Field Trip - Home Wood - 30/05/18 My first field trip of the year and I joined up with Matt from Upper Caldecote to hit up Home Wood with a collection of traps and a sheet. Unfortunately the evening started a bit confusingly, where I jokingly sent a photo of myself holding my son saying 'That it looks like i'm staying in tonight' (As a joke)... Matt picked the message up and immediately responded saying can I still make it. I didn't see this reply until 30 minutes later and in that time Matt had rang his Dad and had packed up and turned around from the site and had gone home. To say I felt bad for pulling a prank was an understatement. Lionel wished me good luck on the phone and said 'I hope you trip over the gate on the way in' ...I guess I deserved that comment :D

Anyhow, drama over and next time I won't make a silly joke :/

We set up just in time for night fall with 4 traps and a sheet. The weather was pretty perfect, no wind and although the day really struggled to get warm and by lunchtime it was still only 14 degrees, by 7pm it was pushing 18 with a few breaks in the cloud allowing the sun to warm things up but not losing much cloud at all things, were really looking up for us.

Indeed it was pretty damn good considering this was earlier in the year than we normally blitz this woodland.

The list is below with several species still pending.

There are several new species I believe for the County of Bedfordshire

New species for me were Ancylis diminutana and Cydia illutana (So far).

41 Macro and 55 Micro species so far

Catch Report - 30/05/18 - Home Wood - Nr Upper Caldecote - 1x 250w Frosted MV Robinson Trap, 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x twin 20w Wemite Actinic + 1x 40w Actinic & 15w LED corn light and 1x 80w MV on tripod with sheet

Macro Moths

Angle Shades Beautiful hook-tip Bordered white Brimstone Moth Brindled White-spot Brown Rustic Clouded Silver Common Carpet Common Marbled Carpet Common Pug Common Swift Common White Wave Coronet Coxcomb Prominent Cream Wave Dingy Shell Dwarf Pug Figure of Eighty Flame Carpet Flame Shoulder Garden Carpet Gold Swift Green Carpet Green Pug Green Silver lines Grey-pine Carpet Ingrailed Clay Iron Prominent Light Emerald Lime Hawk-moth Lobster Moth Maiden's Blush Marbled Brown Marbled Minor sp Marbled White-spot Middle-barred Minor Mottled Pug Ochreous Pug Orange Footman Pale Oak Beauty Pale Prominent Pale Tussock Peppered Moth Poplar Grey Poplar Lutestring Puss Moth Red Twin-spot Carpet Rustic Shoulder-knot Scorched Carpet Scorched Wing Seraphim Setaceous Hebrew character Silver-Y Silver-ground Carpet Snout Spectacle Spruce Carpet Straw Dot Treble Lines White Ermine

Micro Moths

Acentria ephemerella Adela reamurella Ancylis diminutana Ancylis mitterbacheriana Aphomia sociella Argyresthia laevigatella/glabratella Argyresthia pruniella Argyresthia spinosella Caloptilia alchimiella/robustella Capua vulgana Celypha lacunana Cochylis atricapitana Coleophora caespititiella (Gen Det) Coleophora laricella (Gen Det) Crambus lathoniellus Cryptoblabes bistriga Cydia illutana Epinotia tedella Elachista sp Hedya pruniana Incurvaria oehlmanniella Lathronympha strigana Monopis laevigella Nemapogon cloacella Nematopogon metaxella Nemophora degeerella Notocelia cynosbatella Notocelia trimaculana Pammene prob ignorata Parapoynx stratiotata Parornix sp Plutella xylostella Prays fraxinella Pseudargyrotoza conwagana Pseudoswammerdamia combinella Ptycholoma lecheana Rhyacionia pinivorana Scoparia ambigualis Scoparia basistrigalis Scrobipalpa costella Syndemis musculana Teleiodes luculella Tinea semifulvella Tortrix viridana