Category Archives: Sightings

Last night I trapped this site in Somerleyton, later joined by Brian with two of his traps who has done  very well to manage to do a succession of moth nights. Conditions were excellent with the temperature staying above 13c. … Continue reading →

Don’t know what happened but I was struggling with inserting an image. If I still can’t do it you won’t get one. Enough of my problems, back to the moths. Yes in common with Brian and I suspect everyone else … Continue reading →

I ran the lights in two separate woodland sites over the weekend and it was quite satisfying to see how many species have emerged for the first time this year. 53 different species were recorded over the visits, 27 of … Continue reading →

Been out and about this weekend doing a bit of recording during the brief mild spell before the rain. Started on Friday night with 3 traps deployed at IGC (30w twin actinic in the garden plus 2 MV up at … Continue reading →

Keith joined me last night on one of my woodland sites. We were a bit uncertain as to how things would turn out as one weather forecast predicted rain to arrive at 8pm, another said 12 midnight. As it turned … Continue reading →

Looking for decent moth nights I put my two traps out at home in Hollesley last night with my fingers crossed. What turned up? Wasps! But only 28 moth species. They did move the season on but the catch was … Continue reading →

With some warmer nights in the last week I’ve been running various combinations of light traps alternating between the garden and up on the golf course. The better temperatures have brought out some more year first moths with Lunar marbled … Continue reading →

Following my first ever Red Chestnut on Friday night with Brian, last night, 15th, I was trapping on my own at Herringfleet Hills, although Brian popped along at packing up time. A cool clear night as it turns out, I … Continue reading →

Looking to the warm days bringing moths out I have trapped regularly and whilst for example the 13th turned cold at night and only produced 9 species the 14th was much warmer and showed a marked improvement on this disappointing … Continue reading →