Category Archives: Sightings

Continuing a good week of garden moths. Averaging 90 macro species each night (which is as good for my garden as was 2006): 23rd was over 100. Migrants made an appearance on 23rd, with 15 Silver Y, a couple of … Continue reading →

My total number of species rose too last night, but nowhere near as high as Matthew with 162sp recorded in 3 traps (2 125w mv + 30w twin actinic) in an area of wet woodland and meadow. Hints of migration … Continue reading →

Numbers keep on rising at Bawdsey with c230 species this morning. I estimated 4,000 moths trapped last night; of which 500 were Diamond-backs and 700 Willow/Bird-cherry Ermines! Certainly a major immigration of these species. One Dark Sword-grass and 35 Silver … Continue reading →

With the conditions looking good thought I’d try and go for a high species count so 2 traps were put out in my best area of mixed habitats on the site. In the morning, things looked promising with quite a … Continue reading →

Has anyone else noticed the recent influx of Yponomeutoidea? I’ve been noticing increasing numbers of evonymella in recent days with 30 in the Bawdsey Hall traps this morning.  Also present this morning were 37 Willow Ermine – more of a sudden arrival, as … Continue reading →

This year does seem a good one for the plume moths with me, with another new species for the site turning up last night following on from the Yarrow plume last week. This time it was a Triangle plume Platyptilia … Continue reading →

On the 15th I went with Brian Jones to a new location, a newly created meadow or perhaps just a field that has remained fallow for four or five years next to Fritton Church. At the bottom of the meadow … Continue reading →

I was away in southern France for five weeks, until last week. Did some MV trapping there, and discovered that June had been as bad there as it had been here. My garden catches before I went away were frighteningly … Continue reading →

The last few nights have continued on the same theme as the rest of the week with respectable numbers of moths in the traps here, with counts over 100sp every night. Last night (20th) was the lowest count of 104sp, … Continue reading →