Category Archives: Sightings

Found a single male Four-spotted footman in one of my traps this morning, my 4th sighting of one at this site (other 3 were caught last year). The only decent migrant I’ve recorded recently. Neil

Traps have been rather busy this week, particularly with yellow underwings. I’m noting around 90 species each night, not bad for mid September. Like Raymond and others getting a lot of second or third brood moths including Heart & Dart, … Continue reading →

Sorry to hear of your hornet invasion Brian. Luckily I don’t see too many, just a few of the common wasp. I took the advantage of a good weather night to pay my first visit to a new site I … Continue reading →

Conditions yesterday evening were ideal, so I set out 4 traps on one of my sites hoping to get a few long awaited autumn species. Not many minutes after switching on, the hornets started to arrive. I can usually cope … Continue reading →

Nice to find a bit of autumn colour in the moth traps today with a couple of Orange sallow caught, my first ones for the year. Nothing else colourful or of note amongst the small number of moths present. I’m … Continue reading →

Finally some moths to perk up what has been a long, dire, period. Although conditions still not ideal. Some nights I have switched off the traps early like on the 4th when I caught a Satellite. On the 5th 46 … Continue reading →

Despite running my trap quite a bit recently it has all been somewhat disappointing, with the number of species recorded seemingly reducing at an ever increasing rate – which I attribute to both a lack of tree cover and the … Continue reading →

Arriving at my traps this morning before work – well, still night actually, the down-side to starting at 6a.m – running around the work-shed woodland things looked promising with a number of moths on the outside. A nice Canary-shouldered thorn … Continue reading →

The catch was more promising with interest and migrants. 90 species with run of the mill migrants; Dark Sword-grass, Rush Veneer Udea ferrugalis, Plutella xylostella and Silver Y.  A Red Admiral in the trap too. Also picked up my third … Continue reading →

Keith & I had our traps out yesterday evening along the tracks near Ashby church which sits in solitude surrounded by fields, hedgerows and woodland. We were praying for a few nice fresh autumn species and possibly some nice migrants, … Continue reading →