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Another breezy but mild night at CMO HQ & a respectable 21/14 including migrant Rusty Dot Pearls & a Diamond-back. Moth of the night, by a considerable margin, was this gorgeous Mottled Umber ~ not sure we've ever had a smarter one👌
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November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Cosmopterix pulchrimella (Pellitory Beauty)
Cley Moth Obs
November 7 2025
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November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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A few more of the brilliant Cosmopterix pulchrimella that showed up at CMO HQ for the first time ever last night. Top drawer micro 😎
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November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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A few more from a very enjoyable haul of autumn moths last night ~ Feathered Thorn, White-point, Barred Sallow & Dark Chestnut.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Coming in a close 2nd last night was our 2nd-ever Oak Rustic. The 1st record here was on December 1st last year & Lynnette had been hoping for another record this week. She definitely talked it up!
2025 moth left, 2024 moth right.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Mothing at the back end of the year doesn't always come with nights like last night, calm, mild & cloudy. 48/23 was a great result & *BOOM* along came a a cracker of an NFG too! Cosmopterix pulchrimella (Pellitory Beauty), only the 2nd for TG04.
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Here's a moth that captured our imagination when we were shown our first ones at Sandwich Bay last year, several adults on the foodplant along one of the avenues near the Obs. This year, we had one in one of our traps on our September visit to SBBO while, here at home, we've checked so much Pellitory-of-the-wall locally (for leaf-mines and adult moths) with not a hint of a single moth. Until last night! We couldn't believe it as this tiny, super-smart micro scurried around the actinic light. Somehow, it went in a pot! Really quite a rare moth across Norfolk (as in very few adults ever seen) and really rare on the coastal strip. Chuffed to bits with this one 😁
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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7/6 at CMO on a very breezy night. December Moth, November Moth, Musotima nitidalis,
Large Wainscot, RDP and
E angustea.
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Large Wainscot November Moth agg December Moth
October 31, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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CMO CEO doesn't turn the light off too often 🙂
Only the 2nd Musotima nitidalis (Marbled Fern) of the year ~ here's the 1st from last week.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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A pristine Feathered Thorn (one of two) was the snazziest moth out of a respectable 29/14 total at CMO HQ overnight.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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December Moth
Cley Moth Obs
October 28 2025
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October 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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The traps were on for the 1st time in a few nights last night as the weather temporarily settled down a bit & we were rewarded with our earliest-ever December Moth (earliest by a couple of days). Another superior autumn moth this one.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Caloptilia stigmetella ~ Willow Stilt (or White-triangle Stilt) ~ a new micro for both of us. Reared through from a grub-on-a-leaf found on the edge of the Glaven Valley at the start of the month 🙂
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October 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Here's a moth-y tale of the Ugly Duckling. October 2nd & Lynnette spots a tiny caterpillar/grub underneath a White Poplar leaf in the valley. We bring it home, it did the cocoon thing & we waited. Today, a stunning Caloptilia stigmetella emerged!
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Caloptilia stigmetella ~ White-triangle Stilt (or, now, Willow Stilt). A gorgeous moth, still one we await for the garden list! But it was amazing to see this beautiful micro emerge from it's tiny cocoon in a jam jar today!
October 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Satellite, another Clancy's Rustic, a Buff Footman & November Moth agg., from yesterday's 100+ moth morning. Buff Footman has a summertime flight period but this month there are already half a dozen records & we had another last night.
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October 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Less Large Wainscot, more of a XXL Wainscot this morning: an absolute monster of a moth, dwarfing one of its own. We've had a few big Large Wainscots in the past, even this autumn, but this one, wowsers!
Gorgeous pastel pink hue too...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Another very respectable night at CMO last night, 80/27, which included another Clancy's Rustic (easily our best year for them), a late-ish Dark Arches, a Sallow on the ivy & another marvellous Merveille du Jour ~ they are *so* good!
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October 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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A few moths from the last couple of days: Feathered Thorn, Merveille du Jour (it would be rude not to...), Green-brindled Crescent (a really glittery one!) & our latest Vine's Rustic (by just a couple of days).
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October 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Arguably nothing better on an October Saturday morning that a Clifden Nonpareil before 6am...
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October 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Taken on the actinic a couple of nights ago ~ a fresh-as Rosy Footman. As with a number of species, we're recording more & more early/late dates each year. This is first October record of Rosy Footman & is our latest by nearly seven weeks.
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October 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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A few more of the NFG Feathered Ranunculus from two nights ago. Fascinating moth, colours changing at every turn almost. At night, after potting, the tiny golden spangles looked completely absent but in the morning light, a transformation.
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October 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Merveille du Jour
Cley Moth Obs
October 10 2025
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October 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Welcome to CMO's green party...
36/19 this morning & we were so happy with our modest tally. Our 1st-ever Feathered Ranunculus stole the show (it has green cast!) plus Green-brindled Crescent & NFY, a wonderful Merveille du Jour.
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Feathered Ranunculus ~ a new species for the CMO garden, found on the outside of the MV last night. A scarce moth in TG04, only around the 14th record locally (it comes hot on the heels of one elsewhere in the village two nights ago). This one is a female, hence no overly feathery antennae. Subtle, it was a pain to get pix of as the colours changed so much in different lights. Green-brindled Crescent is a classic autumn moth. We'd had a couple ahead of last night, with three appearing on the egg-boxes this morning. The green isn't always easy to see... Sublime and simply sensational. One of the ultimate moths at any time of the year, Merveille du Jour is another autumn classic ~ we missed them last year (our 1st blank) but this beautiful moth was on the top of the MV this morning.
October 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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A very quiet week at CMO so far (clear skies, full moon = minimal moths) ~ but here's a pristine Red-Green Carpet and a fine Chestnut to admire until the cloud comes and the moon goes.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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This striking Caloptilia had us scratching our heads for a little while a couple of mornings ago. Lynnette worked it out pretty quickly: this was actually a very smart (& rather spotty) Caloptilia rufipennella - the Rufous Stilt.
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October 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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A nice, round 100/25 this morning at CMO HQ. Clancy's Rustic remains a scarce visitor to the garden traps (it becomes only our 7th record to date - of 10 moths in total) whilst the fine-looking Brick was new for 2025 for us.
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October 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM