Author Archives: Tony Prichard

SMG Indoor Meeting 2014 – 1st March 2014

I’ve booked Bucklesham Village Hall on Saturday 1st March 2014 for the annual get together and slideshows. This is the usual venue for those who have been before. Anyone with an interest in Suffolk moths is welcome to attend – … Continue reading

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New British lepidoptera checklist available to order

A new version of the Lepidoptera checklist of Britain is due to be published within the next week or two. I gather that there may be rather a limited initial print run so if you want your copy I would … Continue reading

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Ipswich moths last night

My trap last night was rather quiet but this is nothing too unusual for this time of year. Species included Red-green Carpet (one of them a nice vivid green that escaped, so no photo of that), Black Rustic, L-album Wainscot, … Continue reading

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Some recent leaf-mines

I’ve spent a few afternoons recently doing some searching for leaf-mines and Olive Crescent larvae in south Suffolk. It seems more productive for leaf-mines than last year already, although macro-larvae seem to have been a bit thin on the ground. … Continue reading

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Suffolk Butterfly AGM and Members’ Evening – change of venue

For those interested the AGM of the Suffolk Branch of Butterfly Conservation is this Saturday evening (21st September 2013). There has been a change of venue to that published in the programme. The new venue is St. Luke’s Church Hall, … Continue reading

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Uploading images to the blog – some of them are too big

Can people please keep the size of photos posted to the blog to under 200KB unless there is a burning need for a lot detail on the photo. There are some very large files 1MB+ that are just eating up … Continue reading

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Just Published – New Book on Day-flying Moths

A new book on day-flying moths has been published – Britain’s Day-flying Moths: A Field Guide to the Day-flying Moths of Britain and Ireland by Newland, Still and Swash . I’ve not seen it yet but there is some information … Continue reading

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SMG Moth Night at Lakenheath – brought forward

As the weather is looking better for tonight than tomorrow the group meeting scheduled for Saturday is being brought forward to Friday 30th August (tonight). Same meeting time. Tony

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Save the Belted Beauty in Lancashire campaign

If you’re not on the mothing email lists you maybe unaware that Graham Dixon has started a petition to help save the Belted Beauty in Lancashire.  Neil and myself visited the site last year to take part in a survey … Continue reading

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SMG Moth Meeting at Orford Ness – 27th July

If you’re thinking of coming along to this event can you let me know by Monday 22nd July, so we can get an idea of numbers wanting to come along. Also note that the programme had an error in the … Continue reading

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