(1837) Grey Pug (Eupithecia subfuscata) (5765873414)

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Catch Report - 25/05/11 - Farmland Had another amazing catch awaiting me this morning at 5am, with 3 traps running and mild conditions it seemed perfect whilst setting up, although after a few hours the sky cleared and a chill was in the air. about 5.30am the wind really picked up and the sky looked ever menacing, but luckily the rain held off for long enough to check the catch, and what a catch, there was literally 100's of moths everywhere inside and out, every egg tray was full both sides of different species including a massive haul of 220 Nutmeg's! and 124 Rustic Shoulder-knot's. Also I added 5 new species to my list, including a single Shears, a moth i've struggled to locate in the past 4 years. Most interesting though was a tiny longhorn micro moth called Adela croesella which i'm pretty sure is the correct id for this moth. I will be taking to show the Herts County recorder tomorrow. This being only the 2nd ever record for this species (funnily enough the first was a day ago, so I was beaten to a County first by one day hehe) Catch Report - 25/05/11 - 2x 125w MV Robinson Traps and 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap, all with white sheets underneath and positioned either on flat grass or concrete. Macro Moths 16x Common Swift 1x Ghost Moth 4x Blood-vein 1x Small Dusty Wave 3x Treble Brown Spot 18x Silver-ground Carpet 2x Common Carpet 1x Common Marbled Carpet 1x Green Carpet 12x Common Pug 4x Grey Pug 1x Brindled Pug 6x Latticed Heath 4x Scorched Wing 1x Peppered Moth 7x Clouded Silver 3x Light Emerald 2x Poplar Hawk-moth 1x Iron Prominent 1x Pebbled Prominent 1x Swallow Prominent 1x Pale Tussock 2x Orange Footman 1x Cinnabar 3x White Ermine 1x Buff Ermine 2x Turnip Moth 68x Heart & Dart 6x Shuttle-shaped Dart 4x Flame 7x Flame Shoulder 5x Ingrailed Clay 42x Setaceous Hebrew Character 220x Nutmeg 1x Shears [NEW] 1x Hebrew Character 12x Common Wainscot 3x Shoulder-striped Wainscot 3x Brown Rustic 2x Angle Shades 4x Large Nutmeg 124x Rustic Shoulder-knot 6x Marbled Minor 1x Middle-barred Minor 10x Treble Lines 3x Uncertain 5x Vine's Rustic 4x Mottled Rustic 1x Green Silver-lines 3x Burnished Brass 1x Straw Dot 1x Snout Micro Moths 1x Adela croesella [NEW] - County 2nd record 1x Elachista argentella [NEW] 2x Epiblema cynosbatella 1x Deltaornix torquillella 1x micro id? [NEW] 1x Tortrix id? [NEW] 2x Blastobasis lacticolella 1x Argyresthia sp. 1x Brown House-moth Hofmannophila pseudospretella 1x Paraswammerdamia albicapitella 11x Celypha lacunana 1x Scoparia ambigualis 1x White-shouldered House Moth Endrosis sarcitrella 12x Small Magpie Eurrhypara hortulata 2x Cochylis atricapitana 2x Bee Moth Aphomia sociella 39x Udea olivalis 1x Celypha striana 3x Agapeta hamana 8x Plum Tortrix Hedya pruniana 29x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 3x Crambus pascuella