SMG Moth Night at Shingle Street – 21st July

Six of the group turned up for this meeting at this privately-owned site on the Suffolk coast. Conditions were fair but did not promise a bumper crop of moths. Lights were put out on the vegetated shingle and on the ridge between the shingle and the reed-beds bordering the site. The target for the evening was White-mantled Wainscot, a singleton of which Steve Woolnough and I had recorded at the site previously.

Traps put out on the shingle seemed not so productive as those up on the ridge, although a fair selection of expected species did appear with Pyrausta despicata, Cnephasia longana, Striped Wainscot, Tawny Shears, Fen Wainscot, Eucosma obumbratana, Privet Hawk-moth, Synaphe punctalis, Dotted Fan-foot,  Silky Wainscot, Least Carpet and Star-wort.

Highlights of the evening  from the 70+ species recorded were a single White-mantled Wainscot, Rosy Wave and Crescent Striped. The White-mantled Wainscot appeared in one of the traps on the ridge and was most probably attracted in from the reed-beds on the other side.

Tony

Crescent Striped

Crescent Striped

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