Author Archives: Raymond Watson

Unwelcome migrants

No Splendid Brocade for me but instead some 2 to 3 hundred Large Yellow Underwings in my front garden trap. Dreading it if the thousands turn up like last year. First Rosy Rustic and Tree Lichen Beauty also just to … Continue reading

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Early July, Hollesley

Been rather busy recently. Not only on moths. Ran two MV traps on 4 occasions 1st, 4th, 9th and 10th July. Species count on 9th was 135 the others were in excess of 200. Migrants abound in the UK at … Continue reading

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Mistery insect

I grow some non native Digitalis species in my garden from seed. An insect has been boring along the main stems killing the plants or just that spike. The exit hole for the frass is always just above a leaf … Continue reading

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Late June Moths, Hollesley and around

Catches generally were good with species counts 100 to 160 from two traps. Migrants continued to be a feature at relatively low counts for Plutella xylostella, Rush Veneer, Udea ferrugalis, Small Mottled Willow, Silver Y and Bordered Straw. A few Evergestis … Continue reading

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Mid-June moths, Hollesley.

A considerable improvement on the year so far. Also a lot of migrants around, but no Striped Hawk-moth here yet, despite every routine Hawk-moth so far. Have had a few Small Mottled Willows though. 5 on 21st and 4 on … Continue reading

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Two reasonable moth nights at Hollesley

Sorry to read of the Chalk Lane washout. That night I avoided most of the rain. Storms passed out to sea and inland, by dusk it was dry, humid, warm and relatively calm so the two traps went out. Similar … Continue reading

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The first week of Summer.

June, summer by the convention of the met office. Started with gales from the west and not especially warm. We then had a spell of warm weather with air brought up from the south and promise of migrants. However there … Continue reading

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May 2015 Moths

Following a poor Spring there was hope for an improvement during May. May did improve for mothing but was not especially inspiring. Advantage had to be taken of the handful of good moth nights. I have however picked up a … Continue reading

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Electric shock off moth trap.

Not a risk I had ever been aware of until this morning. I unplugged the MV trap from the mains supply rather than switching the lamp off first and got a substantial jolt when I touched the plug terminals. I … Continue reading

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Yes, mothing is getting better but not my ability to use this site!

Don’t know what happened but I was struggling with inserting an image. If I still can’t do it you won’t get one. Enough of my problems, back to the moths. Yes in common with Brian and I suspect everyone else … Continue reading

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