Back on the farm for a slice of the migrant action

Another warm day but with threats of rain and everything was literally soaked in the morning at my parents farm and as a result the catch was pretty low but it was quality over quantity and I was lucky to pick up on a few of the recent arrivals from mainland Europe, namely 2 specimens of Vestal (Sadly one had succumbed to the wicked ways of the wasps or hornets, take your pick...there were about 20 of each!)

3 new Micro Moths for me were great to see including Caryocolum blandella, Gypsonoma minutana and Ypsolopha horridella. All three are quite scarce in the County particularly Gypsonoma minutana.

Sadly I fumbled with the pot and the Ypsolopha horridella went skywards...a photo next time hopefully.

There was quite an explosion of Anthophila fabriciana found around the trap that was alongside swathes of Nettles, these must be 2nd brood.

A single Sallow was my earliest record ever, my previous earliest was on the 05th of September in 2013.

Catch Report - 24/08/16 - Farmland - Braughing Friars - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap 1x 80w Actinic Briefcase Trap & 1x 40w Actinic/26w BLB Trap

Macro Moths - 35 Species

Angle Shades 4 Blood-vein 1 Brimstone Moth 12 Burnished Brass 2 Common Carpet 3 Common Wave 4 Dark Arches 1 Dingy Footman 2 Dun-bar 6 Feathered Gothic 2 Flame Shoulder 10 Flounced Rustic 3 Green Carpet 6 Large Twin-spot Carpet 2 Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 15 Maple Pug 4 Mouse Moth 1 Orange Swift 9 Poplar Hawk-moth 1 Riband Wave 11 Sallow 1 Setaceous Hebrew Character 400+ Six-striped Rustic 1 Snout 17 Spectacle 2 Square-spot Rustic 22 Square-spotted Clay 2 Straw Dot 4 Straw Underwing 3 Svensson's Copper Underwing 1 Swallow Prominent 1 Tree-lichen Beauty 2 Vestal 2 Vine's Rustic 4 Yellow Shell 2

Micro Moths - 43 Species

Caryocolum blandella 1[NEW!] Gypsonoma minutana 1 [NEW!] Ypsolopha horridella 1 [NEW!] Acentria ephemerella 3 Acleris forsskaleana 1 Acleris notana/ferrugana 1 Acrobasis advenella 1 Aethes smeathmanniana 1 Agapeta hamana 3 Agonopterix heracliana 2 Agriphila geniculea 5 Agriphila tristella 1 Anthophila fabriciana 20+ Apotomis betuletana 1 Blastobasis adustella 4 Calamotropha paludella 1 Caloptilia alchimiella/robustella 3 Catoptria falsella 5 Celypha lacunana 11 Clepsis spectrana 2 Cnephasia sp1 Cochylis atricapitana 3 Cochylis molliculana 1 Cochylis hybridella 9 Cryptoblabes bistriga 1 Cydia splendana 1 Epinotia nisella 4 Eudonia mercurella 1 Endrosis sarcitrella 2 Eudonia angustea 1 Euzophora pinguis 1 Evergestis forficalis 1 Galleria mellonella 1 Grapholita janthinana 1 Limnaecia phragmitella 2 Mompha epilobiella 1 Pandemis heparana 1 Phycita roborella 1 Pleuroptya ruralis 2 Plutella xylostella 20+ Spilonota ocellana 4 Udea ferrugalis 2