[12.010] [BF0196] Morophaga choragella

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A day late posting for a rightful reason!On Monday night I once again rigged the trap up on timer (early to bed for me at 9) and was quietly confident that I would get a pretty nice catch come the morning.The conditions were perfect if a little breezy, but with a minimum of 16 degrees, a little rain sometime in the night I couldn't have asked for better.Getting up bleary eyed and rubbing my eyes I could not believe it!The trap was probably the fullest it has ever been in my 2 years of trapping here. Moths adorned most of the Perspex collar, and every hole of the egg boxes had at least one moth in it.Macro Highlights were a second garden Small Ranunculus, new for garden Dingy Footman and Large Twin-spot Carpet and the trio Coxcomb, Maple and Pale Prominent.Micros were headed by a first for me, the lovely marked Athrips mouffetella.A slightly knackered Currant Pug which just would not lay flat and kept adorning a Thorn-like posture I didnt record this species last year.Also a worn Epinotia abbreviana after much identifying was a garden first.All the moths were pretty lively for their photo-shoots, well apart from a very dozy Pale Prominent.66 Macros and with only 10 less species of Micros at 56, it really was a stonking night.Tonight looks warm and muggy again, I cant top this list surely!Catch Report - 14/07/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson TrapMacro Moths1x Dingy Footman [NFG]1x Large Twin-spot Carpet [NFG]1x Small Ranunculus [NFY]2x Black Arches [NFY]3x Buff Footman [NFY]2x Coxcomb Prominent [NFY]1x Maple Prominent [NFY]1x Pale Prominent [NFY]1x Straw Underwing [NFY]2x Yellow Shell [NFY]1x Currant Pug [NFY]4x Bright-line Brown-eye2x Brimstone Moth3x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing2x Buff Arches2x Buff-tip1x Burnished Brass2x Clay1x Cloaked Minor1x Clouded Silver11x Common Footman9x Common Rustic3x Common White Wave7x Dark Arches20x Dot Moth3x Double Square-spot2x Double-striped Pug2x Dun-bar1x Dwarf Cream Wave1x Early Thorn1x Elephant Hawk-moth1x Engrailed2x Fan-foot1x Garden Carpet 1x Heart & Club8x Heart & Dart1x Herald3x July Highflyer1x Large Yellow Underwing2x Lesser Yellow Underwing3x Least Carpet1x Light Arches1x Marbled Minor1x Mottled Rustic1x Nut-tree Tussock1x Oak Nycteoline1x Pale Mottled Willow1x Peppered Moth1x Poplar Hawk-moth1x Privet Hawk-moth7x Riband Wave2x Rustic3x Scalloped Oak3x Scarce Footman1x Shaded Pug1x Silver-Y1x Single-dotted Wave1x Small Blood-vein4x Small Emerald3x Small Fan-footed Wave2x Smoky Wainscot1x Spectacle3x Swallow-tailed Moth1x Snout18x Uncertain1x Willow Beauty1x Yellow-tailMicro Moths 1x Athrips mouffetella [NEW!]1x Aethes rubigana [NFG]1x Epinotia abbreviana [NFG]1x Acleris hastiana [NFG]1x Monochroa palustrella [NFG]1x Morophaga choragella [NFG]1x Pammene aurita [NFG]1x Orthopygia glaucinalis [NFY]1x Cochylis hybridella [NFY]4x Blastobasis adustella [NFY]2x Trachycera advenella [NFY]2x Cydia splendana [NFY]3x Phlyctaenia coronata [NFY]1x Bryotropha affinis [NFY]2x Tischeria ekebladella [NFY]1x Ypsolopha dentella [NFY]1x Batia unitella [NFY]1x Pammene regiana1x Bryotropha terrella2x Eurrhypara hortulata1x Agonopterix alstromeriana1x Epiblema uddmanniana2x Celypha striana2x Aphomia sociella1x Emmelina monodactyla4x Yponomeuta evonymella1x Epagoge grotiana2x Acleris forsskaleana1x Cnephasia sp2x Plutella xylostella2x Pleuroptya ruralis2x Hofmannophila pseudospretella1x Scrobipalpa acuminatella3x Endotricha flammealis1x Clepsis consimilana9x Spilonota ocellana1x Hypsopygia costalis1x Oegoconia sp1x Trachycera suavella1x Zeiraphera isertana2x Blastobasis lacticolella1x Scoparia ambigualis1x Phycita roborella2x Udea prunalis1x Pandemis heparana1x Aphelia paleana1x Endrosis sarcitrella1x Ectoedemia decentella5x Eudonia mercurella2x Ditula angustiorana1x Gypsonoma dealbana1x Helcystogramma rufescens1x Celypha lacunana15x Chrysoteuchia culmella2x Dipleurina lacustrata1x Carcina quercana