Category Archives: Sightings

Having spent Saturday night and what seemed like a chunk of Sunday morning trapping with the group in the Brecks (of which more to follow I suspect) I arrived home to what on the face of it appeared to be … Continue reading →

Having been out of the country for the first half of July I was interested to find out how the season had progressed on my return. Having been used to full traps every night (mv and 20w WEM bulbs) on … Continue reading →

Caught in Robinson trap in Grundisburgh on 15th July 2016. Any other sitings? it is listed as a rare immigrant

After a poor first half of 2016 we had a spell of summer one week into July. Most moth-ers seem to have taken advantage of it, though numbers were still down for me on early July peaks of the last … Continue reading →

Two years ago while trapping in early July with Keith at a site on the Somerleyton estate we recorded over 40 Four-spotted Footman, males and females. We returned in hope last year but recorded just one male. So our target … Continue reading →

It is such an odd feeling having finally had a night worth blogging about. Pickings here in Woolpit have been slim – so much so that by the end of June I was still four short of one hundred species … Continue reading →

I’ve run light traps a few more times since my last posting and here is the news of interest. Firstly, the common tortrix moths normally seen in their hundreds here have just not got going yet, perhaps apart from Archips … Continue reading →