Category Archives: Sightings

Three nights trapped in this period. On the 17th at home and 55 species including Puss Moth, Treble lines being a very abundant moth this year as with Brimstone which was seldom seen early on last year. Highlight was distant … Continue reading →

Having been away from home for a week I returned to warm unbroken sunshine, for two days anyhow, moonlit nights after midnight though. The two nights that followed improved as the cloud built. 17th to 20th May. My return found … Continue reading →

I did an early evening walk round the nearby SWT Fen Barn reserve with my net yesterday. There were several day flying micros on the wing in the warm sunshine. Those I managed to net included several Dichrorampha acuminatana, Scoparia … Continue reading →

I too was in Scotland with Paul, Matthew, Bill Last and Steve Whitehouse for part of last week so hadn’t trapped at home for a while. My first and only night’s trapping back here so far was on Friday night, … Continue reading →

Bill Last and myself went out to have a bit of a search for the Large red belted clearwing yesterday lunchtime/early afternoon, a moth that Bill had never seen. A check of the Lower Hollesley site found nothing, the Birch … Continue reading →

Having just returned from a succesfull trip to Scotland I was a feeling a little mothed out but, with the prospect of a warm night ahead, I decided to put my trap out and see what was “flying tonight”. In … Continue reading →

Good cloud cover yesterday evening ensured that it was just that. So I left a 125MV running in the garden while I took 3 other traps down the road to the Fen Barn SWT reserve for a couple of hours. Combined … Continue reading →

First Broad-bordered Bee Hawk-moth of the year nectaring on the excellent Erysimum ‘Bowles’s Mauve’ in our garden at Martlesham Heath on both 13 & 14 May.

This wasn’t easy on Saturday evening, but with good thick cloud cover and 13 deg. temperature I thought it worth a try. The site I chose proved to be well sheltered and although conditions were far from perfect, over 150 … Continue reading →