Orthotelia sparganella - <p>Sawbridgeworth Marsh Had a quick trip to a nearby marsh in Sawbridgeworth, it is a lovely habitat and usually has something unusual and worth going for. Indeed it was but with rain threatening and then the sky clearing with a bright moon, the catch was not huge, but did include some lovely species. The moths I went for were the Webb's Wainscot and Crescent (both are common on the marsh) but I did not expect to get 50+ individuals of the Webb's, there were 3 Crescents, all of the plain form. Another good moth that I recorded was Small Rufous, a local moth. On the tiddler front, 2 Orthotelia sparganella were great records and only my 2nd and 3rd ever of this species. </p> <p>Catch Report - 22/08/13 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson trap, 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap and 1x 80w Actinic Trap </p> <p>Macro Moths </p> <p>1x Straw Underwing 1x Small Square-spot 1x Scorched Carpet 1x Common White Wave 2x Common Wave 1x Maple Pug 1x Silver-Y 3x Shuttle-shaped Dart 1x Small Phoenix 1x Black Arches 1x Green Carpet 2x Orange Swift 3x Crescent 1x Copper Underwing 1x Purple Bar 1x Swallow Prominent 2x Latticed Heath 2x Common Rustic 2x Willow Beauty 2x Lime-speck Pug 2x Tree-lichen Beauty 10 Six-striped Rustic 1x Dusky Thorn 3x Dingy Footman 1x Pinion-streaked Snout 2x Small Waved Umber 2x Bulrush Wainscot 1x Common Wainscot 1x Common Carpet 5x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1x Single-dotted Wave 2x Yellow-barred Brindle 1x Least Yellow Underwing 1x Common Footman 2x Setaceous Hebrew Character 1x Small Rufous 4x Brimstone 8x Flame Shoulder 2x Double-striped Pug 1x Ghost Moth 2x Cloaked Minor 50+ Webb's Wainscot 2x Straw Dot 2x Blood-vein 5x Square-spot Rustic 1x Ruby Tiger </p> <p>Micro Moths </p> <p>10x Bactra lancealana 60+ Limnaecia phragmitella 5x Pandemis heparana 5x Clepsis spectrana 7x Pleuroptya ruralis 2x Phycita roborella 3x Blastobasis lacticolella 2x Monopis laevigella 1x Catoptria falsella 1x Donacaula forficella 10x Agriphila geniculea 10x Acleris rhombana 2x Orthotelia sparganella 2x Parapoynx stratiotata 3x Elophila nymphaeata 1x Cochylis atricapitana 1x Cydia splendana 1x Emmelina monodactyla 6x Elachista maculicerusella 1x Adaina microdactyla 1x Agapeta hamana 1x Yponomeuta evonymella 1x Trachycera advenella 5x Agriphila tristella 1x Monochroa palustrella 1x Plutella xylostella 1x Epinotia foenella 2x Epermenia falciformis </p> © Ben Sale from UK - CC BY 2.0 - Wikimedia Commons