150 Painted Lady butterflies through so far today.

12 Painted Lady butterflies in garden

I have 16 Painted Lady Vanessa cardui in my garden at present. Never recorded this many before.

1265 Diamond-back Moths in the traps this morning

Night of 3 June. 7 Diamond-back Moths to garden MV in the Highlands -- 5 very pale.

c235 Diamond-back Moths in trap this morning

Around 700 Diamond-back Moths, c.500 in the trap, c.200 on various shrubs & plants in garden. Also 1 Silver Y last night

To 125W MV light last night (3rd): Diamond-back Moths Plutella xylostella 437, Silver Y Autographa gamma 2.

A flowering Cordyline in my front garden at home had many hundreds of xylostella resting and apparently nectaring on the tiny flowerheads.

Dusking close to home last night, a conservative estimate of at least 2000 xylostella were seen along a one mile stretch of downland footpath between Denton (TQ459020) and Bishopstone (TQ470006).

266 Diamond-back Moths in two traps, many more dropping into garden during the night

Literally hundreds of diamond-back moths in duneland vegetation during evening `dusking`. Yet only singles/small nos. in both MV and actinic traps put out at sites c 2mls away.