Amongst the 38 species in the Bawdsey Hall traps this morning was this autumn’s first December Moth. It looked rather incongruous with Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing and Red Underwing also in the traps!
A short Ivy session last night along Red House Lane, Bawdsey was dominated by Angle Shades with over fifty seen in the torch beam. Four Dark Sword-grass were present and smaller numbers of the usual expected species. New on the Ivy for me was a single Crocidosema plebejana – I haven’t heard of anyone else reporting the species this autumn on Ivy?