Flight Arrivals News Board

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Currently arrival conditions
are poor

4666

Date: 20th August 2022

Jeremy Patterson

Location: Round Hill, Brighton, UK

Details: Night of 19 Aug: single Bordered Straw and Pearly Underwing, 4 Silver Ys, 3 Rush Veneers and 2 Diamond backs to light. Hummingbird Hawks evident in area over last few days.

4663

Date: 20th August 2022

George Davis

Location: Maenporth, Falmouth, UK

Details: 17 Rush Veneer, 6 Udea ferrugalis, 3 Silver Y, 2 Bordered Straw, 2 Pearly Underwing, single Dark Sword-grass, Small Mottled Willow, Scarce Bordered Straw, Vestal, Nephopterix angustella and Convolvulus Hawk Moth - the latter very very worn. The night was not very favourable for my garden so I suspect many of these moths arrived on previous nights but a good variety.

4662

Date: 20th August 2022

Stan Taylor

Location: Warwick, UK

Details: One Small Mottled Willow and One White Point in garden trap last night

4659

Date: 20th August 2022

Julian Francis

Location: Tolpuddle,Dorset

Details: One Bordered Straw caught last night (19/8) at Tolpuddle, Dorset (VC9).

4657

Date: 19th August 2022

Stan Taylor

Location: Warwick, UK

Details: Two Hummingbird Hawkmoths nectaring on Lantanas in
garden today

4653

Date: 19th August 2022

Ian Barton

Location: Stretham, VC29

Details: Night 18 Aug - single Convolvulus hawk put in early, but very twitchy, show on Nicotianas. This morning one (it?) in the MV trap. Other than that, just 1 diamond back and 1 rush veneer.

4652

Date: 19th August 2022

Alec Harmer

Location: Lymington, Hants VC11

Details: Night of 18th August. Two Portland Ribbon Waves to garden MV trap.

4651

Date: 19th August 2022

Martin stoyle

Location: Easington, Hull, UK

Details: Night of 17th: 3 Vestal, 1 Bordered Straw.

4650

Date: 19th August 2022

Matthew J. Deans

Location: Bawdsey Hall, Suffolk

Details: Night of 18 August: 1 Hoary Footman, 1 Scarce Bordered Straw, 3 Bordered Straw and 6 Dark Sword-grass to light.

4647

Date: 19th August 2022

Andrew Rhodes

Location: Budleigh Salterton

Details: 18th August To MV light-1 x Scarce Bordered Straw, 1 x Vestal, 1 x Silver Y(very few so far this year), 12 x Nomophila noctuella, 2 x Udea ferrugalis, 1 x Ostrinia nubilalis

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