7 moth-ers attended this meeting at the Suffolk Wildlife trust’s Reydon wood reserve. The wood contains a good range of species of trees and shrubs including a few conifers. There are also a few grassy rides and clearwings with wildflowers including a lot of Bluebell.
7 traps were deployed (1 actinic). Moths were much slower coming in than the previous week, this being all down to the clear sky and fairly bright moon. New species almost stopped completely by midnight so we packed up with my list on about 90sp.
Commonest moths seen were Common swift, Straw dot and Ingrailed clay.
Highlights were few amongst the list of mostly standard fare but did include the following.
Lunar yellow underwing (almost certainly a wanderer from nearby heathland habitat as not the right place for it at this wood), Narycia duplicella (a scarce sighting of this bagworm moth at light, new for some), Small white wave (a few), Alabonia geoffrella, Beautiful golden Y, Ghost moth (female).
Stewart Wright from Norfolk had a look round the wood before the meeting and found a few interesting species: Infurcitinea argentimaculella (larval tubes on lichen) and Coleophora solitariella (case on stitchwort).
Neil