Morning All A fine specimen of Red-headed Chestnut taken here at Bawdsey, East Suffolk last night (6 November) - the fourth site record. Also three Silver Y,...
Matthew
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Nov 7, 2008 8:49 am
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One Silver Y in the trap last night regards Dave (Alton, Hampshire VC12)...
Dear All I was recently sent a copy of a book many of you may not be aware of (I was not aware of its existence until very recently). This is "Discovering...
The first eight nights of November have produced the following.... U.ferrugalis (226),Vestal (1),Gem (1),Dark Sword-grass (3),Delicate (3),White-speck (373)...
Dear All Perhaps some of you are already aware of these websites, but if not I think birders and Lepidopterists (especially those interested in migration)...
Hi Folks A Death's-head Hawk-moth was reported to me from the inside of a large glasshouse at Sheffield Botanic Gardens just over a week ago. The finder...
Hi all, Just a short reminder that the deadline for submitting your National Moth Night 2008 data is Monday, 1 December 2008. Please visit the National Moth...
The second English Moth Recorders' Conference will be held on Saturday 31 January 2009 at the Birmingham and Midland Institute in central Birmingham. This is a...
Dear All Through the kindness of Mr. Bernard Skinner (there I go name dropping-again, another New Year's Resolution down the drain!) I received today a...
If anyone would like a copy of my annual garden moth report from Dovercourt, Essex, it is now available.. Please email me and I'll send it out. Unless you...
Greg Enjoy! All the best Chris ... From: <gregorycbond@...> To: <MigrantRecordersNetwork@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 12:46 PM Subject:...
My earliest ever Diamond-backs [2], by some three weeks here in Maldon, Essex and already up to 50% of my year total last year. Regards Simon Wood Maldon,...
Thought it worth mentioning that I had Dark Sword-grass and Diamond-back in the trap yesterday morning and a Painted Lady at White Nothe this afternoon. Cheers...
There were at least 2 Painted Lady on the wing at Braunton Burrows, North Devon today. I was also surprised to see Grizzled Skipper and a few Six-spot Burnet,...
Are you sure you mean Six-spot Burnet moth? It seems ridiculously early (by about 8 weeks). Cinnabar (which I have only once seen in Northern Ireland in April,...
Thanks for confirming this. Is this the earliest you have ever seen the Six-spot (or any Burnet) and do you have any other very early dates? Of the family...
Dear All Further to the recent records of Red Admiral and Painted Lady in Britain, thought to be recent migrants, 2 records of Painted Lady (but interestingly,...
Dear all, Apologies if this subject has already been discussed on this forum, but I thought you might like to be aware of some information from the far south...
Dear all, This is most interesting because a bit more than a week ago I was at Gibraltar and V. cardui was all over the place, being by far the commonest...
Sloe Carpet is a nationally scarce UKBAP species and "An incredible 44 were trapped at a site in Essex on 11th April [2009]" per Davis, T. et al., Priority...
Although technically not a migrant, it might be of interest to some that I trapped my first garden record of Sloe Carpet here in Biddenden, Kent on 15 April....
Dear All I have a friend moth trapping in the Balearic Islands (Mallorca) at present and she has just written to say that she is catching high numbers of both...
Eduardo Just returned from a week in Menorca. Painted lady was numerous, indeed the most numerous butterfly (of wjich there were very few). Otherwise a ...