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 ...
My first Silver Y of the year here plus my seventh Diamond-back Moth of the year [I only had five all last year!] Regards Simon Wood Maldon, Essex PPlease...
After records so far this year have turned out to be Bee-Flies!!..... A first confirmed Hummingbird Hawk-moth on Good Friday morning 10th April 09, Edgefield...
Unfortunately down here in Penzance I had a 13 hour shift, so was unable to get out. Can you make an estimate of how many Steve? All the best John Butterfly...
-Hi John- Very difficult to estimate in the very strong NE winds funnelling around the cliffs. In one fairly sheltered spot, 100 yards inland, double figure...
18 Diamond-backs in the trap last night here in Maldon, Essex Cheers Simon Wood PPlease consider your environmental responsibility before printing this...
Simon/others Are any of you who are recording Diamond-back at the moment seeing the ochreous form? We have several recorders here in Norfolk including myself...
Hi Jon/others At Bawdsey, Suffolk last night there were 213 Diamond-backs in the moth traps. Many were of the ochreous form here too. Best wishes Matthew ...
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Dear All My volunteer has just phoned me to say that he had literally thousands of P. xylostella in his 5 traps last night (100s on each egg carton). He's...
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