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Hemel Hempstead Field Trip - Back to Gadesprings Had another much anticipated trip back to Gadesprings, and was joined by Roger on a very mild night with increasing cloud cover, the clouds did look threatening and we were expecting rain soon after setting up, but as forecast the rain held off. We were hoping for some Wainscots, and we did get a few, well they were all Common Wainscots apart from one Bulrush Wainscot. Unfortunately the Garden Darts that I suspected that we had caught, all turned out to be just a variation of Square-spot Rustic, all looking slightly odd with extreme over-lapping of forewings. Best micro was Ypsolopha alpella a scarce moth in the southern part of Hertfordshire, it is a moth that I recorded on my parents farm for the first time in 2011. We were surprised with the good count of species for this time of year, 2 good conditioned Heart & Darts was a surprise and being dive-bombed by lots of Old Ladies was fun! All in all a good trip and well worth the effort of setting up 4 traps.

Numbers below are approximate

29/08/13 - Gadesprings - Hemel Hempstead - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 160w MBT Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Trap run from 8.20pm until 1.00am

98 Species in total 56 Macro Moths & 42 Micro Moths

Macro Moths

1x Angle Shades 8x Brimstone Moth 1x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1x Bulrush Wainscot 1x Burnished Brass 6x Centre-barred Sallow 5x Common Carpet 1x Common Footman 2x Cloaked Minor 2x Common Rustic 8x Common Wainscot 2x Common Wave 5x Copper Underwing 2x Dark Arches 15x Dingy Footman 2x Double-striped Pug 1x Dun-bar 1x Dusky Thorn 8x Feathered Gothic 1x Flame Carpet 5x Flame Shoulder 2x Flounced Rustic 2x Garden Carpet 5x Green Carpet 2x Heart & Dart 5x Large Yellow Underwing 1x Least Yellow Underwing 10x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 3x Lesser Yellow Underwing 2x Lime-speck Pug 1x Maiden's Blush 1x Nut-tree Tussock 8x Old Lady 4x Orange Swift 1x Phoenix 1x Purple Bar 1x Rosy Rustic 1x Scalloped Oak 1x Scorched Carpet 4x Setaceous Hebrew Character 1x Shuttle-shaped Dart 1x Silver-Y 1x Single-dotted Wave 1x Small Fan-footed Wave 1x Small Phoenix 2x Small Square-spot 2x Snout 1x Spectacle 25x Square-spot Rustic 15x Straw Dot 1x Tawny Speckled Pug 1x Tree-lichen Beauty 10x Vine's Rustic 2x Willow Beauty 4x Yellow Shell 2x Yellow-barred Brindle

Micro Moths

1x Batrachedra praeangusta 1x Cochylimorpha straminea 1x Caloptilia robustella 2x Argyresthia pruniella 2x Pandemis heparana 1x Agriphila tristella 1x Acleris variegana 1x Phycita roborella 2x Catoptria falsella 1x Cameraria ohridella 2x Coleophora sp. 1x Yponomeuta sp. 2x Eudonia mercurella 1x Prays fraxinella 1x Prays ruficeps 2x Scrobipalpa costella 1x Chrysoteuchia culmella 5x Limnaecia phragmitella 2x Blastobasis adustella 2x Ypsolopha scabrella 1x Emmetia marginea 1x Celypha lacunana 8x Elachista maculicerusella 1x Anthophila fabriciana 1x Ypsolopha alpella 1x Cataclysta lemnata 5x Clepsis spectrana 1x Bactra lancealana 10x Pleuroptya ruralis 1x Scythropia crataegella 2x Emmelina monodactyla 2x Pandemis corylana 1x Cydia splendana 1x Argyrotaenia ljungiana 5x Epinotia nisella 1x Epinotia immundana 4x Agriphila geniculea 2x Trachycera advenella 2x Acleris laterana 1x Agonopterix arenella 1x Apotomis lineana