Field Trip - Bramfield Woods - 09/07/19

We returned to Bramfield Park Woods last Tuesday... well the other's did. My car broke down on the way, a mere mile away from the site, and so hoping my father-in-law would be able to fix it, he was called and on his way to rescue me. Unfortunately he wasn't quite fully equipped for the job, and so a trip back to Wheathampstead and then back again with a drill and some bolts to secure the intake pipe and luckily the car survived to live another day. I arrived at the site at 10:30pm and it was already dark under cloudy warm and humid conditions, the moths were everywhere and it took seconds for the moths to respond to each light as I fired them up, one after another. The temperature was still 24 degrees and not set to get below 17 all night, crazy... and yes it was a bit. With an estimated 1500 moths over 6 traps it was a busy night and we had to decide to start packing up at around 1am for fear of still being on site at 4am. I left at 2:45am and felt frazzled after the drama of earlier and the frantic action around the moth traps.

Below is the list, it's rather lengthy and features a mammoth 270 species, one of my highest species count in one night.

One moth was new to me (Acleris logiana) and another was my first Hertfordshire record and only my second ever record (Carpatolechia alburnella). Other ood species were, Gelechia nigra (4th County record, having caught the previous two from my garden), Capperia britanniodactyla, Kent Black Arches (3 examples( and Small Angle Shades (rare this end of Herts).

Here is the total list.

Macro Moths : 136 species Micro Moths : 134 species

Total : 270 species

Catch Report - 09/07/19 - Bramfield Park Woods - Hertfordshire - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 250w MV Clear Robinson Trap & 1x 160w Mercury Blended Robinson Trap - 4 traps in total + 3 extra traps provided by Trevor

Macro Moths

Barred Straw Barred Yellow Beautiful Carpet Beautiful Golden Y Beautiful Hook-tip Bird's Wing Black Arches Black neck Blotched Emerald Blood-vein Bordered White Brimstone Moth Bright-line Brown eye Brown line bright eye Brindled White spot Brown Rustic Brown Silver lines Buff Arches Buff Ermine Burnished Brass Buff Footman Buff-tip Cinnabar Clay Clay Triple-lines Clouded Border Clouded Brindle Clouded Silver Common Carpet Common Emerald Common Footman Common Swift Common Wainscot Common White Wave Common Wave Coronet Coxcomb Prominent Dark Arches Dingy Footman Double Square spot Double-striped Pug Dun-bar Dusky Brocade Double Square-spot Dwarf Cream Wave Elephant Hawk-moth Engrailed Fan foot Flame Shoulder Gold Swift Grey Arches Great Oak Beauty Green Carpet Green Pug Green Silver-lines Haworth's pug Heart & Club Heart & Dart Ingrailed Clay Iron Prominent July Highflyer Kent Black Arches Large Emerald Large Nutmeg Least Carpet Leopard Moth Large Yellow Underwing Lesser Yellow Underwing Light Arches Light Emerald Lobster Moth Maple Prominent Marbled Brown Marbled Minor sp Marbled White spot Middle-barred Minor Miller Minor Shoulder-knot Mottled Beauty Mottled Pug Oak Hook-tip Orange Footman Pale Oak Beauty Pale Prominent Peach Blossom Peppered moth Peacock Moth Poplar Hawk-moth Poplar Lutestring Privet Hawk-moth Pine Hawk-moth Pinion-streaked Snout Purple Clay Purple Thorn Red-necked Footman Riband Wave Round-winged Muslin Ruby Tiger Rosy Footman Rufous Minor Rustic Silver-Y Single-dotted Wave Scalloped Oak Scarce Footman Scarce Silver-lines Setaceous Hebrew Character Scorched wing Shaded Broad-bar Shoulder-striped Wainscot Silver-ground Carpet Slender Brindle Slender Pug Small Angle Shades Small Dotted Buff Small Fan-foot Small Fan-footed Wave Small White Wave Small Yellow Wave Smoky Wainscot Snout Straw Dot Swallow-tailed Moth Sycamore Tawny-barred Angle Tawny Marbled Minor Treble Brown Spot Vapourer Vine's Rustic V-pug White Ermine Willow Beauty Yellow tail White-point Uncertain Waved Black

Micro Moths

Acrobasis consociella Acleris forskaleana Acleris logiana Acrobasis repandana Agapeta hamana Agonopterix arenella Aleimma loefligiana Alucita hexadactyla Anacampsis blatteriella Anacampsis populella Anania hortulata Anania lancealis Anarsia innoxiella Ancylis diminutana Aphomia sociella Apotomis betuletana Apotomis capreana Apotomis turbidana Archips craetagana Acleris schalleriana Archips podana Acrobasis repandana Aphelia paleana Archips xylosteana Argyresthia conjugella Argyresthia goedartella Argyresthia brockeella Argyresthia pruniella Assara terebrella Athrips mouffetella Blastodacna hellerella Bactra sp Batia lunaris Batrachedra praeangusta Blastobasis lacticolella Brachmia blandella Brown China Mark Caloptilia alchimiella/robustella Calomotropha paludella Capperia britanniodactyla Carcina quercana Carpatolechia alburnella Carpatolechia fugitivella Catoptria falsella Celypha cespitana Celypha lacunana Chrysoteuchia culmella Clepsis consimiliana Crambus lathoniellus Crassa unitella Cochylis atricapitana Cochylis nana Coleophora paripennella Coleophora sp Cydia fagiglandana Cydia pomonella Cydia splendana Ditula angustiorana Ectoedemia sp Elophila nymphaeata Epagoge grotiana Epermenia falciformis Ephestia sp Epinotia abbreviana Epinotia bilunana Epinotia brunnichana Epinotia demarniana Epinotia fraternana Epinotia immundana Epinotia signatana Epinotia tedella Emmetia marginea Eucosma cana Eucosma obumbratana Eucosma hohenwartiana Euspilapteryx auroguttella Exoteleia dodecella Euzophera pinguis Eudonia lacustrata Eudonia pallida Gelechia nigra Gypsonoma dealbana Gypsonoma sociana Hedya nubiferana Hedya pruniana Hedya salicella Hypsopygia costalis Homo sinnuella Lathronympha strigana Limnaecia phragmitrella Lobesia abscisana Marasma lunaedactyla Metzneria lappella Metzneria metzneriella Mompha ochraceella Morophaga choragella Notocelia cynosbatella Notocelia trimaculana Notocelia uddmanniana Parachronistis albiceps Pandemis cerasana Pandemis heparana Parachronistis albiceps Paraswammerdamia nebulella Parornix sp Phycita roborella Phycitodes binaevella Phyllonorycter coryli Plutella xylostella Prays fraxinella Pseudosciaphila branderiana Pseudargyrotoza conwagana Ptherochroa inopiana Recurvaria leucatella Rhodophaea formosa Scoparia ambigualis Scoparia pyralella Scoparia subfusca Scythropia crataegella Spilonota ocellana Stephensia brunnichella Swammerdamia caesiella Syncopacma sp Teleoides luculella Teleoides vulgella Tinea semifulvella Tortrix viridana Udea olivalis Udea prunalis Yponomeuta evonymella Yponomeuta padella/malinellus Ypsolpha ustella Ypsolpha dentella