A day late posting for a rightful reason!

On Monday night I once again rigged the trap up on timer (early to bed for me at 9) and was quietly confident that I would get a pretty nice catch come the morning. The conditions were perfect if a little breezy, but with a minimum of 16 degrees, a little rain sometime in the night I couldn't have asked for better.

Getting up bleary eyed and rubbing my eyes I could not believe it! The trap was probably the fullest it has ever been in my 2 years of trapping here. Moths adorned most of the Perspex collar, and every hole of the egg boxes had at least one moth in it.

Macro Highlights were a second garden Small Ranunculus, new for garden Dingy Footman and Large Twin-spot Carpet and the trio Coxcomb, Maple and Pale Prominent.

Micros were headed by a first for me, the lovely marked Athrips mouffetella.

A slightly knackered Currant Pug which just would not lay flat and kept adorning a ‘Thorn-like’ posture… I didn’t record this species last year. Also a worn Epinotia abbreviana after much identifying was a garden first.

All the moths were pretty lively for their photo-shoots, well apart from a very dozy Pale Prominent.

66 Macros and with only 10 less species of Micros at 56, it really was a stonking night.

Tonight looks warm and muggy again, I can’t top this list surely!

Catch Report - 14/07/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Dingy Footman [NFG] 1x Large Twin-spot Carpet [NFG] 1x Small Ranunculus [NFY] 2x Black Arches [NFY] 3x Buff Footman [NFY] 2x Coxcomb Prominent [NFY] 1x Maple Prominent [NFY] 1x Pale Prominent [NFY] 1x Straw Underwing [NFY] 2x Yellow Shell [NFY] 1x Currant Pug [NFY] 4x Bright-line Brown-eye 2x Brimstone Moth 3x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 2x Buff Arches 2x Buff-tip 1x Burnished Brass 2x Clay 1x Cloaked Minor 1x Clouded Silver 11x Common Footman 9x Common Rustic 3x Common White Wave 7x Dark Arches 20x Dot Moth 3x Double Square-spot 2x Double-striped Pug 2x Dun-bar 1x Dwarf Cream Wave 1x Early Thorn 1x Elephant Hawk-moth 1x Engrailed 2x Fan-foot 1x Garden Carpet 1x Heart & Club 8x Heart & Dart 1x Herald 3x July Highflyer 1x Large Yellow Underwing 2x Lesser Yellow Underwing 3x Least Carpet 1x Light Arches 1x Marbled Minor 1x Mottled Rustic 1x Nut-tree Tussock 1x Oak Nycteoline 1x Pale Mottled Willow 1x Peppered Moth 1x Poplar Hawk-moth 1x Privet Hawk-moth 7x Riband Wave 2x Rustic 3x Scalloped Oak 3x Scarce Footman 1x Shaded Pug 1x Silver-Y 1x Single-dotted Wave 1x Small Blood-vein 4x Small Emerald 3x Small Fan-footed Wave 2x Smoky Wainscot 1x Spectacle 3x Swallow-tailed Moth 1x Snout 18x Uncertain 1x Willow Beauty 1x Yellow-tail

Micro Moths

1x Athrips mouffetella [NEW!] 1x Aethes rubigana [NFG] 1x Epinotia abbreviana [NFG] 1x Acleris hastiana [NFG] 1x Monochroa palustrella [NFG] 1x Morophaga choragella [NFG] 1x Pammene aurita [NFG] 1x Orthopygia glaucinalis [NFY] 1x Cochylis hybridella [NFY] 4x Blastobasis adustella [NFY] 2x Trachycera advenella [NFY] 2x Cydia splendana [NFY] 3x Phlyctaenia coronata [NFY] 1x Bryotropha affinis [NFY] 2x Tischeria ekebladella [NFY] 1x Ypsolopha dentella [NFY] 1x Batia unitella [NFY] 1x Pammene regiana 1x Bryotropha terrella 2x Eurrhypara hortulata 1x Agonopterix alstromeriana 1x Epiblema uddmanniana 2x Celypha striana 2x Aphomia sociella 1x Emmelina monodactyla 4x Yponomeuta evonymella 1x Epagoge grotiana 2x Acleris forsskaleana 1x Cnephasia sp 2x Plutella xylostella 2x Pleuroptya ruralis 2x Hofmannophila pseudospretella 1x Scrobipalpa acuminatella 3x Endotricha flammealis 1x Clepsis consimilana 9x Spilonota ocellana 1x Hypsopygia costalis 1x Oegoconia sp 1x Trachycera suavella 1x Zeiraphera isertana 2x Blastobasis lacticolella 1x Scoparia ambigualis 1x Phycita roborella 2x Udea prunalis 1x Pandemis heparana 1x Aphelia paleana 1x Endrosis sarcitrella 1x Ectoedemia decentella 5x Eudonia mercurella 2x Ditula angustiorana 1x Gypsonoma dealbana 1x Helcystogramma rufescens 1x Celypha lacunana 15x Chrysoteuchia culmella 2x Dipleurina lacustrata