Autumn moths at Bawdsey

The recent cooler and wet weather seems to have finished off most of the summer moths that were hanging on.

Autumn moths still in low numbers really. Large Yellow Underwing by far the most numerous moth in the traps currently.

Autumn moths over the past week I’ve been catching include Mallow, Red-green Carpet, Dusky Thorn, Large Thorn, Canary-shouldered Thorn, Large Wainscot, Lunar Underwing, Brown-spot Pinion, Feathered Ranunculus, Sallow, Barred Sallow, Pink-barred Sallow, Frosted Orange, Autumnal Rustic, Black Rustic, Red Underwing and Blair’s Shoulder-knot.

Second-brood L-album Wainscot has been going for a while here now with a peak of 14 moths on the 22 September.

Migrants have included Pearly Underwing (19th), regular Dark Sword-grass (peak of 10 on 23rd) and two Convolvulus Hawk-moth (a male and a female in separate traps on 23rd) with a sprinkling of the more commoner migrants.

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