Back to garden trapping I returned form my hols on Friday and as a warm night was predicted with a little bit of cloud cover, I setup the trap ready for darkness to come. By the morning the trap was quite full and there was plenty of interest. The temperature didn't get much below 15 degrees all night despite a clear start to the day at 5am on Saturday morning.

It was great to see Lime Hawk-moth again after a 3 year absense in my garden, this use to be one of my commonest Hawk-moths where I use to live and i'd regularly trap 8-10 a year, and this is only my second ever garden example in 5 years of trapping here. Also the micro moth Rhyacionia pinivorana returned after 3 years as well.

The best was yet to come with two new for garden species!! One each of Small Clouded Brindle and Incurvaria oehlmanniella.

That now brings me up to 13 new species for the garden this year so far which is pretty good considering i've been trapping regularly here for 5 years and have a healthy 592 species recorded in that time period.

Catch Report - 02/06/17 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Small Clouded Brindle [NFG] 1x Clouded Border [NFY] 1x Clouded Brindle [NFY] 1x Foxglove Pug [NFY] 1x Lime Hawk-moth [NFY] 2x Mottled Rustic [NFY] 1x Poplar Hawk-moth [NFY] 3x Riband Wave [NFY] 1x Small Fan-foot [NFY] 3x Brimstone Moth 2x Brown Rustic 2x Buff-tip 1x Clouded Silver 2x Common Marbled Carpet 2x Common Pug 6x Common Swift 2x Flame Shoulder 2x Garden Carpet 1x Green Carpet 14x Heart & Dart 4x Ingrailed Clay 6x Large Nutmeg 3x Marbled Minor 2x Mottled Pug 4x Orange Footman 1x Pale Mottled Willow 2x Pale Oak Beauty 2x Scorched Wing 3x Shuttle-shaped Dart 2x Silver-ground Carpet 2x Silver-Y 1x Small Waved Umber 1x Snout 2x Straw Dot 5x Vine's Rustic 7x Willow Beauty

Micro Moths

1x Incurvaria oehlmanniella [NFG] 1x Celypha striana [NFY] 1x Coleophora sp (to be gen det) [NFY] 2x Ephestia sp [NFY] 2x Hedya pruniana [NFY] 1x Hofmannophila pseudospretella [NFY] 1x Notocelia uddmanniana [NFY] 1x Rhyacionia pinivorana [NFY] 1x Udea olivalis [NFY] 2x Anania hortulata 1x Caloptilia alchimiella/robustella 4x Celypha lacunana 1x Crambus lathoniellus 6x Epiphyas postvittana 1x Endrosis sarcitrella 1x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1x Scoparia ambigualis