Bovingdon Brickworks - Hemel Hempstead - Field Trip - 11/07/14 We went back to Bovingdon Brickworks on Friday in search of the Garden Tigers we found last year at around this time. Also seeing other people catching them up and down the Country last week spurred me on to go all out with 5 traps and cover as much area as we could. Using over 200 metres of cable the traps were spread out in a delta shape from the car park. The night started warm and muggy and once again I was plagued with horse-flies and proceeded to sit in the car until it got dark enough to avoid them! Once dark the full moon was very bright but luckily we had imminent cloud cover and by around 10pm the moon was completely obscured. It was quite a damp night though with a spooky mist surrounding each trap.

Best moth of the night was a Tiger (We didn't get any Garden Tiger's unfortunately) a rare one for the County, a Scarlet Tiger and about the 7th record for Hertfordshire. It could possibly be a wanderer as there seems to be a lot of migrant and wandering activity across the County at present which is great news for us moth'ers!

Other good Macro moths included plenty of Ruby Tigers, Millers, Bordered Sallows, Barred Hook-tip, and 8 Coronets. On the Micro moth front the best was probably Spilonota laricana, which was taken home to double-check, as Spilonota ocellana is very similiar and was much more common on the night.

Two plumes are still to check. The the odd looking Double Square-spot turned out to be just that.

There were literally hundreds of Chrysoteuchia culmella's and Eucosma hohenwartiana's coming to all of the traps, both easily numbering 300+ Lots and lots of Knapweed as far as the eye could see.

All be ready for a predicted heat wave next week, traps at the ready!

Catch Report - 11/07/14 - Bovingdon Brickworks - Hemel Hempstead - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 40w Lucent Suitcase Trap, 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Suitcase Trap.

85 Macros and 61 Micros ( 146 species)

Macro Moths

1x Barred Hook-tip 1x Barred Straw 1x Beautiful Golden-Y 2x Beautiful Hook-tip 6x Bordered Sallow 1x Bright-line Brown-eye 3x Brimstone Moth 2x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 3x Brown-line Bright-eye 1x Brown-tail 5x Buff Arches 3x Buff Ermine 10x Buff Footman 1x Burnished Brass 5x Clay 1x Cloaked Minor 5x Clouded Border 8x Clouded Silver 1x Common Carpet 2x Common Emerald 2x Common Footman 2x Common Rustic 1x Common Wave 2x Common White Wave 8x Coronet 15x Dark Arches 8x Dingy shears 3x Dot Moth 3x Double Square-spot 2x Double-striped Pug 5x Drinker 4x Dun-bar 1x Dusky Brocade 3x Elephant Hawk-moth 2x Engrailed 1x Fan-foot 4x Flame 2x Flame Shoulder 1x Garden Carpet 6x Green Pug 2x Grey Pug 1x Haworth's Pug 2x Heart & Club 2x Heart & Dart 6x July Highflyer 6x Large Yellow Underwing 1x Leopard Moth 1x Lesser Yellow Underwing 1x Light Arches 2x Light Emerald 3x Miller 5x Mottled Beauty 2x Mottled Rustic 3x Oak Nycteoline 1x Peach Blossom 1x Pebble Hook-tip 4x Peppered Moth 2x Poplar Grey 1x Poplar Hawk-moth 1x Purple Bar 5x Riband Wave 7x Ruby Tiger 4x Rustic 1x Scalloped Oak 2x Scarce Footman 2x Scarce Silver-lines 1x Scarlet Tiger [NEW!] 4x Setaceous Hebrew Character 5x Shaded Broad-bar 2x Shaded Pug 1x Single-dotted Wave 1x Slender Brindle 3x Small Elephant Hawk-moth 1x Small Fan-foot 2x Small Fan-footed Wave 2x Small Phoenix 2x Small Rivulet 10x Smoky Wainscot 3x Snout 1x Straw Dot 3x Swallow-tailed Moth 4x Uncertain 8x V-Pug 3x Vapourer Moth 1x Willow Beauty

Micro Moths

2x Blastobasis laticolella 5x Pleuroptya ruralis 10+ Agapeta hamana 2x Agapeta zoegana 2x Bryotropha terrella 1x Elachista canapennella 1x Acrobasis consociella 1x Aphomia sociella 3x Eurrhypara hortulata 300+ Chrysoteuchia culmella 2x Pandemis cerasana 5x Pandemis heparana 5x Celypha lacunana 1x Archips podana 1x Hedya pruniana 5x Hedya nubiferana 1x Hedya salicella 2x Acentria ephemerella 5x Aleimma loeflingiana 1x Eudonia mercurella 10x Cnephasia sp 2x Coleophora sp 1x Ditula angustiorana 20+ Crambus pascuella 1x Phycitodes binaevella 5x Dipleurina lacustrata 20+ Eucosma cana 2x Batia unitella 2x Acleris forsskaleana 1x Acleris hastiana 1x Aphelia paleana 300+ Eucosma hohenwartiana 10x Metzneria metzneriella 5x Epiblema uddmanniana 1x Rhopobota naevana 1x Carcina quercana 3x Brachmia blandella 1x Oegoconia sp 1x Pterophorus pentadactyla 8x Pyrausta purpuralis 1x Euzophera pinguis 1x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 3x Endotricha flammealis 2x Plutella xylostella 3x Cochylis atricapitana 2x Orthopygia glaucinalis 5x Spilonota ocellana 1x Spilonota laricana 1x Epiblema foenella 1x Hypsopygia costalis 8x Crambus perlella 1x Emmelina monodactyla 3x Eucosma campoliliana 2x Aethes rubigana 1x Aethes cnicana 1x Batia lunaris 1x Udea olivalis 1x Eudonia pallida 1x Archips xylosteana 10+ Celypha striana 5x Scoparia ambigualis