Latest from the traps. Wednesday night was quite warm and muggy and was a good catch for the garden trap with several excellent species.

It was nice to record the other BLBE, Brown-line Bright-eye, only a second garden record and last seen in 2014.

But the big surprise was recording 4 new species for the garden taking the moth species total of the garden in 5 years to 618 species, phenomenal.

Fen Wainscot being the best, a typically common species in wetland habitat but with the warm weather these damper speciality moths disperse.

Also the year first Square-spot Rustic was one of my earliest ever records and it was ridiculously tiny as well.

The weather from Sunday is set to get warm again and lasting into the middle of next week so the trap will be out to take advantage of this.

Catch Report - 12/07/17 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Fen Wainscot [NFG] 1x Brown-line Bright-eye [NFY] 1x Buff Footman [NFY] 1x Dingy Footman [NFY] 1x Large Twin-spot Carpet [NFY] 1x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing [NFY] 1x Maple Pug [NFY] 1x Ruby Tiger [NFY] 1x Satin Beauty [NFY] 1x Small Rivulet [NFY] 1x Square-spot Rustic [NFY] 1x Beautiful Hook-tip 2x Bright-line Brown-eye 1x Clouded Border 3x Common Footman 5x Common Rustic 6x Dark Arches 4x Dot Moth 2x Double Square-spot 1x Early Thorn 1x Elephant Hawk-moth 2x Heart & Dart 1x Latticed Heath 5x Least Carpet 1x Lesser Yellow Underwing 1x Maiden's Blush 1x Mottled Beauty 1x Mottled Rustic 3x Nut-tree Tussock 1x Pale Prominent 1x Poplar Hawk-moth 1x Purple Thorn 7x Riband Wave 1x Rustic 2x Scalloped Oak 1x Scorched Carpet 1x September Thorn 2x Silver-Y 2x Slender Brindle 2x Small Fan-footed Wave 2x Smoky Wainscot 7x Uncertain 2x Yellow-tail

Micro Moths

1x Bryotropha senectella [NFG] 1x Phyllonorycter maestingella [NFG] 1x Rhyacionia pinicolana [NFG] 1x Agapeta hamana [NFY] 1x Agriphila straminella [NFY] 1x Cochylis hybridella [NFY] 1x Ypsolopha sequella [NFY] 1x Acleris forsskaleana 1x Alucita hexadactyla 1x Aphomia sociella 1x Coleophora sp 2x Celypha striana 1x Emmelina monodactyla 7x Endotricha flammealis 5x Eudonia lacustrata 4x Eudonia mercurella 2x Carcina quercana 3x Chrysoteuchia culmella 4x Pleuroptya ruralis 1x Pyrausta aurata