Two cracking recent catches Hello all. I have been a bit lazy this last week and haven't posted my recent catches from Wednesday night and Friday night, and boy were they pleasing catches indeed. The weather has been dire lately with heavy rain during the day and night but still pretty warm with daytime temperatures up to 23 degrees and lows of 14, the moths didn't seem to mind the rain deluge that we've had.

We even seemed to escape all of these dreadful electrical storms that other people around the Country have been experiencing.

There were 9 new species from Wednesday night and 16! new species found on Friday night.

Good species included Satin Beauty and Strophedra sp, which will be dissected. Gothic was a new addition to my garden list. It was also great to see Lobster Moth again after a two year absense.

This will be my last post for a week as I jet off for a mothing adventure to Southern France. I may have time to post some of my catches from there as the week progresses, really looking forward to it and I have a target of seeing 300 species in 5 nights.

Catch Report - 22/06/16 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

Beautiful Hook-tip 1 [NFY] Buff Arches 1 [NFY] Freyer's Pug 2 [NFY] Satin Beauty 1 [NFY] Brimstone 1 Clouded Border 1 Clouded Silver 1 Common Pug 3 Common Swift 2 Common Wainscot 1 Double-striped Pug 1 Garden Carpet 4 Green Pug 3 Green Silver-lines 2 Grey Pug 2 Heart & Club 2 Heart & Dart 12 Ingrailed Clay 2 Large Nutmeg 3 Marbled Minor 1 Mottled Rustic 4 Rustic Shoulder-knot 2 Silver-Y 1 Snout 1 Straw Dot 1 Treble Brown Spot 1 Willow Beauty 2 Yellow Shell 1

Micro Moths

Strophedra sp 1 [NFG] Ephestia parasitella sp 1 [NFY] Eudonia mercurella 1 [NFY] Oegoconia sp 1 [NFY] Teleiodes vulgella 1 [NFY] Aphomia sociella 1 Aleimma loeflingiana 2 Celypha lacunana 3 Celypha striana 4 Coleophora sp 1 Crambus lathoniellus 6 Hedya pruniana 2 Pandemis cerasana 1 Scoparia ambigualis 6 Tortrix viridana 5 Udea olivalis 2

Catch Report - 24/06/16 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

Gothic [NFG] Beautiful Golden-Y 1 [NFY] Buff-tip 1 [NFY] Buff Ermine 2 [NFY] Burnished Brass 2 [NFY] Clouded Brindle 1 [NFY] Common White Wave 2 [NFY] Elephant Hawk-moth 2 [NFY] Fern 1 [NFY] Lobster Moth 1 [NFY] Beautiful Hook-tip 1 Bright-line Brown-eye 2 Brimstone 1 Brown Rustic 1 Clouded Border 2 Common Footman 1 Common Marbled Carpet 2 Common Pug 2 Common Wainscot 1 Garden Carpet 2 Green Pug 2 Green Silver-lines 1 Grey Pug 1 Heart & Club 3 Heart & Dart 6 Ingrailed Clay 1 Large Nutmeg 1 Large Yellow Underwing 3 Mottled Beauty 3 Marbled Minor 2 Mottled Rustic 3 Mottled Pug 1 Pale Tussock 1 Riband Wave 2 Scorched Wing 1 Silver-Y 2 Snout 1 Straw Dot 2 Treble Brown Spot 2 Treble-lines 1 Uncertain 3 Willow Beauty 1 Yellow Shell 1

Micro Moths

Argyresthia cupressella 1 [NFY] Endothenia gentianaeana 1 [NFY] Eudonia pallida 1 [NFY] Lozotaenia forsterana 2 [NFY] Lyonetia clerkella 1 [NFY] Zeiraphera isertana 1 [NFY] Aphomia sociella 2 Aleimma loeflingiana 1 Argyresthia spinosella 1 Celypha lacunana 1 Celypha striana 1 Chrysoteuchia culmella 7 Crambus lathoniellus 2 Crambus perlella 1 Eudonia lacustrata 3 Hedya nubiferana 2 Hedya pruniana 1 Scoparia ambigualis 3 Tortrix viridana 2