29/12/19 - the forecast was for a mild night, and with a light wind and a slender moon, I thought I would have a go.  Result?  One very late Silver Y.  I have only ever had a handful of records of these in December, and this is by some margin the latest. 

Wishing everyone a happy and mothful New Year.

I just got the flies !!  Better luck next year, (ever the optimist)

Last garden trap of the year, just 2 Winter Moths, a December Moth and LBAM, and lots of flies! Looking forward to normal activity being resumed in 2020.

My first trapping for 3 weeks produced just one moth, a Pale Brindled Beauty. This is a moth I had every year until 2 winters ago when I failed to record it. I also missed out last winter and although this is technically a 2019 record I'm glad to see it back for the 2020 season.

!8 December - 1 December Moth (male)
19th December - 1 December Moth (female)
20th December - 1 December Moth (female - different specimen), 1 Winter Moth.

That's it until after Christmas!

17/12/19 - nuffink.

15/12/19 - Forecast ? - some light rain early on - actually?  some HEAVY rain early on (no surprise really), but as I hadn't trapped for over 3 weeks, I was keen to see what, if anything, was about.  Net result - one lonely December Moth, hiding away from the soggy egg-boxes, and one equally lonely FFY male Winter Moth.  Brave souls.

A few moths at last - hadn't bothered to trap in the cold spell. 4 December Moth (3m, 1f - female retained hoping for eggs to produce larvae for the Barrington Court display at the end of May), 1 Light Brown Apple Moth, 1 very late Black Rustic, 3 Flounced Chestnut, 1 Red-line Quaker, 1 Blair's Shoulder-knot.

A belated report - Hummingbird Hawk-moth in the garden briefly on 24th November. My latest record by 18 days and first November record since 2006.

I found this 16mm Taleporia tubulosa larval case on a fence post at Silk Mills, Taunton this lunchtime.

Freshly-emerged Winter Moth this evening.