Trips 2004

Titchmarsh Lake Nature Reserve

21st August 2004


2x 125W MV and sugar
Lights operated from 8:30pm to 11:30pm
Temperature 14°C at dusk dropping to 10°C
Moderate cloud, clearing later, still with no rain
B&F Vernacular Name Scientific name
National Distribution
Approx. Numbers
15 Orange Swift Hepialus sylvina
C
4
1651 Chinese Character Cilix glaucata
C
1
1682 Blood-vein Timandra comai
C
1
1764 Common Marbled Carpet Chloroclysta truncata
C
2
1776 Green Carpet Colostygia pectinataria
C
40
1906 Brimstone Moth Opisthograptis luteolata
C
1
1914 Dusky Thorn Ennomos fuscantaria
C
1
1956 Common Wave Cabera exanthemata
C
2
1961 Light Emerald Campaea margaritata
C
2
2102 Flame Shoulder Ochropleura plecta
C
3
2107 Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba
C
7
2111 Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing Noctua janthe
C
5
2123 Small Square-spot Diarsia rubi
C
1
2126 Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum
C
13
2134 Square-spot Rustic Xestia xanthographa
C
12
2199 Common Wainscot Mythimna pallens
C
14
2289 Knot Grass Acronicta rumicis
C
1
2297 Copper Underwing Amphipyra pyramidea
C
1
2300 Old Lady Mormo maura
C
2
2306 Angle Shades Phlogophora meticulosa
C
3
2353 Flounced Rustic Luperina testacea
C
13
2361 Rosy Rustic Hydraecia micacea
C
5
2384 Vine's Rustic Hoplodrina ambigua
C
6
2434 Burnished Brass Diachrysia chrysitis
C
2
2441 Silver Y Autographa gamma
M
3
2477 Snout Hypena proboscidalis
C
7
Species Total
26
Key to National Distribution (Waring 1994 & 1999)
C Common Recorded in 301 or more 10Km grid squares since 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