Night of 13th March: only moth in the trap was a single Dark Sword-grass.

10/3 - Several absolutely pristine Small Torts in the garden along with several worn Peacock and a single Comma. Two more Bloxworth Snout in the garden shed.

Already this year recorded more Small Tortoiseshell, Peacocks and Commas than last year in the period up to mid May.

Along and near the Gosport coast:
Sun 9th Mar:Brimstone 9,Small Tortoiseshell 33,Peacock 13,Comma 11,Total 66;
Mon 10th Mar:Brimstone 1,Small White 2,Small Tortoiseshell 48,Peacock 13,Comma 5,Total 69.

Morning of 12/03 a single Turnip Moth was found.

Another hummingbird hawk-moth seen at c 8.00am this morning (12th March) at Whitland, west Carmarthenshire. Seen by Malcolm Holding.

Great sunny day (Saturday 8th March, 2014)......Spring is here!! Saw 1 x Red Admiral at Tregonissey (St Austell), 1 x Red Admiral flying in Bridge Street, St Blazey.........Prideaux/Luxulyan (near fishing lakes in Prideaux Road) 1 x Small Tortoiseshell, 2 x Commas, 3 x Peacocks (all basking in clearing just off edge of road where fallen tree recently felled. Then on to Pontsmill....6 x Brimstones (4 x male & 2 x female) between 12:40pm & 1:17pm and also 2 x Peacocks. Why is it that Brimstones seem to just disappear after about 1:00pm when they fly in February & 1:20 - 1:30pm in early March?? 2 of the Brimstones disappeared into some ivy growing up a tree on Carmears incline at Postsmill at 1:10pm & could not be located again!! All basking/settled butterflies seen today were fresh without wear nor damage!! They've all kept out of the stormy weather over the past 2 months then!!
Temperature 13 degrees C (55 degrees F).
5 x different species and I worked until 12:00 Noon so a lot crammed into 90 minutes after work!! Great day!!
Cheers......Lee Slaughter. :-)

10th March: Dark Sword-grass again.

Little else - a much colder night then recently.

In the last 2 days here near York we have had very fresh Hebrew Characters, 2 Clouded Drab,1 beautiful Angle Shades and 2 lovely Early Grey. Comma and Small Tortoiseshell in the sun! Spring is here.

Hummingbird hawk-moth seen by Jon Baker at Johnstown, Carmarthen on Saturday (8.3.14) and another at Pwll, Llanelli seen by Richard & Kath Pryce today. Also numbers of red admirals present in Llanelli area of SE Carms.

9th March: Dark Sword-grass in the trap. A freshly-emerged Angle Shades was also something of a surprise.

First Clouded Drab (x3) and Twin-spotted Quaker (x4) of the year. Significantly different selection of moths from 48 hours previously.