Hemel Hempstead - Field Trip - 08/07/13 - National Moth Night contribution David, Roger and myself made another effort to trap at Gadesprings again, for my contribution to National Moth Night (as I wouldn't be running a trap in my garden until Sunday night) The weather was perfect, cloudy and mild with just a hint of breeze. Luckily we had almost finished packing up at about 2am before the rain started. We set up 2 traps from the mains and a further 3 traps about 200 metres along the canal/watercress beds. Two of the traps were placed right next to large outcrops of Butterbur, in the vain attempt to see whether we could get a Butterbur Moth....that never happened! Although we did get a few interesting species at the end of the night. Olive was a good record. My only records are below

Hatfield Broad Oak 21/07/2008 Hatfield Broad Oak 22/07/2008 Canvey Wick SSSI 08/07/2010

Interestingly all my previous records are from Essex, so this is my first Hertfordshire specimen.

Other moths of note were a Dioryctria, possbly abietella due to its plainess and size (I have set the specimen for further identification), Ypsolopha sequella which I haven't seen for awhile now, and a possible Elachista gleichenella, which to my knowledge is extinct in Herts now. I unfortunately let it go after a few photos which I am kicking myself for doing. It does look spot on for this species and has many more markings than atricomella, alpinella and the rest of the confusion species.

Numbers below are approximate

08/07/13 - Gadesprings - Hemel Hempstead - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 160w MBT Trap, 1x 22w Actinic + 26w Blacklight Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Trap run from 9.00pm until 1.30am

124 Species in total 63 Macro Moths & 61 Micro Moths

Macro Moths

1x Beautiful Hook-tip 1x Bright-line Brown-eye 2x Brimstone Moth 5x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1x Clay 2x Cloaked Minor 3x Common Carpet 1x Common Emerald 2x Common Footman 4x Common Rustic 1x Common Wave 1x Common Wainscot 1x Copper Underwing 1x Coronet 10x Dark Arches 15x Dingy Footman 10x Double Lobed 1x Double Square-spot 10x Dun-bar 1x Fern 5x Flame Shoulder 1x Heart & Dart 2x July Highflyer 1x Knot Grass 3x Large Yellow Underwing 8x Least Yellow Underwing 15x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 5x Lesser Yellow Underwing 1x Lunar-spotted Pinion 3x Maple Pug 1x Nut-tree Tussock 1x Olive 4x Orange Swift 1x Pale Mottled Willow 2x Pale Prominent 1x Poplar Hawk-moth 2x Red Twin-spot Carpet 4x Riband Wave 1x Rosy Rustic 12x Ruby Tiger 1x Sallow Kitten 1x Scorched Carpet 2x Shuttle-shaped Dart 5x Silver-Y 1x Single-dotted Wave 2x Small Fan-footed Wave 2x Small Phoenix 1x Small Rivulet 1x Smoky Wainscot 5x Snout 1x Southern Wainscot 1x Square-spot Rustic 2x Straw Dot 1x Tawny Speckled Pug 1x Toadflax Pug 4x Tree-lichen Beauty 2x Uncertain 2x V-pug 5x White-spotted Pug 5x Willow Beauty 2x Wormwood Pug 8x Yellow Shell 1x Yellow-barred Brindle

Micro Moths

2x Acentria ephemerella 1x Acleris emargana 2x Acleris forsskaleana 1x Acleris variegana 2x Agapeta hamana 10x Agriphila straminella 5x Agriphila tristella 2x Aleimma loeflingiana 2x Apotomis lineana 2x Argyresthia bonnetella 1x Bactra lancealana 1x Batia unitella 2x Blastobasis adustella 1x Brachmia blandella 1x Calamotropha paludella 1x Caloptilia alchimiella 2x Cameraria ohridella 4x Carcina quercana 2x Cataclysta lemnata 2x Celypha lacunana 1x Chrysoteuchia culmella 4x Clepsis spectrana 1x Cnephasia sp 2x Coleophora sp 2x Dipleurina lacustrata 1x Dioryctria abietella (pending) 5x Elachista canapennella 1x Elachista gleichenella (pending)

5x Elachista maculicerusella 1x Emmelina monodactyla 1x Epiblema uddmanniana 5x Epinotia nisella 1x Epinotia ramella 1x Eucosma cana 2x Eudemis profundana 1x Eudonia mercurella 1x Eudonia pallida 2x Euzophera pinguis 1x Gypsonoma dealbana 1x Hedya salicella 2x Helcystogramma rufescens 4x Limnaecia phragmitella 2x Mompha epilobiella 1x Monochroa palustrella 1x Orthopygia glaucinalis 2x Pandemis cerasana 1x Pandemis corylana 5x Pandemis heparana 1x Parornix sp 2x Phycita roborella 50+ Pleuroptya ruralis 3x Plutella xylostella 1x Prays ruficeps 2x Pterophorus pentadactyla 1x Pyrausta aurata 1x Rhopobota naevana 2x Spilonota ocellana 4x Trachycera advenella 1x Udea prunalis 2x Yponomeuta evonymella