Andy Stocker

@clare_taz @rwhooster Aren’t they a nuisance? The wall next to my trap has them in every nook and cranny.

@rwhooster There are so many False Widows around here. We have both been bitten, and so has one of the cats 😟

I just rescued a Black Rustic from a False Widow web. I don't normally interfere but the trap light brought the moth to that vicinity. Luckily the web was only on his wing tips. He's sitting in a pot waiting for a final inspection before release #mothsmatter

@clare_taz A few beers bits about here, P vitrealis included.

Just come out from seeing Milton Jones live, and it's spritzing a bit. I thought the rain wasn't coming until about 3am. I'm going to put the trap out anyway #mothsmatter

@WheatersDave Nope look at the striped shoulders 👍

@AndyStocker9 I did find a tray pic, unfortunately I think it’s just a faded L-album

Having thought the switch to Westerlies would be a problem later in the night quite the opposite! Potential migrants Gem nfg, Radfords FS nfg, P vitrealis, 2 x Silver Y, xylostella & RD Pearl. Another Flounced Chestnut, Shoulder-striped Wainscot(!) & H glaucinalis. 47 of 21.

@CliveAshton5 Shame I got the Chestnut wrong 😂😂

@AndyStocker9 Superb 😃

@AlanSalter13 @WheatersDave Going for it again after a night off, good luck!

An update on the two putative Flounced Chestnut this week. Many hours of research later, CMR is happy both are Southern Chestnut. A new species for VC12 but almost guaranteed to be hiding in plain site on heathland elsewhere. A difficult group to say the least, needs work!

@WheatersDave I was the same! Thought I’d take a quick record shot though. Bad habit of mine too.

@AndyStocker9 Great trap Andy, I’d have binned that Wainscot as an L-album, which is making me wonder if the pale one the other day was one of these 😬😖

@JulesA4thJuly Oh that strange, bulb problem?

@AndyStocker9 Congratulations! Not sure what happened here, but I had nothing in my trap this morning.

@WheatersDave @AlanSalter13 @SwaySteveK @adesturner Sorry Dave!

@AndyStocker9 @AlanSalter13 @SwaySteveK @adesturner Excellent catch Andy, I just thought I’d say that before muting you 😭

@SwaySteveK @WheatersDave @AlanSalter13 @adesturner Just held off until dark, wind direction not helpful once the front has gone through for me.

@AndyStocker9 @WheatersDave @AlanSalter13 @adesturner Been chucking it down since about 4pm here.

@WheatersDave @AlanSalter13 @SwaySteveK @adesturner

@WheatersDave @AlanSalter13 @SwaySteveK @adesturner Turned on just before rain, glad I did, nfg Radfords F Shoulder, first VC records this year, not too surprising!

@ivysuckle @WheatersDave If we could have a late autumn like last year I’d be extremely grateful! Nice selection!

@WheatersDave Thank you good sir, the mild air worked wonders! Released the moths in the little wood beside the rec coz I fancy another go tonight...

Memories of a similarly productive mild & wet night 12 months ago - 21 spp recorded on both occasions in different assortments. Last night 3 smashing nfy: Delicate, Green-brindled Crescent & Sallow. Phyllonorycter messaniella nfg if confirmed. 30/21 Worcs VC37 🦋💚🍃

@JulesA4thJuly Hi Julie, I’m on the edge of East Hampshire, about 25 miles inland. I rarely get migrants on the first night of arrivals but if conditions remain good they often turn up the following night.

@AndyStocker9 Loads of migrants around your way obviously 🙂 Can I ask where you are?

Much better night despite the wind. Potential moth of the night for here a putative Flounced Chestnut. First Chestnuts of Autumn, 3 Merveille DJ 4 Black Rustic etc. Potential migrants Clifden NP, Scarce-bordered Straw nfy, HM Hawk-moth, xylostella. 37 of 17.

@mickey_ratfink @WheatersDave Similar here recently, love to know the reason.

@WheatersDave @AndyStocker9 That's been a theme here for a couple of weeks. Many caddis, mosquito etc, but barely double figures of moth

@WheatersDave I was beginning to wonder early on. Second night of decent conditions rule applied inland maybe?

@AndyStocker9 What a catch! That was worth sticking the trap out for 👏

@clare_taz @WheatersDave Moved my trap a little to catch S Easterly full on, don’t know if it helped. Having said that as usual better moths were outside.

@WheatersDave I think that's the only explanation 🤔

It was so warm outside when I brought the trap in just now, but inexplicably, there were only two moths in it. One Black Rustic and one LYU 😟 #mothsmatter

@BirdingT25540 @mickey_ratfink I’d take a Red Underwing Tom, the least frequent of the four I see here.

@mickey_ratfink That’s very true I suppose it’s a lot to do with the hype of having a blue and seeing one, one of those moths that make the news so regularly, there’s always time for one to appear 😀

Thought I had got my dream moth Sunday morning at 5am when I had to do my trap, I shouldn’t of been disappointed with the huge red underwing, because it was a brute of a moth even if it was a bit worn, kinda hoping it was blue though 😂