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<title>By: tonyhopkins</title>
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<![CDATA[ So, not a good year for migrants in most of Europe, perhaps because of adverse weather conditions early in the summer? I was away in May to mid- June, so I missed the best of the summer moths here. When I trapped in my garden in July/Aug I was alarmed at the low numbers of most species. But despite this there have been some unusual second generations. Last night (in a desperate attempt to record a few things before the cold weather arrives) I caught a swallowtail and a beautiful hook-tip, as well as a couple of firsts for the year - large ranunculus and dusky lemon sallow. So, an unusual and contradictory season, at least in my bit of north Suffolk.
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<![CDATA[ <p>So, not a good year for migrants in most of Europe, perhaps because of adverse weather conditions early in the summer? I was away in May to mid- June, so I missed the best of the summer moths here. When I trapped in my garden in July/Aug I was alarmed at the low numbers of most species. But despite this there have been some unusual second generations. Last night (in a desperate attempt to record a few things before the cold weather arrives) I caught a swallowtail and a beautiful hook-tip, as well as a couple of firsts for the year – large ranunculus and dusky lemon sallow. So, an unusual and contradictory season, at least in my bit of north Suffolk.</p>
<p>Tony H.</p>
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<title>By: Neil</title>
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<![CDATA[ An interesting post Tony. Your lack of migrants over there does tie in with what seems to be going on this year in the UK. The common immigrants like Silver Y have been very scarce, certainly with me anyway. I wonder if it is something to do with the summer on the continent. I was in Bulgaria in July on a Butterfly/moth holiday and the locals were saying numbers were well down on normal levels (they still appeared good to me coming from a deprived Britain!). The moth trap run on that trip was a little disappointing in numbers considering in July it should have been full. Was warm and often cloudy overnight. There had been a terrific amount of rain earlier on in the summer there, you may recall it did make the national news with flooding in some of the other eastern European countries. Perhaps France suffered the same. We all know how lots of rain can affect moth numbers, just remember the summer of 2012!
I was also trapping in Hamstreet woods, Kent a few weeks back and found that very little was coming in to the traps apart from Oak lutestring, just like what you reported in France. ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>An interesting post Tony. Your lack of migrants over there does tie in with what seems to be going on this year in the UK. The common immigrants like Silver Y have been very scarce, certainly with me anyway. I wonder if it is something to do with the summer on the continent. I was in Bulgaria in July on a Butterfly/moth holiday and the locals were saying numbers were well down on normal levels (they still appeared good to me coming from a deprived Britain!). The moth trap run on that trip was a little disappointing in numbers considering in July it should have been full. Was warm and often cloudy overnight. There had been a terrific amount of rain earlier on in the summer there, you may recall it did make the national news with flooding in some of the other eastern European countries. Perhaps France suffered the same. We all know how lots of rain can affect moth numbers, just remember the summer of 2012!<br />
I was also trapping in Hamstreet woods, Kent a few weeks back and found that very little was coming in to the traps apart from Oak lutestring, just like what you reported in France.</p>
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<title>By: Raymond Watson</title>
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<![CDATA[ It has not been a good year for migrants. We had that interesting spell in summer when species from more northern climes visited us but really it has only recently picked up a bit. Of course the coast is the first stop for them before dispersing further inland so we usually have the higher numbers. We had one day when a few came in with a line of thunderstorms from France so for those in particular they did not overfly. ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>It has not been a good year for migrants. We had that interesting spell in summer when species from more northern climes visited us but really it has only recently picked up a bit. Of course the coast is the first stop for them before dispersing further inland so we usually have the higher numbers. We had one day when a few came in with a line of thunderstorms from France so for those in particular they did not overfly.</p>
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