Trips 2003

Salcey Forest

13th June 2003

Three 125W MV lights

Lights on between 20:30hrs to 23:30hrs

Minimum 8degC

Broken cloud

B&F Vernacular Name Scientific name
National Distribution
14 Ghost Swift Hepialus humuli
C
16 Gold Swift Hepialus hecta
L
17 Common Swift Hepialus lupulinus
C
1640 Drinker Euthrix potatoria
C
1652 Peach Blossom Thyatira batis
C
1654 Figure of Eighty Tethea ocularis octogesimea
C
1655 Poplar Lutestring Tethea or
L
1667 Blotched Emerald Comibaena bajularia
L
1680 Maiden's Blush Cyclophora punctaria
L
1693 Cream Wave Scopula floslactata
L
1725 Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet Xanthorhoe ferrugata
C
1727 Silver-ground Carpet Xanthorhoe montanata
C
1738 Common Carpet Epirrhoe alternata
C
1752 Purple Bar Cosmorhoe ocellata
C
1759 Small Pheonix Ecliptopera silaceata
C
1764 Common Marbled Carpet Chloroclysta truncata
C
1765 Barred Yellow Cidaria fulvata
C
1768 Grey Pine Carpet Thera obeliscata
C
1773 Broken-barred Carpet Electrophaes corylata
C
1776 Green Carpet Colostygia pectinataria
C
1784 Pretty Chalk Carpet Melanthia procellata
C
1819 Mottled Pug Eupithecia exiguata
C
1837 Grey Pug Eupithecia subfuscata
C
1857 Dwarf Pug Eupithecia tantillaria
C
1860 Green Pug Pasiphila rectangulata
C
1875 Small White Wave Asthena albulata
C
1887 Clouded Border Lomaspilis marginata
C
1888 Scorched Carpet Ligdia adustata
L
1893 Tawny-barred Angle Macaria liturata
C
1904 Scorched Wing Plagodis dolabraria
L
1906 Brimstone Moth Opisthograptis luteolata
C
1937 Willow Beauty Peribatodes rhomboidaria
C
1944 Pale Oak Beauty Hypomecis punctinalis
C
1950 Brindled White-spot Parectropis similaria
L
1954 Bordered White Bupalus piniaria
C
1955 Common White Wave Cabera pusaria
C
1956 Common Wave Cabera exanthemata
C
1957 White-pinion Spotted Lomographa bimaculata
C
1958 Clouded Silver Lomographa temerata
C
1961 Light Emerald Campaea margaritata
C
1981 Poplar Hawk-moth Laothoe populi
C
1991 Elephant Hawk-moth Deilephila elpenor
C
2007 Swallow Prominent Pheosia tremula
C
2011 Pale Prominent Pterostoma palpina
C
2014 Marbled Brown Drymonia dodonaea
L
2028 Pale Tussock Calliteara pudibunda
C
2060 White Ermine Spilosoma lubricipeda
C
2078 Least Black Arches Nola confusalis
L
2087 Turnip Moth Agrotis segetum
C
2089 Heart & Dart Agrotis exclamationis
C
2098 Flame Axylia putris
C
2102 Flame Shoulder Ochropleura plecta
C
2107 Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba
C
2120 Ingrailed Clay Diarsia mendica
C
2122 Purple Clay Diarsia brunnea
C
2123 Small Square-spot Diarsia rubi
C
2138 Green Arches Anaplectoides prasina
C
2150 Grey Arches Polia nebulosa
C
2199 Common Wainscot Mythimna pallens
C
2278 Poplar Grey Acronicta megacephala
C
2302 Brown Rustic Rusina ferruginea
C
2305 Small Angle Shades Euplexia lucipara
C
2330 Dusky Brocade Apamea remissa
C
2333 Large Nutmeg Apamea anceps
L
2334 Rustic Shoulder-knot Apamea sordens
C
2337 Marbled Minor Oligia strigilis
C
2380 Treble Lines Charanyca trigrammica
C
2387 Mottled Rustic Caradrina morpheus
C
2410 Marbled White Spot Protodeltote pygarga
C
2422 Green Silver-lines Pseudoips prasinana britannica
C
2442 Beautiful Golden Y Autographa pulchrina
C
2450 Spectacle Abrostola tripartita
C
2474 Straw Dot Rivula sericealis
C
2477 Snout Hypena proboscidalis
C
2492 Small Fan-foot Herminia grisealis
C
Total number of species:
75
Key to National Distribution (Waring 1994 & 1999)
C Common = Recorded in 301 or more 10Km grid squares in UK since 01/1/1980
L Local = Recorded in 101 to 300 grid squares
U Uncommon = On alien foodplant, less that 100 grid squares
Nb Nationally Scarce b = Recorded in 31 to 100 grid squares
Na Nationally Scarce a = Recorded in 16 to 30 grid squares
pRDB Proposed Red Data Book = Species declining, proposed for inclusion to Red Data Book
RDB Red Data Book = Recorded in 15 or fewer grid squares
M Migrant = Flown / transported by wind from sources outside the British Isles
RM Rare Migrant = As above, ten or fewer records in the British Isles