Catch Report - 31/07/11 - Farmland/Back Garden - Hertfordshire Well where has July gone? we are now officially in to August and the year has just flown by. The Mothing has had a rocky last few weeks from what i've heard from other people, including several trips where no more than 3 Moths were trapped in a couple of hours! the night time temperatures have been dire, regularly dipping to 10c here, and even further down to 6c nearer the coast. On the plus side for me i've been doing rather well! although I won't shout too far about it!

The best species of the night were two examples of the uncommon Square-spotted Clay which initially I thought were Purple Clay, having never seen either of these species.

Catch Report - 31/07/11 - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap - Farmland/back garden

Macro Moths

2x Blood-vein 2x Bright-line Brown-eye 1x Brimstone Moth 3x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 2x Brown-line Bright-eye 1x Brown-tail 1x Buff Ermine 2x Buff Footman 2x Clay 7x Cloaked Minor 1x Clouded Border 4x Common Carpet 14x Common Footman 9x Common Rustic 1x Copper Underwing 8x Dark Arches 1x Dingy Footman 3x Double Square-spot 4x Dun-bar 3x Dusky Sallow 4x Dwarf Cream Wave 3x Flame Shoulder 1x Garden Carpet 1x Heart & Dart 2x July Highflyer 3x Large Twin-spot Carpet 3x Large Yellow Underwing 7x Latticed Heath 2x Least Carpet 3x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1x Lesser Yellow Underwing 2x Lime-speck Pug 1x Maple Pug 3x Middle-barred Minor 2x Nutmeg 1x Oak Eggar 1x Peppered Moth 1x Poplar Grey 2x Poplar Hawk-moth 1x Purple Bar 2x Red Twin-spot Carpet 9x Riband Wave 5x Ruby Tiger 2x Rustic 1x Scalloped Oak 2x Scarce Footman 1x Shuttle-shaped Dart 1x Silver-Y 3x Single-dotted Wave 1x Six-striped Rustic [NFY] 1x Small Emerald 8x Small Fan-footed Wave 1x Small Phoenix 2x Small Scallop 1x Small Waved Umber 3x Smoky Wainscot 2x Square-spotted Clay [NEW!] 16x Uncertain 1x Waved Black 2x Willow Beauty 1x Yellow Shell 1x Yellow-tail

Micro Moths

3x Cnephasia sp. 1x Diamond-back Moth Plutella xylostella 2x Emmelina monodactyla 2x Udea prunalis 5x Brown House-moth Hofmannophila pseudospretella 15x Mother of Pearl Pleuroptya ruralis 3x Endotricha flammealis 6x Agapeta hamana 2x Scoparia ambigualis 3x Cochylis atricapitana 22x Chrysoteuchia culmella 2x Celypha striana 5x Phycita roborella 3x Batia unitella 2x Dipleurina lacustrata 3x Crambus perlella