Wigmore Rolls

Four mv traps were run on Sunday night (13th) in the northern section of Wigmore Rolls on a very mild night and finally a more busy evening resulted. At the moment there are 140 species recorded with around another 20 species or so still to add once identified. I think the best record will be Ancylis upupana, the 4th county record, but also Epinotia tetraquetrana was a nice one too. Macros included plenty of LittleThorn, Satin Lutestring, Figure of 80 and Beautiful Snout. Peter Hall with Dave Wilton

Probably Pammene albuginana, Wigmore Rolls

 

Beautiful Snout, Wigmore Rolls

Green Silver-lines, Wigmore Rolls

Satin Lutestring, Wigmore Rolls

 

 

From DW:  "It was great to have a change of scenery from my native Buckinghamshire, with what was probably the best trapping result of the year for me with quite a few moths that we don't get 'down south'.  It was very nice to see so many Beautiful Snouts (quite a rare moth in VC24) and Satin Lutestrings (only one Bucks record and that was probably a vagrant), while Little Thorn and Alder Kitten were bonuses that we don't get at all.  One Blomer's Rivulet turned up too, a moth which now seems to be extinct in Bucks.  We didn't see Lunar Thorn which Peter had at Wigmore a week earlier and that's another moth which has disappeared down our way.  The tiny but beautifully marked Micropterix aureatella was my favourite amongst the micros, appearing at each of the traps at Wigmore but for which there are only two records for VC24.  I'd never seen it before."