Writing this still in shock, I trapped a Scarce Merveille du Jour last night at Bawdsey Hall! This becomes the 511th species of macro moth recorded at Bawdsey.
Never a species I would have predicted to be added to the site list. Water Carpet or Netted Pug possibly, but no, not this time!
Either a primary immigrant or an internal wanderer from one of the Kent sites who knows? This former Suffolk resident was last noted in the county 81 years ago in 1937.
Possibly it could spread back to Suffolk from Kent? Other species are on the march from Kent.
