Rivu-lots

A nice session mothing on Merrow Downs, Guildford, last night. The most notable macro presence was the sheer number of Grass Rivulet, with 80 in one trap alone.  In our 5 traps we managed c80 species (I've forgotten a few!) under mostly cloudy skies:


11th June, Merrow Downs:

Macros:
30 Common Swift
1 Oak Hook-tip
1 Pebble Hook-tip
5 Cream Wave
4 Red Twin-spot Carpet
2 Silver-ground Carpet
1 Garden Carpet
4 Common Carpet
1 Common Marbled Carpet
1 Grey Pine Carpet
1 Broken-barred Carpet
60 Green Carpet
2 Pretty Chalk Carpet
110 Grass Rivulet
1 Foxglove Pug
1 Mottled Pug
2 Shaded Pug
1 Yellow-barred Brindle
1 Brown Silver-line
1 Scorched Wing
5 Brimstone (including a fresh, completely white individual, with retained dark markings)
2 Scalloped Hazel
2 Peppered Moth
1 Pale Oak Beauty
3 White-pinion Spotted
5 Clouded Silver
1 Lime Hawk
15 Small Elephant Hawk
1 Iron Prominent
1 Pebble Prominent
2 Marbled Brown
3 Pale Tussock
10 Orange Footman
4 White Ermine
2 Buff Ermine
6 Heart + Dart
4 Shuttle-shaped Dart
6 Flame Shoulder
1 Large Yellow Underwing
2 Ingrailed Clay
1 Setaceous Hebrew Character
1 Shears
1 Sycamore
1 Dagger sp.
1 Angle Shades
4 Minor sp.
5 Middle-barred Minor
1 Spectacle

Micros:
4 Nematopogon swammerdamella
2 Monopsis weaverella
1 Aspilapteryx tringipennella
1 Argyresthia trifasciata
3 White-shouldered House Moth
4 Elachista argentella
1 Agonopterix arenella
1 Teleiodes diffinis
4 Cochylimorpha straminea
1 Agapeta hamana
1 Eupoecilia angustana
1 Cnephasia sp.
2 Celypha lacunana
1 Bee Moth
10 Hypochalcia ahenella
3 Crambus pascuella
3 Crambus lathoniellus