Up to Beds! Home Wood - Field Trip - 02/07/14 Hi allLast night I joined Matt and Trent (Or Lionel, confused.com lol), at Home Wood near Biggelswade in Bedfordshire, hopping Counties for the first time this year (in fact I shall be travelling to Essex tonight, two Counties in as many days).Conditions were absolutely spot on with dominant cloud cover and a warm sultry temperature we set about our business to cover a nice wide area of the woodland.But before that we had to do a spot of tractor pulling.. well van, as Trent's van got stuck in the mud (I wonder if that piece of rope ever came off the tow-bar?)The evening started well with plenty of micros and Geometers turning up first to the sheet.Then at about 11pm it all went a bit mental really, the traps that we had left were teeming with moths, you could barely see the trap underneath them, peering into the skinner actinic was like something out of a tropical rainforest catch and inhalation was definitely not a good idea at this point!I have yet to write the list up as I have spent all morning photographing all of the moths which hasn't been easy with the warm weather and wind.I think we must be knocking on the door of 200 species of Macro and Micro for the night. Acleris kochiella, Assara terebrella, Eulamprotes atrella, Acleris holmiana, Hedya ochroleucana, Larch Pug, Mere Wainscot, Olindia schumacherana and Zeiraphera ratzeburgiana were new for meSo here are a few beauties from last night, mainly micros and several were new to me.I wonder if we get a first for Bedfordshire out of all the things we potted, and the sack load of tubes heading David Manning's way.Catch Report - 02/07/14 - Home Wood - Nr.Biggleswade - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Suitcase Trap.Numbers below are approximate106 Macros and 67 Micros ( 173 species)Macro Moths2x Barred Red2x Barred Straw1x Barred Yellow5x Beautiful Hook-tip1x Black Arches1x Blackneck2x Blood-vein2x Bright-line Brown-eye5x Brimstone Moth1x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing4x Brown Rustic1x Brown Scallop1x Brown-line Bright-eye2x Brown-tail5x Buff Arches10+ Buff Footman3x Buff-tip1x Burnished Brass1x Chinese Character1x Cinnabar2x Clay20+ Clouded Border2x Clouded Brindle30+ Clouded Silver1x Clouded-bordered Brindle 1x Common Carpet3x Common Footman1x Common Pug2x Common Rustic1x Common Swift2x Common Wave10+ Common White Wave1x Coxcomb Prominent10+ Dark Arches2x Dingy Footman1x Dingy Shears1x Dingy Shell1x Double-striped Pug10+ Dun-bar15+ Dwarf Cream Wave1x Early Thorn1x Elephant Hawk-moth2x Engrailed5x Fan-foot1x Flame1x Garden Carpet1x Ghost Moth4x Green Pug1x Green Silver-lines2x Grey Pug1x Haworth's Pug3x Heart & Club3x Heart & Dart2x July Highflyer1x Larch Pug20+ Large Twin-spot Carpet5x Large Yellow Underwing1x Leopard Moth5x Light Emerald1x Lunar-spotted Pinion1x Maiden's Blush1x Map-winged Swift2x Maple Prominent 5x Marbled Minor10+ Marbled White Spot3x Mere Wainscot 10+ Mottled Beauty2x Oak Nycteoline2x Peach Blossom5x Peppered Moth1x Pine Hawk-moth1x Poplar Grey1x Poplar Hawk-moth2x Pretty Chalk Carpet1x Privet Hawk-moth1x Purple Bar15+ Riband Wave1x Rustic1x Satin Beauty2x Scarce Footman2x Scarce Silver-lines2x Setaceous Hebrew Character3x Shaded Broad-bar1x Shears3x Short-cloaked Moth5x Single-dotted Wave2x Slender Brindle5x Small Dotted Buff5x Small Fan-foot25+ Small Fan-footed Wave1x Small Phoenix5x Smoky Wainscot10+ Snout1x Spectacle1x Spruce Carpet15+ Straw Dot2x Swallow-tailed Moth1x Sycamore2x Tawny Marbled Minor1x Tawny-barred Angle4x Treble Brown Spot2x Uncertain1x V-Pug2x White Satin Moth1x Wormwood Pug8x Yellow-tailMicro MothsAcleris holmiana 1Acleris laterana/comariana 1 Acleris kochiella 1Aethes rubigana 1Agapeta hamana 10+Agapeta zoegana 3Agriphila straminella 3Aleimma loeflingiana 50+Ancylis achatana 2Apotomis capreana 1Archips crataegana 5Archips podana 2Archips xylosteana 2Argyresthia albistria 1Argyresthia brockeella 2Argyresthia goedartella 1Assara terebrella 1Batia lunaris 1Batia unitella 3Blastobasis lacticolella 2Blastodacna hellerella 2Bryotropha terrella 5Catoptria pinella 1Celypa lacunana 8Celypa striana 5Chrysoteuchia culmella 10Cochylis hybridella 2Conobathra repandana 10Crambus lathoniellus 1Crambus pascuella 3Cryptoblabes bistriga 1Dipleurina lacustrata 2Ditula angustiorana 5Endrosis sarcitella 1Ephestia parasitellaEpiblema uddmanniana 3Epinotia bilunana 1Epinotia brunnichana 3Eucosma cana 5Eucosma hohenwartiana 1Eucosma obumbratana 10Eudemis profundana 1Eulamprotes atrellaGypsonoma dealbana 1Gypsonoma sociana 1Hedya ochroleucanaHedya pruniana 5Hedya salicella 1Hofmannophila pseudospretella 2Olindia schumacherana 5Orthopygia glaucinalis 2Pammene fasciana 1Pandemis cerasana 10+Pandemis heparana 2Paraswammerdamia nebulella 3Phycitodes binaevella 1Pleuroptya ruralis 10Prays fraxinella 5Pterophorus pentadactyla 2 Rhopobota naevana 2Scoparia ambigualis 5Scoparia basistrigalis 8Spilonota ocellana 2Syncopacma larseniella sp 5Tortrix viridana 5Zeiraphera ratzeburgiana 1Zeiraphera isertana 10
