Bramfield Park Woods by day and night - 23/05/19

Bramfield sweeping sessions are still doing the business during the daytime and at dusk, as well as good catches during the small hours. Thursday's trip was no different with another large selection of moths recorded to all of our traps.

We decided this time to focus on the South-West portion of Bramfield Woods, Bramfield Park Woods is a slightly different habitat with less mature trees, but with a damper woodland emphasis and many different species of grasses, with a large area of Wild Raspberry, Brambles and also Dog Rose in profusion.

The day had been very warm with highs of 23 degrees and dominant muggy cloud cover, which thinned out as we approached dusk, we really have been unlucky so far this year with the amount of cooler clear skies we've had to endure. 2 hours in, the sky was completely clear.

The daytime finds rewarded me personally with two new species of UK Moth.

Both Glyphipterix fuscoviridella and Roeslerstammia erxlebella were found tapping Bramble and Wild Rose, incredible as you just never know what might turn up.

The night trapping fared rather well, but it was a little slow at times with numbers of moths, but we did rack up a considerable species list for the end of May, and nearly knocking on the 100 species mark!

55 Macro and 37 Micro species recorded.

There are still a few species pending, including two interesting tiny Ectoedemia species (TBC) Total : 92 species

An incredible 43 species were added to the site list which now stands at 204 species for 2019.

Catch Report - 23/05/19 - Hertfordshire - 1x 250w Clear MV Robinson Trap, 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x twin 20w Wemite Actinic & 40w Actinic Trap & 1x 160w Mercury Blended Robinson Trap - 5 traps in total + 4 extra traps provided by Trevor and Bill

Macro Moths

Angle Shades Brimstone Moth Broken-barred Carpet Brown Silver-line Buff tip Cinnabar Clouded-bordered Brindle Common Carpet Common Marbled Carpet Common Swift Common Wave Coxcomb Prominent Cream Wave Dwarf Pug Flame Shoulder Foxglove Pug Green Carpet Green Silver-lines Ingrailed Clay Iron Prominent Large Twin-spot Carpet Latticed Heath Least Black Arches Lesser Swallow Prominent Light Emerald Lime Hawk-moth Maiden's Blush Mottled Pug Nut-tree Tussock Oak Hook-tip Orange Footman Pale Oak Beauty Pale Prominent Pale Tussock Peacock Moth Pebble Hook-tip Pebble Prominent Poplar Hawk-moth Poplar Lutestring Red-green Carpet Red Twin-spot Carpet Rustic Shoulder-knot Scorched Wing Seraphim Setaceous Hebrew Character Silver-ground Carpet Small Phoenix Small White Wave Spruce Carpet Tawny-barred Angle Treble-bar Treble-lines Turnip Moth Yellow-barred Brindle White Ermine

Micro Moths

Agonopterix heracliana sp Ancylis mitterbacheriana Bucculatrix ulmella Caloptilia alchimiella Capua vulgana Carpatolechia proximella Celypha lacunana Cochylis atricapitana Cochylis nana Coleophora sp Coptoptriche marginea Ectoedemia sp x2 (TBC) Epinotia nanana Epinotia subocellana Epinotia tetraquetrana Eulia ministrana Glyphipterix forsterella Incurvaria masculella Incurvaria oehmanniella Nematopogon swammerdamella Nematopogon schwarziellus Monopis weaverella Nemophora deegerella Notocelia cynosbatella Notocelia trimaculana Ocnerostoma sp Pammene argyrana Parornix sp Plutella xylostella Pseudargyrotoza conwagana Scrobipalpa costella Scoparia pyralella Swammerdamia caesiella Syndemis musculana Teleoides luculella Tinea trinotella

Daytime

Macro Moths

Common Carpet Cream Wave Mother Shipton Small White Wave Speckled Yellow

Micro Moths

Adela reamurella Alabonia geoffrella Cauchas rufimitrella Crambus lathoniellus Glyphipterix forsterella Glyphipterix fuscoviridella Glyphipterix simpliciella Micropterix calthella Micropterix aruncella Parornix sp Ptycholoma lecheana Roeslerstammia erxlebella