Night of October 1st

Flame Brocade (10!)
Ni Moth (1)
Diamond-back Moth (2) First for 2011
Scarce Bordered Straw (1)
Delicate (1)
Silver-Y (4)
Dark Sword-grass (3)
L-album Wainsot (2)

Quieter here last night. Total migrants: 1 Delicate, 5 Udea ferrugalis, 2 Silvr Y

Palpita vitrealis this am - third in three days.

Night of 1st October

1 x Convolvulus Hawk (still scarce in Northants)
2 x Rusty Dot Pearl
For interest; 5 x Dusky Lemon Sallow (not migrants)

Last nights catch included:
Delicate
Silver Y
Nomophila noctuella
Udea ferrugalis.
Also last week in Fareham
Dewicks Plusia (Kevin Coker)
Scarce-bordered Straw, Dusky Lemon Sallow (Keith Wheeler)

Minimum numbers (scarce) and very conservative estimates of common migrants from traps at five localities on the island (30/9)

Old World Webworm (8),RDPearl (200+),RVeneer (25),Diasemiopsis ramburialis (3),Palpita vitrealis (1),
U.polygonalis (1),Red Admiral (1),HBHawk (4),Blair's Mocha (2),Vestal (75),Gem (2),DSGrass (15),Delicate (10),White-speck (10),Scarce Bordered Straw (6),Purple Marbled (1),Small Marbled (5),Small Mottled Willow (1),Dark Mottled Willow (1),Silver Y (20)

also on the night of 29th the first Pale Lemon Sallow for IOS was caught (RParks)

Night Of 30th: 4 Rusty Dot Pearl, 1 Dark Swordgrass and a large number of Silver Y. Daytime 1st Oct two Hummingbird Hawks.

Friday 29th night
1 four Spotted Footman (several weeks since the resident ones finished)
1 Gem
3 Palpita Vitrealis
1 Dark Swordgrass
1 Antigastra Catalaunalis ( very scarce vagrant tropical species. ‘’Goater’’)

Hummingbird hawk at honeysuckle in my garden, 30/09/2011

Trapped last night 30th Sep on St Agnes, Isles of Scilly by Graham Gordon
1 Crimson Speckled. The moth will be kept at Rosevear on St Agnes if anyone wants to view it tomorrow Sunday 2nd Oct and will be released on Sunday evening.
also trapped by David Price on St Agnes same night; 30 Vestal, 2 Hummingbird hawks, Gem, Scarce Bordered Straw.