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<title>By: Neil</title>
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<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ Nut-tree tussock wasn't recorded at my site until 2008 when my first one turned up in the spring. Numbers have gradually built up and now it is quite common in both broods here. Going on my experience here and trapping at other sites in Suffolk over the years this is a moth that appears to be spreading, we used to only see it in numbers in the west. So one to watch out for, I'm sure it's on the way. I've found larvae here on Birch, a much more common tree on this site than Hazel so it isn't restricted to that species.
On Great prominent, not had any yet this year, a species I'd normally have had by now.
Powdered quaker on the other hand is the reverse of the other two species mentioned in this thread. Very scarce here and not recorded every season, despite suitable damp woodland on the site. None here this year so far. ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Nut-tree tussock wasn’t recorded at my site until 2008 when my first one turned up in the spring. Numbers have gradually built up and now it is quite common in both broods here. Going on my experience here and trapping at other sites in Suffolk over the years this is a moth that appears to be spreading, we used to only see it in numbers in the west. So one to watch out for, I’m sure it’s on the way. I’ve found larvae here on Birch, a much more common tree on this site than Hazel so it isn’t restricted to that species.<br />
On Great prominent, not had any yet this year, a species I’d normally have had by now.<br />
Powdered quaker on the other hand is the reverse of the other two species mentioned in this thread. Very scarce here and not recorded every season, despite suitable damp woodland on the site. None here this year so far.</p>
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<title>By: Raymond Watson</title>
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<dc:creator>Raymond Watson</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ Looks like the season is well under way now. Some good regular catches Neil. Nut-tree Tussock is scarce out my way you have a good site for it. I do get the Great Prominent and elsewhere in the Sandlings, but it doesn't seem to be around Bawdsey way though. Yes Orthosias are on the way down bar the Powdered. ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Looks like the season is well under way now. Some good regular catches Neil. Nut-tree Tussock is scarce out my way you have a good site for it. I do get the Great Prominent and elsewhere in the Sandlings, but it doesn’t seem to be around Bawdsey way though. Yes Orthosias are on the way down bar the Powdered.</p>
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<title>By: Brian</title>
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<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2015 16:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ It’s interesting that you had 12 Nut-tree Tussock at IGC Neil. On all the sites I have recorded in our area of NE Suffolk & SE Norfolk I have never seen it. Last night we were in mature woodland brimming with Hazel and it was the moth I was hoping might turn up, but nothing. This one along with Great Prominent (even though we also have an abundance of oak) just don’t seem to be present in our area although common elsewhere.
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<![CDATA[ <p>It’s interesting that you had 12 Nut-tree Tussock at IGC Neil. On all the sites I have recorded in our area of NE Suffolk & SE Norfolk I have never seen it. Last night we were in mature woodland brimming with Hazel and it was the moth I was hoping might turn up, but nothing. This one along with Great Prominent (even though we also have an abundance of oak) just don’t seem to be present in our area although common elsewhere.</p>
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