I am very envious of Matthews Bedstraw Hawk and have yet to pick up a Vestal but have the strikingly attractive Jersey Tiger in the catch of 20th August. Not too hot on photography in a natural setting and the attached image proves the point. However! Otherwise similar species to Matthews Bawdsey site but still waiting for a Sandhill Rustic and Coast Dart. I have also been catching rather a lot of the Coronet many of them dark and quite green tinged. 9 in the catch of 20th. Are these also immigrants? A nice example of Agriphila latistria turned up. Pyrausta aurata and Setaceous Hebrew Character have joined the top abundance class now.
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Well done Raymond with the Jersey Tiger – it is a lovely thing. Yours represents only the third Suffolk record. It’s surely on the verge of colonisation but these recent specimens are immigrants (they have been turning up at new localities all over southern England in the past few days). Coronet is a recent resident on the Bawdsey Peninsula – I never used to see it until the last couple of years at Bawdsey Manor. Like you I had a good number at the Hall last night.
Thats a great looking moth!