3 Southern Migrant Hawker dragonflies in Essex at West Canvey Marsh RSPB yesterday

This afternoon a Jersey Tiger flying around before briefly settling on a fence in a private garden close to Wandsworth Common Station. My first record here though species is well established in parts of SE London.

Lesser Emperor dragonfly at Lower Bruckland Ponds, near Colyford, Devon today and one still at Radipole Lake, Weymouth, Dorset.

Long-tailed Blue butterfly (of unknown origin) at Blackwall at East India Dock Basin early afternoon.

Night of 9th Aug. 4 four-spotted footmen and 1 Jersey mocha - quite possibly all residents!

Moth trap in inner city Birmingham back yard - only one migrant - Silver Y this morning. (trapping night 9th August). But also potted in trap was this exotic looking pyralid. It appears to be identical to the illustration in Goater for 1401 Mung Moth - Maruca vitrata (testulalis). Can anyone confirm my ID and that there are no similar species? Also Goater lists 5 specimens, has it become much commoner since then - does anyone know its current status? I presume that this is an import with food materials, as i live at the centre of the Balti food area of birmingham!

Night of 9th August
Jersey Tiger to 40w Actinic

At 125W MV on 9.viii.2012, 2 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass and 2 Autographa gamma Silver Y.

Night of 8th August
Single Cydia amplana and two Rush Veneer

Lesser Emperor records:

Dorset: a male at Radipole Lake, Weymouth this afternoon (from bridge by visitor centre) and another briefly at Longham Lakes, near Bournemouth, in SE corner of the North Lake this morning.

Cambridgeshire: A male yesterday at Sutton Gault 1/4 mile south of the causeway.