Having just posted a short piece about getting just two migrants last night (including one vestal), I’ve just walked down the garden and discovered another two vestals sitting about ten yard downwind of where the trap had been. Although it’s a regular (ie annual) species with me I have never seen more than one in a night before. Perhaps i should have been out in the pre-dawn to see them arrive. Did they come in a gang? With a few crimson speckled that I haven’t managed to spot in the undergrowth?
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Well done with the Vestals Tony. This moth has a very strange pattern of occurrence in Suffolk. They often seem to avoid the coast and head inland, perhaps over higher ground? I don’t even see it every year at Bawdsey – even in years when others have turned up inland. I’ve only had two all year so far and that’s running 7 traps nightly, so three in one night is very good. David Brown had six in Dunwich last night too!