It’s a funny old game …

No, not football, clearwing hunting. Because I had to work at Hadleigh today I took the opportunity to take a lunchtime stroll up Broom Hill. Having given up on counting the (presumed) Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnets when I got to 100 I concentrated on looking for Six-belted Clearwing. To me, one trefoil patch looks like any other, but apparently not. Anyway, after a bit of a wait, 3 males came in to the lure.

Back home, I’ve not been doing a huge amount of trapping but was very pleased to catch a Blotched Emerald on the night of the 12th. This is one of the few moths I’d recorded in the old garden at Thurston but not here. That is until now :-)

 

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