Ring Haw  [TL053973]  -  28th August 2008
Overcast & humid with v. light breeze. Temperature 18.5°C at 20:30 falling to 17.5°C by 24:30.
Tripod & three Box traps plus Robinson operated from 20:30 till 23:30 [Robinson 24:30].
Present:- Perdita Cawthorne, Ron Follows, Martin Pride & Mike Rogers
B&F Vernacular Scientific National Quantity
No. Name Name Status  
969 Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis corylana None 2
1048 Garden Rose Tortrix Acleris variegana None 2
998 Light Brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana None 2
1405 Mother of Pearl Pleuroptya ruralis Common 8
425 Orchard Ermine Yponomeuta padella None 1
1348 Ringed China-mark Parapoynx stratiotata Common 7
1331 Water Veneer Acentria ephemerella Common 2
455   Ypsolopha scabrella None 1
658   Carcina quercana None 2
937   Agapeta hamana None 1
966   Cochylis atricapitana None 2
1062   Acleris emargana None 1
1093   Apotomis betuletana None 2
1304   Agriphila straminella Common 1
1305   Agriphila tristella Common 10
1309   Agriphila geniculea Common 1
1362   Pyrausta purpuralis Common 3
1439   Trachycera advenella Common 1
1038x   Acleris laterana/comariana None 1
         
2306 Angle Shades Phlogophora meticulosa Common 2
1682 Blood-vein Timandra comae Common 2
1906 Brimstone Moth Opisthograptis luteolata Common 57
2110 Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing Noctua fimbriata Common 4
2434 Burnished Brass Diachrysia chrysitis Common 3
1913 Canary-shouldered Thorn Ennomos alniaria Common 1
2269 Centre-barred Sallow Atethmia centrago Common 2
1651 Chinese Character Cilix glaucata Common 1
1738 Common Carpet Epirrhoe alternata Common 1
1764 Common Marbled Carpet Chloroclysta truncata Common 1
2199 Common Wainscot Mythimna pallens Common 18
2297 Copper Underwing Amphipyra pyramidea Common 3
2044 Dingy Footman Eilema griseola Common 1
1862 Double-striped Pug Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Common 2
2178 Feathered Gothic Tholera decimalis Common 42
2102 Flame Shoulder Ochropleura plecta Common 74
2353 Flounced Rustic Luperina testacea Common 33
1728 Garden Carpet Xanthorhoe fluctuata fluctuata Common 1
1776 Green Carpet Colostygia pectinataria Common 26
1634 Lackey Malacosoma neustria Common 1
2107 Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba Common 89
2111 LBBYU Noctua janthe Common 6
2109 Lesser Yellow Underwing Noctua comes Common 3
1825 Lime-speck Pug Eupithecia centaureata Common 7
1884 Magpie Moth Abraxas grossulariata Common 1
1680 Maiden's Blush Cyclophora punctaria Local 4
2299 Mouse Moth Amphipyra tragopoginis Common 2
15 Orange Swift Hepialus sylvina Common 7
1652 Peach Blossom Thyatira batis Common 1
1981 Poplar Hawk-moth Laothoe populi Common 1
1752 Purple Bar Cosmorhoe ocellata Common 6
2361 Rosy Rustic Hydraecia micacea Common 1
2064 Ruby Tiger Phragmatobia fuliginosa Common 1
1997 Sallow Kitten Furcula furcula Common 1
2126 Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum Common 79
1708 Single-dotted Wave Idaea dimidiata Common 1
2133 Six-striped Rustic Xestia sexstrigata Common 5
1759 Small Phoenix Ecliptopera silaceata Common 6
2379 Small Rufous Coenobia rufa Local 1
2123 Small Square-spot Diarsia rubi Common 26
2350 Small Wainscot Chortodes pygmina Common 1
1781 Small Waved Umber Horisme vitalbata Common 4
2477 Snout Hypena proboscidalis Common 7
2134 Square-spot Rustic Xestia xanthographa Common 366
2131 Square-spotted Clay Xestia rhomboidea Nb 3
2474 Straw Dot Rivula sericealis Common 36
1893 Tawny-barred Angle Macaria liturata Common 1
1867 Treble Bar Aplocera plagiata Common 2
2384 Vine's Rustic Hoplodrina ambigua Local 2
1937 Willow Beauty Peribatodes rhomboidaria Common 1
1742 Yellow Shell Camptogramma bilineata Common 5
         
Total No. of moths 951
Total No. of species 51
-  Brown Hawker X2 caught in Robinson trap at centre
-  Glow worm by entrance gate to Ring Haw at approx. 01:00