What a night! With the MV Robinson Trap back in action, it was time to see what graced the trap come Monday morning. I was pretty darned pleased to say the least, there were literally loads of moths. Unfortunately the birds still beat me to a few of the bigger moths.

I got up at 6 to find a year first Swallow-tailed Moth wings, but luckily the best was in the trap! Nearly 200 moths last night with 22 New species for the year...probably a record catch for the garden. Again mostly micros but it was certainly a Wave night with Small Dusty, Common White, Riband, Small Fan-footed, Dwarf Cream, Treble Brown Spot and Single-dotted Wave!

Elephant Hawk-moth, Haworths Pug, Dingy Shears and Epagoge grotiana were pick of the bunch. But best of all, both of the micros Argyresthia cupressella and Swammerdamia caesiella were new ones for me.

Argyresthia cupressella if correct will be the 4th County record for Hertfordshire.

All these new ones suddenly sees me at 240 species for the year though still some way to beat 385 species I had last year, still things are still possible as out of the 240 species so far this year an amazing 36 species have been new for the garden

I had a night off last night as it had teamed it down for a few hours before darkness and the vegetation was sopping.

Catch Report - 21/06/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Common Emerald [NFY] 1x Swallow-tailed Moth [NFY] 1x Haworth's Pug [NFY] 1x Light Arches [NFY] 1x Elephant Hawk-moth [NFY] 1x Dingy Shears [NFY] 2x Barred Yellow [NFY] 1x Small Fan-footed Wave [NFY] 1x Single-dotted Wave [NFY] 1x Clay [NFY] 3x Marbled Minor 2x Dwarf Cream Wave 1x Small Dusty Wave 7x Treble Brown Spot 5x Dark Arches 2x Willow Beauty 2x Common White Wave 1x Common Pug 2x Green Pug 2x Buff-tip 1x Buff Ermine 1x Beautiful Hook-tip 1x Common Wainscot 1x Flame 1x Cabbage Moth 1x Double-striped Pug 2x Peppered Moth 2x Grey Pug 6x Common Footman 3x Flame Shoulder 1x Bright-line Brown-eye 2x Heart & Club 2x Fan-foot 3x Dot Moth 1x Brimstone 22x Uncertain 6x Mottled Beauty 3x Riband Wave 4x Light Emerald 4x Double Square-spot 29x Heart & Dart 19x Mottled Rustic 1x Vine's Rustic 1x Snout

Micro Moths

1x Argyresthia cupressella [NEW!] 1x Swammerdamia caesiella [NEW!] 2x Scythropia crataegella [NFG] 1x Ancylis achatana [NFG] 1x Argyresthia goedartella [NFY] 1x Yponomeuta evonymella [NFY] 1x Carcina quercana [NFY] 2x Oegoconia sp [NFY] 1x Epagoge grotiana [NFY] 1x Hypsopygia costalis [NFY] 1x Pterophorus pentadactyla [NFY] 1x Argyresthia pruniella [NFY] 3x Phycita roborella 1x Phyllonorycter coryli 2x Udea prunalis 1x Agapeta hamana 1x Endotricha flammealis 1x Coleophora sp 5x Udea olivalis 3x Aphomia sociella 7x Aleimma loeflingiana 3x Tortrix viridana 15x Chrysoteuchia culmella 2x Ditula angustiorana 1x Eurrhypara hortulata 3x Hedya pruniana 1x Celypha striana 3x Epiblema uddmanniana 2x Celypha lacunana 1x Archips podana 5x Scoparia ambigualis 2x Epiphyas postvittana 1x Dipleurina lacustrata