The only moth in the trap last night was an Oak Beauty.

With only 15 moths in total since mid December I had 15 on Wednesday night: 2 x Common Quaker, I x Pale Brindled Beauty, 1 x Chestnut, 1 x Acleris ferrugana, 1 x Depressaria daucella, 3 x Agonopterix alstromeriana and 6 x Agonopterix heracliana.

Whitefield, Wiveliscombe - Min temp 0.3 degrees.

FFY a Dotted Border at a lighted window but nothing in the trap.

Just one Agonopterix heracliana for me last night. I saw more moths from the car when driving back from Taunton late evening!

A single Light Brown Apple Moth attracted to the light through the dining room windows.

The first decent night of the year resulted in 2 Pale Brindled Beauties, 3 Chestnuts, 2 Early Moths and singles of Hebrew Character and Grey Shoulder Knot. All but the Grey Shoulder Knot were firsts for the year.

A mild night here too with a few spots of rain, and at last some moths in and around the traps.  All FFY - 3 Pale Brindled Beauty, and one each Dotted Border, Grey Shoulder-knot and Depressaria daucella, plus a new species for this site, Tortricodes alternella.

A warm night (T Min 10.5°C) but just a single Agonopterix alstromeriana in the trap this morning.

Yet another nil return, apart from a very dead Celypha lacunana at the bottom of the MV trap - I assume it had been there for quite a while without my seeing it - I've never caught one later than September, although Sterling's book says that they may be around until early November. Either way, it's a bit of a mystery, and I don't think I can justifiably count it as a valid record for February !

A warmer night and moths at last. 2 Angle Shades, 1 Pale Brindled Beauty, 1 Hebrew Character, 1 Common Quaker and 2 Agon.heracliana

Found this Oak Eggar larva on Blackthorn at Thurlbear yesterday.

T Min a warmer 7°C but another blank night here as well.

That's two more than I caught last night, Peter !!  However, I did get an Ichneumon Wasp - makes a change from midges.

Whitefield, Wiveliscombe - Min Temp 1.9 degrees

At last ! two moths at a lighted window, An Early Moth and a Chestnut.

Home to find a Pale Brindled Beauty waiting by the back door lamp last night in spite of the cold.

Spring has yet to reach the uplands of Ammerdown either, by the look of things.

3 Pale Brindled Beauty, 1 Chestnut, 1 Acleris ferrugana/notana (probably the former given the abundance of oak and absence of birch in the wood) and the moth below.  Size and shape are right for Chestnut but does the bold patterning fit within the range of variation of this species?

The Pale Brindled Beauties chose not to enter the trap but instead snuggled up together at one end of the actinic strip-light.

Nil return here too I'm afraid - the first time I have run the trap for over a month.

Yet another nil return - getting predictable.

2Pale Brindled Beauty and a wren this morning in the trap! The wren flew off happily and sang from a hedge. My copy of Chris Manley's book British Moths 2nd edition arrived today. Looking back to Feb 2014 there do not seem to be any records prior to 20th Feb. I commented at the time that mine for 19th had diappeared. What happened to them?

Last night at bedtime saw 14 Pale Brindled Beauty but just one in trap this morning plus 1 Hebrew Character and 1 Chestnut,both ffy.

As it was a little warmer on Wednesday night I put the MV trap out - nothing! However there was an Early Moth Theria primaria on the back door.

Two evenings ago i saw the underside of a moth through the kitchen window,so i rushed out and turned my trap on! In the morning just one moth,a Satellite and the one on the window was a Pale Brindled Beauty. I trapped again last night and had 1Common Quaker,and 2Pale Brindled Beauty and the Satellite hidden safely where i had left it. This afternoon i was thrilled to see my 1st butterfly of the year-a Red Admiral.

I haven't started trapping yet but recorded an Early Moth on the outside wall this morning. It's my first record for five years.

Forecast slightly milder (i.e no frost) so I tried a trapping session, to no avail.  Not even a midge.

PC from Florida, pretty chilly here too but we do have moths, look familiar?