Graphic designer and ex-marketing manager. Currently having fun cooking, gardening, skiing, making cider, watching cricket and befriending the local Lepidoptera
After 15 great years with Twitter with a heavy heart I have decided to move to Bluesky - I'm afraid Elon Musk is not my cuppa. Many thanks for following me and for all of those wonderful comments and likes. So long and thanks for all the moths.
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After finding a Dewick's Plusia larva in the garden late last year I wondered if I would get an overwintered specimen' in the trap this year. Last night this turned up. Too early for a migrant I would think?
The weather was dull but I put out the Actinic trap - nothing of note exept for one unfamiliar dull brown moth - Porter's Rustic?
The next day it escaped before I could snap it. I spent the day fretting but luckily it turned up in the kitchen. Phew! Confirmed a Porter's Rustic!
On the 6th September '23 I found a huge female Clifden Nonpareil/Blue Underwing near the Actinic trap. It laid 70 eggs before I could release it. I retained nine larvae to rear, eight have already pupated but this one is still going and growing rapidly!
I just spent a few days in Normandy, the weather was no better but the moths were magnificent. A Black-veined Moth stopped just long enough to oblige me with a few pictures.