4th July 2015

A very warm night so a two very busy moth traps. Top of the catch list were the 3rd garden records of Red-necked Footman and of one of my favourite moths, Large Emerald. Scoparia basistrigalis is an uncommon visitor here and it's even rarer to get a well marked individual.

19th July 2013

114 species must be close to a record for a single night here, although the quantity of individual moths remains quite low - just 320.

Enarmonia formosana, the Cherry-bark Moth, was a garden tick whilst the stunning Large Emerald was just the second record here, last seen in 2005. Silky Wainscot is an occasional visitor but I've not recorded the form wismariensis before and a male Schoenobius gigantella is unusual in the trap.