Following the discovery of a Death's Head larva near Taunton I went back to the site where I found 3 larvae in 2010. A 3-hour search yielded one trashed Woody Nightshade plant and some enormous droppings - but the larva had gone!

If you have good stands of Woody Nightshade near you it would be worth a look.

Male Clouded Yellow roosting on clematis leaves on Green Down gallops nr Somerton on Thursday afternoon - cool and showery so not very active.

MV last night - one Rush Veneer N. noctuella and one Dark Sword-grass.

In the garden very worn Painted Lady nectaring on Buddleia on Thursday and s fresh Hummingbird Hawk nectaring on Red Valerian this morning.

From last nights garden trap:

Small Mottled Willow
Jersey Tiger
Bordered Straw
Rush Veneer

Convolvulus Hawk-moth found dead on ground 24th August by Jan Livesey.

Night of 28 August:

1 Diamond-back Moth, 34 Rusty-dot Pearl, 45 Rush Veneer, 1 Eudonia angustea, 9 'Continental' Latticed Heath, 1 red-striped Vestal, 15 Dark Sword-grass, 1 Scarce Bordered Straw, 1 Bordered Straw, 3 Small Mottled Willow and 68 Silver Y.

Night of 28 August: Vestal trapped in Harlow.

Night of 28 August: 1 Convolvulus Hawk-moth. Also one on 27 August and two on 26 August. All different individuals.

Beautiful Marbled - 2nd site record.

Late news of the first Catoptria verellus for the reserve trapped on 1st July (Mark Gurney).

Trapping on 27/8 with 6 traps near Start Point was clear and cold wind, so less moths - only migrants were; 4 Rush Veneers