Numbers keep on rising at Bawdsey with c230 species this morning. I estimated 4,000 moths trapped last night; of which 500 were Diamond-backs and 700 Willow/Bird-cherry Ermines! Certainly a major immigration of these species. One Dark Sword-grass and 35 Silver Y. I reckon I’ve light-trapped 15,000 moths over the past week and has certainly been the best period since 2006!
Another Blue-bordered Carpet this morning is only my third. Three Evergestis limbata and a Platytes alpinella recorded. Three Crescent Plumes wandered in too. Female Drinker is the first record this year – one perched alongside an Oak Eggar! Three Oak Eggars were counted. Two Dingy Shears, four Rosy Waves, two Shaded Fan-foot and two Dotted Fan-foot.
Well done on your good catch there Matthew, certainly nowhere near that kind of number of moths inland here at IGC. Must be a good immigration of ‘resident’ species going on as well as the more usual migrants you are getting.
Neil