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A reasonable night last night given the way the year’s gone so far. A total of 33sp to actinic, which includes a few micro’s still awaiting I’d. Was quite surprised to see a Silver Y which raised my hopes a … Continue reading →

I recently posted a message to say how pleased I was at having seen Micropterix tunbergella at Wolves Wood. I’ve since removed the blog following a return visit made last Wednesday and my subsequent study of the photo’s taken that … Continue reading →

If anyone’s interested .. it may not be too late to go looking for Large Red-belted Clearwing. I was reading moth blog on ‘www.planetthanet.org’ the other night and noticed a posting which read … “16/5/12. Afternoon visit to Blean Woods. … Continue reading →

Took a walk back along the Brett River Trail to the office at lunchtime today and managed to find a small patch of buttercups complete with attendant Micropterix calthella. Also, as a follow up to a recent visit to Wyevale’s … Continue reading →

It was too nice to be in the office today, so I decided to spend my lunch-break at Wolves Wood. As well as a single Comma and several singing Chiffchaff’s, I had a single Light Orange Underwing fly out of … Continue reading →

Only eight moths of five species in the garden last night, two of which were new site records – Tortricodes alternella and Spring Usher. The other species caught were Common Quaker, Chestnut and Agonopterix heracliana

Still very quiet here. Just three moths last night but at least one was a potential migrant – Silver Y, Yellow-line Quaker and a Blast’ lacticolella.

A bit breezy again but three moths in the trap – Merveille du Jour, Barred Sallow and Yellow-line Quaker.

Just three moths in the trap last night – Large Wainscot, Yellow-line Quaker and Red-line Quaker. Monday night was even worse with just one brave Green-brindled Crescent braving the gusts.

A small but steady stream of autumnal moths here during the past week but nothing out of the ordinary. After a run of Large Wainscot’s, there were none in the trap last night but I did catch my first Merveille … Continue reading →