Vestals again

An interesting night last night. Cooler evening, clear at first, but cloudy and milder late on. Wind SW, not as strong as last night. Result: another 8 vestals. Making 11 over the two nights. Has anyone else recorded so many in one night? I tend to agree with Matthew that the vestal may be a high flier, missing many coastal sites and MV traps, but descending after a few miles. Another interesting thing about my gang of vestals was that only two were actually in the trap – the rest were on grass stems etc, up to 10m away (downwind). I think that they arrived late in the night, but the wind was a brisk SW (so where were they from? I don’t think they’d been sitting around since last night). All of them were brown striped or with a very slight pink tinge.

The only other migrant was a single rush veneer. Not many other goodies either except a couple of merveille du jour.

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2 Responses to Vestals again

  1. keith says:

    I thought I did well with 7! I’m sure they have been hanging around from the night before. My first one was in at 7.30, by 7.45 I had more migrants, see my blog when its done. Hoards of moths came over on the stormy night and took shelter and are now on the move so I would expect more to show, especially with the wind direction change. For example most of my Dark-Sword-grass get to me on South-Westerlies, continuing on the move from whence they came following the changing wind direction. Keith

  2. tonyhopkins says:

    Thanks for this, Keith. I hadn’t really noted exactly when my dark sword-grasses arrived, but it wasn’t in south or SE winds. Interesting. It makes you wonder just how many vestals (for example) arrived across East Anglia on the night of the 3rd/4th.

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