Finally a Tree-lichen Beauty! A combined catch result for this week chaps, as I haven't had much time to update thy blog. Being officially married now means that my mothing exploits will apparently subdue over the years to come (but not too soon I must add!) I trapped on the 6th, 8th and 9th this week with pretty mixed results but with a downward trend starting to happen as we go into the beginning of the end....or is it?

There was me going through the trap each time expecting to not be that thrilled with late Summer catches (Yes in the moth world it is nearing Autumn already) then to stumble upon rare and interesting moths in each of the three session. 6th was the Cydia amplana night, on the 8th star of the show was Acrolepiopsis assectella, both completely new moths for me. The on the 9th after EVERYBODY else has had one, finally I managed a Tree-lichen Beauty....it's never too late is it!

Also a Footman needs checking for Hoary.

All in all a good end to the week trapping.

Catch Report - 06-08-09/08/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Tree-lichen Beauty [NFG] 1x Small Waved Umber [NFG] 2x Lesser Swallow Prominent [NFY] 6x Square-spot Rustic [NFY] 1x Vapourer Moth [NFY] 3x Angle Shades 3x Black Arches 3x Brimstone Moth 1x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1x Cloaked Minor 1x Common Carpet 22x Common Rustic 3x Dark Arches 1x Dot Moth 2x Double-striped Pug 2x Dun-bar 3x Dusky Thorn 2x Flame Shoulder 8x Flounced Rustic 1x Green Carpet 5x Large Yellow Underwing 1x Least Carpet 42x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1x Lesser Yellow Underwing 1x Maiden's Blush 2x Maple Pug 2x Marbled Beauty 1x Nut-tree Tussock 1x Oak Hook-tip 4x Orange Swift 2x Pale Mottled Willow 1x Poplar Hawk-moth 1x Red Twin-spot Carpet 11x Riband Wave 1x Scarce Footman 4x September Thorn 3x Setaceous Hebrew Character 6x Shuttle-shaped Dart 1x Silver-Y 1x Small Emerald 1x Small Rivulet 4x Spectacle 2x Square-spotted Clay 1x Straw Dot 5x Straw Underwing 1x Uncertain 1x Vine's Rustic 10x Willow Beauty 2x Yellow Shell

Micro Moths

1x Acrolepiopsis assectella [NEW!] 1x Cydia amplana [NEW!] 1x Ypsolopha sequella [NFG] 1x Dichrorampha acuminatana [NFG] 1x Pyrausta purpuralis [NFG] 1x Mompha divisella [NFG] 6x Agriphila geniculea [NFY] 2x Ypsolopha parenthesella [NFY] 4x Evergestis forficalis 1x Hypsopygia costalis 4x Amblyptilia acanthadactyla 3x Eurrhypara hortulata 1x Mompha subbistrigella 1x Monopis laevigella 2x Endotricha flammealis 15x Blastobasis adustella 2x Emmelina monodactyla 2x Eudonia mercurella 1x Ypsolopha dentella 2x Trachycera advenella 1x Trachycera suavella 3x Carcina quercana 7x Epiphyas postvittana 1x Paronix sp 1x Celypha lacunana 1x Apotomis betuletana 3x Argyrotaenia ljungiana 5x Agriphila straminella 2x Phycita roborella 6x Agriphila tristella 2x Spilonota ocellana 1x Caloptilia betulicola 2x Argyresthia goedartella 1x Argyresthia pruniella 5x Plutella xylostella 2x Batia unitella