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Targeting White-mantled Wainscot

On Wednesday 7 August, a week after catching a Single White-mantled Wainscot with Brian in Norfolk I decided to seek it out on the Somerleyton Estate. Earlier in the Summer I had checked out the area I wanted to try … Continue reading

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6 Spot Burnets at Dunwich

On a walk along the Dingle side of the shingle on Sunday, I saw hundreds of freshly emerged Six Spot Burnets with plenty of cocoons still to open. With it being so breezy they hadn’t dispersed and were mating alongside … Continue reading

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Butterfly and other news

Following my report on the high number of Small Tortoishell and Peacocks at the river wall at Herringfleet back in the late Spring I was at the same location yesterday and can report thousands of Small Tortoishell larvae and Hundreds … Continue reading

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Tooth-hurty

Tuesday night Brian and I went to Herringfleet Hills. A dodgy night weather wise,with high temperatures and thunderstorms threatening, but these are the nights that can really pay off. Not too long into the night light rain began and got … Continue reading

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Bradwell 22 July, that time of year already

Some impressive single trap totals Neil and Tony! This night I put out my four lights expecting cloud cover which unfortunately never materialised. A very bright night it was. First of all the 60w actinic Skinner had more moths at … Continue reading

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Some good moths, a blunder, some more good moths

On the 15th I went with Brian Jones to a new location, a newly created meadow or perhaps just a field that has remained fallow for four or five years next to Fritton Church. At the bottom of the meadow … Continue reading

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Going the extra mile

Occasionally I decide to put in extra effort to record difficult to reach places and last night was one such occasion. It took twenty minutes to barrow my equipment, on an overgrown footpath in two loads to a site in … Continue reading

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Bradwell 6 July

I ran the traps at home last night, 87 species, The best for me was (see added comment). Small Elephant Hawk-moth which Brian and I have never seen in this North- east corner. It would be interesting to discover when … Continue reading

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161 species at Monk’s Hole/ Scale Marsh

This time expecting to find Red-necked Footman but non the less focus was more out in the open than in the woodland. The three traps among trees all had at least one with a total of 5 recorded. On the … Continue reading

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Red-necked Footman again

On the 29th Brian and I revisited Herringfleet Hills. For the first time we had a generator on the high ground where three traps were run. Setting up I noticed that the Wood Sage had increased 3 or 4 fold, … Continue reading

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