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Knights in White Satin meet Small Ranunculus! Where are all the Heart & Darts and Large Yellow Underwings? A nice tidy catch last night and great to get some more records for the garden. I have decided to roll two garden catches into one as I have really been pushed for time recently. Some great moths and a superb boost for the garden list. Highlights were of course a new moth for me, a Small Ranunculus which unfortunately was in such an awful state bless it, a stunning Broad-barred White, 3 glorious White Satin's, Nutmeg, Lychnis and Cabbage Moth. The micro Recurvaria leucatella was a great record as was a new garden record for Prays ruficeps, easily an overlooked moth having not long ago been seperated from fraxinella f.rustica

Catch Report - 29/07/13 & 30/07/13 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson trap

Macro Moths

1x Small Ranunculus [NEW!] 7x Small Fan-footed Wave [NFG] 1x Broad-barred White [NFG] 3x White Satin [NFG] 1x Smoky Wainscot [NFG] 1x Clay [NFG] 1x Peach Blossom [NFG] 1x Scalloped Oak [NFG] 1x Ruby Tiger [NFG] 1x Cabbage Moth [NFG] 1x Nutmeg [NFG] 1x Slender Pug [NFG] 1x Lychnis [NFG] 3x Straw Underwing [NFY] 1x Vapourer [NFY] 1x Yellow-tail [NFY] 1x Lesser Yellow Underwing [NFY] 1x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing [NFY] 12x Dun-bar 1x Purple Thorn 1x Herald 1x Fern 12x Peppered Moth 1x July Highflyer 6x Common Footman 1x Short-cloaked Moth 13x Riband Wave 2x Swallow-tailed Moth 5x Willow Beauty 3x Snout 26x Dot Moth 6x Mottled Rustic 22x Bright-line Brown-eye 1x Buff-tip 29x Dark Arches 21x Uncertain 23x Common Rustic 5x V-pug 4x Shuttle-shaped Dart 9x Silver-Y 3x Early Thorn 1x Cloaked Minor 1x Buff Arches 2x Nut-tree Tussock 3x Double Square-spot 1x Rustic 1x Single-dotted Wave 1x Pale Prominent 1x Clouded Border 2x Heart & Dart 1x Small Blood-vein 1X Spectacle 1x Poplar Hawk-moth 1x Angle Shades 1x Large Yellow Underwing 1x Clouded Silver 1x Grey Dagger 1x Engrailed 1x Mottled Beauty

Micro Moths

1x Recurvaria leucatella [NFG] 1x Prays ruficeps [NFG] 1x Tischeria ekebladella [NFG] 1x Lozotaeniodes formosanus [NFG] 1x Helcystogramma rufescens [NFG] 17x Agriphila straminella [NFY] 1x Acleris variegana [NFY] 5x Agriphila tristella [NFY] 1x Ditula angustiorana 1x Carcina quercana 1x Plutella xylostella 2x Udea prunalis 2x Chrysoteuchia culmella 10x Endotricha flammealis 2x Pleuroptya ruralis 3x Eudonia mercurella 1x Eurrhypara hortulata 2x Zeiraphera isertana 1x Celypha striana 1x Blastobasis adustella 2x Blastobasis laticolella 1x Epiphyas postvittana 1x Argyresthia spinosella 1x Emmelina monodactyla 1x Amblyptilia acanthadactyla 2x Batia unitella 1x Epiblema uddmanniana 2x Dipleurina lacustrata 1x Coleophora mayrella 3x Phycita roborella 2x Acleris hastiana 2x Spilonota ocellana 1x Epiblema cirsiana 3x Trachycera advenella 2x Clepsis consimilana 1x Pterophorus pentadactyla 4x Yponomeuta evonymella