Belated report for our one week of Summer at Hollesley

As with others the 23rd was a big catch, my best to date with 160 species identified to date. The other days during our summer were good too. It has been time consuming work for me to get through the new micros to my developing site list.
Abundant species have been Common Footman, Dark Arches, Large Yellow Underwing and Willow Ermine. Quite a few Dingy, Rosy and a few Scarce add to the footman list each catch. After getting a few Rivulets with double indentation I now have some true Small Rivulet.
Some of the macros new to my site list: Plain Wave, Blue-bordered Carpet, Small Emerald, Narrow-winged Pug, Plain Pug (2 other Pugs still to ID), Silky Wainscot, White Line Dart, Olive, Ear (species to ID) and of interest- a melanic Coronet. For the micros, well a selection of attractive and also less common:- Zeiraphera ratzenbergiana, Cydia coniferana, Oncocera semirubella, Nymphula nitidula, Aethes rubigana, Enarmonia formosana and Dicrorampha alpinana. Three species of Caloptilia of which one still unidentified. Regular Sciota adelphella. Have also been identifying the Cnephasia. At present these are dominated by C.stephensiana, longana and asseclana with a few C. genitalana and pumicana. Also the Coleophora:- serratella, sternipennella, vestianella, saxicolella, anatipennella, argentula, ibipennella and albitarsella.

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