Gypsonoma minutana - <p>Back on the farm for a slice of the migrant action </p> <p>Another warm day but with threats of rain and everything was literally soaked in the morning at my parents farm and as a result the catch was pretty low but it was quality over quantity and I was lucky to pick up on a few of the recent arrivals from mainland Europe, namely 2 specimens of Vestal (Sadly one had succumbed to the wicked ways of the wasps or hornets, take your pick...there were about 20 of each!) </p> <p>3 new Micro Moths for me were great to see including Caryocolum blandella, Gypsonoma minutana and Ypsolopha horridella. All three are quite scarce in the County particularly Gypsonoma minutana. </p> <p>Sadly I fumbled with the pot and the Ypsolopha horridella went skywards...a photo next time hopefully. </p> <p>There was quite an explosion of Anthophila fabriciana found around the trap that was alongside swathes of Nettles, these must be 2nd brood. </p> <p>A single Sallow was my earliest record ever, my previous earliest was on the 05th of September in 2013. </p> <p>Catch Report - 24/08/16 - Farmland - Braughing Friars - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap 1x 80w Actinic Briefcase Trap &amp; 1x 40w Actinic/26w BLB Trap </p> <p>Macro Moths - 35 Species </p> <p>Angle Shades 4 Blood-vein 1 Brimstone Moth 12 Burnished Brass 2 Common Carpet 3 Common Wave 4 Dark Arches 1 Dingy Footman 2 Dun-bar 6 Feathered Gothic 2 Flame Shoulder 10 Flounced Rustic 3 Green Carpet 6 Large Twin-spot Carpet 2 Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 15 Maple Pug 4 Mouse Moth 1 Orange Swift 9 Poplar Hawk-moth 1 Riband Wave 11 Sallow 1 Setaceous Hebrew Character 400+ Six-striped Rustic 1 Snout 17 Spectacle 2 Square-spot Rustic 22 Square-spotted Clay 2 Straw Dot 4 Straw Underwing 3 Svensson's Copper Underwing 1 Swallow Prominent 1 Tree-lichen Beauty 2 Vestal 2 Vine's Rustic 4 Yellow Shell 2 </p> <p>Micro Moths - 43 Species </p> <p>Caryocolum blandella 1[NEW!] Gypsonoma minutana 1 [NEW!] Ypsolopha horridella 1 [NEW!] Acentria ephemerella 3 Acleris forsskaleana 1 Acleris notana/ferrugana 1 Acrobasis advenella 1 Aethes smeathmanniana 1 Agapeta hamana 3 Agonopterix heracliana 2 Agriphila geniculea 5 Agriphila tristella 1 Anthophila fabriciana 20+ Apotomis betuletana 1 Blastobasis adustella 4 Calamotropha paludella 1 Caloptilia alchimiella/robustella 3 Catoptria falsella 5 Celypha lacunana 11 Clepsis spectrana 2 Cnephasia sp1 Cochylis atricapitana 3 Cochylis molliculana 1 Cochylis hybridella 9 Cryptoblabes bistriga 1 Cydia splendana 1 Epinotia nisella 4 Eudonia mercurella 1 Endrosis sarcitrella 2 Eudonia angustea 1 Euzophora pinguis 1 Evergestis forficalis 1 Galleria mellonella 1 Grapholita janthinana 1 Limnaecia phragmitella 2 Mompha epilobiella 1 Pandemis heparana 1 Phycita roborella 1 Pleuroptya ruralis 2 Plutella xylostella 20+ Spilonota ocellana 4 Udea ferrugalis 2 Ypsolopha scabrella 2 </p> © Ben Sale from UK - CC BY 2.0 - Wikimedia Commons