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5372

Date: 6th October 2022

Richard Poxon

Location: East Preston, West Sussex

Details: A Deaths Head Hawk moth was found on the wall of a house in East Preston within half a mile of the coast. Photograph was posted on local community group website for I.D. Nice to hear this so close to home, The trap will be going out tonight!

5367

Date: 6th October 2022

Atropos

Location: Marston, Devizes, Wiltshire, UK

Details: 6 October: Death's-head Hawk-moth found by day.

5364

Date: 5th October 2022

Chris Tyler-Smith, Yali Xue

Location: Strete, Dartmouth, UK

Details: Night of 4th October: 1 Vestal, 1 Silver Y, 1 Four-spotted Footman (the last might be local).

5361

Date: 5th October 2022

Atropos

Location: Blakeney Point, Norfolk

Details: Night of 4 October: Death's-head Hawk-moth to light.

5360

Date: 4th October 2022

Atropos

Location: Bracklesham, West Sussex

Details: Night of 3 October: possible immigrant 'Wormwood' to light.

5359

Date: 4th October 2022

Ian Hunter

Location: Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory

Details: Night of 3rd Death's Head Hawkmoth and Scarce Bordered Straw

5356

Date: 4th October 2022

Atropos

Location: Abbotsbury, Dorset

Details: Night of 3 October: Death's-head Hawk-moth to light.

5353

Date: 4th October 2022

Matthew J. Deans

Location: Bawdsey Hall, Suffolk

Details: Night of 3 October: Convolvulus Hawk-moth and Delicate to light.

5352

Date: 4th October 2022

Tony Rouse

Location: Samphire Hoe, Samphire Road, Dover, UK

Details: Trapped at Samphire Hoe, Dover last night. Strange array of species. Radford's Flame Shoulder, two Annulets, one a possible second brood, two Red Underwings (miles from any foodplant, possibly migrants), Vestal, Scarce Bordered Straw, Plumed Fanfoot, two small O. semirubella, possible second brood.

5349

Date: 4th October 2022

Mel Bellingham

Location: Great Sutton, Ellesmere Port, UK

Details: Night of 03/10/2022

Dark Sword-grass and Silver Y

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