Summary[edit] Description: Garden Trap 18-10-12 - Stevenage, Hertfordshire Another successful night back on Thursday with 4 new species for garden. That means that since the 17th of August I have managed to trap 76 Macro species and 54 Micro species, making a grand total of 130! and very pleasing so far. Best moth of the night was a single Mallow. With unsettled weather at the weekend I decided to have a break from trapping. Catch Report - 18-10-12 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap Macro Moths 1x Spruce Carpet [NFG] 1x Mallow [NFG] 1x November Moth agg [NFG] 1x Blair's Shoulder-knot [NFG] 1x Red-line Quaker 5x Yellow-line Quaker 1x Large Ranunculus 3x Setaceous Hebrew Character 2x Lesser Yellow Underwing 2x Green-brindled Crescent 1x Satellite 7x Chestnut Micro Moths 2x Light Brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana 1x Amblyptilia acanthadactyla 2x Acleris sparsana 1x Brown House-moth Hofmannophila pseudospretella. Date: 20 October 2012, 10:17. Source: [1769] Spruce Carpet (Thera britannica). Author: Ben Sale from UK.
Summary[edit] Description: Finally something to be pleased about The last two nights have been ok here in Stevenage with some warmer temperatures at night but still with gusty conditions species and numbers are down slightly on previous years but there really isn't many more moth species i'm expecting this year now with the possibility of 3 or 4. I continue to swap between Actinic and Mercury Vapor just to see if anything different turns up as a result of a different light source being used. Storm Brian is raging at the moment which will make trapping difficult for a few nights. Good luck all! New Species and species of note for the Garden/Year Report - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap Satellite (19/10/17) - A season first Satellite turned up on Thursday night, a lovely fresh example with the bright orange 'satellite' markings on it's wings. A moth I take at both ends of the year and more commonly in Spring than Autumn from looking at my records. Turnip Moth (19/10/17) - It had been a few weeks since I last saw a Turnip and so although this specimen was very faded, it was welcome in the trap as it was 'something different'. Vestal (20/10/17) - Last night I was just taking out the trash (as the Americans put it!) and noticed a pale moth fluttering around the rain guard of the trap, initial feelings was that it might be a Mottled Umber but I turned to grab my net just to make sure and was very pleased to reveal that I was wrong and it was in fact a year first Vestal and the 3rd record for the garden of this species having taken two in the same week in 2013. Date: 14 October 2017, 13:27. Source: [1769] Spruce Carpet (Thera britannica). Author: Ben Sale from UK.
Summary[edit] Description: Thera britannica (Turner, 1925), Spruce Carpet, to Robinson trap, Søborg, Denmark, 2/3 October 2014. Date: 3 October 2014, 09:17. Source: Thera britannica. Author: Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark. Camera location55° 43′ 20.608″ N, 12° 30′ 10.728″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 55.722391; 12.502980.
Summary[edit] Description: Thera britannica (Turner, 1925), Spruce Carpet, to Robinson trap, Søborg, Denmark, 2/3 October 2014. Date: 3 October 2014, 09:12. Source: Thera britannica. Author: Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark. Camera location55° 43′ 20.608″ N, 12° 30′ 10.728″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 55.722391; 12.502980.