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Had an exciting shock this morning on opening the trap, near the bottom I found a Small Marbled, a Hertfordshire County first and a rare migrant with about 20 or so records per year for the UK. You can easily see it could be overlooked for a Tortrix Moth. This may have flown from as far away as North Africa! although probably more likely, North Spain/South France which is still an immense distance for such a tiny moth! Over the frickin moon :)

I've still yet to tally the catch (like yesterday evenings catch which is scribbled down on a notepad) but it is well in excess of 130 species, under perfect conditions last night.

Catch Report - 27/06/11 - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap - Farmland/back garden

Macro Moths (81 Species)

1x Small Marbled [NEW!] 7x Leopard Moth 1x Common Emerald 4x Blood-vein 4x Small Fan-footed Wave 2x Dwarf Cream Wave 1x Small Dusty Wave 8x Riband Wave 1x Large Twin-spot Carpet 2x Silver-ground Carpet 2x Common Carpet 1x Yellow Shell 2x Barred Straw 3x July Highflyer 2x Grey Pug 2x Green Pug 3x Small Yellow Wave 1x Clouded Border 1x Scorched Carpet 12x Latticed Heath 1x Brown Silver-line 1x Scorched Wing 4x Brimstone 1x Lilac Beauty 1x Scalloped Oak 5x Swallow-tailed Moth 4x Peppered Moth 6x Mottled Beauty 1x Engrailed 1x Common White Wave 1x Common Wave 2x Clouded Silver 3x Light Emerald 1x Privet Hawk-moth 5x Elephant Hawk-moth 1x Iron Prominent 1x Pebble Prominent 1x Maple Prominent 6x Buff-tip 1x Yellow-tail 3x Brown-tail 7x Scarce Footman 18x Common Footman 1x White Ermine 2x Cinnabar 1x Short-cloaked Moth 1x Turnip Moth 3x Heart & Club 26x Heart & Dart 9x Flame 7x Flame Shoulder 2x Large Yellow Underwing 1x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 2x Ingrailed Clay 10x Setaceous Hebrew Character 2x Triple-spotted Clay 29x Double Square-spot 3x Nutmeg 14x Dot Moth 1x Bright-line Brown-eye 1x Brown-line Bright-eye 4x Smoky Wainscot 3x Common Wainscot 4x Poplar Grey 1x Grey Dagger 8x Brown Rustic 3x Dun-bar 22x Dark Arches 12x Light Arches 1x Slender Brindle 4x Marbled Minor 1x Small Dotted Buff 17x Uncertain 1x Rustic 5x Mottled Rustic 9x Beautiful Hook-tip 2x Straw Dot 1x Waved Black 3x Snout 1x Fan-foot