Last night (20 August) was another excellent night at the traps; more moths than the previous night due to cloud cover.
Amongst the migrants were another Cydia amplana and a Vestal amongst good numbers of the commoner migrants. This is the second Vestal in three nights – both have been of the brown form. It is an extremely rare moth on the Peninsula – I only saw one in six seasons at Bawdsey Manor! Infact it’s rarer than Striped Hawk-moth, Dewick’s Plusia, Porter’s Rustic and Red-headed Chestnut! In my experience they seem to migrate inland rather than on the coast in Suffolk.
Residents included Eyed Hawk-moth (first site record); Ethmia bipunctella, Tinea trinotella, Ypsolopha sequella, Round-winged Muslin, Buff Footman, Large Twin-spot Carpet, White Ermine, Hedge Rustic, Cypress Pug, Tree-lichen Beauty, Dark Spectacle, Lesser-spotted Pinion, Sandhill Rustic to name a few.
If that was not enough excitement there was a Red Admiral in the traps along with Migrant Hawker and a very unseasonal Cockchafer!