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David, Roger, Steve and myself tried a session trapping on the Westbrook Hay site consisting of unimproved grassland and surrounding ancient woodland.

We parked up and intended to run a few traps from the Old Barn electrics and then walk with a few traps and the genny to somewhere towards Ramacre Wood, overlooking Hay Wood as well.


Unfortunately the electric sockets in the Old Barn did not work (although strangely all the lights did) so after setting up two traps and laying 100 metres of cable to find they wouldn't work, we had to pack it all up and go to plan B, take all but one of the traps with us alongside the bridlepath leading to Ramacre Wood.

This part of Westbrook Hay has been previously untrapped, unfortunately it was very humid (good for moths) and we were plagued by Horse-flies, well I was! One got the tip of my index finger but I got off lightly luckily.

Not to be put off anymore, as soon as I pulled the cord on the generator the wind got up! You couldn't make it up!

Luckily the wind was on and off, but when it was on it was blowing quite considerably. I thought we should put a trap on the bridlepath shielded from the wind, and this trap did pretty well indeed.


All in all a great trip marred by a few niggles, you can't have it all I suppose.


The catch was mainly made up of Middle-barred Minor, Straw Dot, Tortrix viridana, Pseudargyrotoza conwagana, Aleimma loeflingiana and Chrysoteuchia culmella.


Highlights were Green Arches, White-point, Phlyctaenia perlucidalis, Alabonia geoffrella and Archips crataegana.

Stenoptilia pterodactyla was potted up in my car, it must have still been in one of the traps as we were loading them in. Identified by its white costal streak.


Catch Report - 20/06/14 - Westbrook Hay - Hemel Hempstead - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 40w Lucent Suitcase Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Suitcase Trap.

59 Macros and 49 Micros ( 108 species)

Macro Moths

2x Beautiful Hook-tip 5x Brimstone Moth 2x Buff Ermine

2x Buff Footman 1x Burnished Brass 2x Clouded Border 30+ Clouded Silver 1x Common Marbled Carpet 1x Common Swift

2x Common Wainscot 1x Common White Wave 1x Coronet 8x Dark Arches 2x Double Square-spot 1x Drinker 2x Engrailed 5x Fan-foot 2x Flame 3x Flame Shoulder 1x Foxglove Pug 2x Garden Carpet

2x Ghost Moth 1x Green Arches 4x Green Silver-lines 4x Grey Pug

3x Heart & Club 12x Heart & Dart 2x Ingrailed Clay 1x Large Nutmeg

1x Large Twin-spot Carpet 5x Large Yellow Underwing

2x Light Arches 1x Light Brocade 4x Light Emerald 1x Lobster Moth

1x Maiden's Blush 5x Marbled Minor

2x Marbled White Spot 20x Middle-barred Minor 7x Mottled Beauty 4x Mottled Rustic 3x Peach Blossom 2x Peppered Moth 5x Riband Wave 1x Scorched Wing 2x Setaceous Hebrew Character

1x Shears 4x Shoulder-striped Wainscot 1x Silver-ground Carpet 1x Small Clouded Brindle 5x Small Square-spot 2x Snout 20+ Straw Dot 2x Treble Brown Spot 8x Uncertain 3x White Ermine

1x White-point 1x Willow Beauty

3x Yellow Shell

Micro Moths

1x Alabonia geoffrella [NEW!]

1x Blastobasis laticolella

1x Zeiraphera isertana

1x Swammerdamia pyrella

1x Bryotropha terrella

1x Parachronistis albiceps

8x Epinotia abbreviana

1x Ancylis achatana

2x Eucosma hohenwartiana

1x Agonopterix arenella

7x Aphomia sociella

20+ Pseudargyrotoza conwagana

1x Eurrhypara hortulata

1x Hofmannophila pseudospretella

20+ Tortrix viridana

50+ Chrysoteuchia culmella

10x Pabdemis cerasana

5x Pandemis heparana

4x Celypha lacunana

2x Archips podana

1x Archips crataegana

2x Hedya pruniana

10x Hedya nubiferana

2x Clepsis consimilana

1x Acentria ephemerella

2x Argyresthia albistria

1x Argyresthia conjugella

2 Eudonia mercurella

15+ Aleimma loeflingiana

1x Phycita roborella

2x Cnephasia sp

1x Scrobipalpa acuminatella

1x Ditula angustiorana

1x Phlyctaenia perlucidalis

1x Homoeosoma sinuella

1x Orthopygia glaucinalis

2x Crambus perlella

5x Udea olivalis

1x Udea prunalis

1x Lozotaenia forsterana

12x Archips xylosteana

2x Celypha striana

2x Crambus lathoniellus

2x Scoparia ambigualis

2x Anthophila fabriciana

1x Elachista argentella

1x Teleiodes luculella

1x Emmetia marginea

1x Stenoptilia pterodactyla
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Author Ben Sale from UK

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