The group’s 4th visit to this new Suffolk Wildlife trust reserve this year, unfortunately again weather conditions were not ideal like on our previous events. With cool weather all week with north-westerly winds, moth numbers were expected to be low and this proved to be the case.
6 traps deployed (3 mv plus 3 actinic) plus wine ropes, mainly covering the Oak pollard areas of the site to try and record Oak lutestring, a scarce Suffolk resident restricted to only one site at present.
28sp recorded on my list at shut-down at 10.30pm, with very little flying in. Wine ropes didn’t get a single moth. No Oak lutestring seen, in fact the best 2 moths noted were Magpie moth and Feathered gothic (2, first for the year for most people). Not too many Hornets to deal with either with only 2 noted.
Still nice to get out and have a bit of a social despite the lack of moths and the cool conditions!
One more meeting this year at this site in October for leaf mines/larvae hunting, hopefully will be better weather on the day!
Neil