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I joined the Levant Blackneck club last night, with a slightly worn individual among the 23/9 recorded. Small Mottled Willow, Diamond Back, 2 Silver Y, 3 Rush Veneer & 5 Rusty-dot Pearl were the other @migrantmothuk.bsky.social. Also another Nabis capsiformis, making it 10 over the week
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Still limping along, with just 3 of 3 in Plymouth overnight, 2 being NFY: Dotted Border and Bloxworth Snout. Winter Moth made up the total. Puts me on 7 for the year, which is actually 4 more than this time last year!
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January 15, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Still limping along, with just 3 of 3 in Plymouth overnight, 2 being NFY: Dotted Border and Bloxworth Snout. Winter Moth made up the total. Puts me on 7 for the year, which is actually 4 more than this time last year!
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Finally up and running for 2026. 4 of 4 to my Plymouth garden overnight: Winter Moth, December Moth, Double-striped Pug and Rusty-dot Pearl
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January 8, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Finally up and running for 2026. 4 of 4 to my Plymouth garden overnight: Winter Moth, December Moth, Double-striped Pug and Rusty-dot Pearl
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1/3
While I'm still waiting for a single moth this year, I thought I'd do a few stats on my 2025 records.
I recorded 732 species in 2025, submitting 10,786 records of at least 35,876 moths to 4 County Moth Recorders.
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While I'm still waiting for a single moth this year, I thought I'd do a few stats on my 2025 records.
I recorded 732 species in 2025, submitting 10,786 records of at least 35,876 moths to 4 County Moth Recorders.
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January 4, 2026 at 12:35 AM
1/3
While I'm still waiting for a single moth this year, I thought I'd do a few stats on my 2025 records.
I recorded 732 species in 2025, submitting 10,786 records of at least 35,876 moths to 4 County Moth Recorders.
#teammoth
While I'm still waiting for a single moth this year, I thought I'd do a few stats on my 2025 records.
I recorded 732 species in 2025, submitting 10,786 records of at least 35,876 moths to 4 County Moth Recorders.
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A couple of migrants at the final work trap of the year: White-speck & Dark Sword-grass among 12/6. Noteworthy were 3 female December Moths among the 6 recorded.
The garden trap had 4/2: 3 Rusty-dot Pearl & Crocidosema plebejana. Plymouth VC3
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The garden trap had 4/2: 3 Rusty-dot Pearl & Crocidosema plebejana. Plymouth VC3
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December 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
A couple of migrants at the final work trap of the year: White-speck & Dark Sword-grass among 12/6. Noteworthy were 3 female December Moths among the 6 recorded.
The garden trap had 4/2: 3 Rusty-dot Pearl & Crocidosema plebejana. Plymouth VC3
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The garden trap had 4/2: 3 Rusty-dot Pearl & Crocidosema plebejana. Plymouth VC3
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Overnight conditions meant I could finally run the trap in work, being less windy/rainy/cold. Just 3 species, but 50 moths - 2 Winter, 3 Mottled Umber & 45 December Moths which was lovely to see. Brixton VC3
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December 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Overnight conditions meant I could finally run the trap in work, being less windy/rainy/cold. Just 3 species, but 50 moths - 2 Winter, 3 Mottled Umber & 45 December Moths which was lovely to see. Brixton VC3
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15 of 6 overnight in Plymouth, which included a few migrants.
62W actinic/synergetic
Small Mottled Willow (pic)
Silver Y 2
Rusty-dot Pearl 7
December Moth 3
LBAM
Acleris ferrugana/notana
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62W actinic/synergetic
Small Mottled Willow (pic)
Silver Y 2
Rusty-dot Pearl 7
December Moth 3
LBAM
Acleris ferrugana/notana
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December 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
15 of 6 overnight in Plymouth, which included a few migrants.
62W actinic/synergetic
Small Mottled Willow (pic)
Silver Y 2
Rusty-dot Pearl 7
December Moth 3
LBAM
Acleris ferrugana/notana
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62W actinic/synergetic
Small Mottled Willow (pic)
Silver Y 2
Rusty-dot Pearl 7
December Moth 3
LBAM
Acleris ferrugana/notana
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22 of 9 in my Plymouth garden last night:
Angle Shades larva feeding on Viburnum tinus
62W actinic/synergetic
10 Rusty-dot Pearl
2 Common Marbled Carpet
2 Mottled Umber
2 Light Brown Apple Moth
2 December Moth
Red-green Carpet
November Moth agg
Feathered Thorn
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Angle Shades larva feeding on Viburnum tinus
62W actinic/synergetic
10 Rusty-dot Pearl
2 Common Marbled Carpet
2 Mottled Umber
2 Light Brown Apple Moth
2 December Moth
Red-green Carpet
November Moth agg
Feathered Thorn
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November 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
22 of 9 in my Plymouth garden last night:
Angle Shades larva feeding on Viburnum tinus
62W actinic/synergetic
10 Rusty-dot Pearl
2 Common Marbled Carpet
2 Mottled Umber
2 Light Brown Apple Moth
2 December Moth
Red-green Carpet
November Moth agg
Feathered Thorn
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Angle Shades larva feeding on Viburnum tinus
62W actinic/synergetic
10 Rusty-dot Pearl
2 Common Marbled Carpet
2 Mottled Umber
2 Light Brown Apple Moth
2 December Moth
Red-green Carpet
November Moth agg
Feathered Thorn
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31 of 9 overnight in Plymouth.
Wine rope: female Chestnut
62W actinic/synergetic:
18 Rusty-dot Pearl
3 Feathered Thorn
3 Light Brown Apple Moth
2 Double-striped Pug
Phyllonorycter messaniella
December Moth
November Moth agg
Palpita vitrealis
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Wine rope: female Chestnut
62W actinic/synergetic:
18 Rusty-dot Pearl
3 Feathered Thorn
3 Light Brown Apple Moth
2 Double-striped Pug
Phyllonorycter messaniella
December Moth
November Moth agg
Palpita vitrealis
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November 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
31 of 9 overnight in Plymouth.
Wine rope: female Chestnut
62W actinic/synergetic:
18 Rusty-dot Pearl
3 Feathered Thorn
3 Light Brown Apple Moth
2 Double-striped Pug
Phyllonorycter messaniella
December Moth
November Moth agg
Palpita vitrealis
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Wine rope: female Chestnut
62W actinic/synergetic:
18 Rusty-dot Pearl
3 Feathered Thorn
3 Light Brown Apple Moth
2 Double-striped Pug
Phyllonorycter messaniella
December Moth
November Moth agg
Palpita vitrealis
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My lifelist, incl aggs, is 1079 so far: 644 at home, 700 in work. 44 lifers in 2025, 9 macros, 35 micros. 13 of these by gendet. 732 spp seen this yr: 443 at home, 492 in work.
Some good Devon records, details in the ALT text.
Still a month to go, so still a chance of something new.
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Some good Devon records, details in the ALT text.
Still a month to go, so still a chance of something new.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
My lifelist, incl aggs, is 1079 so far: 644 at home, 700 in work. 44 lifers in 2025, 9 macros, 35 micros. 13 of these by gendet. 732 spp seen this yr: 443 at home, 492 in work.
Some good Devon records, details in the ALT text.
Still a month to go, so still a chance of something new.
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Some good Devon records, details in the ALT text.
Still a month to go, so still a chance of something new.
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My 2nd ever Slender Burnished Brass arrived sometime this afternoon, between 11am & 4pm, to its own lure. It didn't want to hang around for long!
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November 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
My 2nd ever Slender Burnished Brass arrived sometime this afternoon, between 11am & 4pm, to its own lure. It didn't want to hang around for long!
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Several migrants at the garden and work traps overnight in Plymouth. At home, 97 RDP, Silver Y, RV & P.vitrealis among 149/19
The work trap had 27 RDP, Radford's, 2 DBM, 3 P.vitrealis, 3 White-speck, White-point & Angle Shades among 90/20. Also a Cosmopolitan found by a security light
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The work trap had 27 RDP, Radford's, 2 DBM, 3 P.vitrealis, 3 White-speck, White-point & Angle Shades among 90/20. Also a Cosmopolitan found by a security light
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November 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Several migrants at the garden and work traps overnight in Plymouth. At home, 97 RDP, Silver Y, RV & P.vitrealis among 149/19
The work trap had 27 RDP, Radford's, 2 DBM, 3 P.vitrealis, 3 White-speck, White-point & Angle Shades among 90/20. Also a Cosmopolitan found by a security light
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The work trap had 27 RDP, Radford's, 2 DBM, 3 P.vitrealis, 3 White-speck, White-point & Angle Shades among 90/20. Also a Cosmopolitan found by a security light
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Cosmopolitan was NFY overnight in Plymouth, among 99/18. Also Gem, Vestal, 51 RDP, Silver Y & Palpita vitrealis @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
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November 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Cosmopolitan was NFY overnight in Plymouth, among 99/18. Also Gem, Vestal, 51 RDP, Silver Y & Palpita vitrealis @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
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A rare night off from trapping here in Plymouth tonight, but I still managed to get a lifer as I put out hedgehog food. A Slender Burnished Brass was in its lure trap. Devon's 9th, and the first since 1999. The last one in my 10km was the 1st record in 1943!
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November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
A rare night off from trapping here in Plymouth tonight, but I still managed to get a lifer as I put out hedgehog food. A Slender Burnished Brass was in its lure trap. Devon's 9th, and the first since 1999. The last one in my 10km was the 1st record in 1943!
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A Chocolate-tip in my work trap near Plymouth overnight was Devon's latest by over 2 months. 1 of 13 species at this trap. 18 species at home included a female Gem
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November 7, 2025 at 8:07 AM
A Chocolate-tip in my work trap near Plymouth overnight was Devon's latest by over 2 months. 1 of 13 species at this trap. 18 species at home included a female Gem
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Following on from my first for Devon Dichomeris acuminatus on 2nd October, Phil Sterling has dissected the large Phycitodes sp that I also had on the same night in my Plymouth trap. It turned out to be a female Homeosoma nebulella, just the 2nd record for Devon after one in September 1987!
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October 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Following on from my first for Devon Dichomeris acuminatus on 2nd October, Phil Sterling has dissected the large Phycitodes sp that I also had on the same night in my Plymouth trap. It turned out to be a female Homeosoma nebulella, just the 2nd record for Devon after one in September 1987!
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A rather battered gelechid that came to my Plymouth garden trap on 2nd October has been confirmed by gendet as Dichomeris acuminatus. The 4th or 5th (pending a record in Sep from the Scillies) record for the UK. A Phycitodes sp caught on the same night is awaiting confirmation
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October 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
A rather battered gelechid that came to my Plymouth garden trap on 2nd October has been confirmed by gendet as Dichomeris acuminatus. The 4th or 5th (pending a record in Sep from the Scillies) record for the UK. A Phycitodes sp caught on the same night is awaiting confirmation
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A good evening using wine ropes from our holiday cottage near Oban last night: 17 Angle Shades, 3 Pink-barred Sallow, 4 Square-spot Rustic, Sallow, Red-line Quaker, Chestnut, Dark Sword-grass and a lifer with Red Sword-grass. Much more productive than using lights!
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September 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
A good evening using wine ropes from our holiday cottage near Oban last night: 17 Angle Shades, 3 Pink-barred Sallow, 4 Square-spot Rustic, Sallow, Red-line Quaker, Chestnut, Dark Sword-grass and a lifer with Red Sword-grass. Much more productive than using lights!
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At the garden centre where I work near Plymouth, a member of the hardy plants team found this male Convolvulus Hawk-moth this afternoon. Luckily I was in work, unlike in the spring when they found a Striped Hawk-moth
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September 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
At the garden centre where I work near Plymouth, a member of the hardy plants team found this male Convolvulus Hawk-moth this afternoon. Luckily I was in work, unlike in the spring when they found a Striped Hawk-moth
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I found this sad remnant of a Striped Hawk-moth hanging by some webbing yesterday morning in my Plymouth garden. Probably a victim of the resident Magpie population that scours the garden most mornings. Fortunately for me, at least, not a year tick.
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September 2, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I found this sad remnant of a Striped Hawk-moth hanging by some webbing yesterday morning in my Plymouth garden. Probably a victim of the resident Magpie population that scours the garden most mornings. Fortunately for me, at least, not a year tick.
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I had my second Clepsis peritana in my Plymouth garden trap last night, possibly Devon's 3rd after my 1st on 8th July, followed by another caught by a moth-er a couple of days later near Exeter.
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August 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I had my second Clepsis peritana in my Plymouth garden trap last night, possibly Devon's 3rd after my 1st on 8th July, followed by another caught by a moth-er a couple of days later near Exeter.
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Antigastra catalaunalis, Palpita vitrealis, Vestal, Small Mottled Willow, 6 Rusty-dot Pearl & 7 Rush Veneer among 70 species in my Plymouth garden overnight. P.purpuralis was new for the garden, plus 2 more Caloptilia honoratella candidates, making 4 this year
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August 12, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Antigastra catalaunalis, Palpita vitrealis, Vestal, Small Mottled Willow, 6 Rusty-dot Pearl & 7 Rush Veneer among 70 species in my Plymouth garden overnight. P.purpuralis was new for the garden, plus 2 more Caloptilia honoratella candidates, making 4 this year
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116 of 48 to my Plymouth garden trap overnight. A few migrants, with 11 Rush Veneer & a Gem. Also a Caloptilia species that could well be either honoratella or hemidactylella. Honoratella has only 2 Devon records and hemidactylella has yet to be recorded here. Retained for further checks. #teammoth
August 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
116 of 48 to my Plymouth garden trap overnight. A few migrants, with 11 Rush Veneer & a Gem. Also a Caloptilia species that could well be either honoratella or hemidactylella. Honoratella has only 2 Devon records and hemidactylella has yet to be recorded here. Retained for further checks. #teammoth
621/97 at the Brixton (VC3) work trap overnight, with 621/97. Mouse Moth & Crescent were NFY, with Crescent being new for the site. A good number of migrants, with 47 Rush Veneer, 9 Small Mottled Willow, 2 Radford's FS, 5 Silver Y, 2 DSG & a RDP. #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 6:21 PM
621/97 at the Brixton (VC3) work trap overnight, with 621/97. Mouse Moth & Crescent were NFY, with Crescent being new for the site. A good number of migrants, with 47 Rush Veneer, 9 Small Mottled Willow, 2 Radford's FS, 5 Silver Y, 2 DSG & a RDP. #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
524/95 to my Brixton VC3 work trap this morning. Mocha was NFY & new for the site. Ypsolopha mucronella & dentella both NFY. 42 Rush Veneer, 8 Silver Y, 2 Radford's, 1 Dark Sword-grass, 2 Rusty-dot Pearl & 4 Small Mottled Willow the migrants.
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July 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
524/95 to my Brixton VC3 work trap this morning. Mocha was NFY & new for the site. Ypsolopha mucronella & dentella both NFY. 42 Rush Veneer, 8 Silver Y, 2 Radford's, 1 Dark Sword-grass, 2 Rusty-dot Pearl & 4 Small Mottled Willow the migrants.
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