Spatalistis bifasciana - <p>On Thursday night I joined Graham Bailey and Don Down and a few others for our contribution to national moth night(s) </p> <p>It had been a whole year nearly since I last came down this way, and it was nice to be back. </p> <p>The trapping conditions looked pretty good, we did not have the cloud cover that I was blessed with on the previous night in Bedfordshire, but the temperatures were very warm and for the rest of the evening it stayed warm. </p> <p>We set up 7 traps in high anticipation of a bucket load of moths. Unfortunately it wasn't to be. The moths (particularly the macro's) were very slow turning up to the lamps. </p> <p>And even after a full two hours, apart from nearly 40 species of micro moths we had only noted around 15 macro species! </p> <p>What on earth was going wrong! </p> <p>Luckily all was not lost as we did manage the target species, all 4 of them... the elusive Olive Crescent which is only know from a few sites nationwide, this being one of them and naturally i'd rather protect the sites identity from possible collector's! </p> <p><br> It was also nice to see a few Festoons which were really freshly hatched. </p> <p>Along with the Olive Crescent, there were plenty of Lead-coloured Pugs and Opsibotys fuscalis, all three species being new for me </p> <p>Catch Report - 03/07/14 - Essex - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap &amp; 1x 80w Actinic Suitcase Trap. </p> <p>Numbers below are approximate </p> <p>50 Macros and 57 Micros ( 107 species) </p> <p>Macro Moths </p> <p><br> 4x Black Arches </p> <p>3x Brimstone Moth </p> <p>2x Buff Arches </p> <p>2x Buff Ermine </p> <p>10x Buff Footman </p> <p>2x Buff-tip </p> <p>5x Clouded Border </p> <p>10x Clouded Silver </p> <p>2x Common Carpet </p> <p>2x Common Emerald </p> <p>3x Common Footman </p> <p>1x Common Marbled Carpet </p> <p>2x Common White Wave </p> <p>3x Double Square-spot </p> <p>2x Dun-bar </p> <p>3x Engrailed </p> <p>1x Festoon </p> <p>1x Flame </p> <p>2x Flame Carpet </p> <p>2x Flame Shoulder </p> <p>1x Green Pug </p> <p>2x Green Silver-lines </p> <p>2x July Highflyer </p> <p>1x Large Emerald </p> <p>3x Lead-coloured Pug [NEW!] </p> <p>2x Marbled Minor </p> <p>3x Marbled White Spot </p> <p>5x Mottled Beauty </p> <p>3x Olive Crescent [NEW!] </p> <p>5x Orange Moth </p> <p>2x Peach Blossom </p> <p>1x Peacock Moth </p> <p>2x Peppered Moth </p> <p>5x Riband Wave </p> <p>5x Rosy Footman </p> <p>2x Scarce Footman </p> <p>1x Scorched Carpet </p> <p>2x Scorched Wing </p> <p>10x Single-dotted Wave </p> <p>2x Slender Brindle </p> <p>3x Small Fan-foot </p> <p>20+ Small Fan-footed Wave </p> <p>1x Small White Wave </p> <p>1x Small Yellow Wave </p> <p>2x Snout </p> <p>3x Swallow-tailed Moth </p> <p>1x Tawny-barred Angle </p> <p>2x Treble Brown Spot </p> <p>5x Uncertain </p> <p>1x Yellow Shell </p> <p>Micro Moths </p> <p>1x Blastobasis lacticolella </p> <p>1x Orthopygia glaucinalis </p> <p>2x Endotricha flammealis </p> <p>1x Batia unitella </p> <p>1x Batia lunaris </p> <p>1x Incurvaria oehlmanniella </p> <p>1x Caloptilia robustella </p> <p>2x Parachronistis albiceps </p> <p>5x Celypha lacunana </p> <p>2x Eudonia mercurella </p> <p>2x Tortrix viridana </p> <p>1x Ditula angustiorana </p> <p>2x Epagoge grotiana </p> <p>10x Carcina quercana </p> <p>15+ Aleimma loeflingiana </p> <p>5x Gypsonoma dealbana </p> <p>1x Stigmella aurella </p> <p>10x Zeiraphera isertana </p> <p>1x Coleophora sp </p> <p>5x Chrysoteuchia culmella </p> <p>2x Hedya pruniana </p> <p>1x Ypsolopha ustella </p> <p>1x Ypsolopha dentella </p> <p>1x Aphomia sociella </p> <p>2x Celypha striana </p> <p>2x Archips crataegana </p> <p>5x Conobathra repandana </p> <p>2x Cydia splendana </p> <p>5x Epinotia brunnichana </p> <p>2x Scoparia ambigualis </p> <p>1x Catoptria pinella </p> <p>2x Batrachedra praenangusta </p> <p>3x Teleoides luculella </p> <p>2x Epiblema uddmanniana </p> <p>2x Cnephasia sp </p> <p>1x Hofmannophila pseudospretella </p> <p>5x Argyresthia brockeella </p> <p>2x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana </p> <p>1x Emmetia marginea </p> <p>2x Acleris kochiella </p> <p>1x Amblyptilia acanthadactyla </p> <p>2x Archips xylosteana </p> <p>2x Udea prunalis </p> <p>2x Pandemis cerasana </p> <p>1x Pandemis heparana </p> <p>2x Eurrhypara hortulata </p> <p>2x Yponomeuta evonymella </p> <p>2x Archips podana </p> <p>1x Crambus pascuella </p> <p>2x Spilonota ocellana </p> <p>1x Epinotia biluna </p> <p>1x Apotomis betuletana </p> <p>3x Apotomis turbidana </p> <p>1x Caloptilia populetorum </p> <p>1x Epinotia nanana </p> <p>4x Opsibotys fuscalis [NEW!] </p> <p>2x Spatalistis bifasciana </p> <p>1x Epinotia demarniana </p> © Ben Sale from UK - CC BY 2.0 - Wikimedia Commons