Moths on Brean Down last night: 1 Pearly Underwing, 3 Vestal, 2 Dark Sword-grass, 1 Scarce Bordered Straw, 15 Rusty Dot Pearl, 5 Silver Y

2 Scarce Bordered Straws, 2 Vestals and a Delicate

Clouded Yellow roosted overnight in garden. Small Mottled Willow, 4 Silver Y, Diamond-back moth and 2 Large Wainscot to light.

Dark Sword Grass1, Silver Y 1, Rusty Dot Pearl 2. Plus Large Wainscot 3 in back garden trap last night.

Night of 2 October: 17 Vestal, 1 Small Mottled Willow, 1 Humming-bird Hawk-moth, 1 Delicate, 2 Scarce Bordered Straw, 3 Gem, 2 Old World Webworm, 1 Delicate

Night of 2 Oct 2011
125W UV trap
Vagrant Emperor Dragonfly and
7 Vestals
on outside of trap.
Not looked in yet.

Night of 1st October
Blair's Mocha, 2 Scarce Bordered Straw, 5 Dark Swordgrass

A combined trapping effort with 25 lights operated by J Chainey, M Deans, D Jackson, A Jenkins, D Foot, I Machin, J Spence, P Sterling and S Whitehouse produced the following totals (includes Dave Foot's records listed in previous entry):

Tebenna micalis 1, Diamond-back Moth 7, European Corn-borer 1, Rusty-dot Pearl 123, Rush Veneer 3, N. angustella 1, A. oblitella 1, Red Admiral 7, Portland Ribbon Wave 1, Vestal 4, Gem 6, Convolvulus Hawk-moth 8, Hummingbird Hawk-moth 1 - 2 nectaring at dusk, Dark Sword-grass 22, Pearly Underwing 9, White-point 10, Delicate 17, White-speck 1, Cosmopolitan 2, Pale-lemon Sallow 2, Small Mottled Willow 1, Clancy's Rustic 6, Bordered Straw 1, Scarce Bordered Straw 16, Ni Moth 1, Dewick's Plusia 1, Silver Y 79 and Bloxworth Snout 1.

Also two Western Conifer Seed Bugs.

Night of 1 October: 5 Vestal, 2 Convolvulus Hawks

Also Geoff Senior caught 1 Uresiphita polygonalis (one also on 30 September) and one Ni Moth

Night of 1st
1 Euchromius Ocellea, (Occasional immigrant, tropical/sub tropical origin ‘’Goater’) We previously caught one 23.1.2008

1 Gem
2 Rusty dot pearl
1 Dark Sword-grass
10 Vestal
1 Turnip Moth