Field Trip - Parndon Wood - Tuesday night

The second night at Parndon Wood gave me a chance to compare two nights running, all in all it was just as successful as last night with plenty of new and different species for the site.

The weather was pretty much similiar although slightly cooler and windier. On arrival this morning at 7am it felt slightly warmer and drizzle started to fall.

New species for the site included for the Macro Moth's a single Foxglove Pug, for the Micro Moth's however both Ancylis badiana and Morophaga choragella with an Argyresthia species still to be identified.

Most interesting of all was the amount of species that came to light tonight, that didn't make an appearance last night, 8 Macro Moth's in total including Green Carpet, Chocolate-tip, Poplar Hawk-moth, Foxglove Pug, Common Pug, Mottled Pug, Clouded Silver and Pale Mottled Willow.

Also the 160w bulb attracted all 3 examples of 3 different pug species, including both Carpet species as well. Overall the 125w MV bulb coupled with the 22w Actinic did attract more, as was to be expected.

125w MV Robinson Trap + 22w Hanging Actinic (Under Oak, Birch, Beech and Hornbeam canopy)

Macro Moths

7x Pale Tussock (inc 1 female) 3x Pale Oak Beauty (1 different pale specimen) 4x Light Emerald 1x Oak Hook-tip (different specimen, smaller) 1x Common Wave (possibly recapture) 1x Bird's Wing (possible recapture) 1x Treble Lines 8x Orange Footman 2x Marbled Minor (1 possibly a recapture, other of a different form) 10x Green Silver-lines (increase over last night) 16x Common Swift (slight increase) 2x Brindled White-spot 3x Scorched Wing 1x Shuttle-shaped Dart 2x Maiden's Blush 1x Clouded Silver 1x Poplar Hawk-moth 1x Pale Mottled Willow

Micro Moths

1x Ancylis badiana 1x Argyresthia spinosella 3x Ptycholoma lecheana 7x Coleophora sp. 1x Syndemis musculana 4x Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis cerasana 2x Teleiodes luculella 1x Celypha lacunana 3x Cnephasia sp. 1x Epiblema cynosbatella 1x Nematopogon swammerdamella 1x Esperia sulphurella

160w Mercury Blended bulb with DIY Trap (under Oak and near bramble and sedges/grasses)

Macro Moths

2x Heart & Dart (1 beautifully marked specimen) 1x Ingrailed Clay (possible recapture) 1x Common Carpet 1x Chocolate-tip 1x Treble Lines 1x Green Carpet 1x Common Carpet 1x Common Pug 1x Mottled Pug 1x Foxglove Pug 2x Scorched Wing 3x Light Emerald 9x Orange Footman 3x Pale Tussock 1x Shuttle-shaped Dart

Micro Moths

1x Crambus lathoniellus 1x White-shouldered House-moth Endrosis sarcitrella 2x Ptycholoma lecheana 1x Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis cerasana 2x Cnephasia sp.