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Field Trip - Bramfield Woods - 25/06/19

A belated catch-up post from a field trip last month.

A couple of days after the bumper Bramfield Park Woods sesskion, we found ourselves over the other side of the road in Bramfield Woods. The day had been warm, but not the heat that was expected and upon arriving at the site, it was windy and there was drizzle in the air which as the night went on turned into bouts of dense mist. With that wind brought a coolness to the night and this really did keep numbers and species down for this usually prolific time of year.

Despite the awful conditions, we kept the lights running until around midnight and then packed up.

There were several site listers that we managed to find.

Dark Spectacle, Sallow Kitten, Buff Arches, Anania lancealis, Piniphila bifasciana, Spilonota laricana, Cydia nigricana and Triaxomera parasitella were all new.

Here is the total list.

Macro Moths : 77 species Micro Moths : 51 species

Total : 128 species

Catch Report - 25/06/19 - Bramfield Park Woods - Hertfordshire - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 250w MV Clear Robinson Trap & 1x 160w Mercury Blended Robinson Trap - 4 traps in total

Macro Moths

Angle Shades Beautiful Golden Y Beautiful Hook-tip Blood-vein Blotched Emerald Blue-bordered Carpet Bordered White Brindled White spot Brown Rustic Buff Arches Buff Ermine Buff Footman Buff-tip Burnished Brass Clay Cloaked Minor Clouded Border Clouded Brindle Clouded Silver Common Emerald Common Footman Common White Wave Dark Arches Dark Spectacle Double Square spot Dun-bar Dusky Brocade Elephant Hawk-moth Engrailed Flame Ghost Moth Gold Swift Great Oak Beauty Green Silver-lines Grey Arches Grey Pug Heart & Club Heart & Dart Ingrailed Clay Iron Prominent Large Nutmeg Large Yellow Underwing Leopard Moth Light Arches Light Emerald Lime Hawk-moth Lobster Moth Marbled Brown Marbled White-spot Mottled Beauty Oak Nycteoline Orange Footman Peach Blossom Peppered Moth Pine Beauty Pine Hawk-moth Purple Clay Red-necked Footman Riband Wave Rosy Footman Rustic Shoulder knot Sallow Kitten Setaceous Hebrew Character Silver-ground Carpet Small Fan-foot Small Fan-footed Wave Small White Wave Small Yellow Wave Smoky Wainscot Snout Spruce Carpet Straw Dot Swallow-tailed Moth Tawny-barred Angle Uncertain Vines Rustic Willow Beauty

Micro Moths

Acrobasis repandana Agapeta hamana Aleimma loefligiana Amblyptilia acanthadactyla Anania hortulata Anania lancealis Anania perlucidalis Aphomia sociella Apotomis capreana Archips craetagana Archips podana Archips xylosteana Argyresthia conjugella Argyresthia retinella Blastobasis lacticolella Calamotropha paludella Celypha cespitana Celypha lacunana Chrysoteuchia culmella Cnephasia sp Coleophora sp Crambus lathoniellus Cydia fagiglandana Cydia nigricana Cydia pomonella Ditula angustiorana Eana incanana Emmetia marginea Epagoge grotiana Eudonia lacustrata Eudonia pallida Gypsonoma sociana Hedya nubiferana Hedya pruniana Hedya salicella Hofmannophila pseudospretella Lozotaenoides formosana Notocelia uddmanniana Pandemis cerasana Parornix sp Phycita roborella Pinophila bifasciana Plutella xylostella Scoparia ambigualis Scrobipalpa costella Scythropia crataegella Spilonota laricana Teleoides luculella Tortrix viridana Triaxomera parasitella