Pendennis Castle - Daytime 23/6 -
3 x Hummingbird Hawk
3 x Painted Lady
7 x Red Admiral
1 x DBM.

Night of 22 June: 1 Delicate, 1 Pearly Underwing, 2 Diamond-back Moths

Taken 22.vi.2012 at 125W MV light (garden and Butterfly Conservation moth traps): singles of Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth, Mythimna vitellina The Delicate and Autographa gamma Silver Y.

21 June,Silver Y at 10pm and Red Admiral during the day in the poly-tunnels.

Bordered Straw to 125W mv at home last night.

Night of 20 June: 1 Vestal, 3 Rusty-dot Pearl

Last night, 20/21 June recorded a Cypress Carpet to 125w Mv and a Bordered Straw to 40 w Actinic.

No sign today of Large White-faced Darter Leucorrhinia pectoralis at Docwra's Ditch, Dunwich Heath. Last seen c9.30am on 19 June.

One Silver Y to 20w Actinic heath trap on the 18th . One of several so far this year .

I watched a pale, worn Painted Lady careering around over the sea wall at Leasowe on the North Wirral coast this afternoon.