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Currently arrival conditions
are poor

5547

Date: 22nd October 2022

Mark Tunmore

Location: Lizard, Helston, UK

Details: It's not just migrant moths that have been turning up in the recent mild weather. A new shieldbug for the British Isles was caught this week on the Lizard. Chroantha ornatula.

5545

Date: 22nd October 2022

Atropos

Location: Dungeness, Kent

Details: 21 October: Crimson Speckled found by day.

5542

Date: 21st October 2022

David Brown

Location: Lizard, Helston, UK

Details: Night of 20 October 2022: 5 Scarce Bordered Straw, 1 Ni Moth, 1 Gem, 14 Vestal, 1 Cosmopolitan, 187 Rush Veneer, 4 Rusty-dot Pearl

5539

Date: 21st October 2022

Atropos

Location: Kingsdown, Deal, Kent, UK

Details: Night of 20 October: Small Marbled to light.

5536

Date: 21st October 2022

Paul Kitchener

Location: Shottisham, Woodbridge, Suffolk

Details: Night of 20 October: N. noctuella (15), U. ferrugalis (1), Gem (1 male)

5534

Date: 21st October 2022

Atropos

Location: Hugh Town, St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly

Details: 21 October: Crimson Speckled found this afternoon.

5532

Date: 21st October 2022

Matthew J. Deans

Location: Bawdsey Hall, Suffolk

Details: Night of 20 October: male Gem, male Vestal, 3 Palpita vitrealis, 3 Delicate, 1 Pearly Underwing, 2 Dark Sword-grass, 2 Silver Y, 140 N. noctuella and 8 U. ferrugalis.

5531

Date: 21st October 2022

Clive Atkins

Location: St. Osyth, UK

Details: Night of 20th
Single male Gem to light.

5528

Date: 21st October 2022

Jeremy Patterson

Location: Round Hill, Brighton, UK

Details: Night of 20 October: A little more pedestrian than elsewhere but single Delicate and Diamond-back, 2 RDP, 4 Turnip and 28 Rush Veneer to light.

5527

Date: 21st October 2022

Tony Wilson

Location: Callestick, Truro, UK

Details: Night of 20th Oct - 1 Crimson Speckled, 3 Vestal, 6 Rush Veneer, 2 Rusty-dot Pearl and 4 Diamond-back Moth + Hummingbird Hawk-moth by day.

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