24th June 2015

Numbers now increasing with a warm and humid night last night with just under 70 species trapped. Bordered Straw was the highlight, the first of this species recorded here since 2009.

21st August 2009

Temperatures were forecast to go down into single figures during the night so I wasn't expecting much in the traps so it was a great surprise to find this pristine Bordered Straw in the MV - only the third record for the garden and the first since the influx in 2006: