Field Trip - Canvey Island (Wick) - 02/08/11 Back to Essex and under probably the best conditions we've had this year, a trip was organised with 6 of us arranging to meet at the Morrison's Car Park at 9pm. It had been the hottest day of the year and te evening was very mild indeed under a cloudy sky. We set up on the concrete flats down near the coast and ran 4 traps, Don Down's 125w MV Tripod set-up, Graham's dual 40w Actinic and my 125w MV Robinson & 160w MBT Trap. The Moths came in at a steady pace to start with around Don's Tripod and then all of a sudden, it was hard to keep up and tick each species as they came in. Not quite as epic as our 126 species of Macro Moths last year, but we had a fair few new ones for the site and some local rarities to spice things up a bit! The actual site is still an absolute tip, as they continue to develop a road that will eventually lead to a distribution site, luckily much further over from this important site.

The Moths were superb including new Moths for me Dog's Tooth, Marbled Green, Reed Dagger, Sallow Kitten, Agdistis bennetii, Ebulea crocealis, Epiblema foenella, Eucosma campoliliana, Evergestis limbata and Stathmopoda pedella, so 10 new species was astonishing! Other species of note included 1 Crescent several White-points, 3 Garden Tiger's and the rare RDB3 Platytes alipinella was also very common there with at least 25 individuals, always nice to see!

Here is the provisional list that I made on the night, no counts were made by me and i'm probably missing a few as my pen run out of ink!

Macro Moths

Bright-line Brown-eye Brimstone Moth Brown-line Bright-eye Brown-tail Bulrush Wainscot Canary-shouldered Thorn [NFY] Cream-bordered Green Pea Clay Cloaked Minor Clouded Border Clouded Silver Common Carpet Common Footman Common Rustic Common Wainscot Copper Underwing Crescent Dark Arches Dog's Tooth [NEW!] Double-striped Pug Drinker Dun-bar Dusky Sallow Fen Wainscot Flame Shoulder Garden Tiger [NFY] Heart & Dart Knot Grass Large Yellow Underwing Least Carpet Least Yellow Underwing Lesser Cream Wave Lesser Yellow Underwing Lime-speck Pug Magpie Moth Marbled Beauty Marbled Green [NEW!] Marbled Minor Mullein Wave Nut-tree Tussock Oak Eggar Pale Prominent Pebble Hook-tip Plain Pug Poplar Hawk-moth Reed Dagger [NEW!] Riband Wave Rosy Footman Rosy Rustic Ruby Tiger Rustic Sallow Kitten [NEW!] Scalloped Oak Scarce Footman Scorched Carpet Shaded Pug Sharp-angled Peacock [NFY] Shuttle-shaped Dart Silky Wainscot [NFY] Silver-Y Single-dotted Wave Slender Pug Small Blood-vein Small Fan-footed Wave Small Scallop Smoky Wainscot Southern Wainscot Straw Dot Swallow Prominent Tawny-speckled Pug [NFY] Treble-bar Tree-lichen Beauty Turnip Moth Twin-spotted Wainscot Uncertain V-pug Vine's Rustic White-line Dart [NFY] White-point [NFY] Willow Beauty Yellow Shell Yellow-tail

Micro Moths

Agdistis bennetii [NEW!] Cochylis hybridella Ebulea crocealis [NEW!] Sitochroa palealis [NEW!] Epiblema foenella [NEW!] Eucosma campoliliana [NEW!] Evergestis limbata [NEW!] Evergestis estimalis [NEW!] Platytes alpinella Schoenobius gigantella Stathmopoda pedella [NEW!] Argyresthia goedartella Yponomeuta sp. Ypsolopha sequella Coleophora sop. Batia unitella Anacampsis blattariella Synaphe punctalis Helcystogramma rufescens Blastobasis lignea Limnaecia phragmitella Pandemis cerasana Epiphyas postvittana Celypha striana Apotomis betuletana Agapeta hamana Eudemis profundana Epinotia brunnichana Eucosma cana Eucosma obumbratana Cydia pomonella Calamotropha paludella Chrysoteuchia culmella Crambus perlella Agriphila tristella Catoptria pinella Catoptria falsella Pediasia aridella Scoparia ambigualis Eudonia pallida Cataclysta lemnata Evergestis forficalis Pyrausta aurata Phlyctaenia coronata Udea prunalis Endotricha flammealis Aphomia sociella Trachycera advenella