is what we are at at the moment which is pretty fantastic and my highest amount of species so far this year.

Catch Report - 23/07/16 - Bovingdon Brickworks - 3x 125w MV Robinson Trap 1x 125w MV Tripod and heet 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap 1x Blacklight Blue Trap 1x 80w Actinic Briefcase Trap & 1x 40w Actinic/26w BLB Trap

Macro Moths - 113 Species

Angle Shades Barred Rivulet Barred Straw Beautiful Golden-Y Beautiful Hook-tip Bordered Pug Bordered Sallow Bright-line Brown-eye Brimstone Moth Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing Brown-line Bright-eye Buff Arches Buff Footman Burnished Brass Clay Clay Triple-lines Cloaked Minor Clouded Border Clouded Silver Common Carpet Common Emerald Common Footman Common Marbled Carpet Common Rustic Common Wainscot Common Wave Common White Wave Coronet Dark Arches Dark Umber Dingy Footman Dingy Shears Dot Moth Double Square-spot Double-striped Pug Dun-bar Ear Moth Early Thorn Elephant Hawk-moth Engrailed Fan-foot Flame Flame Shoulder Foxglove Pug Garden Carpet Gem Green Pug Grey Dagger Haworth's Pug Heart & Dart Iron Prominent July Highflyer Large Twin-spot Carpet Large Yellow Underwing Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing Lesser Yellow Underwing Light Arches Light Emerald Lobster Moth Lunar-spotted Pinion Maiden's Blush Marbled Minor Miller Mottled Beauty Mottled Rustic Nut-tree Tussock Oak Nycteoline Peach Blossom Pebble Prominent Peppered Moth Poplar Grey Poplar Hawk-moth Red Twin-spot Carpet Riband Wave Ruby Tiger Rustic Scallop Shell Scalloped Oak Scarce Footman Shaded Broad-bar Shuttle-shaped Dart Silver-Y Single-dotted Wave Slender Brindle Slender Pug Small Angle Shades Small Blood-vein Small Emerald Small Fan-foot Small Fan-footed Wave Small Phoenix Small Rivulet Small Waved Umber Small Yellow Wave Smoky Wainscot Snout Spectacle Straw Dot Straw Underwing Suspected Svensson's Copper Underwing Swallow Prominent Swallow-tailed Moth Sycamore Tawny Marbled Minor Tree-lichen Beauty Uncertain V-Pug White-spotted Pug Willow Beauty Yellow Shell Yellow-barred Brindle Yellow-tail

Micro Moths - 100 Species

Acentria ephemerella Acleris laterana Acleris notana/ferrugana Acrobasis advenella Acrobasis consociella Aethes cnicana Agapeta hamana Agapeta zoegana Agonopterix kaekeritziana Agriphila straminella Anania hortulata Aphomia sociella Aproaerema anthllidella Archips podana Archips xylosteana Batia lunaris Batrachedra praeangusta Blastobasis adustella Blastobasis lacticolella Bryotropha terrella Bucculatrix nigricomella Caloptilia alchimiella/robustella Caloptilia stigmatella Carcina quercana Catoptria falsella Catoptria pinella Celypha cespitana Celypha lacunana Celypha rosaceana Celypha striana Chrysoteuchia culmella Clepsis consimilana Cnephasia sp Cochylimorpha straminea Cochylis atricapitana Cochylis roseana Coleophora sp (white) Crambus pascuella Crambus perlella Crassa unitella Cydia fagiglandana Cydia pomonella Cydia splendana Dioryctria abietella Ditula angustiorana Endothenia gentianaeana Endotricha flammealis Ephestia parasitella Epiblema foenella Eucosma cana Eucosma conterminana Eucosma hohenwartiana Eudonia lacustrata Eudonia mercurella Eudonia pallida Euzophora pinguis Grapholita janthinana Gypsonoma dealbana Gypsonoma sociana Hedya nubiferana Hedya pruniana Hofmannophila pseudospretella Hypsopygia costalis Hypsopygia glaucinalis Limnaecia phragmitella Lobesia abscisana Metzneria lappella Mompha ochraceella Monochroa palustrella Monopis crocicapitella [NEW!] Monopis weaverella Notocelia uddmanniana Oncocera semirubella Pammene aurita Pammene fasciana Pandemis cerasana Pandemis heparana Paraswammerdamia nebulella Phycita roborella Phycitodes binaevella Pleuroptya ruralis Plutella xylostella Pseudargyrotoza conwagana Pterophorus pentadactyla Ptycholomoides aeriferanus Pyrausta aurata Pyrausta purpuralis Recurvaria leucatella Scoparia ambigualis Scoparia pyralella Spilonota ocellana Strophedra sp Swammerdamia pyrella Syncopacma sp Udea prunalis Yponomeuta evonymella Ypsolopha dentella Ypsolopha parenthesella Ypsolopha ustella