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A belated sweeping session yields 3 new moths for me Back on the 21st of May I had a brief hour sweeping session along a wildflower field at the edge of Hexton Chalk Pit just about in Hertfordshire (As it border's bedfordshire strangely on both sides).

I ended up with a few nice moths including 3 firsts for me, Marsh Pug, Common Heath and Pancalia leuwenhoekella, all three species quite scarce in Herts.

If that wasn't enough I caught up with a little beauty that i've only ever seen once before, the tiny shiney Stephensia brunnichella.

The weather was warm with highs of 22c but a little breezy which made netting tricky at times.

Full list below of species seen but no counts given

There is still a Stigmella sp, Parornix sp and 2x Dichrorampha sps to gen det.

Macro Moths

Common Heath [NEW!] Marsh Pug [NEW!] Blood-vein Brindled Pug Burnet Companion Common Carpet Common White Wave Green Carpet Grey Pug Latticed Heath Mother Shipton Purple Bar Sandy Carpet Shaded Pug Silver-ground Carpet Small Purple-barred Yellow Shell

Micro Moths

Pancalia leuwenhoekella [NEW!] Adela reamurella Agonopterix purpurea Anthophila fabriciana Argyresthia pruniella Bucculatrix bechsteinella Cameraria ohridella Celypha lacunana Dichrorampha sp 2 Elachista apicipunctella Epiblema costipunctana Esperia sulphurella Glyphipterix simplicella Grapholita jungiella Elachista argentella Hedya pruniana Isotrias rectifasciana Micropterix aruncella Micropterix calthella Nemapogon swammerdamella Nematopogon schwarziellus Notocelia cynosbatella Parornix sp Plutella xylostella Pyrausta aurata Scoparia ambigualis Spuleria flavicaput Stephensia brunnichella Stigmella sp