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Up to Beds! Home Wood - Field Trip - 02/07/14 Hi all

Last 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 me

So 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 approximate

106 Macros and 67 Micros ( 173 species)

Macro Moths

2x Barred Red 2x Barred Straw 1x Barred Yellow 5x Beautiful Hook-tip 1x Black Arches 1x Blackneck 2x Blood-vein 2x Bright-line Brown-eye 5x Brimstone Moth 1x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 4x Brown Rustic 1x Brown Scallop 1x Brown-line Bright-eye 2x Brown-tail 5x Buff Arches 10+ Buff Footman 3x Buff-tip 1x Burnished Brass 1x Chinese Character 1x Cinnabar 2x Clay 20+ Clouded Border 2x Clouded Brindle 30+ Clouded Silver 1x Clouded-bordered Brindle 1x Common Carpet 3x Common Footman 1x Common Pug 2x Common Rustic 1x Common Swift 2x Common Wave 10+ Common White Wave 1x Coxcomb Prominent 10+ Dark Arches 2x Dingy Footman 1x Dingy Shears 1x Dingy Shell 1x Double-striped Pug 10+ Dun-bar 15+ Dwarf Cream Wave 1x Early Thorn 1x Elephant Hawk-moth 2x Engrailed 5x Fan-foot 1x Flame 1x Garden Carpet 1x Ghost Moth 4x Green Pug 1x Green Silver-lines 2x Grey Pug 1x Haworth's Pug 3x Heart & Club 3x Heart & Dart 2x July Highflyer 1x Larch Pug 20+ Large Twin-spot Carpet 5x Large Yellow Underwing 1x Leopard Moth 5x Light Emerald 1x Lunar-spotted Pinion 1x Maiden's Blush 1x Map-winged Swift 2x Maple Prominent 5x Marbled Minor 10+ Marbled White Spot 3x Mere Wainscot 10+ Mottled Beauty 2x Oak Nycteoline 2x Peach Blossom 5x Peppered Moth 1x Pine Hawk-moth 1x Poplar Grey 1x Poplar Hawk-moth 2x Pretty Chalk Carpet 1x Privet Hawk-moth 1x Purple Bar 15+ Riband Wave 1x Rustic 1x Satin Beauty 2x Scarce Footman 2x Scarce Silver-lines 2x Setaceous Hebrew Character 3x Shaded Broad-bar 1x Shears 3x Short-cloaked Moth 5x Single-dotted Wave 2x Slender Brindle 5x Small Dotted Buff 5x Small Fan-foot 25+ Small Fan-footed Wave 1x Small Phoenix 5x Smoky Wainscot 10+ Snout 1x Spectacle 1x Spruce Carpet 15+ Straw Dot 2x Swallow-tailed Moth 1x Sycamore 2x Tawny Marbled Minor 1x Tawny-barred Angle 4x Treble Brown Spot 2x Uncertain 1x V-Pug 2x White Satin Moth 1x Wormwood Pug 8x Yellow-tail

Micro Moths

Acleris holmiana 1 Acleris laterana/comariana 1 Acleris kochiella 1 Aethes rubigana 1 Agapeta hamana 10+ Agapeta zoegana 3 Agriphila straminella 3 Aleimma loeflingiana 50+ Ancylis achatana 2 Apotomis capreana 1 Archips crataegana 5 Archips podana 2 Archips xylosteana 2 Argyresthia albistria 1 Argyresthia brockeella 2 Argyresthia goedartella 1 Assara terebrella 1 Batia lunaris 1 Batia unitella 3 Blastobasis lacticolella 2 Blastodacna hellerella 2 Bryotropha terrella 5 Catoptria pinella 1 Celypa lacunana 8 Celypa striana 5 Chrysoteuchia culmella 10 Cochylis hybridella 2 Conobathra repandana 10 Crambus lathoniellus 1 Crambus pascuella 3 Cryptoblabes bistriga 1 Dipleurina lacustrata 2 Ditula angustiorana 5 Endrosis sarcitella 1 Ephestia parasitella Epiblema uddmanniana 3 Epinotia bilunana 1 Epinotia brunnichana 3 Eucosma cana 5 Eucosma hohenwartiana 1 Eucosma obumbratana 10 Eudemis profundana 1 Eulamprotes atrella Gypsonoma dealbana 1 Gypsonoma sociana 1 Hedya ochroleucana Hedya pruniana 5 Hedya salicella 1 Hofmannophila pseudospretella 2 Olindia schumacherana 5 Orthopygia glaucinalis 2 Pammene fasciana 1 Pandemis cerasana 10+ Pandemis heparana 2 Paraswammerdamia nebulella 3 Phycitodes binaevella 1 Pleuroptya ruralis 10 Prays fraxinella 5 Pterophorus pentadactyla 2 Rhopobota naevana 2 Scoparia ambigualis 5 Scoparia basistrigalis 8 Spilonota ocellana 2 Syncopacma larseniella sp 5 Tortrix viridana 5 Zeiraphera ratzeburgiana 1