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Gastes, Aquitaine, France
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Hexton Chalk Pit Field Trip report - 21/05/14Another trip out last night, and I was debating for hours beforehand whether to chance it because of the forecast heavy rain, supposedly starting at around 7pm.I got to Hexton at 8.30pm and the sky was clearing slightly which I thought was odd but the temperature was a steady 15 degrees.I was quite surprised at how much the vegetation had grown up since my last visit 6 weeks ago, it was lovely seeing all the wildflowers at knee height now.I proceeded to setup and decided on running 3 lights.The moths started to fly almost instantly and well before dusk...maybe they knew something that I didn't!First to the light were loads of Common Swifts, oodles of Green Carpet and swarms of Cochylimorpha straminea.The species were steady coming to the light, then all hell broke loose and there was some big stuff coming in, lots of Pale Tussocks, a female Poplar Hawk-moth, Lime Hawk-moth, Elephant Hawk-moth and by the end of the session 9 Small Elephant Hawk-moth!A few chalk specialities turned up, notably Pretty Chalk Carpet and Shaded Pug, and then the heavens opened! Everything was soaked and it was a real mission packing up and using my coat to cover the generator! All good fun and games.There was also a small flurry of migrant activity with Silver-Y and Plutella xylostella turning up, no doubt off of the South-westerly winds. The Light Feathered Rustic did not turn up.Catch Report - Hexton Chalk Pit - 09/04/14 - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 160w MBT Robinson TrapLights run from 9.00pm until 11.00pmMacro Moths25+ Green Carpet1x Common Carpet1x Barred Hook-tip2x Silver-ground Carpet20+ Common Swift3x Chinese Character3x Grey Pug3x Marbled White spot4x White Ermine1x Small Waved Umber5x Small Phoenix8x Pale Tussock1x Purple Bar8x Flame Shoulder 5x Red Twin-spot Carpet1x Pretty Chalk Carpet9x Small Elephant Hawk-moth1x Lime Hawk-moth1x Poplar Hawk-moth1x Elephant Hawk-moth5x Common Pug2x Mottled Pug10x Shaded Pug3x Treble Lines1x Angle Shades1x Oak-tree Pug1x Setaceous Hebrew Character8x Brimstone Moth1x V-pug5x Clouded Silver1x Silver-Y1x Marbled Minor2x Waved Umber1x Common Marbled Carpet1x Light Brocade3x ShearsMicro Moths1x Celypha lacunana10x Elachista argentella15+ Scoparia ambigualis1x Monpis weaverella1x Nematopogon schwarziellus1x Endrosis sarcitrella1x Pschye casta1x Plutella xylostella40+ Cochylimorpha straminea5x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana5x Epiblema rosaecolana1x Metzneria metzneriella
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Torre de Porta Coeli, Valencia, Spain
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Searsmont, Waldo Co., Maine - 4/5/13.
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Kampung Bilit, Sabah, Malaysia
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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Finally a Tree-lichen Beauty!A combined catch result for this week chaps, as I haven't had much time to update thy blog.Being officially married now means that my mothing exploits will apparently subdue over the years to come (but not too soon I must add!)I trapped on the 6th, 8th and 9th this week with pretty mixed results but with a downward trend starting to happen as we go into the beginning of the end....or is it?There was me going through the trap each time expecting to not be that thrilled with late Summer catches (Yes in the moth world it is nearing Autumn already) then to stumble upon rare and interesting moths in each of the three session.6th was the Cydia amplana night, on the 8th star of the show was Acrolepiopsis assectella, both completely new moths for me. The on the 9th after EVERYBODY else has had one, finally I managed a Tree-lichen Beauty....it's never too late is it!Also a Footman needs checking for Hoary.All in all a good end to the week trapping.Catch Report - 06-08-09/08/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson TrapMacro Moths1x Tree-lichen Beauty [NFG]1x Small Waved Umber [NFG]2x Lesser Swallow Prominent [NFY]6x Square-spot Rustic [NFY]1x Vapourer Moth [NFY]3x Angle Shades3x Black Arches3x Brimstone Moth1x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing1x Cloaked Minor1x Common Carpet22x Common Rustic3x Dark Arches1x Dot Moth2x Double-striped Pug2x Dun-bar3x Dusky Thorn 2x Flame Shoulder8x Flounced Rustic1x Green Carpet5x Large Yellow Underwing1x Least Carpet42x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing1x Lesser Yellow Underwing1x Maiden's Blush2x Maple Pug2x Marbled Beauty1x Nut-tree Tussock1x Oak Hook-tip4x Orange Swift2x Pale Mottled Willow1x Poplar Hawk-moth 1x Red Twin-spot Carpet11x Riband Wave1x Scarce Footman 4x September Thorn3x Setaceous Hebrew Character6x Shuttle-shaped Dart1x Silver-Y1x Small Emerald 1x Small Rivulet4x Spectacle2x Square-spotted Clay1x Straw Dot5x Straw Underwing1x Uncertain1x Vine's Rustic10x Willow Beauty2x Yellow Shell Micro Moths1x Acrolepiopsis assectella [NEW!]1x Cydia amplana [NEW!]1x Ypsolopha sequella [NFG]1x Dichrorampha acuminatana [NFG]1x Pyrausta purpuralis [NFG]1x Mompha divisella [NFG]6x Agriphila geniculea [NFY] 2x Ypsolopha parenthesella [NFY]4x Evergestis forficalis1x Hypsopygia costalis4x Amblyptilia acanthadactyla3x Eurrhypara hortulata1x Mompha subbistrigella1x Monopis laevigella2x Endotricha flammealis15x Blastobasis adustella2x Emmelina monodactyla2x Eudonia mercurella1x Ypsolopha dentella2x Trachycera advenella1x Trachycera suavella3x Carcina quercana7x Epiphyas postvittana1x Paronix sp1x Celypha lacunana1x Apotomis betuletana3x Argyrotaenia ljungiana5x Agriphila straminella2x Phycita roborella6x Agriphila tristella2x Spilonota ocellana1x Caloptilia betulicola2x Argyresthia goedartella1x Argyresthia pruniella5x Plutella xylostella2x Batia unitella1x Hofmannophila pseudospretella
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ERDB last seen in Hatfield Forest 1992Thorndon Country Park, Brentwood
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Up to Beds! Home Wood - Field Trip - 02/07/14Hi allLast night I joined Matt and Trent (Or Lionel, confused.com lol), at Home Wood near Biggelswade in Bedfordshire, hopping Counties for the first time this year (in fact I shall be travelling to Essex tonight, two Counties in as many days).Conditions were absolutely spot on with dominant cloud cover and a warm sultry temperature we set about our business to cover a nice wide area of the woodland.But before that we had to do a spot of tractor pulling.. well van, as Trent's van got stuck in the mud (I wonder if that piece of rope ever came off the tow-bar?)The evening started well with plenty of micros and Geometers turning up first to the sheet.Then at about 11pm it all went a bit mental really, the traps that we had left wee teeming with moths, you could barely see the trap underneath them, peering into the skinner actinic was like something out of a tropical rainforest catch and inhalation was definitely not a good idea at this point!I have yet to write the list up as I have spent all morning photographing all of the moths which hasn't been easy with the warm weather and wind.I think we must be knocking on the door of 200 species of Macro and Micro for the night.Acleris kochiella, Assara terebrella, Eulamprotes atrella, Acleris holmiana, Hedya ochroleucana, Larch Pug, Mere Wainscot, Olindia schumacherana and Zeiraphera ratzeburgiana were new for meSo here are a few beauties from last night, mainly micros and several were new to me.I wonder if we get a first for Bedfordshire out of all the things we potted, and the sack load of tubes heading David Manning's way.Catch Report - 02/07/14 - Home Wood - Nr.Biggleswade - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Suitcase Trap.Numbers below are approximate106 Macros and 67 Micros ( 173 species)Macro Moths2x Barred Red2x Barred Straw1x Barred Yellow5x Beautiful Hook-tip1x Black Arches1x Blackneck2x Blood-vein2x Bright-line Brown-eye5x Brimstone Moth1x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing4x Brown Rustic1x Brown Scallop1x Brown-line Bright-eye2x Brown-tail5x Buff Arches10+ Buff Footman3x Buff-tip1x Burnished Brass1x Chinese Character1x Cinnabar2x Clay20+ Clouded Border2x Clouded Brindle30+ Clouded Silver1x Clouded-bordered Brindle 1x Common Carpet3x Common Footman1x Common Pug2x Common Rustic1x Common Swift2x Common Wave10+ Common White Wave1x Coxcomb Prominent10+ Dark Arches2x Dingy Footman1x Dingy Shears1x Dingy Shell1x Double-striped Pug10+ Dun-bar15+ Dwarf Cream Wave1x Early Thorn1x Elephant Hawk-moth2x Engrailed5x Fan-foot1x Flame1x Garden Carpet1x Ghost Moth4x Green Pug1x Green Silver-lines2x Grey Pug1x Haworth's Pug3x Heart & Club3x Heart & Dart2x July Highflyer1x Larch Pug20+ Large Twin-spot Carpet5x Large Yellow Underwing1x Leopard Moth5x Light Emerald1x Lunar-spotted Pinion1x Maiden's Blush1x Map-winged Swift2x Maple Prominent5x Marbled Minor10+ Marbled White Spot3x Mere Wainscot10+ Mottled Beauty2x Oak Nycteoline2x Peach Blossom5x Peppered Moth1x Pine Hawk-moth1x Poplar Grey1x Poplar Hawk-moth2x Pretty Chalk Carpet1x Privet Hawk-moth1x Purple Bar15+ Riband Wave1x Rustic1x Satin Beauty2x Scarce Footman2x Scarce Silver-lines2x Setaceous Hebrew Character3x Shaded Broad-bar1x Shears3x Short-cloaked Moth5x Single-dotted Wave2x Slender Brindle5x Small Dotted Buff5x Small Fan-foot25+ Small Fan-footed Wave1x Small Phoenix5x Smoky Wainscot10+ Snout1x Spectacle1x Spruce Carpet15+ Straw Dot2x Swallow-tailed Moth1x Sycamore2x Tawny Marbled Minor1x Tawny-barred Angle4x Treble Brown Spot2x Uncertain1x V-Pug2x White Satin Moth1x Wormwood Pug8x Yellow-tailMicro MothsAcleris holmiana 1Acleris laterana/comariana 1Acleris kochiella 1Aethes rubigana 1Agapeta hamana 10+Agapeta zoegana 3Agriphila straminella 3Aleimma loeflingiana 50+Ancylis achatana 2Apotomis capreana 1Archips crataegana 5Archips podana 2Archips xylosteana 2Argyresthia albistria 1Argyresthia brockeella 2Argyresthia goedartella 1Assara terebrella 1Batia lunaris 1Batia unitella 3Blastobasis lacticolella 2Blastodacna hellerella 2Bryotropha terrella 5Catoptria pinella 1Celypa lacunana 8Celypa striana 5Chrysoteuchia culmella 10Cochylis hybridella 2Conobathra repandana 10Crambus lathoniellus 1Crambus pascuella 3Cryptoblabes bistriga 1Dipleurina lacustrata 2Ditula angustiorana 5Endrosis sarcitella 1Ephestia parasitellaEpiblema uddmanniana 3Epinotia bilunana 1Epinotia brunnichana 3Eucosma cana 5Eucosma hohenwartiana 1Eucosma obumbratana 10Eudemis profundana 1Eulamprotes atrellaGypsonoma dealbana 1Gypsonoma sociana 1Hedya ochroleucanaHedya pruniana 5Hedya salicella 1Hofmannophila pseudospretella 2Olindia schumacherana 5Orthopygia glaucinalis 2Pammene fasciana 1Pandemis cerasana 10+Pandemis heparana 2Paraswammerdamia nebulella 3Phycitodes binaevella 1Pleuroptya ruralis 10Prays fraxinella 5Pterophorus pentadactyla 2Rhopobota naevana 2Scoparia ambigualis 5Scoparia basistrigalis 8Spilonota ocellana 2Syncopacma larseniella sp 5Tortrix viridana 5Zeiraphera ratzeburgiana 1Zeiraphera isertana 10
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Blackheath, New South Wales, Australia
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A scarce species for Essex.
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Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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Touquin, Ile-de-France, France
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Blackheath, New South Wales, Australia
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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Maine, United States
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia