Category Archives: Sightings

Like Matthew, found my traps this morning heaving with moths. Outside of lights absolutely covered in Blastobasis adustella, hundreds of them! Has taken most of my spare time before work, during lunch break and an hour after work to sort … Continue reading →

56 species. Fairly low numbers of moths, but a personal and site first for Lesser-spotted Pinion, the other worth a mention, Webb’s Wainscot. Six Silver Y and Four Diamond-back the migrants. Butterflies on the up with two Painted lady and … Continue reading →

An auspicious night at Bawdsey with traps absolutely heaving with moths by 5:00am this morning. I really could have done with the dustbin! Quite a few moths were rubbed and a few dead in the bottom of the trap due … Continue reading →

Hopes were high last night as I set the actinic at another new site in Stutton – a former fruit farm. It was overcast and warm, although a hint of a breeze had planted a seed of doubt before sunset. … Continue reading →

A last minute text from Keith Tailby found me mothing last night (15th) on the saltmarsh at Bawdsey. Keith could only run his two traps for a short duration as he was on his honeymoon! I operated two of my … Continue reading →

Trapped the 1st time with Brian at this site which runs between Fritton, St. Olaves and Ashby. Was after Fenn’s Wainscot but it didn’t show. However we were still well rewarded with some very good moths coming to the usual … Continue reading →

Very pleasing to have another good spell of moth trapping weather. Having the night off tonight to catch up before the next really good spell starts over the next few days – if the weather forecast is right! In addition … Continue reading →

On the 13th, the garden produced 55 moths of 30 species. Singles of Tree-lichen Beauty and Webb’s Wainscot were the highlights. Last night I was back at one of my other Stutton sites which produced 38 species/117 moths. I had … Continue reading →

Last night (13 August) was warm and muggy and, as expected, this resulted in a bumper catch of 64 macro species. After a lot of sorting the highlights were Bulrush Wainscot (a female), Crescent, Dark Spinach, Small Phoenix and Six-striped … Continue reading →

Thought it might be better than 12th since weather was near perfect but coincidentally have the same number of 134 species identified at present. In common with Neil I have a couple of Tree-Lichen Beauty and several Cydia amplana. The … Continue reading →