After feeling pretty ill lately I still managed to set just the one trap last night and I am so glad I did, with what looked like a great night weather-wise, by the morning it was still warm with a little dew. In the trap was the usual pickings including a few new for year's Drinker, Willow Beauty, Uncertain, Beautiful Hook-tip (all trap regular's at this time of year) then my heart skipped a beat... a Delicate sitting at the bottom, a super migrant and one I have only ever seen abroad before and that was as far away as Slovenia! though this moth is more likely to have come from France. Further rummaging through the trap, yielded not 1 but 2 extra new moths for me. The first I looked at as a Shears, but no hang on... it's too brown, Tawny Shears it was! The 3rd I took with me to my CR to confirm that indeed it was my very first Wood Carpet. I guess double checking all of those Common Carpets had finally paid off! 3 ticks in a night was rather overwhelming I must say.

Catch Report - Braughing 25/06/12 - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap Macro Moths

1x Delicate [NEW!] 1x Tawny Shears [NEW!] 1x Wood Carpet [NEW!] 1x Beautiful Hook-tip [NFY] 1x Drinker [NFY] 2x Willow Beauty [NFY] 2x Uncertain [NFY] 4x Angle Shades 2x Mottled Beauty 1x Spruce Carpet 7x Setaceous Hebrew Character 4x Nutmeg 2x Rustic Shoulder-knot 2x Spectacle 1x Eyed Hawk-moth 2x Privet Hawk-moth 1x Poplar Hawk-moth 2x Vine's Rustic 1x White Ermine 1x Buff Ermine 1x Common Footman 11x Brown Rustic 2x Large Nutmeg 4x Ingrailed Clay 2x Mottled Rustic 1x Silver-ground Carpet 2x Dark Arches 2x Bright-line Brown-eye 3x Cinnabar 1x Treble Brown Spot 1x Middle-barred Minor 1x Brimstone Moth 2x Clouded Silver 1x Light Emerald 2x Flame 1x Turnip 2x Heart & Dart 1x Scorched Wing 1x Blood-vein 2x Light Arches 2x Burnished Brass 1x Pale Prominent 1x Barred Straw 2x Orange Footman 1x Light Brocade 1x Common Wave

Micro Moths

1x Dipleurina lacustrata [NFY] 3x Small Magpie Eurrhypara hortulata 4x Udea Olivalis 1x Thistle Ermine Myelois circumvoluta 5x Chrysoteuchia culmella 3x Plum Tortrix Hedya pruniana 1x Brown House-moth Hofmannophila pseudospretella 4x Agapeta hamana 2x Scoparia ambigualis 3x Ephestia parasitella 2x Marbled Orchard Tortrix Hedya nubiferana 2x Bee Moth Aphomia sociella