Web site hosting upgraded

As we were running out of space I have upgraded the web site hosting so that we now have five times as much space as previously. Feel free to add photos as you wish – I’m keen to have as wide a variety of photos for each species as possible.

Keep an eye on the file sizes of the photographs being uploaded – I’ve seen some coming in at 0.5MB each, which soon eats up disk space and I have to recompress them to cut down the size. At some stage I’ll be adding facilities to do this from the web site and it will automatically be compressing large images – but it’s best if you do it as the system may not do it precisely as you would wish.

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Mompha bradleyi

I have just heard from Jon Clifton that a Mompha species, provisionally thought to be divisella, has been determined by him to be Mompha bradleyi (a female). This was caught in Eye on 26th October and Jon believes this to be the first record for East Anglia.
Wishing you all good health and a great mothing year in 2011.
Paul

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Indoor meeting 2011

I need to get the indoor meeting booked for next year.  It will be on a Saturday afternoon at Bucklesham Village Hall.

Can people let me know their preferences for dates in February to April.

Also if you’re thinking of doing a presentation can you let me know as I’d like to get an idea of how much material there will be.

Other nearby moth group meetings that we will want to avoid date-wise
Essex Indoor Meeting – 26th February 2011
Herts Indoor Meeting – 9th April 2011

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County moth night 2011

As there will be no National Moth Night in 2011 I thought it might be an idea to have a county moth night in 2011. We did have one or two before NMN got going. My personal preference is for something where we can hold a public moth night and attract some publicity.

Suggestions for dates please and possible venues. I’d suggest a weekend night sometime around summer rather than the ends of the year.

I did wonder with all the interest in Purdis Heath at the moment of having an event there. It would probably generate some good publicity for the place, could potentially attract quite a few people and should be a good site for getting some interesting moths for the public. I have very few records for the site in contrast to the golf course on the other side of fence.

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First Moth Record

Cheers, Tony – looks excellent.
Just thought I’d like to claim the first moth entry. 2x A. heracliana flying on Friday when it was -4 here. Perhaps it had something to do with me getting wood in from our wood-store…

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Welcome

Welcome to the new Suffolk Moths blog pages. Here you can find recent sightings and other topical items of interest related to the Suffolk Moth Group

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