24/1/19 - Hooray, a moth !! One solitary FFG Dark Chestnut in the Actinic trap last night. Curious that such a common species hasn't turned up here before, but we get there in the end.
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Fri 18th January 2019 14:06 by Steve Chapple Pen Elm, Taunton
I found a Pale Brindled Beauty on the garage wall yesterday - over a month earlier than my previous first sighting for this species. Tue 15th January 2019 09:57 by Paul Newman Pylle, Shepton Mallet
14/1/19 - Yet another Nil Return. It wasn't all that cold last night, and hardly any wind, so why did they all stay home? No idea ! Fri 11th January 2019 18:59 by Paul Newman Pylle, Shepton Mallet
6.55 pm - my first moth of the year (at last) A Depressaria daucella fluttering around the indoor porch light. Makes a change from Winter Moths. Fri 11th January 2019 17:41 by Nigel Cottle Epinotia immundana
Last weekend I collected some tenanted Alder catkins at Longrun Meadow. With a bit of luck I'll be able to rear them through; pupation should be in March with the adults emerging in April.
Fri 11th January 2019 15:26 by Paul Newman Pylle, Shepton Mallet
10/1/19 - well, Tim, that's 3 more moths than I got last night. Yet another Nil Return here. Fri 11th January 2019 14:49 by Tim Howard Kestrels Rise, Little Quantock 10/01/2019
First time trapping this year brought one Winter Moth and two Chestnut. Hardly worth the effort. Thu 10th January 2019 11:14 by Pam Campbell Larva at Fiddington
At bellringing last night we spotted a caterpillar / larva on the curtain . I couldn't begin to guess which species it is . Can anyone help ? No moths seen here in my garden in Holford yet this year .  Wed 9th January 2019 14:57 by Nigel Cottle Thurlbear Quarrylands - 9th January
A Common Plume and Ectodemia heringella mines at Thurlbear today - as far as I am aware this is the only known VC5 site for the latter. Also mines of Coptotriche marginea and the ubiquitous Stigmella aurella on Bramble.
Common Plume
Ectodemia heringella Tue 8th January 2019 22:19 by Steve Chapple Pen Elm, Taunton
Two Winter Moths two Dark Chestnuts and one Chestnut for me. Tue 8th January 2019 11:43 by Ian Mathieson Norton sub Hamdon
First trapping of the year produced my first moths of 2019. 2 Winter Moths and 2 Chestnuts. Not a bad start. Mon 7th January 2019 15:40 by Rob Grimmond Combe St. Nicholas, South Somerset
First moth of the year (and last of 2018) was a Winter Moth on the house wall overnight. Sun 6th January 2019 08:56 by Paul Newman Pylle, Shepton Mallet
5/1/19 - still no moths, but then it was pretty cold last night, albeit no actual frost. Keep trying.
7/1/19 - same again !! Fri 4th January 2019 20:06 by Chris Iles
One to watch out for at the moment is the Black-spotted Chestnut, which has turned up for the first time in a couple of south-eastern counties in the last few weeks. It was in Dorset in 2016 so might just have made its way over the border. Wed 2nd January 2019 17:20 by Paul Newman Pylle, Shepton Mallet
1/1/19 - another nil return last night, sadly starting the year in the same way as ending 2018. Tue 1st January 2019 10:33 by Nigel Cottle Bishops Hull 1st January
My first moth of 2019 - a rather worn Double-striped Pug found on the side of the house this morning.
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