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Poplar Lutestring!

More trapping last night under clearing skies and with a temperature dipping to around 13 degrees, things are starting to cool down gradually.

The moths numbers have also nose-dived with less and less each time I trap.

Thankfully though my catch last night included two nice species, a garden first Poplar Lutestring and a year first Acleris aspersana.

Magpie Moth put in another appearance, they really are a beautiful looking moth.

The numbers were made up by 32 Common Rustics and 8 Straw Underwings, the rest were pretty much ones and twos.

Catch Report - 03/08/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Poplar Lutestring [NFG] 2x Angle Shades 1x Bright-line Brown-eye 7x Brimstone Moth 1x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1x Buff Footman 32x Common Rustic 1x Flame Carpet 1x Garden Carpet 1x Grey Dagger 1x Iron Prominent 3x Large Yellow Underwing 1x Least Yellow Underwing 3x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 2x Lesser Yellow Underwing 1x Magpie Moth 1x Maiden's Blush 3x Marbled Beauty 1x Mottled Beauty 1x Orange Swift 1x Pale Mottled Willow 1x Peppered Moth 4x Riband Wave 1x Rustic 1x Scarce Footman 1x Setaceous Hebrew Character 2x Shuttle-shaped Dart 1x Silver-Y 1x Small Dusty Wave 1x Square-spotted Clay 4x Straw Dot 8x Straw Underwing 2x Uncertain 1x Willow Beauty

Micro Moths

1x Caloptilia alchimiella [NFY] 1x Acleris aspersana [NFY] 1x Evergestis forficalis 6x Blastobasis adustella 4x Eudonia mercurella 1x Zeiraphera isertana 2x Carcina quercana 4x Epiphyas postvittana 1x Bryotropha terrella 7x Agriphila straminella 1x Phycita roborella 1x Agriphila tristella 1x Acleris forsskaleana 3x Spilonota ocellana 1x Phyllonorycter harrisella 4x Pandemis corylana 1x Caloptilia betulicola 3x Cydia splendana 2x Pleuroptya ruralis 1x Chrysoteuchia culmella 1x Hofmannophila pseudospretella 1x Pammene aurita