Having spent Saturday night and what seemed like a chunk of Sunday morning trapping with the group in the Brecks (of which more to follow I suspect) I arrived home to what on the face of it appeared to be a comparatively empty garden trap, with one exception – a lone Silver Y sitting on the top. A few egg trays later I came across a Scallop Shell (only the third site record after singles in July 2010 & 2014) and then, a real surprise in the form of a blackish pyralid sporting a distinctive white band which I identified as Elegia similella. While I am aware of a number of records from the Suffolk coast, chatting with Matthew, we think this could be new to VC26. All in all, not a bad twelve hours mothing