Author Archives: tonyhopkins

The season properly under way with the garden MV over the last two or three nights. We have lived here near Halesworth for eleven years now; in the first year or two I planted up the bare (ex-arable field corner) … Continue reading →

Trapped in the garden one night last week – 17 macros including sprawler, streak and oak nycteoline (all quite scarce here) plus some species running late like pink-barred sallow and set. hebrew character. Trapped again last night; 6 species including … Continue reading →

I’m looking forward to reading what has been seen at Bawdsey this weekend. I trapped in the garden last night (Fri) hoping for more migrants after the vestal etc last night. Wind seemed good but it proved to be a … Continue reading →

Autumn is beginning to bite here. Brindled green, dusky thorn and a feathered gothic the best of the bunch last night. But the migrants at least made a modest show – a few silver y, a dark sword-grass and a … Continue reading →

With the cool nights I haven’t run a trap in the garden (Spexhall, Halesworth) for a week or so and hadn’t read the blog. When I did so, yesterday, I realised I might have missed my best chance of a … Continue reading →

Poor weather and limited opportunities have made this a quiet summer for my garden moth trap (apart from a splendid brocade a few weeks ago.) But two new moths for my garden list over the past week; last night a … Continue reading →

I’ve only been home for a few days in the past month and am away again now, so have not been keeping up with the moth news. However, I was home at Spexhall on 10th and 11th July. Ran a … Continue reading →

Spring usually arrived late here on Halesworth clay. But I’ve recorded my earliest ever clouded drab (25/2), oak beauty (6/3) and shoulder stripe (8/3). It doesn’t seem to me to have been an especially mild winter (a lot of frosts) … Continue reading →

I put a trap out last night, just in case. Only three species: 6 december moth, 2 gem and a rush veneer (my first of the year). Tonight might be worth a try…

Well, in was an average or quiet autumn here. Nothing unusual and not many migrants (except the influx of rusty-dot pearl). Last night (10th) I put a moth trap out to see what was about and caught my first December … Continue reading →