Hemel Hempstead Field Trip - 26/06/13

Last night Roger and myself made a trip to Gadesprings to setup 3 traps and then went onto Roughdown Common again. We set one light up next to the chalk pit (MV) and ran a cable through the trees towards the road and positioned the Actinic within a clearing in the wood. The weather was pretty much perfect, though a little cooler than our previous trip here, the sky did clear slightly and the temperature on my was home did dip to 9c. The moths were quick to respond and we were netting lots as they were coming in. The species were mainly singletons albeit apart from several species such as Grey Pug, Heart & Dart, Light Emerald, Common Marbled Carpet, Common Carpet and Mottled Beauty. Shears was nice to see in good numbers aswell. Best Macro moths were probably Coronet and Haworth's Pug, the former becoming a regular nowadays in the West of Hertfordshire. Gadesprings did not fair so good again when we checked the traps at 2am with very little n any of them, but we did get a Miller which was nice. The suspected Triple-spotted Clay, after checking the underneath of the forewings turned out to be a Double Square-spot. The Caloptilia was indeed syringella. Roger did a good spot for the Haworth's Pug. Numbers of species are approximate.

99 species total 86 species at Roughdown Common (61 Macro - 25 Micro) 52 species at Gadesprings (40 Macro - 12 Micro) 13 extra species at Gadesprings [] = Only at Gadesprings

01/07/13 - Roughdown Common - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Trap run from 10.00pm until 1.45am

Macro Moths

1x Haworth's Pug 1x Mottled Pug 1x Cinnabar 1x Dot Moth 4x Heart & Club 1x Setaceous Hebrew Character 1x Middle-barred Minor 1x Common Wainscot 2x Large Nutmeg 1x Coronet 1x Grey-pine Carpet 2x Mottled Rustic 1x Small Phoenix 3x Uncertain 2x Clouded Brindle 5x Brown Rustic 1x Buff-tip 1x Light Arches 1x Clouded Border 2x Elephant Hawk-moth 2x Buff Ermine 1x Purple Bar 2x Common Wave 3x Green Pug 3x Common White Wave 4x Dark Arches 1x Burnished Brass 3x Ingrailed Clay 1x Orange Footman 1x Peach Blossom 1x Lobster Moth 8x Light Emerald 5x Shears 2x Scorched Wing 3x Peppered Moth 2x Marbled White-spot 10x Heart & Dart 1x Flame 5x Flame Shoulder 1x Riband Wave 5x Buff Arches 2x Snout 4x Double Square-spot 5x Clouded Silver 10x Mottled Beauty 4x Beautiful Golden-Y 2x Willow Beauty 1x Fan-foot 3x Silver-ground Carpet 2x Ghost Moth 8x Common Marbled Carpet 5x Straw Dot 10x Grey Pug 1x Treble Brown Spot 8x Common Carpet 2x Green Carpet 2x Brimstone Moth 1x Common Swift 1x Yellow Shell 3x Marbled Minor 1x Tawny Marbled Minor

Micro Moths

2x Celypha lacunana 2x Prays fraxinella 5x Crambus lathoniellus 2x Hedya pruniana 8x Scoparia ambigualis 2x Scoparia pyralella 2x Aphomia sociella 10x Udea olivalis 1x Argyresthia spinosella 15x Pandemis cerasana 3x Epiblema trimaculana 5x Eucosma cana 10x Tortrix viridana 2x Chrysoteuchia culmella 4x Metzneria metzneriella 1x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1x Nomophila noctuella 1x Tinea semifulvella 1x Spilonota ocellana 1x Archips podana 2x Eucosma campoliliana 1x Cnephasia sp 1x Agapeta zoegana 1x Eucosma hohenwartiana 1x Blastodacna hellerella

01/07/13 - Gadesprings, Hemel Hempstead - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 22w/26w Actinic/Blacklight set-up & 1x 160w MBT Trap run from 9.30pm until 2.00am (125w run until dawn)

Macro Moths

1x Single-dotted Wave [] 1x Flame 2x Uncertain 1x Miller [] 1x Common Wainscot 1x Rustic Shoulder-knot [] 2x Shears 2x Snout 2x Straw Dot 1x Garden Carpet [] 1x Common Swift 1x Burnished Brass 2x Light Emerald 1x Buff Arches 2x Buff Ermine 1x Buff-tip 1x White Ermine [] 1x Common Wave 1x Common White Wave 1x Small Square-spot [] 2x Elephant Hawk-moth 1x Willow Beauty 1x Clouded Border 3x Ingrailed Clay 4x Cinnabar 6x Heart & Dart 4x Heart & Club 3x Peppered Moth 2x Dark Arches 2x Common Marbled Carpet 1x Middle-barred Minor 1x Pale Prominent [] 2x Mottled Beauty 2x Ghost Moth 2x Light Arches 2x Marbled Minor 3x Beautiful Golden-Y 1x Flame 1x Burnished Brass 2x Bright-line Brown-eye []

Micro Moths

1x Endrosis sarcitrella [] 1x Nematopogon schwarziellus [] 2x Crambus pascuella 1x Chrysoteuchia culmella 2x Pandemis cerasana 2x Udea olivalis 1x Mompha ochraceella [] 1x Elachista maculicerusella [] 2x Eucosma cana 2x Scoparia ambigualis 2x Celypha lacunana