On Friday night I left a few traps at nearby reserve Narborough Bog. I ran 3 x 125W MV traps and 1 x 80W/100W actinic/tungsten combo trap from dusk - dawn, arriving back on site at 04:45 to collect in and empty the traps.
Despite the warm humid conditions during the day, this site is a damp woodland and peaty reedbed which seems to just sink the heat away. Overnight minimum temperature was 14°C, versus c17°C in the garden. The total catch was a little more modest than I'd expect at a more typical woodland or dry quarry site at this time of year, but included a couple of site specialities and a few good micros. Still, 1176 of 146sp is not a bad catch!
Amongst the real highlights, I picked up 7 Southern Wainscots all in the same trap right by the reedbed. Despite trapping at this site many times I have not previously recorded this species here and in fact it is the only the second record for the site - the first being back in 1991. 18 Round-winged Muslin and 9 Phoenix was notable, and yet again - another Epinotia signatana turned up!
I'll sort out some photos to follow, but here's the catch summary:
First for the year:
0216 Cork Moth (Nemapogon cloacella) 1
0713 Agonopterix angelicella 2
0756 Parachronistis albiceps 1
0762 Athrips mouffetella 1
0946 Aethes rubigana 11
1259 Cydia fagiglandana 1
1316 Catoptria falsella 1
1415 Orthopygia glaucinalis 1
2035 Round-winged Muslin (Thumatha senex) 18
2044 Dingy Footman (Eilema griseola) 15
2049 Buff Footman (Eilema depressa) 1
2064 Ruby Tiger (Phragmatobia fuliginosa) 1
2377 Fen Wainscot (Arenostola phragmitidis) 1
Highest counts:
1887 Clouded Border (Lomaspilis marginata) 124
2050 Common Footman (Eilema lurideola) 61
1076 Celypha lacunana 58
1338 Dipleurina lacustrata 50
1331 Water Veneer (Acentria ephemerella) 44
1702 Small Fan-footed Wave (Idaea biselata) 44
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 43
2314 Dingy Shears (Parastichtis ypsillon) 43
1961 Light Emerald (Campaea margaritata) 32
1405 Mother of Pearl (Pleuroptya ruralis) 31
1293 Garden Grass-veneer (Chrysoteuchia culmella) 30
1947 Engrailed (Ectropis bistortata) 27
1713 Riband Wave (Idaea aversata) 21
2198 Smoky Wainscot (Mythimna impura) 20
1956 Common Wave (Cabera exanthemata) 18
1376 Small Magpie (Eurrhypara hortulata) 17
2381 Uncertain (Hoplodrina alsines) 15
Best of the rest:
0125 Emmetia marginea 3
0412 Argyresthia pygmaeella 1
0870 Oegoconia quadripuncta 1
0898 Limnaecia phragmitella 2
1086 Hedya salicella 2
1111 Bactra lancealana 1
1126 Ancylis badiana 1
1144 Epinotia signatana 1
1150 Epinotia abbreviana 1
1192 Eucosma conterminana 1
1236 Pammene fasciana 1
1336 Eudonia pallida 1
1356 Garden Pebble (Evergestis forficalis) 3
1380 Phlyctaenia perlucidalis 7
1640 Drinker (Euthrix potatoria) 11
1653 Buff Arches (Habrosyne pyritoides) 12
1754 Phoenix (Eulithis prunata) 9
1874 Dingy Shell (Euchoeca nebulata) 3
1910 Lilac Beauty (Apeira syringaria) 1
1922 Swallow-tailed Moth (Ourapteryx sambucaria) 9
1981 Poplar Hawk-moth (Laothoe populi) 8
1994 Buff-tip (Phalera bucephala) 6
2197 Southern Wainscot (Mythimna straminea) 7
2278 Poplar Grey (Acronicta megacephala) 5
2305 Small Angle Shades (Euplexia lucipara) 1
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