caught at my door 11.00 PM 30-10-06 CYPRESS CARPET

Night of 31 October:

Udea ferrugalis (1), Dark Sword-grass (2) & Pearly Underwing (1).

Night of 30 October:

Plutella xylostella (1), Udea ferrugalis (8), Nomophila noctuella (9), Gem (1), Dark Sword-grass (7), Pearly Underwing (3), Delicate (3), Clancy's Rustic (1) and Silver Y (24).

Night of the 31st October

Beaded Chestnut 1
Diamond-back Moth 1
Large Wainscot 2
Lunar Underwing 1
November Moth 3
Udea ferrugalis 12

Night of 30th October

Dark Chestnut 1
Rush Veneer 2
Silver Y 4
Udea ferrugalis 4

Night of 29 October: 1 Radford's Flame Shoulder, 2 Humming-bird Hawk-moths, 8 P. vitrealis, Scarce Bordered Straw, 4 Cosmopolitan, 1 Red Admiral, 1 Gem, 1 White-point

Night of 28/10: 11+ migrant spp: 3 Cosmopolitan, 6 Delicate, 1 White-speck, 1 Scarce Bordered Straw, 3 Gem, 2 Vestal, 2 Small Mottled Willow, 8 Pearly Underwing, also 5 RdP, 13 R Veneer, 1 Silver Y.

Night of 29/1: 3 Cosmpolitan, 2 Gem.

Have just been to collect a fully grown Convolvulus Hawk larvae (green form) found wandering for a pupation site on allotments in Shoreham by Sea West Sussex.

Highlights of 29.10.06:

Palpita vitrealis (1)
Scarce Bordered Straw (2)
Delicate (4)
Golden Twin-spot (1) - sixth site record this year.

Night of 29th: 1 White-speck, 1 Cosmospolitan

Night of 29th October 2006

2 Delicates, 2 Palpita vitrealis, 1 Gem and a Cosmopolitan.

Additional Gem found later from 28th (2 that night)