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Night of 22nd August. Dark Crimson underwing - first record for my garden
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the moth previously posted is a unidentified tortrix'if any one could help we would be very gratfull thank you.
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Sunday 20th August
After a very muggy night with wind from south, traps round the island produced large catches. Migrants included Oak Processionary, Gem, 5 Small Mottled Willow, as well as lots of Silver Y, Dark Swordgrass etc. New to the island & also presumably migrants: Lesser Cream Wave & 2 Pyrausta cingulata & second record of Pediasia fascelinella. |
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Night of 20/08/11
Singles of Dark Sword-grass, Vestal and Convolvulus Hawkmoth. |
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Diamond backed moth - 11th and 13th August
White-point - 19th August Hummingbird-hawkmoth - 19th and 20th, nectaring on honeysuckle A bit late: Scaeva pyrastri - usually seen in ones and twos; but this year on 6th August saw 15 in our garden, plus on the same day over 40 seen in one 20m stretch of road verge on Cranwich Heath in the Brecks. |
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Night of Saturday 19th August, our first Convolvulus Hawk-moth of the year. Sporadic winds from SE in past week have brought small numbers of Silver Y and Rush Veneer to our traps; the larger numbers of White Point & Rusty Dot Pearl are probably part-migrant, part-resident.
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Night of 19th August. Jersey mocha - perhaps confirmation of resident colony here as no migrant activity for a while
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Large arrival of the hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus on the Lothian coast over the past week (per B. Dawson).
Have any other observers noticed this? |
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A pair of Lesser Emperor at the Southern Long Pits, Dungeness, on 17 August.
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