http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/index.php/2012/03/28/another-spring-of-unusual-records/ Topical information from the Suffolk Moth Group Tue, 25 Feb 2020 18:38:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/index.php/2012/03/28/another-spring-of-unusual-records/#comment-65 Raymond Watson Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:46:31 +0000 http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/?p=897#comment-65 Yes I have been seeing the butterfies here at Hollesley, Comma, Small Tortoiseshell, Small White, Red Admiral and Brimstone but my moth catches have been poor and relatively boring owing to cold nights and now we have a moon increasing their reluctance. Hopefully we will get a cloudy warm night shortly that should boost the catch considerably.
Raymond

]]> http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/index.php/2012/03/28/another-spring-of-unusual-records/#comment-64 Tony Prichard Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:05:46 +0000 http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/?p=897#comment-64 Hi Keith, I suspect what you say is true but Angle Shades can be recorded as an adult in every month of the year so I wouldn’t be in too much of a rush to use it as evidence of early emergence. That said the majority of the records for it are from later in the year. Tony

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