A pleasing variety Back to trapping, and with a slightly cooler and less favourable night ahead compared to the two weekend nights, I wasn't expecting much. Luckily the cloud stuck around, and so did the moths and again not a huge amount, but a nice array of new species for the year making it another 10 to add to the year list.

The majority of the catch was made up of Mottled Rustic (15) and Heart & Dart (34).

A nice splash of colour with Barred Yellow and Small Emerald featuring for the first time this year.

Privet Hawk-moth made up the size of the catch quite literally!

Catch Report - 15/06/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Shaded Pug [NFY] 1x Small Emerald [NFY] 1x Buff Arches [NFY] 1x Barred Yellow [NFY] 2x Dark Arches [NFY] 1x Privet Hawk-moth [NFY] 1x Dot Moth [NFY] 2x Green Pug 1x Freyer's Pug 1x Large Yellow Underwing 1x Shuttle-shaped Dart 2x Common Footman 1x Flame Shoulder 2x Rustic Shoulder-knot 15x Mottled Rustic 34x Heart & Dart 1x Grey Pug 1x Light Emerald 2x Brimstone Moth 4x Marbled Minor 1x Tawny Marbled Minor 1x Ingrailed Clay 1x Green Silver-lines 1x Mottled Pug 3x Garden Carpet 6x Brown Rustic 4x Vine's Rustic 1x Common Swift 3x Mottled Beauty 3x Bright-line Brown-eye 10x Uncertain 1x Pale Mottled Willow 1x Treble Lines 2x Large Nutmeg

Micro Moths

1x Agapeta hamana [NFY] 1x Aphelia paleana [NFY] 1x Bryotropha terrella [NFY] 3x Tortrix viridana 2x Dipleurina lacustrata 1x Epiphyas postvittana 2x Celypha lacunana 2x Udea olivalis 2x Aphomia sociella 1x Scrobipalpa acuminatella 2x Aleimma loeflingiana 1x Chrysoteuchia culmella