A fresh specimen of Wormwood was a nice surprise in the garden trap this morning. I can’t think of any Artemisia nearby so it must have been a wandering individual.
It has been a great month for filling in some gaps in my site list and on the 17th I added Clouded Brindle and Sharp-angled Carpet. Where are all the yellow underwings?
I’ve not seen hardly any underwings either (thankfully!). Probably a few reasons for this. They don’t like hot weather and after hatching go into aestivation, waiting till it cools down a bit before coming out again. Another possible reason is that there hasn’t been any big immigration waves from Europe yet as most of the underwings are known migrants, Matthew at Bawdsey can tell you this as he gets loads of them when they do arrive! Could also be the late season, I think some moths are still running 2 weeks late in their flight-time that we have got used to in recent years.
Neil