I don’t expect many more nights of potential on my patch for the remainder of this season with a colder or much colder than average second half of Autumn forecast.
On the 8th I decided to make a trip to Ashby to check out the vast amount of Ivy blossom which had just past its best. I checked hundreds of metres of hedge and found nothing except in the church yard where I found the only clump of fragrant blossom. There I found six moths of four species including Chestnut, my only record for the species this season so far. Traps were on at home, with a much better result, 21 species including Dark Sword-grass, Common and Large Wainscot, Burnished Brass, Mallow, Pink-barred Sallow and Meurville du Jour.
A disappointing 14 species on the 10th with Rosy Rustics being the biggest surprise as haven’t seen any for a while.
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