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Very busy return from holiday! Trap burstingly good Well, the species really are racking up in my garden as of late, with 23 added on Friday night which made sifting through the trap on Saturday morning a busy one. Normally it takes me around 10 minutes to go through my trap and look around the trap and on the walls etc, Saturay morning...we were looking at nearly an hour to pot stuff, check bits and log the new ones for the year, all good fun!

Highlights out of the 23 were Leopard Moth, Sycamore, Sitochroa verticalis, Coleophora conspicuella and Eana incanana. All of which are usually very scarce in my garden (although Eana incanana is having a bumper year so far with 12 records). Coleophora conspicuella is great to see again, after adding it to the Herts County list last year, since..John Chainey & Jenny Spence, Grame Smith and myself have found the workings of the cases fairly numerous in several areas between the North-east and East of the County. Certainly a spreading species, and rapid at that! Two other micros are pending gen det, both a Bryotropha (which could be basaltinella) and Grapholita that doesn't look like the typucal janthinana that I usually get (A little bigger and more suffused with golden scales).

Garden species count for 2019 now upto 294.

Catch Report - Back Garden - Stevenage - 250w Clear MV Robinson Trap

05/07/19

Macro Moths

Chinese Character 1 [NFY] July Highflyer 1 [NFY] Leopard Moth 1 [NFY] Scarce Footman 1 [NFY] Small Fan-footed Wave 1 [NFY] Sycamore 1 [NFY] V-Pug 1 [NFY]

Micro Moths

Acrobasis suavella 2 [NFY] Ancylis achatana 1 [NFY] Batia lunaris 1 [NFY] Carcina quercana 1 [NFY] Coleophora conspicuella 1 [NFY] Cydia splendana 1 [NFY] Eana incanana 2 [NFY] Endotricha flammealis 3 [NFY] Eudemis profundana 1 [NFY] Hypsopygia costalis 1 [NFY] Mompha ochraceella 1 [NFY] Paraswammerdamia nebulella 1 [NFY] Phyllonorycter ulmifoliella 1 [NFY] Pleuroptya ruralis 4 [NFY] Sitochroa verticalis 1 [NFY]