Moth evening Upper Hollesley Common – 5 July 2012

I ran a moth evening on Upper Hollesley Common for the Bawdsey Bird Club with attendees included local residents Nick Mason and Mervyn Miller. It was a promising evening in very humid conditions until the premature arrival of the rain at 11:30pm forced us to pack up early.

A decent selection in the humid conditions included many pyralids; most notably Pempelia palumbella, Perinephela lancealis, Endotricha flammealis, Anania verbascalis, Platytes cerussella, Cryptoblabes bistriga, Dioryctria abietella, Agriphila inquinatella and Schoenobius gigantella.

A decent selection of macros included Festoon, Sharp-angled Carpet, Peacock Moth, Pine Carpet, Pale Oak Beauty, Barred Red, Red-necked Footman (1), a squadron of Pine Hawk-moths flanked by several Small Elephant Hawk-moths, Buff Footman, Rosy Footman, Purple Clay, Green Silver-lines, Grey Arches (2), Dark Spectacle (1), Marbled White-spot and Shaded Fan-foot (2).

Freshly emerged Barred Yellow, Swallow-tailed Moth and Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing constituted my first sightings of the year for these species.

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