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Light Orange Underwing sightings
I popped along to Wolves Wood on Sunday afternoon (25th March) and saw three adults flitting around in the sunshine in the eastern part of the wood. Mark Nowers, the warden, would like all details of adults seen this year, … Continue reading
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Indoor meeting this Saturday
Final reminder that it’s the indoor meeting this Saturday at Bucklesham Village Hall from 2.00pm onwards, or 12.00pm if you’re going to the pub beforehand. Don’t forget your exhibits and/or presentations! Further details here. Tony
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SMG Indoor Meeting – reminder
The indoor meeting is just over two weeks away – Saturday 24th March – details at the SMG web site meetings page. Meeting starts at 2.00pm and will finish sometime before 5.00pm. Doors open at 1.30pm, if you want to … Continue reading
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Recent garden trapping in Ipswich
I’ve run the garden trap recently on a couple of warmer nights. I don’t normally get too much of interest at this time of year but this spring I’ve been picking up some of the woodland species – Tortricodes alternella, … Continue reading
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The Status of Microlepidoptera in Britain
Tony Davis of Butterfly Conservation has been beavering away for many hours producing an update on the status of the micro-lepidoptera found in Britain. It’s been over fifteen years since the last review was done on some selected families and … Continue reading
Night-time larval search at Barnhamcross Common
I met up with Sharon Hearle at Barnhamcross Common last night to have a search for Lunar Yellow Underwing (Noctua orbona) larvae. It was quite a warm night and we managed to avoid the rain that turned up a bit … Continue reading
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Moth records – re-submit please
I had a sudden hard disk failure on my main computer on Friday. I’ve now got it back up and running but I will probably have lost emails and some effort bashing in records from the early part of December … Continue reading
SMG Indoor Meeting 2012 – Saturday 24th March 2012
I’ve booked Bucklesham Village Hall for the afternoon on 24th March 2012 for the moth group meeting – this was the date that suited most people. I expect that the plan for the day will follow previous years. I’ll update … Continue reading
County Moth Night 2011 Results
Distant memories of summer moths may have been been displaced by more recent memories of autumn migrants but we did hold a county moth night on 20th August and I’ve finally managed to process the results. It’s been several years … Continue reading
Groton Wood – 16th November
I met up with Colin Plant to have a look for Plumed Prominent at Groton Wood last night although prospects for a good night’s mothing were a bit slim with temperatures starting off at around 7.5C. We set five MV … Continue reading
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