Light rain in the evening, followed by a mild but slightly breezy evening. The predicted heavier rain did not start until 7am so I was lucky in that the catch wasn't sopping wet. A nice return aswell with two new Underwing species and the star of the catch, the uncommon Pyralid Donacaula mucronellus. This is a first record for my garden and my second record ever (the previous was from my Essex cottage garden in Hatfield Broad Oak) Strangely that both records are from less than ideal habitats for this moth.

Catch Report - Braughing 02/07/12 - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Lesser Yellow Underwing [NFY] 1x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing [NFY] 1x Angle Shades 8x Barred Straw 2x Heart & Dart 2x Heart & Club 8x Dark Arches 2x Brown Rustic 1x Nutmeg 1x Purple Bar 1x Large Nutmeg 2x Yellow Shell 1x Blood-vein 1x Fern 2x Spectacle 5x Double Square-spot 6x Setaceous Hebrew Character 2x Privet Hawk-moth 1x Elephant Hawk-moth 1x Common Footman 3x Mottled Rustic 1x Scorched Wing 3x Turnip Moth 1x Willow Beauty 2x Small Yellow Wave 3x Uncertain 1x Clouded Brindle 2x Large Yellow Underwing 1x Snout 7x Light Arches 1x Straw Dot 2x Minor sp. 1x Peppered Moth 2x Flame 2x Buff-tip 3x Ingrailed Clay 1x Common Pug 1x Vine's Rustic 1x Pale Oak Beauty 3x Mottled Beauty 2x Burnished Brass 4x Common Wainscot

Micro Moths 1x Donacaula mucronellus [NFY] 7x Celypha lacunana 2x Cnephasia sp. 1x Blastobasis laticolella 1x Metzneria lappella 3x Chrysoteuchia culmella 1x Crambus pascuella