A BIG deep breath.

A record-breaking night in Bedfordshire I joined Matt and Lionel at Home Wood on Monday night in Bedfordshire. The day had been absolutely scorching and hit nearly 30 degrees during the day and the night was meant to go no lower than 19/20 degrees, perfect muggy weather for moths despite clear skies we had absolutely no wind at all and no moon to contend with. We setup 5 traps and a light and sheet under sweaty conditions, it was hot stuff indeed and once again I attracted Horse-flies! As soon as it got dark, moths were absolutely everywhere with micros at first in their hundreds and then the Geometers started coming in and finally the Noctuids and boy was there action around the lights. I've been out before and had trouble with lots of midges and flies but never have I had as much trouble from inhaling moths as well. The species kept tallying up and it was hard to keep up. We got to 100 species about 2 hours in and then from midnight it was about 1 or 2 a minute being jotted down. Highlights were massively over-whelming with two County first species to start with....Rosy Marbled and Elegia similella.

Copied from Andy Banthorpe's email.

Gen Dets of species retained so far.

Carpatolechia fugitivella m & f – been recorded there before Carpatolechia notatella f – 3rd county record Neofaculta ericetella m confirmed Dioryctria abietella f Satyr Pug f 18th county record, only third since 1996 Teleiodes vulgella f (worn dark grey) Caloptilia alchimiella m Nemapogon cloacella m Nemapogon ruricolella m – 4th county record Coleophore kuehnella m (the white one)

Other Macro highlights were Cream-bordered Green Pea, 10+ Scarlet Tiger's, 5x Marbled Brown and Mere Wainscot.

In total for the time being we recorded 140 species of Macro and 148 species of micro, eclipsing my highest ever previous species of 252 with a grand total of 288 species!!

We finally finished packing up (which took over 2 hours) at 4am as it was getting light.

Thanks guys for the help you gave me and adding to the list as we went through the night.

Catch Report - 19/06/17 - Home Wood - SE Bedfordshire - 7 traps in total - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap 1x 40w Actinic + 15w LED Trap 1x 80w Actinic Trap

140 Macros & 148 Micros

288 species

Macro Moths

Barred Red Barred Straw Barred yellow Beautiful Golden-Y Beautiful Hook-tip Blackneck Blood-vein Blotched Emerald Blue-bordered Carpet Bordered white Bright-line Brown-eye Brimstone Brindled White-spot Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing Brown Rustic Brown Scallop Brown Silver-line Brown-line Bright-eye Buff Arches Buff Ermine Buff Footman Buff Tip Burnished Brass Clouded Border Clouded Brindle Clouded Silver Clouded-bordered Brindle Common Emerald Common Footman Common Marbled Carpet Common Pug Common Swift Common Wainscot Common wave Common White Wave Coronet Coxcomb Prominent Cream-bordered Green Pea Dark Arches Dingy Shears Dingy Shell Dotted Fan-foot Double Square-spot Double-striped Pug Drinker Dun-bar Elephant Hawk-moth Engrailed Fan-foot Fern Figure of eEghty Flame Flame Carpet Flame Shoulder Foxglove Pug Garden Carpet Ghost Moth Gold Swift Green Carpet Green Pug Green silver-lines Grey Pine Carpet Grey Pug Haworths Pug Heart & Club Heart & Dart July Highflyer Large Emerald Large Nutmeg Large Twin-spot Carpet Large Yellow Underwing Leopard Moth Light Arches Light Emerald Lime Hawk-moth Lunar-spotted Pinion Maiden's Blush Maple Prominent Map-winged Swift Marbled Brown [NEW!] Marbled Minor Marbled White-spot May Highflyer Mere Wainscot Middle-barred minor Miller Minor Shoulder-knot Mottled Beauty Mottled Pug Mottled Rustic Oak Nycteoline Obscure Wainscot Orange Footman Pale Oak Beauty Pale Prominent Pale Tussock Peach Blossom Peppered Moth Pinion-streaked Snout Poplar Grey Pretty Chalk Carpet Privet Hawk-moth Red-necked footman Riband Wave Rosy Marbled Ruddy Carpet Satin Beauty Satyr Pug Scalloped oak Scarce Footman Scarlet Tiger Scorched Carpet Scorched Wing Setaceous Hebrew Character Shaded pug Short-cloaked Moth Silver-ground Carpet Small Dotted Buff Small Dusty Wave Small Emerald Small Fan-foot Small Fan-footed Wave Small Rufous Small Yellow Wave Smoky Wainscot Snout Spruce Carpet Straw Dot Swallow-tailed Moth Tawny Marbled Minor Tawny-barred Angle Treble Brown Spot Treble Lines Turnip Moth Uncertain Vapourer V-Pug Willow Beauty Yellow Shell Yellow-tail

Micro Moths

Acentria ephemerella Acleris hastiana Acleris holmiana Acleris kochiella Acompsia cinerella Acrobasis repandana Agapeta hamana Agapeta zoegana Aleimma loeflingiana Anania coronata Anania hortulata Anania lancealis Anarsia innoxiella Ancylis achatana Anthophila fabriciana Aphomia sociella Archips crataegana Archips podana Archips rosana Archips xylosteana Argyresthia albistria Argyresthia bonnetella Argyresthia curvella Argyresthia glaucinella [NEW!] Argyresthia spinosella Batia lunaris Blastobasis lacticolella Blastodacna hellerella Bucculatrix cidarella [NEW!] Caloptilia alchimiella Caloptilia stigmatella Caloptilia syringella Carcina quercana Carpatolechia fugitivella Carpatolechia notatella [NEW!] Cedestis gysseleniella Celypha lacunana Celypha striana Chilo phragmitella Chrysoteuchia culmella Clepsis consimilana Cnephasia sp Cochylis atricapitana Cochylis hybridella Coleophora albidella [NEW!] Coleophora deauratella Coleophora kuehnella [NEW!] Coptotriche marginea Cosmopterix zieglerella [NEW!] Crambus lathoniellus Crambus pascuella Crambus perlella Crassa unitella Dioryctia abietella Ditula angustiorana Donacaula forficella Elachista bisulcella ? [NEW!] Elegia similella Elophila nymphaeata Endothenia gentianaeana/marginea Endothenia nigricostana Endotricha flammealis Epagoge grotiana Epermenia chaerophyllella Ephestia sp Epiblema foenella Epinotia abbreviana Epinotia signatana Epinotia subocellana Epinotia tedella Ethmia dodecea Eucosma cana Eudonia lacustrata Eudonia pallida Eupoecilia angustana Euzophera pinguis Exoteleia dodecella Gelechia sororculella [NEW!] Glyphipterix simpliciella Gypsonoma dealbana Gypsonoma sociana Hedya nubiferana Hedya pruniana Hedya salicella Hofmannophila pseudospretella Homoeosoma sinuella Hypsopygia costalis Incurvaria oehlmanniella Lathronympha strigana Lozotaeniodes formosana Metzneria metzneriella Mompha ochraceella Mompha propinquella Morophaga choragella Myelois circumvoluta Nemapogon cloacella Nemapogon ruricolella [NEW!] Nemophora degeerella Neofaculta ericetella Nephopterix angustella Notocelia trimaculana Notocelia uddmanniana Oegoconia sp Olindia schumacherana Pammene fasciana Pammene regiana Pandemis cerasana Pandemis heparana Parachronistis albiceps Parapoynx stratiotata Paraswammerdamia albicapitella Paraswammerdamia nebulella Parornix sp Phtheochroa rugosana Phycita roborella Phycitodes binaevella Piniphila bifasciana Pleuroptya ruralis Prays fraxinella Pseudargyrotoza conwagana Pterophorus pentadactyla Ptycholoma lecheana Rhopobota naevana Rhyacionia buoliana Rhyacionia pinicolana Scoparia ambigualis Scoparia basistrigalis Scoparia pyralella Scrobipalpa costella Scythropia crataegella Sorhagenia sp ? Spatalistis bifasciana Spilonota ocellana Syncopacma sp Teleiodes luculella Teleiodes vulgella Tinea semifulvella Tinea trinotella Tischeria ekebladella Tortrix viridana Triaxomera parasitella Udea olivalis Udea prunalis Yponomeuta evonymella Ypsolopha parenthesella Ypsolopha sequella Ypsolopha ustella