Saturday night from the moth trap Back to trapping last night and after a dull and gloomy day with temperatures really struggling to hit 20 degrees under cloudy skies, the night was hopefully going to be cloudy most of the night.

Indeed with lows of 16 degrees it wasn't bad at all but numbers have slowly dropped off recently but the new species keep on coming and 5 possibly 6 new for year's were observed and all being micros.

There is still a potential Argyresthia glaucinella, a species I recorded in Bedfordshire 3 weeks ago for the first time. If this is right it will be the 3rd County record, it's such a tiny moth at 6mm long.

But better still I recorded a new species for myself, Gelechia senticetella.

Catch Report - 15/07/17 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Bright-line Brown-eye 1x Brimstone 1x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1x Buff Footman 1x Buff Ermine 1x Cloaked Minor 1x Common Carpet 7x Common Footman 5x Common Rustic 2x Dark Arches 3x Dingy Footman 3x Dot Moth 3x Double Square-spot 3x Dun-bar 1x Engrailed 1x Haworth's Pug 1x Heart & Dart 1x Knot Grass 2x Large Yellow Underwing 4x Least Carpet 2x Lesser Yellow Underwing 1x Maple Prominent 1x Mottled Beauty 1x Mottled Rustic 3x Nut-tree Tussock 1x Peppered Moth 5x Riband Wave 1x Ruby Tiger 1x Rustic 2x Scalloped Oak 2x Scarce Footman 1x Scorched Carpet 1x Shuttle-shaped Dart 4x Silver-Y 1x Single-dotted Wave 2x Small Blood-vein 1x Small Emerald 1x Small Fan-footed Wave 1x Smoky Wainscot 2x Swallow-tailed Moth 3x Uncertain 2x Yellow-tail

Micro Moths

1x Gelechia senticetella [NEW!] 1x Argyresthia glaucinella [NFG]??Pos 1x Aphelia paleana [NFY] 1x Catoptria pinella [NFY] 1x Cydia splendana [NFY] 1x Paraswammerdamia nebulella [NFY] 1x Acleris forsskaleana 1x Acleris notana/ferrugana 1x Acrobasis advenella 2x Acrobasis suavella 3x Agriphila straminella 2x Anania coronata 2x Anania hortulata 8x Blastobasis adustella 1x Bryotropha terrella 3x Chrysoteuchia culmella 1x Coleophora sp 1x Cydia pomonella 2x Ditula angustiorana 1x Emmelina monodactyla 5x Endotricha flammealis 1x Epiphyas postvittana 5x Eudonia lacustrata 3x Eudonia mercurella 2x Oegoconia sp 1x Pammene aurita 1x Pammene fasciana 1x Pandemis heparana 3x Pleuroptya ruralis 7x Spilonota ocellana 2x Yponomeuta evonymella